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Is playing chess useful for college application?

2/9/2015

6 Comments

 
I really don't know. Let's hope for the best for all of us.

Here is a short list of chess players I know. If you know anyone else, please feel free to add to the list in comment.

GM Robert Hess: Yale
GM Darwin Yang: Harvard
GM Daniel Naroditsky: Stanford
IM Elected Park Zhao: MIT
IM Luke Harmon-Vellotti: UCLA (age 14, $175K scholarship, also accepted by Stanford and others)
IM Alexander Katz: MIT
IM Victor Shen: Columbia
NM Andrew Ng: Princeton
FM Alisa Melekhina: UPenn Law School
WIM Yuanling Yuan (Canada): Yale
NM Anna Matlin: Princeton
Dai Yang: MIT
Darrian Robinson: University of Chicago
Jennie Liu: Columbia
Kevin Mo: Duke
Adarsh Jayakumar: Cornell


All these players are rated above 2000. Any serious student should be able to reach that level after about 6-year tournament competitions.
6 Comments
coach andy
2/11/2015 10:10:10 pm

Rochelle Ballantyne: full scholarship to Stanford, main character of "Brooklyn Castle".

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coach andy
12/5/2015 09:08:03 pm

Sarah Chiang, Jessica Regam Washington University in St. Louis, pre-med
Michelle Chen, MIT
IM Arthur Shen, Columbia
IM Yian Liou, Berkeley

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Sourav Sen
12/28/2015 07:07:51 am

NM Samir Sen - Accepted to Stanford/Yale/Berkley/Duke. Studying in Stanford

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coach andy
7/23/2017 08:34:43 am

NM Keith Mackinnon, McGill

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coach andy
7/23/2017 08:40:23 am

IM Richard Wang, Harvard
WFM Alexandra Botez, Stanford

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Wales Asians link
4/6/2021 04:23:41 am

God blless

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