Kaiser, Mohammad

FY, RD, Fall 2026, 06/06/2010

CEEB: CAID: 47016762
FERPA: Waived

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Personal information
Name Kaiser, Mohammad

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Share different name Yes, Kaiser
Birthdate 06/06/2010

Contact details
Email, Phone

Permanent address
telephone
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[email protected], +91.6205739582, Mobile, No other

33/113 Mithila Colony Road Danapur Nizamat DANAPUR, 800018, IND

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Demographics
Gender Identity Female
Sex Male
Pronouns He/Him, She/Her

Geography and nationality

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Citizenship status Citizen of non-U.S. country

Current US Visa None

Common App fee waiver

Fee waiver requested Yes, Signed: Mohammad Kaiser

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Family
Household
Parents Married
Home Parent 1

Parent 1

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Mother
Name Shabnam Praveen
Education Some high/secondary school

Parent 2
Father
Name Md. Kalamuddin
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Education Some high/secondary school

Siblings
Sana Praveen , Age 13
Rehan Siddique , Age 8
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Education
Current or most recent secondary school
Sun Shine Residential Public School, Nasriganj Mithila Colony, Danapur Nizamat,,
Patna, Bihar, India, Independent (04/2019 - 06/2026)
Progression No change in progression
Graduation Date 06/2026

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Colleges & universities

Grades
Rank
GPA
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Top 10% / 80, Unweighted
94 / 100, Unweighted
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Current or most recent year courses
Full year
MATH - Mathematics - (ADV)
PHYS - Physics - (ADV)
CHEM - Chemistry - (ADV)
ENG - English Lang&Lit. - (ADV)
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ART - Painting (Fine Arts) - (ADV)

Honors
Best Reader Award School 9, 11
Hackathon Winner School 11
Reaserch Excellence School 10
Award

Future plans

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Computer programmer or analyst, Doctorate

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Testing
Leaving Exams
Yes, Taken 0

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Activities
Work (Paid)
12 Curriculum Developer & Mathematics Teaching, Tiny Tot Acedmy
School, Break Designed and taught a 10-week mathematics curriculum for 60+
20 hr/wk, 10 wk/yr primary School school students, improving average test scores by 25%.
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Family Responsibilities
9, 10, 11 Operations Strategy Lead, Khushi Genral Store
Year Revamped sales processes for a family-owned startup, increasing lead
20 hr/wk, 40 wk/yr conversion by 20%. Managed Sales inventory and Customer Relations

Research
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School, Break
30 hr/wk, 20 wk/yr
Neuroscience
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Did research with MD on Bionic Skeleton & Neuralin, Department of

Authored a Reaserch paper in hospital on designing bionic skeleton

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Continue integrated with Neuralink interfaces to help paralyzed patients like me
walk.

Computer/Technology
11 Web Developer, Independent Project
School Developed full-scale frontend replicas of major platforms like Amazon
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12 hr/wk, 24 wk/yr and Netflix using HTML and CSS, focusing on responsive design and
Continue code efficienc

Academic
9, 10, 11 President of Newton House (School Captain), Sun Shine Res Pub
Year School
6 hr/wk, 28 wk/yr Led Newton House, overseeing 400+ student discipline, supporting
Continue teachers, managing school activities, and guiding peers with authority.

Research
10 Reaserch Assistant , Sun Shine Res Pub School
School, Break Conducted literary analysis research under school CS professor on
4 hr/wk, 20 wk/yr storing human consciousness into a supercomputer.
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Community Service (Volunteer)

9, 10, 11, 12 Head of Department, Islamic Community Centre
Break Assisted in Providing meals and Shelter to Travellers, organising food
12 hr/wk, 4 wk/yr distribution for more than 200 people in that area.
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Academic

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10, 11, 12 Learner, MIT OCW and Coursera
School, Break Completed advanced STEM courses in AI/ML (Stanford), CS50
18 hr/wk, 24 wk/yr (Harvard), DSA in C++, and Math for CS (MIT), enhancing problem-
Continue solving skills.

