Jason Y. Shah Harvard University I used to spend endless nights wide-eyed, anxiously dreading a high school life teeming with harsh peers...

Jackie Liao Painting by Junguon Jung Stanford University A thin shard of sunlight sliced through the vent of the windowless, cold, and...

Lauren Horton Painting by Michael and Inessa Garmash Stanford University You've given me one more page to tell you about myself. Just...

Brian Aguado Stanford University One of Stanford’s essay prompts is to provide a photo and explain its significance. I once belonged to...

Mathew Griffin painting by Travis Schlaht Brown University Because I find life's intricacy so amazing, biology and its related subjects...

Cameron McConkey Cornell University The famous Greek mathematician Archimedes once said, “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on...