Pioneer Scholars Share Their Early Decision and Early Action Destinations (2026)

February 16, 2026

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We commend all Pioneer Scholars who navigated the challenges of their research journey with unwavering curiosity and diligence. Whether they have already secured admission through Early Action or Early Decision or are awaiting April results, their commitment to conducting the highest level of research possible for high school students is truly commendable. Pioneer’s reputation stands as a testament to their extraordinary efforts.

As is our annual tradition, we now share the statistics of Pioneer Scholars’ early college admission results. However, beyond the numbers, it is their intellectual drive, passion, and dedication that fill us with the greatest pride.

U.S. University Early Decision/ REA

U.S. Universities	Scholars’ High School	Pioneer Research Topic
Boston College (5)	Menlo School	Using AI to Address Public Health Issues After Wildfire Disasters
	Changwai Bilingual School	The Impact of Music Therapy on Learning Outcomes, Concentration Levels, and Social Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
	Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School	The Impacts of Using Artificial Intelligence Tools on American High-School Students’ Grade Point Average and Collegiate Entrance Standardized Test Scores
	Nanjing Foreign Language School	Yijing As Lens: A Unified Perspective in Chinese Poetry and Painting
	Gretchen Whitney High School	Multilingual vs. Bilingual Adolescents
Brown University (10)	UWC Thailand International School	Carbon Cap-and-Trade Systems vs. Carbon Tax Systems: Which to Go For?
	Haile Manas Academy	Beyond the Label: Everyday Negotiation and Silent Struggles in Managing Invisible Illnesses
	Arcadia High School	Harmonizing Resilience: A Review of the Impact of Music Therapy on the Emotional Well-Being of Foster Children
	School for Advanced Studies – South	In Silico Identification of Novel Pharmacological Therapeutics Targeting the p53–MDM2 Regulatory Pathway for the Treatment of Lung Adenocarcinoma
	Poly Prep Country Day School	Stem Cell Therapy as a cure for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
	Rutgers Preparatory School	More Than a Resource: The Illegal Sand Trade and its Risk to the Global South
	Beijing National Day School	Topic Undisclosed
	Lawrenceville School	Topic Undisclosed
	Iolani School	Lowering dosage-related side effects: creating novel derivatives to improve sertraline solubility
	Obour STEM school	Redesigning Educational Assessments Through Learning Engineering: Addressing AI-Driven Academic Integrity and Ethical Challenges in Education – An Annotated Bibliography
California Institute of Technology (2)	Southridge School	Segmenting Homelessness in Los Angeles County: K-Medoids Clustering Approach to Targeted Housing Allocation
California Institute of Technology (2)	Dhirubhai Ambani International School	Evaluating and Addressing the Impact of Particulate Matter and Artificial Light At Night Stressors On Plant Physiology And The Urban Ecosystem
Carnegie Mellon University (11)	Nanjing Foreign Language School	System Thinking in Natural Disaster Response Lessons from China and Global Counterparts
	UWC Changshu China	Eliot’s “Unreal City” as an Objective Correlative
	No. 2 High School of East China Normal University	A Modified mTSP Algorithm for Picking up Garbage in A Residential Community
	Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy	Topic Undisclosed
	Beijing National Day School	Visualizing Tribonacci Sequences: Tiling Alternating Shapes.
	Hefei No 1 High School	Beyond ASR: Quantifying LLM Security Through Dynamic Loss Landscape Analysis During GCG Attacks
	Beijing Number 80 High School	Topic Undisclosed
	Chengdu Golden Apple Jincheng No. 1 Secondary School International	Evaluation of different prompts and Large Language Models in ADHD therapy
	Hugh Mcroberts Secondary School	Alzheimer’s, Music Therapy, and Neural Noise: A Computational Model
	The SMIC Private School	The Therapeutical Proposal of The Integration of iPSC and Microglial Sentinels in The CNS to Cure Alzheimer’s Disease
	Southlands Schools International, Qingdao Weiming School	Tiling a strip with squares and colored dominos…
Columbia University (8)	Haile Manas Academy	“Off-Grid Solar Energy Production in Rural Kenya, Rwanda, and Nigeria: Household Welfare & Environmental Impacts and Policies for Greater Impact”
	Horace Mann School	Witches, Mothers, and Monsters: Feminist Resistance and Patriarchal Control in Horror Films: Pre Satanic Panic
	Seoul Foreign School	The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition: Women’s Contributions Within the Art Field
	British International School – Ho Chi Minh City	To what extent are contemporary political instability and ethnic tensions in the nations of former Indochina and their worldwide diaspora, often perpetrated by various non-state actors, the result of the United States’ engagement with and support of Cold War-era anti-North Vietnam movements?