Athletics: Club
9, 10, 11
School
10 hr/wk, 10 wk/yr
SSRGS
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Badminton, Badminton Team Captain, Region Badminton Club at

Assist in leading and organizing training sessions, fostering teamwork

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Continue and skill development. Had to leave this due to spine TB that made me
paralysed

Internship
9, 10, 11 Assistant Financial Manager, Islamic Community Centre
Year Manage mosque funds, record donations, track pending work, and hire
2 hr/wk, 40 wk/yr workers with my father to ensure smooth operations and maintenance.
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Responsibilities and circumstances

• Farm work or unpaid work for a family business
• Providing transportation for family or household members
• Taking care of younger family or household members
• Working at a paid job to contribute to my household’s income
• Other - Spine TB and Paralysis. This is the other area hit hard by my health. The TB started
messing with my mobility around mid-10th grade.
• Commuting 60 minutes or more to and from school each day
• Living without reliable or usable internet

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Writing
Personal essay
Share an essay on any topic of your choice. It can be one you've already written, one that
responds to a different prompt, or one of your own design.

“K…k…Kaiser.”

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The word jams in my throat - tight, heavy, like a fist around stone. My speech therapist calls it a
“block.” I call it gravity-an invisible pull turning my name into a cliff I scale daily.

My mother reframed it for me: “The goal isn’t to fix you. It’s to help you own your voice.” So I
leaned into the stumble. The app-neh instead of apple makes my sister snort-laugh at snack time.
Handwritten notes dodge treacherous sounds. The raw humility of asking, “Can I spell that for
you?” My voice isn’t broken. It is human. Messy. Mine.

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But I craved more than workarounds. I craved release.

When Sofiya offered her dusk-choked piano, I became a thief of time-memorizing YouTube
tutorials on a cracked phone, sneaking into her garage to trace Für Elise like a cartographer
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mapping unreachable land. My Clair de Lune? Less moonlight, more thunder. And for the first time,
my voice didn’t break. It poured. The piano didn’t judge “app-neh.” It demanded only rhythm and
resolve. When Sofiya’s mother heard me, eyes wet, she whispered: “I didn’t know you had that in
you.” Neither did I.

Now I’m saving for a guitar-$37 in crumpled bills-not to look cool, but to prove that language isn’t
just sound. It’s space we claim.

Music lit the spark. Then came the fire.

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One afternoon, my tongue stranded “lion” as “nion.” The stumble ignited a question: What if words
weren’t bound by biology? What if my grandfather’s stories outlived his aging voice? What if a child
with ALS could “speak” through constellations of light?

So I traded sheet music for syntax. Nights once spent drilling scales became nights dissecting
backend logic. I built clones of voice-to-text tools, each function a brick in a digital stage for voices
like mine. Studying Aristotle’s rhetoric online, I discovered persuasion doesn’t live in flawless
speech-it lives in the crackle of an idea. That trust fuels every line of Python I write, every argument
I craft.

Then came the prototype: last spring I built a gesture-controlled synth using Arduino and flex
sensors. When my friend Mario, who has cerebral palsy, tilted his wrist and played a chord, his grin
was my Clair de Lune. Imperfection wasn’t accepted. It was orchestrated.

This is what I bring: to your piano rooms, not as a prodigy, but as an architect of absence. I’ll play
your Steinway with the same hunger I brought to Sofiya’s garage, because I know magic lives not
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in an instrument, but in the chance to be heard.

In your labs, I’ll keep coding toward a world where “blocks” become building blocks-where every
“nion” holds the roar of a lion waiting to be freed.

My voice is a work in progress-like this essay, my $37 guitar fund, the synth glove on my desk. But
I have learned: perfection is a cage. Resonance is freedom.

“I’m c…co…coming, Mom.”

