Updated College List 2016

Aarti Kheskani

New York University

Aashika Balaji

Carnegie Mellon University

Aathira Menon

University of Maryland College Park

Don’t worry, don’t stress, you’ll be fine no matter what

Amidst all the craziness, always make time for friends.

Make the most out of your four years, because it goes by before you know it.

Abhinav Ketineni Georgetown University

Take classes in subjects you don’t usually enjoy. You may not get the chance to take them again.

Adele Li

University of Pennsylvania

Be persistent and always advocate for yourself.

Aditya Varshney UC Berkeley

Stay organized but don’t forget to have fun.

Aishu Murari

University of Washington

Akshay Battu

UC Berkeley

Have fun and don’t worry about college so much.

Don’t hesitate to ask for help and advice when you need it.

Akshaya Premkumar Alex Henshall UC Santa Cruz

Do what you love to and nothing else. It’s a waste of time.

Alex Lyon

Don’t let others unduly influence your decisions in life.

Alex Sikand

Boston University

Do everything, experiment both intellectually and physically

Alexandra Dellar Tufts University Don’t just live for the weekend

Alice Wu Alisa Wakita Allison Wang

California Institute of Technology

Focus on what you enjoy, not what you think will look good.

Alyssa Crawford

Continue to explore everything available to you, and enjoy high school.

Amar Jain

St. Mary’s College of California

Ameek Singh Andrew Kim

UC Los Angeles

Aneri Mehta

New York University

Angela Huang

UC Berkeley

“Let your ambition carry you.” -Travis Scott Relax.

Do your homework. everything will be ok

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Anika Mohindra

Hold the doors, smile at strangers, and talk to new people.

Anish Velagapudi University of Washington Don’t let your dreams be dreams.

Ankita Sharma Ankur Karwal

University of Southern California

Annie Zhou

University of Pennsylvania

Anthony Luo

Brown University

Be the best at what you do.

Don’t feel pressured to do something just because everyone else is doing it.

Sleep well.

Aparna Yellapragada Arjun Narayan University of Southern California MOO

Arthur Goldstein Santa Clara University Never vote for Trump.

Helen Xie

New York University

Helena Dworak

University College London

Life goes on

Arthur Ye Arun Shriram Ashley Zhong

Santa Clara University

Isaac Smith

Drexel University

Aumesh Misra

Washington University in St. Louis

Emory University

Ayla Ekici

Izzy Gross

Take time to appreciate the people here.

Emory University

Ayushi Gautam

Jackiel Rothschild Tufts University

Johns Hopkins University

Don’t spend all of high school worrying about college.

Belinda Yan

UC Berkeley

Makes sure to not stress too much over the little things

Brenna Jensen

Whitman College

Caitlin Benge

Whittier College

Calvin Kocienda

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Don’t miss the candy bar at prom two years in a row Don’t procrastinate Mr. Silk’s homework.

sleep is important

Challenge yourself to be better whenever and however you can.

Live in the now.

Hire someone else to read your college essays.

Cameron Palte

Buy a Razer laptop.

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Caroline Skrobak Hawaii Pacific University mind your biz

Chandini Thakur Chandler Nelson Salve Regina University Stop worrying. It will all work out.

Connor O’Neill Cynthia Hao

Stanford University

Past performance is not a predictor of future results.

Dakota McNealy Don’t screw up.

Daphne Liang

University of Southern California

Daphne Yang

Pomona College

Don’t overwork yourself and do things that make you happy.

Stay passionate and have fun!

Darius Yohannan University of Notre Dame

Get to know your teachers. They’re lit. Plus, you learn better.

David Jin

Try new things

Cornell University

Dhanush Madabusi Duke University Don’t get rescinded.

Divya Periyakoil UC Berkeley

Go to the library. It’s the best place in the whole school.

Doreene Kang

UC Berkeley

Edward Sheu

New York University

Eesha Chona

UC Berkeley

Time management

Go out and do everything you can, and never waste a moment.

Do not stress, things will work out!

Elijah Edgehill Elina Sendonaris Massachusetts Institute of Technology Don’t stress it (where “it” is everything).

Eliot Gruzman

De Anza College

Don’t slack off. All of high school counts. Not just junior or senior year...

Elisabeth Siegel Stay kind.