	Pine Crest School	LATINX EDUCATION: A HISTORY OF POLICY AND ONGOING CONTENTION OF ACCESSIBILITY
	Wheeler School	The Sisterhood Myth and the Otherness of Female Identity in Women’s War Fiction
	Milton Academy	Putin’s Various Uses of Russia’s Education Ciriculum and Education System to Further His Political Goals
	St. George’s Senior School	Selling Status: Persuasive Strategies in Luxury Brand Advertising
Cornell University (11)	Baldwin School	The Global Marketization of Bhutanese Oral Culture and Its Economic Distributions
	High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China	A Novel Method for Fusion Fuel Analysis: A Composite Metric Incorporating Cross-Section, Plasma Beta, Neutron Impact, Temperature, and Q-Value Through one Weighted Function
	Singapore American School	Post Quantum Cryptography
	Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy	The Adaptive Support System for Optimizing Posture in 2 Wheelchair Users
	Shanghai Starriver Bilingual School	Analysis of Technologies in China to Save Rice Production Affected by Climate Change
	Basis Bilingual School Chengdu	Neutrino Tomography with Artificial Neutrino Beams: A Novel Approach to Probing Earth’s Internal Structure and Density Profile
	Dr. Michael Krop Senior School	The Beacon of Freedom
	Shanghai Starriver Bilingual School	The Russian Government Is Watching You: How Social Media Censorship in Post-2000 Russia Works
	Shanghai World Foreign Language Middle School	Effects of Violent Video Games on Adolescents’ Aggression: Evaluations of Models on Theoretical Basis
	Shanghai Foreign Language School Affiliated to SISU	Contested Multilateralism: BRICS+ and the Hybrid Pursuit of Global Order Change
	Jiangsu Tianyi High School	Human Neutrophil Mechanical Behaviors during Spaceflight Environments
Dartmouth College (7)	Seoul Foreign School	Work, Culture, and Self-Efficacy among Adults with Developmental Disabilities in South Korea
	Francis Holland School	When Can Governments Interfere with Reproductive Rights?
	Bellarmine College Preparatory	Properties of the State, Stories of the People: Oral Histories from Burma
	Shanghai Pinghe School	The Evolving Chinese Family in 2000: A Typological Analysis of Structural, Socioeconomic, Migratory, and Policy-Driven Transformations
	Mercer Island High School	Jazz and Femininity in Conflict: Examining the Historical, Societal, and Genre-Specific Biases That Limit Women’s Participation in the Seattle Jazz Scene
	Qingdao Academy	Generalized Sidon Sets: Difference Avoidance and Triple-Sum Constraints
	Beijing Number 80 High School	A Theoretical Integration of Spontaneous Fission Quantum Tunneling and Neutron Multiplication in Nuclear Waste
Duke University (18)	Shanghai High School International Division	Classification of art styles/periods with multiple approach
	Evanston Township High School	Hippocampal Atrophy and Memory Loss Predisposes Alzheimer’s Patients to Depression
	Pingry School	Beyond ΛCDM: Exploring an Alternative Cosmological Model
	Academy for Academic Excellence	The Influence of Artificial Intelligence of Consumer Perception of Advertisements and Marketing
	Del Norte High School	Evaluating Different methods for mercury remediation in terrestrial environments: A Critical Review
	Pingry School	The silicone breast implant perpetuated negative stereotypes about what a woman’s body should be.
	Shanghai American School – Pudong Campus	A Qualitative Study of Tibetan Women’s Exclusion Through an Ecofeminist Perspective
	Nanjing Foreign Language School	Light Pollution and Stopover Site Selection: A Case Study of Hybrid Spotted Eagles Around Toulouse, France
	Miami Country Day School	Beyond China: How U.S. Tariffs Influence Decision-Making of Vietnam’s Domestic SMEs
	St. Michaels University School	Evaluating 4-Aminopyridine (4-AP) as a Targeted Therapy in Spinocerebellar Ataxia 13 (SCA13) Using a Kv3.3 Transgenic Mouse Model
	Marvin Ridge High School	Clustering of Driving Styles in Formula 1
	Grassfield High School	Analyzing International SME Success Factors: A Signaling Theory Perspective
	Beijing Number 4 High School	The Impacts of a Virtual Private Network Protocol’s Algorithmic Design on its Security and Performance: A Case Study on the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol and the OpenVPN Protocol
	Shanghai American School – Puxi Campus	The Role of β-Glucuronidase-Producing Gut Bacteria in Modulating Estrogen Metabolism and Promoting ER-Positive Breast Cancer Progression
	Saint Andrew’s School	Breaking the Poverty Trap: Rural Infrastructure as a Driver of Development in Honduras
	Wuhan Britain-China School	Analysis of Structures with Pendulum-Type Tuned Mass Dampers
	Adlai E Stevenson High School	Biomechanical Simulation of Fimbrial Adhesion in Uropathogenic E. coli: Type 1 vs. P Fimbriae as Basis for Novel UTI Therapies
	Pine Crest School	Circadian Rhythms and Alzheimer’s Disease: Exploring the Relationship Between BMAL1 and the Blood-Brain Barrier
Emory University (9)	Torrey Pines High School	Effects of a Mobile-App-Based MBSR Program on Anxiety and Emotion Regulation in Chinese Students Aged 17–23
	Tsinglan School	Chemical and Biochemic al Analysis of Two Traditional Methods for Storing and Cooking Foods in Chinese Cuisine
	Chengdu Shude High School	Auction Theory and iTcked Scalping
	Shenzhen Foreign Languages School	Enhancing Equity Through the Internet: Evaluating New York City Policies’ Effectiveness in Internet Accessibility and Their Impact on SAT Scores
	Living Word Shanghai	The Role of Ecotourism in China’s Environmental and Rural Development Strategies
	Virginia Episcopal School	Intersecting Barriers: Structural Inequality and Healthcare Access among Rural Tibetan Women
	United World College Changshu	The impact of religion on the science of Robert Boyle
	Nanjing Foreign Language School Xianlin Campus	Determinants of Japan’s Economic Growth: A Solow Model Approach with Event analysis
	Shenzhen Foreign Languages School	Proposed Synthetic Route of Analogue of Retinoic Acid
Georgetown University (1)	Pine Crest School	Medicaid Policy, Disability, and Access to Care: Structural Barriers in Non-Expansion Florida
Harvard University (10)	St John’s College, Johannesburg	The Resource Curse of the Congo
	Stuyvesant High School	Surviving the Myth: The Black Unicorn and Audre Lorde’s Reimagining of the Black Aesthetic.
