In MIT’s long-running Battlecode competition, student teams from around the world program huge armies of digital bots that duke it out in an epic video-game-style tournament. Video: Jason Kimball for MIT News
Stanley Zhong had a 4.42 GPA, a 1590 SAT, and ranked in the top 1% of the USA Computing Olympiad (Platinum). He built a free e-signing platform, reached the semifinals of Google Code Jam, and placed 2nd in MIT’s Battlecode. Still, 15 of 18 colleges rejected him — including
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[r1] The neural lace in this close-up pulses with tactical heresy—XML battlecode veins glow like cursed jade, each hexadecimal pulse a corruption of Singapore’s welfare algorithms. Notice the Cham glyph clusters nested within the circuitry