Your university application
written with you, not for you.

My Chrome extension started as a joke. I kept opening YouTube when I meant to open my notes, so I built something to stop myself. I expected to use it alone. Six hundred people later, I was reading support tickets from students in Lagos, Jakarta, and São Paulo, all trying to do the same thing I was — protect a fragile hour of focus from the endless appetite of the internet. That was the moment I stopped thinking about code as something I made and started thinking about it as something I released into the world, with consequences I couldn't fully predict…

Every NO still counts toward the 25-question threshold. Aisha reaches the threshold with a mix of YES and NO answers. Gemini writes from only her YES answers — her genuine intellectual curiosity, her personal motivation, her peer teaching. The result is a focused, honest statement that does not pretend she has achievements she doesn't have. The app also shows a guide for every acquirable achievement she said NO to — explaining exactly how she could gain it before she submits. For example, after she says NO to "published writing", the app tells her: "You can publish a short reflection on your Psychology findings on Medium or a school blog — admissions officers value self-initiated writing."

Dear Dr. Krishnan, Thank you for agreeing to write my letter of recommendation for Cambridge and ETH Zurich (Engineering). This briefing document is to help you highlight the aspects of my performance that are most relevant to my application. Please adapt it freely in your own voice. Key points I hope you can speak to: 1. Academic performance — I ranked highest in our year group on the Maths HL mock, consistently scoring in the 99th percentile. If you are able to contextualise this within the cohort or in your experience across years of teaching, that would be very helpful. 2. Peer support — You may have noticed that I spent considerable time helping three classmates understand integration by parts before the November test. I would appreciate it if you could speak to my willingness to support others' learning, as this reflects how I hope to work in an engineering team. 3. Intellectual curiosity — I regularly asked questions that moved beyond the syllabus…

NYU Stern sits at the intersection of two things I have spent three years trying to connect: the discipline of finance and the question of whether capital can do genuine good in the world. I founded my school's investment club after noticing that most of my peers — including those interested in business — had no framework for thinking about money as a tool rather than a goal. We ran a simulated portfolio, debated ESG screening criteria, and invited three working analysts to present. That experience taught me that financial literacy is a design problem, not just an information problem. At Stern, the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and the Net Impact chapter represent exactly the ecosystem I want to learn inside. The dual-degree option with the Wagner School of Public Service signals to me that Stern takes seriously the idea that business can be a vehicle for systemic change, not just shareholder return. My goal is to work in impact investing — specifically in Southeast Asian climate infrastructure, a region I know well and where patient capital is acutely scarce. Stern's focus on global business, combined with its New York position within the asset management industry, makes it the most direct path to the career I am building toward.