Her call threads through the house. I answer with the familiar stumble. Unashamed. The crack in
my voice? That’s where the music floods in. Where code pulses.

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Where I finally find K…k…Kaiser.

Challenges and circumstances

Before COVID, Dad had a steady commission job selling insurance. He'd come home weekly. Then

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2020 hit, and he lost it. Just... gone. He was our only income. Things got bad fast. We had to
borrow from everyone.

When things eased up in Nov '21, Dad took out this scary big loan. Opened "Khushi General Store"
– named for my little sis. I basically ran the place with him. For almost four years. I started when I
was just 12, in 8th grade. Every day after school? 3-4 hours at the shop. Weekends? Whole days
sometimes. Even when school reopened, I was there every evening. Often alone, 'cause Dad... his
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health tanked. He pushed so hard.

We worked constantly. But the shop? It barely kept the lights on. Most months, the money just
covered the loan payment. It felt pointless. Last year, we finally paid off that damn loan. Huge
relief. But the store still wasn't making money. Just surviving.

So, mid-11th grade, I stepped back. I needed to focus on college apps. The kicker? I got hit with a
life-threatening illness right after. Now? The shop's mostly closed.
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Dad? He's out there every single day. Selling whatever insurance he can find. Trying weird little
side hustles with friends.Anything that pays. Watching him fight like this? After everything?
Honestly? He amazes me. It guts me, but it amazes me.

Additional information
Honestly not having SAT or AP scores feels like a giant, blinking question mark on my application I
desperately need to explain. It wasn't a choice. I was prepped, ready to go for AP Calc AB, Physics
C, Enviro Sci, Comp Sci A, and Stats – aiming for that AP Scholar recognition. Then life threw a
curveball I couldn't dodge.

For about three years, I've been battling Spinal Tuberculosis (Pott's Paraplegia). It was...
manageable, ish... until halfway through 11th grade when things got scary. Then, on April 22nd,
2025 – a date etched in my mind – I woke up completely paralyzed from the waist-down. No
feeling in my legs. Lost control of everything. An abscess was crushing my spinal cord.

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Emergency surgery followed – draining pus, inserting metal rods and screws to hold my spine
together. Two weeks in the ICU are mostly a blur of pain and fear. Recovery is long and uncertain;
doctors say I might regain some leg sensation in 9-10 months, but full recovery? They’re honest:
unlikely. That reality? It’s my constant, unwelcome companion. It sucks.

The point is simple: being completely paralyzed and bedridden, reliant on others for everything,
made getting to any test center – let alone ones requiring travel – physically impossible. I was
devastated. The College Board's at-home testing option is unavailable for international-students.

Stuck in bed, I refused to just stop. If my body was stuck, my brain wouldn't be. I dove into the
hardest online courses I could find:

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Single_Variable_Calculus_____MIT

Multivariable_Calculs_________MIT

Probability & Statistics_______MIT

Discrete_Math_______________MIT

Linear_Algebra_______________MIT

Harvard’s_CS50
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Stanford’s AI & ML

Advance DSA in C++

MERN-Stack Web-Devlopment

Oops-CN-OS-DBMS

Python & OSINT

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I authored a research paper with a MD to design an internal-bionic-skeleton integrated with

Neuralink interfaces to help paralyzed patients walk.

Thank you for understanding my story.

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Education progression
Details
Education progression No change in progression
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Princeton University questions
General
Preferred start term Fall 2026
Admission plan Regular Decision
Communication Preferred Name
Preference
Princeton-specific Fee Common App

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Waiver
Financial aid Yes
Disciplinary Violation No
Princeton Alumni I would like to share my contact information and high school name with
Interview Consent Princeton alumni interviewers, for the purpose of contacting me to

Portfolio No URL

Academics
No
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arrange an alumni interview.
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Degree Type Undecided
Choice 1 Major Computer Science (B.S.E.)
Choice 1 Minor Neuroscience
Choice 2 Major Music
Choice 2 Minor Quantitative Computational Biology

As a research institution that also prides itself on its liberal arts curriculum, Princeton allows
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students to explore areas across the humanities and the arts, the natural sciences, and the social
sciences. What academic areas most pique your curiosity, and how do the programs offered at
Princeton suit your particular interests? (Please respond in 250 words or fewer)

I can still feel the phantom ache of a perfect overhead smash—the squeak of shoes, sweat salted
at my lip, exhaustion louder than “match point.” Then silence. My body, once fluent in motion, fell
mute under fluorescent light, the antiseptic tang, the quiet betrayal of muscles that refused to
listen.

