Alumni Stories
Economics and Business Students
Our economics and business students have worked with mentors from MIT, University of Pennsylvania, King’s College London and more . Through the mentorship programs, our economics and business students have gained admissions into selective schools, published their research work and received recommendation letters from their mentors.
Paul Tan
Residence: Portland, Oregon
School: Oregon Episcopal School
Intended major: Business
Age during program: Grade 11
Paul is extremely bright, focused and engaged. He has an enthusiasm for mastering concepts and methods of statistical analysis.
Through the program, he has published his final research paper on JOURNYS publication, received a positive evaluation and letter of recommendation from the professor.
His university acceptance includes Santa Clara University, Penn State University.
Ruby Woo
Residence: Shanghai, China
School: SAS Puxi
Intended major: Economics/Finance
Age during program: Grade 11
Ruby is a leader at her school Jacaranda Club and SAS Eggschange. With a deep interest in finance and analytics, she helps her family with Real Estate investment decisions.
Through the program, she has received a positive evaluation and letter of recommendation from the professor.
Her university acceptance includes NYU Stern and University of Michigan Ross School of Business.
Andy Liu
Residence: Shanghai, China
School: Shanghai American School Puxi
Intended major: Mathematics/Physics
Age during program: Grade 11
Andy is interested to major in either Mathematics or Physics, and he has decided to work on a business related mentorship program to integrate the Mathematics aspects. He has some experiences in Python and has an excellent GPA score of 3.9/4.0.
Through the program, he completed an excellent research paper and received a few recommendation letters from his mentor.
His university acceptance includes New York University.
Ranvit Rathore
Residence: Tamil Nadu, India
School: PSG College of Technology School
Intended major: Robotics & Intelligent Systems
Age during program: Undergraduate, 20 years old
Ranvit is a Head of Logistics Division in IEEE Student’s Chapter 12951 and a founding member of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics club at PSG College. He is currently undertaking a Bachelor Degree in Machine Learning and Tele-operation.
Through the program, he has received a positive evaluation and letter of recommendation from the professor.
His university acceptance includes University of Maryland and Northeastern University.
Roshna Shaik
Residence: Hyderabad, India
School: Osmania University
Intended major: Electronics Engineering
Age during program: 23 years old
She has graduated from Osmania university with a B.S. in Engineering in Electronics and Communications. She currently works as a software engineer in J.P. Morgan, Hyderabad and is proficient in several programming languages such as in Java, HTML, CSS and more.
Through the program, she has received a positive evaluation and letter of recommendation from the professor.
Lily Lin
Residence: Florida, US
School: University of Florida
Intended major: Finance
Age during program: Undergraduate, 19 years old
She is a smart and outspoken student. She is interested in anything related to economics and business, with a heightened interest in Finance.
Through the program, she has received a positive evaluation and letter of recommendation from the professor.
Her transfer university acceptance includes USC.
Siddharth Reddy
Residence: India
Intended major: Computer Science & Mathematics
Age during program: Rising undergraduate Year 1
Siddharth has recently completed his high school studies (top 10% of his class across all subjects) and is soon to begin his undergraduate studies where he will be pursuing Computer Science and Mathematics.
Through the program, he has received a positive evaluation and the mentor has agreed to write a letter of recommendation for him.
Bhavika Acharya
Residence: Mysuru, India
School: NPS International School, Mysore
Intended major: Economics
Age during program: 10th grade
Her goal is to enter London School of Economics or St. Andrews University. As an extracurricular activity, she participates in competitive swimming at the state-level. Her overall school results in 2020 was 91.4%.
Through the program, she has received a positive evaluation and the mentor has agreed to write a letter of recommendation for her.
Alicia Rong
Residence: Easthampton, Massachusetts
School: The Williston Northampton School
Intended major: International Relations / Business
Age during program: Grade 10
Alicia is always enthusiastic to learn, continuously putting her best effort into assignments and discussions. After completing the Creative Writing program, Alicia and her family decided to continue working with us on an economics and business research paper the following year.