	Brearley School	The Ideological Origins of the Non-Aligned Movement
	Brearley School	Ayslum Policy in the United States: Fixing a Broken System
	Blair Academy	Analysis of a Targeted Poison Attack on Synthetic Data
	Buckingham Browne and Nichols School	Science, Slavery, and Society: Maria Sybilla Merian and Hans Sloane in the Colonial Americas
	Carmel High School	Use of AutoDock Vina to Design a Tacrolimus-Inspired Immunosuppressant with Reduced Off-target Nephrotoxicity?
	St. Paul’s School	Molecular Optimization of Atogepant: Designing a Next- Generation CGRP Antagonist for Migraine Therapy
	Lexington High School	Consumer Reactions to Deceptive Advertisements of Weight Loss Drugs and Dietary Supplements
	Robert College	Evolution of Income Inequality in Turkey Across Regions
Johns Hopkins University (4)	Korea International School	Punishment or Treatment? Exploring Mental Health Behind Bars
	Shanghai Pinghe School	The Eternal Theme of “Home”: Connection between the Poem “Jing Ye Si” and the Music Piece “Night Thoughts”
	The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University	Women in Chinese Cinema During the Cultural Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Representation
	Shenzhen Middle School	A System Analysis of E-waste Pollution and Public Health Inequity in Southern China’s Rural Regions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1)	American High School	Reliability of code generated by Gemini
New York University (19)	West Point Grey Academy	How do social conformity mechanisms influence consumer purchasing decisions among TikTok users?
	Arcadia High School	Relationship Between Women’s Education Level and Their Life Satisfaction In China
	Shanghai American School – Pudong Campus	Tiling the 2 × n board with squares, dominoes, and L quadrominos
	Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy	“Young women with disabilties negociating autonomy within community care rela?onships in Shanghai: a study of self- determina?on in decision-making and help-seeking behaviors”
	Long Island City High School	Epigenetic silencing of NF-κB p65 (RelA) to treat Crohn’s disease using CRISPRi and lipid nanoparticle delivery
	Shanghai Pinghe School	Mirrors of the Empire: Language, Education, and the Forging of Student Identities in Colonial Taiwan, 1895-1945
	Suzhou Singapore International School	The New Woman and the Politics of Race, Class, and Eugenics
	Nazarbayev Intellectual School Chemistry and Biology Almaty	A Community Detection Approach to the Dominating Set Problem Using Label Propagation and Modularity
	Chengdu Foreign Languages School – AP Center	Not Submitted
	YK Pao School	How David Lynch’s background and cultural technological shifts shape his surrealist style with Eraserhead and Mulholland Drive, reinterpreting classical surrealism?
	Cranbrook Kingswood School	Analysis of Chinese and United States Government Statements on Wars on Drugs through Social Conflict Theory
	Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy	Financing China’s Green Future: How Chinese commercial banks get involved in the eco-friendly investment of China
	St. George’s Senior School	Beyond the Peak: A Comparative Study on How Canada and the U.S. Framed Public Health Messaging During and After COVID-19 (2022-2025)
	Fieldston School	How Social Media Influences Conflict
	Shanghai Pinghe School	A Virtue Ethics Answer To Modern Justice
	Pine Crest School	Examining the effects of maternal upbringing and appearance-based social media on female adolescents body dissatisfaction and disordered eating symptoms
	Jayshree Periwal International School	China’s Innovation Vs. India’s Traditional Methods
	Beijing Huijia Private School	The International Expansion of Chinese Banks under the 2013 Belt and Road Initiative.
	Saint Michaels University School	Equitable Access to Urban Green Spaces: Reducing Mental Health Disparities in Lower-Income City Communities
New York University, Abu Dhabi	Astana Bilim-Innovation Lyceum for Gifted Girls	Tr eatments of nicotine addiction: role of metabolic inhibitors and most promising clinical tr eatment.
