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Ask HN: How to get into a good university

I'm a 16 year old international student. Early admission happens at November. My goal is to get admitted at one of the top CS universities; MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and the likes.

I've won my continent's space settlement design competition. I'm a winner of Google Code-In. I've freelanced as a designer and developer and have worked for over a year with a known technology blog among other clients. I head my school's computer club.

My current plan is to get good a good score in the standardized tests, then start developing apps and webapps and hope that they get popular.

Will letters of recommendation from people like my old boss, or important figures from NASA/Google help? What else can I do to strengthen my application?

- A confused kid

1 points namanyayg 11 years ago 1 comments

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