Undergraduate applicant · Fall 2027 intake
Ananya Sharma
Computer Science × Human-Centred Design aspirant
Jaipur, India Class 12 · CBSE · Science (PCM + CS)
I take fuzzy, everyday problems — a slow canteen queue, an untested water supply — and turn them into researched, tested solutions. Applying to UK, US and Canadian universities to study computer science with a human-centred design focus.
92.4%
Class 10 · CBSE
88%
Class 11 aggregate
1480
SAT · M 770 / RW 710
7.5
IELTS · overall band
About
The short version
In Class 10, a psychometric assessment pointed me somewhere I hadn't considered: the overlap of technology and people. Everything since has been a test of that direction — a water-quality study that ended up in a municipal office, an app prototype the school canteen adopted in paper form, and a summer teaching digital basics at a government school.
The pattern I keep returning to: notice a small problem, research it properly, build the simplest thing that helps, and measure whether it did. That's the approach I want to take into a computer science degree with a human-centred design focus — and eventually into building public-interest technology for India.
Four years, one direction
2024 · Class 10
A psychometric assessment points to the overlap of technology and people. NTSE Stage 1 cleared.
2024–25 · Class 11
Electives locked for the path — CS + Fine Arts. The water-quality study runs 3 months and reaches the ward office.
Summer 2025
Digital-basics summer school: 6 weekends, 41 students certified, invited back for next year.
2025–26 · Class 12
QueueLess places 2nd of 34; Best Position Paper at JaipurMUN; SAT 1480 and IELTS 7.5 banked.
Fall 2027
Applications out: computer science × human-centred design — UK, US and Canada.
Projects & research
Work I'm proud of
Ground-water quality study, Ward 42
Independent research project, mentored by my chemistry teacher
Tested TDS, hardness and pH across 5 community bore-wells over 3 months and compared results against BIS safe-water norms. Two wells exceeded safe TDS limits; I presented the findings to the municipal ward office and re-tested after monsoon to track the change.
QueueLess — canteen pre-ordering prototype
Team lead, 3 members · 2nd of 34 teams
Our lunch break is 25 minutes; the canteen queue eats 15. I interviewed 30 students, mapped the bottleneck and designed a pre-order flow in Figma, tested with 12 classmates across two rounds. The canteen now runs a paper-token version of the idea during exams.
Digital-basics summer school
Founder & lead instructor, with 2 co-volunteers
A government school near us had a computer lab but nobody to teach the basics. I designed a 6-session course — typing, files, email, staying safe online — and taught it every Saturday. 41 students completed it, and the school has asked us back next summer.
Selected writing
How I write about the work
"Well 3 and Well 5 read 640 and 712 mg/L TDS respectively — above the 500 mg/L BIS acceptable limit, though under the 2000 mg/L permissible ceiling. The households using them aren't in danger; they're in the grey zone where nobody is responsible for telling them. That grey zone is what this report is for."
From the ground-water study report · Section 4, Findings
"I planned the first session around the mouse. Wrong. Half the class had used a phone for years and found the cursor insulting; the other half had never touched one. The real lesson wasn't 'computer basics' — it was learning to teach two classrooms sitting in the same room."
From a Notion post · "What 41 students taught me about teaching"
Leadership & activities
Where I show up every week
Secretary, Science Club
Grew weekly attendance from 14 to 40+ by switching to demo-first sessions; ran the club's first inter-school quiz with 8 schools participating.
Editor, school magazine
Shipped 3 issues with a 9-student contributor team; introduced a photo-essay section and moved production to a shared digital workflow.
MUN delegate
Represented two conferences (UNEP, WHO committees); Best Position Paper at JaipurMUN for a brief on urban water safety — built on my research project.
Awards & honours
Recognition
NTSE Stage 1 qualified — first attempt (Class 10)
2nd place, Jaipur district inter-school science exhibition (Class 11)
Best Position Paper, JaipurMUN (Class 11)
School Blue Badge for sustained contribution — one of 6 in a batch of 240
Education
School journey
Class 11–12 · Science (PCM + Computer Science)
Sunrise Public School, Jaipur · 2024–present
Class 11 aggregate 88%. Electives chosen for the design-engineering path — Computer Science over Biology, Fine Arts as the additional subject.
Class 10 · CBSE
Sunrise Public School, Jaipur · 2024
92.4% aggregate · 97 in Mathematics, 95 in Science.
Skills
What I work with
Technical
Research & writing
Creative
Languages
Certificates
Courses completed
Code in Place (Python)
Stanford Online · 2025
Design Basics: Layout & Colour
Canva Design School · 2025
First Aid & Basic Life Support
Indian Red Cross Society workshop · 2024
Beyond the classroom
When the books close
Sketching — mostly buildings and street corners; 60+ pages across two sketchbooks this year.
Photography for the school magazine — covered 11 school events this session.
Rebuilding my study-notes system in Notion — and writing short posts about what works.
Reference
What a mentor says
"Ananya doesn't stop at the assignment. The water-quality survey began as a chemistry practical and ended in the ward office — that initiative is rare at this age."
Mrs. R. Iyer
Chemistry teacher & Science Club mentor
Contact
Let's talk
Happy to share full project reports, references or anything else an admissions team would like to see.
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