Northwestern University (30)	Saigon South International School	Patriotism and Identity: Exploring the Experiences of African American Veterans During the Vietnam War
	Jinling High School	Mandarin-Shuangbai Voice-based Computer Science AI Tutor
	Mccallie School	Utilization of Shape-Memory Polymers on Phase-Transforming Cellular Material Structure as Artificial Muscles
	UWC Dilijan College	Modelling Tunneling Conductance through Alkanedithiols with the WKB Approximation
	Shanghai American School – Puxi Campus	Profits Over Patients: The Lack of Transparency in 1990s Antidepressant Marketing
	St. George’s Senior School	Evaluation of PbSe Alloying on the Figure of Merit and Performance of SnSe for Thermoelectric Generator Usage
	The Cheltenham Ladies College	How Fonts Make You Pay: An Empirical Investigation on Typography and Price Perception
	Isikkent School	Targeting Cancer with Lipid Nanoparticles: EPR Effect, pH Microenvironment, and pH-Sensitivity
	Wuhan Britain-China School	Harthouse’s Blasé Mask: Rethinking Harthouse’s Nihilism in Dickens’s Hard Times in Relationship to Utilitarianism
	Lord Byng Secondary School	Optimized Independent Sensors for Greater Information?
	Shanghai Pinghe School	Between Stigma and Support: How the Urban Chinese Post-2000 Generation Perceives Depression and Barriers of Help-Seeking Behaviors in Family and School Contexts
	Centro Educativo Balandra Cruz del Sur	ENGLISH SETTINGS, BALLS AND DRESSES: THE CINEMATIC LANGUAGE OF PRIDE & PREJUDICE
	International Community School	Cross-Lingual Structural Priming in Chinese → English MT: Effects on Syntax and Translation Quality
	Colleyville Heritage High School	The Psychology of EDM-Pop Processes
	Shandong Experimental High School	Proposed Synthetic Route to Cochlearol B
	High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China	Navigating Demographic Shifts: A Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Automation Policies in the US, China, and the EU
	Saint Paul Preparatory School	Bridging the Gap: Factors Influencing Representative Responsiveness in Modern Democracies
	George School	Asian Performance Aesthetics, Hip-Hop, and Hybridity: Visual Languages of Afro-Asian Protest Art in a Globalized Era
	Western Academy Of Beijing	Globalization and the property crisis in Hong Kong: the interplay of economic, geographic, and policy factors
	The Nueva School	Inferring Dark Matter Halo Parameters from Shapiro Delays Maps in Synthetic Galaxies
	International School of Beijing, Shunyi	Constructing the Perception of Domestic Violence Cases: The Intersection Between Violence, Victimhood, Family, and Gender
	University of South Carolina: Aiken	““I Don’t Want to Bank on It”: High-Achieving Black Girls on the Allure and Precarity of Social Media Influencing”
	Cranbrook Kingswood School	Road Sign Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks
	Ridgewood High School	Design and Synthesis of a Capsaicin Analog: Effects of Cyclobutyl Methyl Addition on Biomedical Research
	Hefei No 1 High School	The Oppositional Gaze in the Harlem Renaissance: Photography, Literature, and Nella Larsen’s Quicksand
	Koc Ozel Lisesi	Access, Awareness, and Agency: Education’s Role in Shaping Gender Norms across Urban and Rural Turkey
	Loomis Chaffee School	Solving the Three-Body System Dynamics with Physics-Informed Neural Networks: Accelerating the Numerical Computation
	YK Pao School	How does the Recommendation Algorithm of Video Platform “BiliBili” Reinforce Traditional Gender Bias in the Digital Age?
