Pioneer alumni form a community of teenage researchers from 58 countries around the world. It is their genuine interest in their intellectual pursuits that bonds these talented young people from different cultures together.
All Pioneer scholars shine in their own ways. Each year some Pioneer scholars responded to our editor’s invitation to feature their sharing. We welcome all Pioneer Scholars to share their stories and pictures with the community by sending an e-mail to [email protected].
We applaud all Pioneer Scholars for their curiosity and diligent effort in 2020. Whether they have committed to a university or college through Early Action/Early Decision or are waiting for April results, our Pioneer graduates deserve kudos for their outstanding research.
Though Pioneer Scholars’ college acceptances are remarkable, it is the intellectual drive, passion, and dedication of these students that makes us most proud.
High school:
African Leadership Academy
University:
Rice University
Pioneer Semester:
Spring-through-Summer 2020
Pioneer Research Topic:
Investigating the Effectiveness of Restorative Community-Based Justice Systems as a Method of Preventing Ethnic Violence
High school:
Hong Kong International School
University:
University of Pennsylvania
Pioneer Semester:
Summer 2020
Pioneer Reseach Topic:
Evaluating Olivine and Limestone Ocean Acidification Mitigation Methods for the Mediterranean Sea
High school:
ASMSA (Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts)
University:
Yale University
Pioneer Semester:
Summer 2020
Pioneer Research Topic:
Application of EEG Signal Analysis and Machine Learning in Seizure Prediction
High school:
Pope John Paul II High School
University:
Cornell University
Pioneer Semester:
Summer 2020
Pioneer Reseach Topic:
Scapegoats or Pawns: An Analysis on the Progress of Anti-Chinese Sentiments and the Adoption of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
High school:
UWC Pearson College
University:
Tufts University
Pioneer Semester:
Spring-through-Summer 2020
Pioneer Reseach Topic:
The Influence of Gaullism in the Evolution of France’s Intergovernmental Response to the Breakup of Yugoslavia
High school:
The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University
University:
Yale University
Pioneer Semester:
Spring-through-Summer 2019
Pioneer Reseach Topic:
Not How Things Happened — Dreams and Flashbacks in the works of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch
High school:
RDFZ
College:
Swarthmore College
Pioneer Semester:
Spring-through-Summer 20
Pioneer Reseach Topic:
The use of mirror therapy for treatment of phantom limb pain and partial paralysis and brain plasticity
High school:
Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy
University:
Stanford University
Pioneer Semester:
Spring-through-Summer 20
Pioneer Reseach Topic:
Rethinking Memes: Critique and Alternative to the Dawkinsian Meme Theory
High school:
Beijing National Day School
University:
Duke University
Pioneer Semester:
Spring-through-Summer 2020
Pioneer Research Topic:
An Introduction to Basic Graph Discharging
High school:
Smoky Hill High School
College:
Creighton University
Pioneer Semester:
Summer 2020
Pioneer Research Topic:
Discourse Ethics and Its Practical Applications in Politics
High school:
Navkar Public School
College:
University of Pennsylvania
Pioneer Semester:
Summer 2020 Pioneer Scholar
Pioneer Research Topic:
A Study in the Growth of Nations: India and Germany Identifying Divergence in these Converging Countries through the Solow Growth Model
High school:
Athens College
College:
Columbia University
Pioneer Semester:
Summer 2020
Pioneer Research Topic:
The European Union During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Germany’s and Portugal’s Responses
We are proud of all Pioneer scholars for their curiosity and commitment to excellence. Similarly to most high schools, Pioneer publicizes our students’ college admissions record each year. This information helps our alumni maintain their Pioneer network after graduation and gives prospective students a sense of Pioneer’s academic rigor and the caliber of participants selected for the program. While this provides perspective, our focus is the intellectual passion and academic experience of all of our scholars. Regardless of which college or university they attend, we know they will shine.
Universities | Students' High School | Pioneer Research Topic |
Boston College | Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy | Undocumented, Unemployed, and Sick in California: Extending Emergency COVID-19 Relief to Undocumented Immigrants |
Boston University | Hisar School | Identifying the Receptor Based Vibrotactile Information Processing Channels Involved in Vibratory Analgesia and their Differences within the Ethnic Context. |
Brown University (6) | Mahindra United World College India | Importance of and Pathways to Humanising Climate Change |
Radians School of Math, Science and Technology | The Effects of the Unequal Distribution of Damages From Environmental Breakdown on the Wellbeing of Wome, Black People, and Low-Income Households | |
Beijing National Day School | Marketing and Reception of LGBT-themed Musicals in the U.S. and China | |
YK Pao School | How does Montesquieu create the effect of grotesque in Persian letters? | |
YK Pao School | Analysis by various methods of x-ray absorption with synchrotron radiation data to qualitatively and quantitatively ascertain the chemical structures of sulfur | |
The Affiliated High School of South China Normal University | Modern Architecture: The Transformation of Windows in the Modern Era | |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) (6) | Alief Early College High School | The Role of Hawking Radiation in Cosmic Inflation Models |
The Hill School | An Overview of Major EDCs in the Chesapeake Bay Area: Assessing the Risk of Ospreys Due to the Contaminants | |
Northside College Preparatory High School | Analysis of XANES Data to Arrive at the Composition of an Unknown Sample | |
Jayshree Periwal International School | Colonization, Exploration, and Research Vehicle for Venus | |
Southridge School | Relationship between MRN protein complex and Ku protein dimer concentrations and the probability of DSB repair | |
Klein Oak High School | Gravitational Wave Detection | |