Elizabeth Edwards University of Pennsylvania Nothing is worth staying up past 1AM.

Emily Pan Emma Doherty Emma Sayiner

University of California, Berkeley

Esther Wang

University of Chicago

Evan Lohn

University of California at Berkeley

Grace Cao

Carnegie Mellon University

Grace Guan

Princeton University

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It gets better... eventually.

Do your best to take nothing for granted.

Try your best and have no regrets.

“Anything lost can be found again, except for time wasted.”

-Christian K. Bonner

Gurutam Thockchom Helen Woodruff University of Puget Sound Chill out and have more fun!

Find some good music and dance more.

Do all your college apps ahead of time.

Don’t stress, it’s gonna work out!

It will work out in the end

Jacqueline Chen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Janet Lee

Princeton University

Jasmine Liu Jason Lee

Stanford University Cornell University

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Stay calm and have fun, but don’t procrastinate!

Jonathan Ta

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jonathan Trinh

Santa Clara University

Don’t take things too seriously

Jonathan Yiu Joshua Hung

University of Southern California

Try new things.

Justan Su

Georgia Institute of Technology

Kaitlyn Gee

New York University

Karen Qi

Rice University

Everything will work out fine

Jenny Bourke

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Jessica Zhu

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Be good at things Prioritize

John Nicolas Jerney

University of Toronto

Johnathon Keller Claremont McKenna College Jonathan Dai

Northwestern University

Be yourself and be confident.

Jonathan Hochberg University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Do everything available to you with all of your effort

Jonathan Ma

Follow your heart.

Harvard College

Make the most of your high school education, but also your relationshi you will have only one shot at each of them, after all.

You do you.

Free periods are for naps

Play at least one sport to meet new people

If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”

Learn how to take constructive criticism.

Mary Najibi

Make as many memories as possible!

Maya Jeyendran

Yale University

Be sympathetic, don’t gossip, and always be proud of yourself.

MC Smitherman

Always try to find a reason to laugh, because laughter is pretty neat.

New York University

Mehul Khetrapal Melina Nakos

Harvard College

Melody Weber Michael Moncton Michael Zhao

Claremont Mckenna College

Miles DeWitt Mohnish Shah

Never be arrogant. Be humble and learn from those around you.

Don’t be afraid to fail miserably. That is how you succeed.

It’s important to challenge but not overwhelm yourself.

Nadia Palte

Cornell University

Butler University Chapman University

Work hard, play hard.

Naman Jindal Namitha Vellian

Spend more time outdoors

Naomi Molin

Make friends with as many people as possible.

UC Berkeley

Natalie Simonian

Tufts University

Natasha Mayor

“Work smart, not hard.” -Irina Marutyan

Don’t spend high school focusing on college.

University of Chicago Natasha Santhanam

Don’t worry too much. Write what you want.

UT Austin

Nikhil Bopardikar

Don’t skip school meeting.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nikhil Parmar

Don’t take all the APs, remember to enjoy your classes and friends

Emory University

Nikhil Ramgiri

Brown University

Nikita Kosolobov Nikita Ramoji

Southern Methodist University

Oisin Coveney

UC Berkeley

Omar Hamade Panny Shan

Washington University in St. Louis

Philip Krause

Carnegie Mellon University

Prithvi Gudapati

New York Film Academy

Rachel Renteria

Santa Clara University

Raghav Jain

Forge your own path, and you will never regret it

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Enjoy the present, don’t just focus on the future.

You’ll only do well if you’re having fun inside and outside the classroom.

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e’d like to dedicate this page to the Class of 2016.

Congratulations! We made it. As mentioned in our front page editorial (see A1), the Winged Post ed to change the format of the canonical “College explore ways to characterize and commemorate ements of the Class of 2016 in ways beyond simply Seniors received the opportunity to complete a volvey question, asking them what advice they would nd for later years, and the option of reporting the into which they plan to matriculate.

Don’t stress so much it’s not worth it

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Brown University

Hang out in the college counseling room because the thermostat is really well adjusted there. (Also, Ms. Burrell might play Set with you.)

Kaushik Sankar University of Chicago Kavya Ramakrishnan

Go outside, smell the cherry blossoms, go to the farmer’s market, try ceramics.