	Chinese International School	The Effect of Religion on Serfdom as the Pervasive Social Structure in Tibet
	Central High School	Addressing the Neglect of Women’s Health in the United States
Princeton University (11)	Lester B Pearson UWC of the Pacific	Identifiability of parameters for Gaussian Mixture Model with 2 components using Method of Moments and Maximum Likelyhood Estimation algorithms
	The King’s School	Numerical Simulation of the Necessary Trajectory of a Defence Missile
	Mater Performing Arts Academy	Condensing the Problem: Programmable Phase Separation for Tau and Amyloid-ß Clearance in Alzheimer’s Disease Intervention
	Princeton High School	The relationship of Statin Therapy on Cognitive Function in Type 2 Diabetic Patients: A Comparative Study
	Carolina Forest High School	Rising Awareness of Chronic Absenteeism: An Obstacle to Educational Equity
	Princeton High School	Consecutive Powers of k-metallic and k-bonacci Ratios That Sum to Integers
	Princeton High School	Understanding Nutritional Intake Patterns and Food-Related Diabetes Mellitus Pathophysiology Awareness in Southeast Nigeria
	David Posnack Jewish Day School	Klezmer in the United States: Evolution, Identity, and Authenticity
	CFS, The School at Church Farm	Unveiling Hegemonic Masculinity: Media Perceptions and the Fight for Equal Pay in Women’s Soccer
	St. Paul’s School	Ballet: A Religious Asceticism
	Private Lyceum “Online school “Alternative”	Amsterdam’s Circular City Model for Sustainable Economies Worldwide Marharyta Perepelytsia, P
Rice University (7)	YK Pao School	Comparing the Performance of Dupilumab and Benralizumab in Eosinophilic Asthma Disease Activity Indicators
	Lower Merion High School	From Pollution to Solutions: Evaluating the Role of Bioplastics in Mitigating the Impacts of Conventional Plastics on the Environment and Human Health
	Carnegie Vanguard High School	Strategies Used in Adaptive Reuse Projects to Appeal to Customers: POST Houston
	BIS Canada	The Impact of Children’s Films on Perceptions of Trauma and Emotional Responses
	The Harker School	Evaluating the predictive capability of physics-guided LSTM models for SHM using simulated, experimental, and hybrid training data
	Jinling High School	Relational Aggression and Female Power Struggling in Court Dramas: A Cross- Cultural and Socio-Psychological Analysis of Gendered Conflicts from The Tudors to Empresses in the Palace
	Shanghai Pinghe School	Reshaping Sociability: A Proposal to Address Inequality in Socialization in U.S. Higher Education
Stanford University (14)	Basis Independent Silicon Valley	Lenin’s Unattainable Utopia: The Incompatibility of Bolshevism and Democracy
	Phillips Academy	A Levinasion Interpretation: The Other and the Self Within the Classical World
	Anacortes High School	A Cultural Compromise: Indigenization’s Influence on Ukrainian National Identity in Soviet Ukraine From 1923-1932
	Pingry School	Complexity Theory through Graph Theory
	Oxford Academy	Building Clinical Accuracy and Cultural Trust within Multilingual Healthcare
	Portola High School	The First Digital Doctor: Reconsidering INTERNIST-I as a Foundational Milestone in the History of Medical Usage of Artificial Intelligence
	Quarry Lane School	Resilience through Ritual: A Critical Lens Essay of Kiowa Dances using JZ Smith’s [1] Theory on the Bare Facts of Ritual
	The International School Bangalore	The Fe-nomenon of Doping: Iron’s Impact on Bi₂Te₃ Thermoelectrics
	Los Altos High School	The Effect of Terrain Slope on Wildfire Spread
	Tsinglan School	How do musical parameters in contemporary worship music contribute to emotional build-up and spiritual climax during live worship?
	The Harker School	Indonesia on the Rising Global Stage
	Nanjing Foreign Language School	Comparing the Effects of Mixed, Specific, and Sedentary Programs on ADHD Symptoms in Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial
	Stanford University Online High School	Mitigating Human-Elephant Conflict: A Comprehensive Strategy of Crop Replanting, Compensation, Acoustic Deterrents, and Community Education
	Harrow International School Hong Kong	The “Pretty” Boy Problem: Fluidity, Performance and the Limits of Subversion in K-pop Masculinities
Tufts University (2)	Alameda High School	A study into how teens differentiate friendships when they are mediated through online vs. offline.
Tufts University (2)	Avenues – New York	Plastic Waste Colonization, the Shortcomings of the Basel Convention
University of Chicago (10)	Saint Swithuns School	An Examination of NUWSS and WSPU Propaganda, Ideology, and Their Portrayal in Media
	Coral Academy of Science, Las Vegas	Developing Stem Cell-Derived Thyroid Follicular Cells as a Therapy for Hypothyroidism
	Cate School	Selfhood and the Sea: The Awakening as Metaphysical Tragedy
	United World College in Mostar	Reasons behind the European Union’ different approaches to refugee migration
	International School of Beijing, Shunyi	Design of A Passively Athermal Photonic Crystal Filter for Space and Ground Nebulae Imaging
	The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University	A comprehensive analysis of Carbon Markets: Current Status, Challenges and Solutions
	Choate Rosemary Hall	An Analysis of the Macroeconomic Conditions of Canada
	Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy	From Anomie to Crime: Evaluating the General Strain Theory
	UWC Atlantic	Reverse influence of globalisation: How have Western European food and beverage MNCs offered cultural alternatives to the American consumer society since 2015?
	Beijing Number 80 High School	The Nature of Chinese and US Aid to Africa: Competitive or Complementary?