Through both programs, she has received a positive evaluation and letter of recommendation from the professor.
Diana Deng
Residence: Pennsylvania
School: Mercersburg Academy
Intended major: Economics and business
Age during program: Grade 11
Diana is at the top of her class with a 4.5 GPA. She has also received her first SAT score, scoring in the 90th percentile. She is passionate about economics and she would love to work on an independent research project examining a current topic related to Economics by utilizing statistical analysis programs.
Through the program, she has received a positive evaluation and letter of recommendation from the professor.
Nadia Krishnasamy
Residence: India
Intended major: Mathematics
Age during program: Grade 11
Nadia has good knowledge of Python programming language and is able to make use of this skill to further her mathematical endeavor in data analytics.
Through the research program, she has received a positive evaluation and the mentor has agreed to write a letter of recommendation.
Carson Cai
Residence: Wuxi, China
School: Jiangsu province Tianyi High School
Intended major: Economics
Age during program: 11th grade
Carson’s main interest is in economics. In school, he is in the Economics Club where he mentor younger students. He also volunteers in an organization where his focus is analyzing poverty through economic lens.
Through the program, he has received a positive evaluation and the mentor has agreed to write a letter of recommendation for him.
Jessica Tong
Residence: Shanghai
School: Concordia International
Intended major: Financial Engineering
Age during program: Grade 9
Jessica has interest in Financial Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Coding, with background in Python, Beginner Java, Mindstorm Robotic EV3, C++ for USACO. She is keen to apply statistics to business, but did not know how.
Through the program, she has received a positive evaluation and letter of recommendation from the professor.
Jarrod Chan
Residence: Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
School: Sunway College
Intended major: Mathematics
Age during program: Grade 12
Jarrod is very personable and an engaging student. He is interested to major in mathematics in the university.
Through the program, he has received a positive evaluation and letter of recommendation from the professor.
Joseph Lau
Residence: Shanghai, China
School: Shanghai American School
Intended major: Business & economics
Age during program: Grade 10
Joseph enjoys following his dad on business trips and had quite a fair bit of opportunities attending several entrepreneurial events. Joseph is in charge of the brand development and is the co-founder of Trendz Sales, Shanghai which rakes in 4-figures sales monthly.
Through the program, he has received a positive evaluation and the professor has agreed to write a recommendation letter
Ria Chen
Residence: Newport Coast, California
School: Sage Hill School
Intended major: Economics and business
Age during program: Grade 12
Ria is interested to pursue business studies and has passion in the fashion industry. Putting her interests together, she worked hard on a research paper with her mentor.
Through the program, she has received a positive evaluation and wrote a research paper.
Kabir Mohammed
Residence: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
School: International School
Intended major: Economics
Age during program: Grade 11
Kabir has already worked 3 part time jobs including analytics, risk assessment and finance work for a company called Innova Investments. He also writes Finance-related articles for his local newspaper: "The Finance Memo."
Through the program, he has received a positive evaluation.
Elvis Wu
Residence: Shanghai, China
School: Shanghai Guanghua Cambridge International School
Intended major: Economics
Age during program: Grade 11
Elvis’s dream is to get accepted into NYU’s economics major. His primary academic interests are for Economics, Mathematics and Physics. He is a strong communicator and multi-talented student who recently built a device which aids the elderly with memory and organization amongst other things.
Through the program, he has received a positive evaluation and the professor was happy with his performance.
James Tan
Residence: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
School: The Alice Smith School
Intended major: Economics
Age during program: Grade 12
James’s experiences in Malaysia’s multicultural society have inspired him to learn more about how sociopolitical factors influence everyday life in Malaysia. Outside of academics, Jordan’s biggest hobby is soccer, having played the sport all his life; he is also involved in his school’s student council as the treasurer.
Through the program, he has received a positive evaluation and his mentor will be happy to write a reference letter for him.
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