Intended Major

Linguistics and Astronomy

Standardized Testing

1560 SAT

UW/W GPA

~94/100 averaged across high-school. I take my exams under the Maharashtra State Board.

APs, Honors, and College Level Classes

Phys C Mech and EM: 5

Demographics

Indian Muslim

EFC: $15k

Extracurricular Information

I'll be vague-ish

2 high-impact ECs:

• Wrote over 50 pages of content on Cosmology; edited and proofread several hundreds of pages for a prime guide on the Astronomy Olympiad over the span of 8 weeks. Used by over 10,000 people.

• Lead a team for organising a non-profit summer camp on the Astronomy Olympiad. I was a volunteer in my first year and promoted to Associate Head the next year. Taught general astronomy and handled admin stuff. The camp was attended by around 200 people and took place over 6ish weeks.

2 medium-impact ECs:

• Organised the Online Linguistics Olympiad as a member of the Committee. Proposed, translated(into Hindi), tested and proofread problems over the span of 4 months. One of my problems made it on to the test and ended being the hardest. Over 1200 participants.

• Recruited instructors and organised a three-week bootcamp/"crash-course" for the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad. Attended by about 150 people. Taught Problem-solving and handled admin tasks.

Some random ECs:

• Problem-writing in Physics for over 3 years now. I've tested, proposed and graded in numerous sci-bowls/sci-olys. I was also a Question of the Day curator for the Physics Olympiad

• Amateur Stargazing in the neighbourhood. Bought a 6-inch dobsonian collectively

• Founder and Admin of the largest online LO group. Said group was also used for communication among participants of the IOL 2022 and 2023

• Competitions: More info below

• Boy Scouts: Appreciated by MH state government for excellence in Boy Scouts

• Olympiad camps that resulted from success in contests.

Awards

Best award:

• Represented India at the International Linguistics Olympiad in 2022 and 2023. Ranked 31st in 2023 and won the Silver medal

Great awards:

• 2x Asia Pacific Linguistics Olympiad Bronze as an Indian rep.

• 3x IOAA Training Camp Qualifier. Youngest to qualify in India in 2021 (I was in 9th grade)

• Awarded Silver(like top 25%) ranked 14th in the US and 18th Internationally at the United States Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad which feeds into the US IOAA team

Decent awards:

• Team ranked 5th internationally, awarded bronze and scored 182/185 points on work on the assignment of "Designing a Quantum Cascade Ladder" in the Physics Unlimited Contest

• Team ranked 19/1000+ in the world on the Online Physics Brawl

• Team ranked 12th/400+ in the world on the Online Physics Olympiad(OPhO), won Bronze and some merch.

Random awards:

• AIME Qualifier

• 4x IOQM Merit awardee (India Math oly first stage)

• Multiple online contests and private olympiads (SOF, Silverzone, you get it)

Any Other Information

• I was interviewed by MIT in the EA process. MIT Interviews are competitive for Indians.

• I was rejected by Cornell in the ED process.

• Colleges are listed by my preference. Sort options by old.

• Full list(alphabetical order):

• Amherst

• Bates

• Bowdoin

• Brown

• Carleton

• Colby

• Dartmouth

• Duke

• Grinnell

• Hamilton

• Harvard

• MIT

• Pomona

• Richmond

• Skidmore

• Stanford

• Swarthmore

• Wesleyan

• Williams

• Yale

Resolution criteria: This market will resolve YES for the colleges that the creator gets into, NO for the ones that the creator is rejected from, and N/A for the colleges that the creator does not apply to. Resolves to % if the creator does not resolve it within one month of the close date and appears to be inactive