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Georgia Institute of Technology

Undecided

Common App Essay

Public Success Story ( Zach Yadegari)

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Yale University

BA, History of Science, Medicine and Public Health

Common App Essay

Public Success Story (Aly Moore)

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Stanford University

Phd, Systems

Statement of Purpose

Public Success Story (Swapnil Gandhi)

License: CC_BY_NC_SA_4_0

Cornell

Phd ML, Responsible AI

Statement of Purpose

Public Success Story (Rajiv Movva)

License: CC_BY_NC_SA_4_0

University of Chicago

Phd, NLP ML

Statement of Purpose

Public Success Story (Chenghao Yang)

License: CC_BY_NC_SA_4_0

Cornell

BS Computer Science

Common App Essay

Public Success Story (Aidan Fitzgerald)

License: UNKNOWN