Name: Cameron Age: 19 College / University: The University of Texas at Austin Major: Computer Science Country origin: United States What did you do in high school to prepare you for this major? Tell us about your extracurricular activities and any honors/awards you received while preparing for university. I was the founder of the only computer science club at my high school. I was the team captain for the school's UIL computer science team. I took AP Computer Science and AP C

Name: Daniel Lam Age: 19 College / University: The University of Texas at Austin Major: Computer Science Country origin: United States What did you do in high school to prepare you for this major? Tell us about your extracurricular activities and any honors/awards you received while preparing for university. I didn't spend much time on extracurriculars during high school, as I had family troubles from grades 9 to 10. What made me stand out was the fact that I tried as hard as

Name: Stephen Smith Age: 22 College / University: The University of Texas at Austin Major: Architectural Engineering Country origin: United States What did you do in high school to prepare you for this major? Tell us about your extracurricular activities and any honors/awards you received while preparing for university. High school for me was spent focusing on two things—math classes and marching band. I was fortunate enough to be placed in an accelerated math program, which

Name: Orion Vasquez Age: 18 College / University: The University of Texas at Austin Major: Astronomy / Astrophysics Country origin: Mexico What did you do in high school to prepare you for this major? Tell us about your extracurricular activities and any honors/awards you received while preparing for university. I didn't realize I wanted to study astronomy until application deadlines were due. Originally, I was going to apply to become a business student and study supervisory

Name: April Age: 20 College / University: The University of Texas at Austin Major: Astronomy Country origin: Argentina UT Austin. UT Austin Facebook Cover Photo. 18 August 2014, Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/utaustin/14767404468/. What did you do in high school to prepare you for this major? Tell us about your extracurricular activities and any honors/awards you received while preparing for university. I went to a private high school in Dubai, UAE-did not have many ex

Name: Pari Raghunarayan Age: 20 College / University: University of Texas at Austin Major: Physics Country origin: United States What did you do in high school to prepare you for this major? Tell us about your extracurricular activities and any honors/awards you received while preparing for university. I worked with a dark matter research group at Columbia University to learn computational skills and create simulations for proving theoretical models. I interned with a defense