DS spent 5 years building a passion project. Perfect profile for CS at Stanford, Cornell, MIT. Or AI a threat?

[Anonymous]

Start talking up RPI, RIT, WPI, Purdue, Rose Hulman, Virginia Tech, Colorado School of Mines, etc. - all good engineering schools with more accessible admissions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:that's not a passion project. it's just a project.

The passion was Stanford; the project was a hope and prayer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son has worked sooo hard and has the most incredible drive. He wanted to get into Stanford for CS so he thought of a practical passion project around coding. He created his own program to teach middle school kids and seniors to code for free, employed classmates to help teach the classes for him and scale the business model internationally and to other schools. He built his own website, launched global company as founder in multiple countries. His global impact in terms of students taught is high.

On top of that passion project, he took maximum load of APs in all subjects at private school. Top grades esp in STEM and music. Studied and took SAT five times over two years and now over 1550 super score. Played varsity sports, and instrument, no video games or hanging out with friends. He reads every STEM and business magazine he can find and spends all his free time outside of school and ECs scaling and managing the business he founded and his website. He wants to be Zuckerberg.

I am worried despite all his achievements, what if AI can replicate some of the achievements his company is teaching and scale it far beyond what he is doing? He's worried about his impact and legacy. I'm worried that he is so driven to get into a great college that he's missing a lot of social development. It's all he think about.

You should be worried that he wants to be Zuckerberg. WTH? You must realize you have let him go down a very unhealthy path here. Make him go play some video games for crying out loud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:that's not a passion project. it's just a project.

The passion was Stanford; the project was a hope and prayer.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Start talking up RPI, RIT, WPI, Purdue, Rose Hulman, Virginia Tech, Colorado School of Mines, etc. - all good engineering schools with more accessible admissions.

I would not put RIT in the same list as those.