UC Berkeley

Kaylan Huang

Enjoy high school. It may seem like the slowest years of your life but it’ll fly by.

University of Southern California

Kevin Chen Kevin Hu Kevin Ke

Try everything; you never know what you might find.

Rice University

Kevin Kim

Get plenty of sleep and take care of yourself

Have Fun

Relax. Have fun because it flies by.

Happiness is the most important thing.

UC Irvine

UC Santa Barbara

Kevin Wang

UC Berkeley Cornell University

Kevina Xiao Kristen Ko

Johns Hopkins University University of Michigan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rishabh Chandra

Get more sleep.

Kristen Park

Stanford University

Lawrence Li

Layla Walker

Don’t worry

Lev Sepetov

Stay classy, stay you.

Lisa Liu

Logan Drazovich

UC Los Angeles

Rohan Daran Rohan Desikan

Indiana University

Ronak Baldua

Purdue University

Ryan Fernandes

Sachit Agarwal Sadhika Malladi Columbia University Sahana Narayanan

Fine coffee and The Beatles make everything better.

UC San Diego Sai Shreya Sunkara

Read the news and indulge in whatever you find decadent.

University of Pennsylvania

Samali Sahoo

UC Berkeley

Sandhana Kannan Sanil Rajput

Duke University

Selin Ekici Selin Ozcelik

Duke University

Shalini Arimilli

UC Berkeley

Shannon Hong

Buy a handkerchief for someone who sweats more than Marco Rubio.

Luke Wu

Have a good balance of extra-curriculars and academic achievements.

Stanford University

If you’re not happy it’s not worth it

Go to a college that makes you happy, not necessarily the “best”

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing

University of the Pacific

Rishi Narain

New York University

Experience everything you possibly can.

Explore the Bay Area as much as you can.

Stevens Institute of Technology

Be happy and live life

“Be yourself — everyone else is taken.”

Kurt Schwartz

Do USA Computing Olympiad Chill

Mount Holyoke College

Richard Yi

Enjoy your time in high school and make the most of it.

Try to reach out to as many people as possible

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rajiv Sancheti

Take a class with Docherty

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Senioritis is definitely a thing.

University of Texas at Austin Karen Tu

Yolo

Madhu Karra

You choose.

Regret is worse than not trying.

Chapman University

Madison Tomihiro

Occidental College

Malvika Khanna

Pursue what you love and don’t apologize for who you are

Marita Del Alto

Go out with a Bang! Do stuff that matters and only stuff that matters.

Try new things and don’t let fear stop you from going outside of your comfort zone. learn to love yourself

Enjoy your time in high school and get involved.

It’s a crap shoot so be yourself. Also, learn to deal with ambiguity.

Shannon Richardson

Stanford University

Take advantage of the opportunities Harker provides you and the people here to support your pursuits.

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Sharanya Balaji

Never give up. Something amazing is always around the corner.

Shay Lari-Hosain

Genuinely loving what you do, having incredibly strong passions, things that fundamentally drive you, that’s paramount. You need that. To do great things. To live.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Shilpa Repakula

Enjoy the little things in life.

Yale University

Shivali Minocha

University of Southern California

Shreya Mathur

Do your hw and learn how to not procrastinate.

It’s really important to balance hard work and having fun in high school.

Sohil Patel

Columbia University

Avoid procrastination

Sophia Luo

Sleep is good.

Sorjo Banerjee

UC Berkeley

Do your homework.

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Srivarsha Gulukota

Don’t be afraid to break the rules sometimes

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Stanley Zhao

Nothing is a better replacement than hard work.

Northwestern University

Stephanie Huang

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Suraj Jagadeesh Surya Solanki

Work hard, play hard

Make decisions that will benefit you and not others.

Tong Wu

Always stay true to your convictions

University of Redlands

Trenton Thomas

Stanford University

Victoria Ding

Stanford University

Vineet Kosaraju

California Institute of Technology

Vivek Bharadwaj

University of Chicago

Yasemin Narin Zarek Drozda

UC Berkeley

Zeyad El-arabaty

Calm down, it’s not that serious... calm down

Don’t be afraid to try new activities and follow your passions If you say you can’t, you won’t- so don’t. Say you can.

Have the courage to laugh at yourself. Like a lot. Almost constantly.

Do what you like not what’s best for college.