University of Notre Dame (2)	African Leadership Academy	The Impact of Media Channels on Gen Z: A Comparative Study between X and Instagram in Shaping Narratives in Political Engagement
University of Notre Dame (2)	Maine East High School	American Identity expressed through Fashion during the Cold War
University of Pennsylvania (16)	Nanjing Foreign Language School	Telling her stories Refining Criteria for Evaluating Feminist Films Comparative Analysis of Two Chinese Films from 2024, Her Story and You Only Live Once
	Seoul Foreign School	Beyond Representation: Ableism and Commodification In Extraordinary Attorney Woo
	Dakahlia STEM High School	Convolution Formulas for some famiiar Sequences
	High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China	Ambivalent allies of gender equality? A comparative analysis of PRR rhetoric in Poland and France
	The Stony Brook School	Agricultural Expansion: Exploring Its Causes, Impacts, Technological So lutions, and Future
	Pine Crest School	Locating the Mind–Body Union: Descartes’s Pineal Gland in Historical Perspective
	Shenzhen Middle School	Derivation of the Generating Function for Plane Partitions
	Robert College	LEGO Architecture World Heritage Project: The Ephesus Archeological Site Fostering appreciation and support for sites of profound natural and cultural value that are worth preserving for future generations
	Saigon South International School	Vietnamese Women in the Vietnam War: Marginalization, Stereotypes, and Their Real Contributions
	Island School	Investigating the relationship between the shape and efficiency of heat transfer in CPU heatsinks
	Milton Academy	Structural Optimization and Novel Synthetic Strategy of Artemisinin for Enhanced Antimalarial Efficacy
	Harvard-Westlake School	The Defiant Sorceress: Circe as a feminist rebel in Ancient Greek Society
	Nazarbayev Intellectual School Of Physics And Mathematics Almaty	From Rubble To Recovery- Capital, Labor, and gender in the “Economic Miracles” Of Germany and Japan
	Bellevue Senior High School	21st Century Hegemony and its Competitors
	Dwight Englewood School	When Moral Panics Fail: The Case of Catcalling in the United States
	Stony Point High School	Truth for Sale: The Economics of Digital Misinformation
University of Southern California (3)	Ulink College of Shanghai	Hypoxia promotes inflammatory and immune-suppressive necrotic core formation through Angptl7 gene in aggressive breast cancer
	International School of Helsinki	Trade and the Labor Market: Analysis of the Labor Market Resilience in Denmark and the Netherlands Amid Increased Chinese Manufactured Imports Between 1995-2007
	Hamden Hall Country Day School	Selfies and Feminism: How do young women reclaim the Gaze in Digital Spaces
Vanderbilt University (5)	WLSA Shanghai Academy	Reinforcement or Subversion: How Artists Weaponize New Media to Redefine “Originality”
	WLSA Shanghai Academy	Useless Struggle in “Quicksand”: The Evolving Portraits of Helga Crane
	STEM High School For Boys – 6 of October	Simulation-Based Analysis of Thermally-Induced Stress Effects on Buried-Core Square Waveguide.
	Townsend Harris High School	Social Media’s Impact on Body-Image Related Cyberbullying Perpetration in Adolescent
	Suzhou North America High School	Multi-scale Thermal-Mechanical Coupling in CNT Arrays: CGMD Simulations for Optimized Thermal Conductivity of CNT Arrays
Washington University in St. Louis (14)	Beijing No. 101 High School	“How the idea of Cossacks shapes the national imagination of modern-day Ukrainians”
	Shenzhen Middle School	The mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance and persistence in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
	Shanghai American School – Puxi Campus	REPRESENTATIONS OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA IN THE MIS-EN-SCÈNE OF CONTEMPORARY HOLLYWOOD FILMS
	Xian Tie Yi High School	Exploring the Role of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Bifidobacterium longum in Skin Cancer Prevention: Modulating the Gut-Skin Axis in UVB-Induced Tumorigenesis
	Hangzhou Foreign Language School	How do Yunnan and Guangxi communities adapt to today’s globalized consumer culture to build economic growth
	The Hill School	Strategies of Conservation Genetics and Their Possible Application to Cheetahs
	Beijing Academy	Polyploidy and environmental stress tolerance mechanism: A Comparative Study on the Advantages of Polyploid over Diploid Plants
	Hangzhou Entel Foreign Languages School	A Comparative Study of Islamic Fortifications in the Medieval Period
	High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China	From Reform to Repression: The Gendered Political Style of President Samia Suluhu Hassan in Authoritarian Tanzania
	Shandong Experimental High School	Can labor market flexibility reflect systematic risk?
	Shanghai Guanghua Cambridge International School	The Paradox of Colonial Environmentalism: Exploitation, Protection, and European-Centric Resource Governance on St. Helena (Seventeenth Century to Eighteenth Century)
	Suzhou Foreign Language School	How do marginalized groups in the United States thrive in the cracks of dominant culture through food practices? –A comparative study of African American and Chinese American communities
	Loomis Chaffee School	Economic Policies Regarding Textile Manufacturing in Vietnam and Indonesia: A Case Study
	WLSA Shanghai Academy	Japonisme and Cultural Exchange between France and Japan.
Yale University (14)	J R Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School	The Digital Battleground: How Internet Spheres Shape Immigration Discourse in Modern America
	Loyola High School	Understanding the Archives of Harm: Immigration Apparatuses and the Biological Warfare Against Undocumented Families in the United States
	Shanghai High School International Division	SmartSort Station
	Granada Hills Charter High School	“Impacts of Electoral Systems on Political Parties: A Comparison of the United Staes and South Korea”.