In that stillness, one question took hold: How does a thought become movement?

Answering it demanded more than one field. I found fragments everywhere: in neurons firing
through tangled networks, in proteins folding like origami storms, in recursive loops of code that
might one day whisper motion back into a rebellious limb. The grammar of movement was
interdisciplinary, and so my obsession became learning to translate it.

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Princeton is where this pursuit converges. The Princeton Neuroscience Institute deciphers the
brain’s hidden music; the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics reveals biology’s
complexity; Computer Science teaches algorithms that might bridge them. I am especially drawn
to faculty like Jonathan Pillow, whose work on computational neuroscience maps neural activity
into models that could guide prosthetics.

But what excites me most is Princeton’s breadth. To study neural computation while also
engaging philosophy, ethics, and even creative writing means I can explore not just how
movement returns, but what it means.

This is more than curiosity. It is the promise I made on a hospital bed: to turn stillness into
discovery—for myself, and for anyone whose body has fallen silent.

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SAT/ACT Submission I would like my application to be considered without ACT or SAT scores

Previous Applicants
Previously applied

Writing
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Your Voice Princeton values community and encourages students, faculty, staff and leadership
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to engage in respectful conversations that can expand their perspectives and challenge their
ideas and beliefs. As a prospective member of this community, reflect on how your lived
experiences will impact the conversations you will have in the classroom, the dining hall or other
campus spaces. What lessons have you learned in life thus far? What will your classmates learn
from you? In short, how has your lived experience shaped you? (500 words or fewer)

Of all the sounds I’ve attempted to forget over the years, the sound that remains most stubbornly
is the metallic click of the deadbolt sliding in a fastened position. It was the sound of my father
locking our family inside our small apartment, a habit he had formed out of the worry that the
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world beyond our walls — a world of strange languages and stolen glances — was a danger that
had to be controlled. For years, all I experienced in life was crafted through one barred window. My
heritage became a costume that I learned to wear and take off, polishing off my accent,
concealing the intricate embroidery of my mother’s stories, attempting to become a ghost in the
hallway. I was a compendium of muted components, fluent in the syntax of fear.

And it wasn’t a great big tragedy that was the turning point but an incessant accretion. I noticed
for the thousandth time that my mother, an accomplished doctor and surgeon in our home
country, carefully folded her degrees and placed them in a drawer to work as a janitor. I looked at
her hands, the hands of a surgeon — the fingers now cracked and raw from industrial bleach. One
night I discovered her sitting by herself at the kitchen table: she was not crying but gazing at her
face reflected in the dark panes of glass. “I’ve been made into a secret,” she murmured. The air left
the room. A heavy silence fell upon us at that time. That lock was not keeping us safe; it was dis-
remembering us.

That night, I unlocked a door inside me. I launched a community project matching new immigrants

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with local students—not to teach language, but to share stories. My “imperfect” English, with its
borrowed cadences, was not a barrier but a bridge—a vehicle for translating both language and
culture. I hadn’t become less from my experience; I had gained a lens that sees the profound
humanity between languages and identities.

