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A public archive of my college applications

Author: Samik Goyal


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American universities

The application for MIT is unavailable as the PDF cannot be downloaded after submission, and I forgot to download it before submitting.

I applied to the regular round of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Brown, and Duke. I applied early to MIT. I was rejected from all seven universities.

Singaporean Universities

I applied to the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University. I was accepted to both universities to study Computer Science with the MoE Tuition Grant. I was also offered the TAISP scholarship at NTU. I also received an offer to NUS College and the Science & Technology Undergraduate Scholarship.

The application for NTU is unavailable as the PDF cannot be downloaded after submission, and I forgot to download it before submitting.

British Universities

I applied to study Computer Science (G400) to Trinity College, University of Cambridge; University of Bristol; University of Warwick; and University College London. I also applied to study Mathematics and Computer Science (GG14) to Imperial College London.

I ended up withdrawing my application from UCL as they required me to give the TARA entrance exam, which I was not interested in doing. I also withdrew from ICL as they were taking too long to decide on my application (withdrew in early-april), and I did not want to study Mathematics.

I received conditional offers from Cambridge, Bristol, and Warwick. I rejected the offers of Bristol and Warwick in April. I got my AP Scores in July and confirmed my CS at Trinity College, Cambridge offer.


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