	Liberal Arts and Science Academy High School	BART-Based Variable Importance Analysis of Factors Driving U.S. Large-Cap Equity Returns
	Noble And Greenough School	Rediscovering Epicurus: The Revival of Epicurean Philosophy in Modern Times
	United World College Of Southeast Asia – East Campus	Social Media Engagement and Body Image Among Adolescent and Adult Women
	Elkton High School	Shedding Connotations: The Triangle’s Assimilation into the Western Orchestra 1824–1858
	BASIS International School Guangzhou	Comparing PCOS Risk Alleles in Esan Nigerian and Southern Han Chinese Populations
	All City Leadership Secondary School	Manipulative Overt and Covert Verbal Communication in YouTube Self-Help Videos
	Bronx High School of Science	Evaluating Zohran Mamdani’s Policy Proposals: Rent Control, Free Childcare, and Fare-Free Buses.
	Seoul Foreign School	The Fragmented Self: Identity Formation in a Multicultural, Postmodern World
	Norwich Free Academy	How did Vulnerabilities in Mayan Agriculture Contribute to the Terminal Classic Collapse from 400-900 AD in the Southern Maya Lowlands?
	Neerja Modi School	Structuring the Sacred: Visual Systems of Female Piety in Byzantine Sacred Architecture

US LAC: Early Decision

U.S. Colleges	Students’ High School	Pioneer Research Topic
Barnard College (6)	WLSA Shanghai Academy	Topic Undisclosed
	ENKA Schools High School	Differences In Symptom Expression Of Depression In Collectivistic And Individualistic Cultures
	Marin Academy	Contributions of Diet and Exercise to Alzheimer’s Disease Progression: Additive or Interactive
	Shanghai United International School Gubei Secondary	Detecting dynamic hand gestures with Mediapipe, and controlling a slide presentation with the hand gestures (includes training an ML model to associate hand landmark data with a particularly gesture).
	Hefei No 1 High School	From Textiles to Code: Policy Pathways for Viet Nam’s Girls in STEM
	Shanghai United International School Gubei Secondary	Topic Undisclosed
Bowdoin College (1)	Shanghai Pinghe School	The development of an optical coating for oil painting preservation that has high transmittance, low color distortion, and relatively low reflectance
Bryn Mawr College (1)	Future World School and College	Evaluating Robustness of Pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks Under Different Image Corruptions
Carleton College (2)	Hangzhou Foreign Languages School	Individual, Family, and School:Looking trough College Admission with Intersectionality
Carleton College (2)	Concordia Academy	Communication Between Autistic and Allistic Individuals: The Effect and Aspects of the Double Empathy Problem on Mixed-Neurotype Social Relationships.
Claremont McKenna College (1)	Sharkya STEM school	Predictive Analytics for Student Mental Health: System Framework, Proof-of-Concept, and Future Directions
Colby College (1)	Gogebic Community College	Understanding Nature-Inspired Music in the Digital Age: Botanica, Its Subgenres, and a Desire to Reconnect
Colgate University (1)	The Culver Academies	Prevalence and Risk Factors of Trichuris Trichuria post the Mass Deworming Campaign in Ethiopia
Davidson College (1)	Galaxy International School	Competition and Mental Health in Selective All-Boys Schools in Kazakhstan: Intervention
Grinnell College (2)	Hangzhou Yungu School	Effects of Brief Meditation on Task-Switching and Attentional Flexibility: Roles of Meditation Type and Age
Grinnell College (2)	Carolina Friends School	Analyzing where emphasis is placed in Genshin Impact’ s “Repertoire of Myriad Melodies”
Hamilton College (1)	Beijing SMIC Private School	Analysis of Removing Non-Tariff Barriers–The study on the impact of IEC, particularly Affiliate Country Programme (ACP) Membership on Developing Countries
Middlebury College (2)	High Mowing School	Transformational Waves: How Resiliency Has Arisen at MASS MoCA through Adaptive Reuse and How the Museum Risks Constricting It Today
Middlebury College (2)	YK Pao School	Examining Trends and Changes in Violence Against Journalists in Hybrid Regimes: A Case Study on Nigeria
Smith College (3)	Zhixin High School	Differential Effects of Culture and Gender in Social Comparison on Social Media
	Shanghai Starriver Bilingual School	Group-theoretical classification of cellulose vibrational modes and infrared activity prediction
	Beijing National Day School	Characterization and Synthetic Route Design of Vetiselinenol
Swarthmore College (4)	The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University	Comparative Analysis of Doctor Figures in Chinese and US Medical Dramas through Medical Error Narratives
	Nanjing Foreign Langugae School	Inward Rebellion in Feministic Literature
	Shenzhen Middle School	The Catholic Irishman: Association between Roman Catholicism and Irish Nationalism and its Consequences
	Georgia School Ningbo	The Illegible I: Crocodile, Narrator and Author as Queer Rebel
Washington and Lee University (1)	The Steward School	How Predictive Suppression Facilitates Memory Updating in Volatile Environments
Wellesley College (4)	Keystone Academy	The Possibility of Gratitude Towards Oneself: a Research Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial Exploring Self-Directed Gratitude Letters
	Guangdong Country Garden School	The Power Blooming from Decay: On the Posthuman Feminist Expression of Female Zombie Characters in Zombie Films
	BASIS International School – Park Lane Harbour	Reconciling the “Mozart Effect”: An interdisciplinary Synthesis of Music, Arousal and Spatial Reasoning
	The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University	How Age Shapes Agency: Professional Plights and Intersectional Oppression Among Beijing’s Female Migrant Domestic Workers
Wesleyan University (1)	BASIS International School of Hangzhou	Experimental protocol of the effects of combined aerobic exercise and pharmacologic treatment on cardiorespiratory fitness and depression in elderly Chinese patients with cardiovascular disease
Williams College (4)	BASIS International School Guangzhou	Investigating the Impact of Applied Drama/Theater on Executive Function and Competitive Outcomes in Youth Canoe Polo Team.