At Princeton, I will not bring a polished, monolithic perspective. I will bring the unlocked door. I will
bring the understanding that true respect is not just tolerating a different view, but actively seeking
out the stories that are often kept quiet. At a seminar on ethics, I am going to invite us to think
about the philosopher who cleans offices. In the dining hall, I will share with you not just my food,
but the recipes and the stories they carry. My classmates will learn that a man is not just one story,
he is a library. That the most transformative conversations occur when we stop to listen to the
other, to become present, and to realize that the best, most productive conversations have a door

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that lies right behind them, and all they have to do is turn the lock and open it.

Princeton has a longstanding commitment to understanding our responsibility to society through

service and civic engagement. How does your own story intersect with these ideals? (250 words
or fewer)

The silence was my first failure.

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I showed up at the community center with charts, statistics, and plans to “fix” food insecurity. I
was sure people would be impressed by my solutions. Instead, I was just noise—talking at them,
not with them.
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Then Mr. Evans, an older man sitting in the back, raised his hand. His voice was steady, worn from
years: “Young man, before you tell us what we need, have you asked what we want?”

The room shifted. Heads nodded. My carefully made charts suddenly felt useless. I realized I had
never asked a single question. I had confused service with speaking.

So I stopped talking. I asked. I listened. And slowly, the room opened up. People shared family
recipes, foods tied to memory and culture. Together, we created a recipe exchange that honored
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tradition while helping with nutrition. What started as my project became our project.

That moment changed the way I see service. It’s not about being the loudest problem solver in the
room. It’s about learning to shut up long enough to hear the heartbeat of a community.

More About You Please respond to each question in 50 words or fewer. There are no right or
wrong answers. Be yourself! What is a new skill you would like to learn in college?

I want to master the guitar. I once saved $37 in crumpled bills for one, not to look cool, but to
prove something to myself: language isn’t only sound. With my speech difficulty—even my own
name slips—I want music to speak where words stumble.

What brings you joy?

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Joy finds me in Sofia’s dusky garage, where I sit at her old piano. The keys are chipped, the air
smells of dust and wood, but when my fingers move, the world softens. In those fragile notes, I
feel completely alive.

What song represents the soundtrack of your life at this moment?

The drifting swell of Debussy’s Clair de Lune—that’s the breath I hold. Its ache isn’t triumph but the
fragile, luminous strain of becoming. This is my soundtrack: not of arrival, but of the uneven,
glorious climb. It’s the sound of growing.

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Upload the graded written paper here.

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Family Information
Number of Parents 2
Listed
Parent, Step-parent or Mother
Guardian 1 Relationship
Parent, Step-parent or Shabnam
Guardian First Name
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Parent, Step-parent or Praveen

Guardian Last Name
Parent, Step-parent or Artist
Guardian Occupation
(Former occupation, if
retired or deceased)
Parent, Step-parent or Housewife
Guardian Position/Title
Parent, Step-parent or Unemployed
Guardian Employment
Status
Did this Parent, Step- No
parent or Guardian
attend Princeton
University?
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Has this Parent, Step- No
parent or Guardian ever
worked for Princeton
University?
Parent, Step-parent or Father
Guardian 2 Relationship
Parent, Step-parent or Md.
Guardian First Name
Parent, Step-parent or Kalamuddin
Guardian Last Name
Parent, Step-parent or Business (clerical)

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Guardian Occupation
(Former occupation, if
retired or deceased)
Parent, Step-parent or Bussiness Owner (General Shop Owner)
Guardian Position/Title
Parent, Step-parent or Self-Employed
Guardian Employment
Status
Did this Parent, Step-
parent or Guardian
attend Princeton
University?
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parent or Guardian ever
worked for Princeton
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Siblings How many 2
siblings did you list on
the Family section of
the Common App?
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Sibling 1 First Name Sana

Last Name Praveen
Did this sibling No
previously attend or is
this sibling currently
attending Princeton
University?
Is this sibling currently No
applying to Princeton
University?
Sibling Education Level Some high/secondary school
Has this sibling ever No
worked for Princeton
University?
Sibling 2 First Name Rehan
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Last Name Siddique
Did this sibling No
previously attend or is
this sibling currently
attending Princeton
University?
Is this sibling currently No
applying to Princeton
University?
Sibling Education Level Some grade/primary school
Has this sibling ever No

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worked for Princeton
University?
Other Princeton 0
Relatives (Attended)
Other Princeton 0
Relatives (Worked)

Affirmations
SCEA and RD policy
understanding
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I affirm this statement.
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Authorization to I affirm this statement.
communicate with
secondary school(s)

Affirmations
By submitting this application, I affirm my understanding of and agreement to the statements
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found here: http://www.commonapp.org/affirmations.

