Student Success
Meet students who turned their questions into research, presentations, publications, competition milestones, and new academic opportunities.
Transfer admission to UC Berkeley and UCLA
Why is choosing gummies so hard? A published team paper, then admission to UC Berkeley
Sooyeon, community-college transfer · Behavioral economics / cognitive science
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Published paper on machine-learning stroke-risk prediction
Predicting stroke risk with machine learning: a high school student's published paper
Anonymous student, stroke-risk model · Machine learning for healthcare
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Two published papers: co-authored at SRP 2025, single-author in the SRP Extension
From comparing carbon-capture solvents to redesigning the process: two published papers
D., SRP 2025 Extension, carbon capture · Chemistry (carbon capture)
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Admitted to Harvard in the early round
How a question about ketamine became a research paper and a Harvard admission
S., US boarding-school student · Pharmacology / neuroscience
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Poster at IEEE EMBS BSN 2025 (Body Sensor Networks)
Catching runner's knee before it hurts: a student's rehab wearable at IEEE BSN 2025
Jay, 1-on-1 program, rehab wearable · Biomedical engineering (wearables)
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Admitted to NYU in Early Decision
Why hotels reward guests who skip housekeeping: a screening model and an NYU admission
Y., hotel housekeeping economics paper · Economics (information economics)
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Published in IJHSR; admitted to Stanford and Oxford
Can tears cloud judgment? A Jeju student's Oxford-mentored study, published in IJHSR
K., Jeju international-school student · Experimental psychology
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Basketball stats app launched in Korea; US incorporation and beta planned
From a paper on mismatched ad pairings to a basketball stats app for amateur leagues
J., SRP 2025 Extension startup · Marketing research & entrepreneurship
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Systematic review published in a journal, with students as co-authors
From a first-day question to a published review of Korea's testing culture
SRP 2024 team, Prof. Kavanagh's class · Education and educational psychology
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Co-authored a Penn Kleinman Center blog post; admitted to Stanford
From a climate-finance paper to a co-authored Penn blog post and a Stanford admission
S., SRP 2024 climate-finance paper · International law / climate finance
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Transfer admit, UC Berkeley Haas Undergraduate Business Program (fall 2025)
From a consumer-bias survey experiment to a transfer admission at UC Berkeley Haas
P., UC Berkeley Haas transfer (2025) · Business / behavioral economics
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Four abstracts accepted as posters at IEEE EMBS BSN 2025, Los Angeles
Four student teams from Nabil Alshurafa's SRP 2025 class take sensor research to IEEE BSN
Four teams, SRP 2025 (Alshurafa class) · Biomedical engineering (wearable health)
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