	Koc Ozel Lisesi	Distinguishing Coulomb and Non-Coulomb Contributions to Isospin Symmetry Breaking in Mirror Nuclei
	Chadwick International School	The Branded Outlaw: Banksy and the Paradox of Rebellion Within Western Popular Culture
	Galatasaray Universitesi Galatasaray Lisesi	Modeling Bragg peak and depth-dose profiles of monoenergetic proton beams in water using a Python-based Monte Carlo simulation to evaluate targeting accuracy and tissue sparing.

Other US Universities: Early Action

Institutions	# Pioneer scholars admitted	Institutions	# Pioneer scholars admitted
Babson College	1	Belmont University	1
Brandeis University	6	Case Western Reserve University	8
Chapman University	2	Clark University	4
Colorado College	2	Columbia College Chicago	1
Creighton University	1	CUNY Hunter College	1
Drexel University	1	Emerson College	1
Florida Atlantic University	1	Florida State University	5
Fordham University	7	Furman University	1
Georgia Institute of Technology	2	Gonzaga University	1
Hofstra University	2	Illinois Institute of Technology	2
Indiana University, Bloomington	1	Iowa State University	1
Kansas State University	1	Le Moyne College	1
Loyola Marymount University	2	Loyola University Chicago	1
Macalester College	1	Marquette University	1
Michigan State University	5	Middle Tennessee State University	1
Montclair State University	1	Nebraska Wesleyan University	1
North Carolina State University	3	Oberlin College	1
Ohio State University	1	Pace University	2
Pennsylvania State University, University Park	10	Pepperdine University	2
Reed College	1	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	1
Rhode Island School of Design	1	Rochester Institute of Technology	2
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	2	Rutgers University, Camden: College of Arts and Sciences	2
Rutgers University, New Brunswick	2	Rutgers University–Newark	1
San Diego State University	1	Santa Clara University	10
Soka University of America	1	St. Olaf College	1
Stetson University	1	SUNY College at Buffalo	1
SUNY College at New Paltz	2	SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry	1
SUNY University at Albany	1	SUNY University at Binghamton	4
SUNY University at Buffalo	3	SUNY University at Stony Brook	4
Temple University	1	Texas A&M University	2
Texas Christian University	1	The City College of New York	1
Tulane University	2	University of Alabama	1
University of Arkansas	1	University of Central Florida	1
University of Cincinnati	1	University of Colorado, Boulder	1
University of Colorado Colorado Springs	1	University of Connecticut	1
University of Evansville	1	University of Georgia	8
University of Houston	1	University of Illinois, Chicago	2
University of Kansas	1	University of Maryland: Baltimore County	1
University of Michigan	6	University of Minnesota: Twin Cities	17
University of Missouri	1	University of Missouri, Kansas City	1
University of Missouri: St. Louis	1	University of Nebraska – Lincoln	1
University of New Mexico	1	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	4
University of Pittsburgh	5	University of Puget Sound	1
University of Rochester	1	University of San Francisco	2
University of South Carolina: Columbia	1	University of Southern California	3
University of Tennessee	2	University of the Pacific	2
University of Tulsa	1	University of Vermont	2
University of Virginia	1	University of Washington	2
Villanova University	1	Virginia Commonwealth University	3
Wheaton College	1

Non US universities

Institutions	# Pioneer Scholars Admitted	Institutions	# Pioneer Scholars Admitted
City, University of London	1	City University of Hong Kong	1
Durham University	2	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	2
IE University	1	King’s College London	5
KU Leuven	1	McMaster University	1
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence	1	Northwestern University, Qatar	3
The Chinese University of Hong Kong	2	The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen	5
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	2	The University of Birmingham	1
University College London	5	University of Amsterdam	1
University of Bristol	1	University of British Columbia	2
University of Edinburgh	5	University of Manchester	4
University of Oxford	2	University of St Andrews	1
University of Warwick	3	University of Waterloo	1
University of York	1	Western University	1

Admission results should not be construed as a direct outcome of any one program. Colleges and universities use a holistic application process to evaluate all aspects of an applicant, and while experience in an academically respected program may distinguish a student, no single credential will determine admission results.