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Graded Writing Paper Upload Uploaded: 08/21/2025

Student Name: Md. Kaiser

Course: English Literature
Date: 10th August 2025
Teacher: Surya Narayan

Topic: Deep Water by William Douglas - Overcoming Fear and Building Resilience

William Douglas doesn't just tell us he conquered his fear of water in Of Men and Mountains; he

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takes us into the icy grip of his childhood terror. That California beach? Not sunshine and
sandcastles, but a place where monstrous waves "swept over" his tiny body, seeding a primal
dread deep in his subconscious. Years later, a swimming pool bully’s shove wasn’t just a prank
– it was a suffocating brush with death itself. These weren't just bad days; they were traumas
that built walls.

The fascinating tension? Douglas craved water – fishing, swimming in wild lakes. That deep

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desire, stronger than the fear, finally pushed him to lessons. He learned the strokes, mastered
technique, even swam confidently in challenging waters. But here’s the raw, human truth the
book nails: knowing how to swim didn’t magically erase the ghost in his gut. The old terror,
buried deep, kept resurfacing, "gripping him over and over again." Skill wasn't the final key; it
was merely the tool.
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The real conquest was internal, a gritty mental wrestling match. Douglas describes facing the
fear almost sarcastically while swimming: "What harm could it do to him now?" It wasn't passive
hope; it was an active, defiant challenge thrown directly at the fear each time it rose. He stared it
down, logic and hard-won skill as his weapons, refusing to let the phantom of past trauma
dictate his present. And slowly, through sheer, repeated willpower, the grip loosened. The fear,
exposed as a "baseless" relic, finally "vanished.”

This journey crystallizes the chapter’s core power: overcoming deep-rooted fear. Douglas
frames it as overcoming “terror and death” itself. His intense realization that “death is peaceful
and it is the fear of death that is terrorized”- lands like a hammer blow. He learned that the true
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enemy wasn't the water, but paralyzing anticipation born from those early shocks. Shattering
that internal barrier unleashed an "intense will to live" and the freedom of living "fearlessly”.

Douglas’s lesson isn't just about swimming. It’s a raw blueprint for facing any deep-seated fear:
avoidance isn't freedom, and skill alone isn't enough. True liberation demands confronting the
internal shadow head-on, challenging its irrational hold with conscious will, again and again. His
victory whispers that the most formidable mountains we climb are often the ones within, and
scaling them unlocks life lived unafraid.

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Teacher Comments

Strengths:
●​ Your opening grabbed me straight away. I could tell within the first sentence that you
weren’t going to just retell the story — you were going to dig into it.

●​ The way you describe Douglas’s fear is vivid and almost physical. Phrases like “icy grip”
and “ghost in his gut” make it impossible not to feel the tension you’re talking about.

●​ You clearly understand that this isn’t just a story about swimming. You’ve gone right to

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the heart of it — the mental battle — and that’s where the real insight lies.

●​ I really appreciate how you keep circling back to “why it matters.” You’re not just telling
me what happened, you’re showing me the bigger picture, and that’s the kind of thinking
that makes strong analysis.

Area of Improvement:

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●​ Some quotes break sentence flow. In formal expository writing, you might paraphrase
more often or integrate quotes more smoothly.

