Optimistic Bay Area Indian almost fried by t20s but saved

Demographics (if yk me dont doxx)

Gender: Male

Race/Ethnicity: Asian Indian

Residence: Bay Area

Income Bracket: 200k+

Type of School: Uncompetitve Bay Area HS

Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): N/A

Intended Major(s): Applied Math

Academics

GPA (UW/W): 3.96/4.58

Rank (or percentile): n/a but top 9% for UCs

# of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 10 APs (School offers 8) 10 DE

Senior Year Course Load: AP Gov, APES, AP Lit, Multivar calc, DE Psychology, DE Personal finance and self study AP Micro and AP Bio

Standardized Testing

List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

SAT I: 1530 (730 RW, 800M)

AP/IB: 4s/5s

Extracurriculars/Activities

List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

1. Founded an escrow platform for digital asset traders; 3.5k users and six figures (120k+) transacted. Additionally, I wrote a preprint regarding this ec that built a finite population model for fraud risk--- 10th to present

2. Nonprofit Branch Lead; created a branch under an existing nonprofit that specializes in teaching financial applications to CS; branch had over 1,500 students across 60+ chapters. 10th to present

3. Math Summer Program (SRA, BU Rise, COSMOS level): studied undergrad to graduate level mathematics and wrote a paper pertaining to financial models. 12th grade

4. Economics research team lead; wrote a paper about e-commerce effects on different types of economies; was preprinted and cited by 13 other academic papers. 11th grade

5. Fintech Financial Analyst Internship; identified competitors and conducted SWOT and market analysis. 11th grade

6. HYPSM Computational Bio internship experience (ran/developed simulations that analyzed DNA/RNA binding for different proteins). Very short (2 weeks in 11th grade)

7. School AI Guidelines Initiative; worked with school admin to create AI guidelines for in school usage and conducted workshops for the entire student body to familiarize themselves with the rules;. 11th grade

8. Varsity Basketball; was a varsity basketball team member for four years had a decent run in the playoffs. 9th to present

9. Overnight Science Camp Counselor; 200 volunteer hrs. 10th grade

10. Math TA/STEM Peer tutor; TA for all school offered math courses and afterschool peer tutor for all school offered STEM subjects. 9th to present.

Awards/Honors

List all awards and honors submitted on your

application.

1.AMC Distinction/AIME qualifier

2. USACO Gold

3. USAMTs Honorable Mention

4. State Secretary Recognition for EC #2

5. School Student of the Year

Letters of Recommendation

Counselor (9/10?) knew her very well and very strong connection (remphasized ecs and talked about work ethic and drive from a very young age)

English Teacher (8/10) Said I was one of the best students; very proactive and very well-rounded

Summer Program Math Prof (5/10) Idk it was probs decent but wasn't very close

Optional LORs

Math Teacher (for whom I TA for)-- 9/10? Talked a lot about my personality (mentioned humility compassion and empathy)

HYPSM Research Mentor (7/10) Had a decent connection but due to the lack of time I was with him I am not sure how effective it was

Interviews

Yale (9/10)-- Connected pretty well and hit it off; felt like a real convo no Q&A.

Harvard (8/10)--- also connected pretty well but felt a little more Q&A than Yale.

Princeton (5/10)--- wasn't very good p average; felt very Q&A and didnt connect too well.

Essays

Personal Statement (9/10): talked about my experience with EC #1 and how I kinda came up with the idea and the process behind building it and the many, many setbacks I experienced during it. Showed my thought process and how I think pretty well and tied into my interests as well

Supps (7-9/10 IMO)

Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)

Acceptances:

Colorado School of Mines + Scholarship--RD

UCR--RD Auto Admit

UCM--RD Auto Admit

Menlo College--RD Auto Admit

UCSC

UCSB

UCD

UCI

UCSD

UC Berkeley!!!

Waitlists:

UIUC EA (Defer --> Waitlist)

CMU

UNC Chapel Hill

UMich

UCLA

Cornell

Rejections:

Stanford REA

Northwestern

NYU

Rice

Harvard

Yale

Princeton

Brown

Columbia

UPenn

Duke

Additional Information:

I lowk thought my profile would do a bit better but I cannot complain go bears!