●​ A couple of phrases (“fear of death that is terrorized”) need grammatical polishing to

avoid slight awkwardness.
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Grade: A+ (Excellent Kaiser)

●​ Structure & Clarity: 20/20

●​ Evidence & Analysis: 18/20
●​ Language & Style: 17/20
●​ Mechanics & Grammar: 18/20

Total: 18.25/20 (≈92%)

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Note for Princeton AOs:

I am currently paralysed and staying at my uncle’s home because it's closer to the hospital and
easier for me to visit when doctors call me. I don't have my school papers now. The above
graded written paper was completed here and sent to my English teacher, who graded it and
provided comments. My school does not grade or comment on papers in this format, they just
check it and correct all mistakes, but in this case, my teacher made an exception so I could fulfill
Princeton’s requirement.

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Details of Circumstances or Qualifications Uploaded: 08/21/2025

I need to explain something important about my application – the missing SAT and AP scores. It
wasn't a choice. I was prepped and ready to take them. Life just threw me a massive curveball.

For about three years, I've been dealing with Spinal Tuberculosis (Pott's Paraplegia). It was
manageable-ish at first, but things took a really bad turn halfway through 11th grade. By April
this year (early 12th grade), I was in crisis. On April 22nd, 2025, I woke up completely paralyzed
from the waist down. No feeling in my legs, lost control of my bladder and bowels – all because
an abscess was crushing my spinal cord.

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Doctors rushed me into surgery, drained the pus, and put in two metal rods and four screws to
hold my spine together. Spent two weeks in the ICU after that. Honestly, that whole period is a
blur of pain and fear. The doctors say I might get some feeling back in my legs in 9-10 months,
but can never recover fully. They're straight-up honest: that might never fully come back, or only
partially. That thought? It’s pretty much my constant, unwelcome companion 24/7. It sucks.

The point is, with zero mobility and being completely bedridden/reliant on others, getting to any
test center – let alone ones in other states – was physically impossible. I was gutted. I’d
prepped hard for
AP Calculus AB
AP Physics C E&M
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AP Computer Science A
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AP Stats

I really wanted that AP Scholar recognition.

I know how competitive things are, and missing those tests looks bad. I can provide all the
medical proof you need – official CT/MRI scans, hospital records from the government hospital,
prescriptions, a detailed letter from my surgeon – you name it.

Here’s what I did instead of just giving up:Stuck in bed, I threw myself into the hardest online
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courses I could find. Seriously, MIT, Harvard, Stanford – their online platforms became my
classroom. I tackled:

Single Variable Calc (MIT)

Multivariable Calc (MIT)
Probability & Stats (MIT)
Discrete Math (MIT)
Linear Algebra (MIT)

Harvard’s famous CS50

Stanford’s AI & ML
Web Development
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I'm now learning courses like “AI for Everyone”, "Prompt Engineering” and “Building Systems
with Chat GPT APIs” by Stanford University professor Andrew Ng through Coursera.

I’m determined to finish these before uni starts. My point is this: If I can handle the pace and
intensity of MIT-level math and CS coursework from bed, I’m 100% confident I can not only
handle but excel in your university's academic environment. The scores aren't there, but the

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proof of my ability is in that coursework.

A couple of other things, just to be upfront:

1. That 78% in 10th grade (vs. the school's 81% A cutoff): Yeah, that stung. It wasn't Pott's
disease back then – that started getting worse later in 10th grade. That dip was purely down to
some intense family stuff happening at home that messed with my focus. My head just wasn't
fully in the game that year. Before and after that, my grades reflect my usual level.

2. Extracurriculars:This is the other area hit hard by my health. The TB started messing with my
mobility around mid-10th grade. It was a slow decline – my body just couldn't do normal things
I anymore.
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Dealing with all this hasn't broken me; it's shown me what I'm made of. I'm adaptable, stubborn
in a good way, and way more disciplined than I ever thought possible. I'm not just looking to
survive college; I'm itching to dive in, contribute, and keep pushing myself. I know I have the grit
and the brain for it. I just need the chance.

Thanks for taking the time to understand my situation.

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