Carnegie Mellon University | Oaks Christian School | Can you do good while earning money? Evaluation of Goonj |
Columbia University (7) | École Jeannine Manuel | The Dynamics of a Generic Star Formation Model |
University Prep Charter High School | What type of carbon nanotube has the optimum photovoltaic performance to improve carbon capture technology | |
Hawken School | Experimenting with Unsupervised and Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms | |
Athens College | The European Union During the Covid-19 Pandemic | |
Middlesex School | Coca-Cola's History in China: Coke Advertisements and Cultural Recreation | |
Amity International School, Saket | Is Nordic Region an Optimal Currency Area? | |
Shanghai American School Puxi | The Allegorical Truths in Plato's View of the Soul | |
Cornell University (18) | Pope John Paul II High School | Scapegoats or Pawns: An Analysis on the Progress of Anti-Chinese Sentiments and the Adoption of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. |
Guangzhou Zhixin High School | Contradictions Make Waltz in B minor a Great Piece | |
Bishop O`Dowd High School | The Influence of Long-Term Sun Exposure on Soil | |
Shanghai Pinghe School | An Exploratory Study Of Chinese Adolescents' Views On Sex Education And Its Implication: Age, Culture, And Language Choice | |
Pine Crest School | Inequality of NCAA Decisions Concerning Waivers and Sanctions in Division I Football | |
Bellevue High School | Gender Discrimination toward Shoppers | |
Northside College Preparatory High School | An Analysis of the Role of Negative Emotions and Experiences in Stimulating Environmental Activism Within Society | |
Wuhan Britain China School of Wuhan Foreign Languages School | Youth Language in Chinese High Schools | |
Exeter Township Senior High School | Identifying The Extent of Ocular Genotypes Between Parkinson’s Disease Mutations Using Spatiotemporal Profiling | |
Hangzhou Foreign Languages School | Industrial upgrading in the international context: Chinese manufacturing under the US-China trade conflict | |
No. 2 High School Attached to East China Normal University | Contributing factors of plastic waste and the effectiveness of incentive and penalty policy in plastic recycling | |
Beijing National Day School | Using Networks to Simulate Hepatitis C Transmission and Treatment | |
Shenzhen College of International Education | Economics of Property Crime Rates in India: Empirical study based on states of India in 2011 | |
Shenzhen Middle School | Design and Construction of Box Model Characterizing Heavy Metals Content in Pearl River Estuary, China | |
Beijing National Day School | The Effect of Gaokao on High-School Students in China | |
Harbin No.3 High School | A Sustainable Way to Improve Soil Quality for Harbin Local Corn Fields | |
Wuhan Britain China School of Wuhan Foreign Languages School | Study of the Psychological States of Wuhan People During the First Few Months of the COVID-19 Outbreak | |
The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China | Reimagining Mulan: Gender, Ethnicity, and Otherness | |
Dartmouth College (3) | Shanghai High School International Division | From Zero to Seventy Percent: Economic Development in Korea since 1960 |
Chadwick International School | The Cycle of Our Planet’s Plastic Plight: Examining the Feedback Loop Between Marine Plastic Pollution and the Fishing Industry | |
Westwood High School | The Relationship between the Anti-Inflammatory Strength of Butyrate and the Progression of Colorectal Cancer | |
Duke University (6) | Beijing National Day School | An introduction to basic graph discharging |
Bridgewater-Raritan Regional High School | The Cognitive Effects of the Sexual Objectification of Women Demonstrated with Change Blindness | |
The Loomis Chaffee School | Incorporating Pre-Game Rankings to Colley, Massey, and Elo Methods | |
Arnold O. Beckman High School | The role of TMIE in adaptation of mechanoelectrical transduction channels in mammalian hair cells | |
Indus International School Hyderabad | Investigating the Accuracy of the 2-element Windkessel Model in Predicting the Relationship Between Arterial Compliance, Peripheral Resistance and Arterial Pressure | |
Shanghai World Foreign Language Middle School | Analysis and Performance of Tonal Music; Analysis and Performance of Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32, op. 111. | |
Emory University (7) | United World College Changshu | Suicide and Euthanasia: Buddhist Ethics and Principles |
Nanjing International School | How does different materials (polymers and metals) display different heating behavior | |
Hangzhou Foreign Languages School | The Effect of Constraint Induced Movement Therapy | |
BASIS International School Shenzhen | Plato's Characterization of Socrates. | |
Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy | Game Theory in Strategic Oil Production: Russia-OPEC Rivalry in the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic | |
Shenzhen College of International Education | Whether or not the identity of “Huji” influences parents’ educational investments | |
Saddle River Day School | Are We Witnessing the Growth of the New Youtube in China? Evidence from Valuation of Bilibili Inc. | |
Georgetown University (3) | John P. Stevens High School | Understanding the 2018 Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Causes and Remedies |
The Potomac School | Venezuelan Risk Report 2020 | |
Cretin-Derham Hall | The Modified Glucose Molecules as Material for Molecular Scale Electronics | |
Harvard University (3) | Guangzhou Foreign Languages School | WeChat Usage Associated with Media Ideals, Social Comparison and the 'Circle of Objectification; among Chinese Female Adolescents in Urban South-East China |
The Latin School of Chicago | Polarizer, Catalyst: Why You Should Care about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi | |
Illinois Mathematics and Science academy | Implementation of ULMFiT for Recognition of Eukaryotic Promoters | |
Johns Hopkins University (6) | African Leadership Academy | The Effects of Using EMG-BFB on the Post-Stroke Impairments Affecting the Arm |
BASIS International School Shenzhen | Investigating the Cause of Decline in Taiwan’s Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) Population | |
Qingdao No.2 High School | Civil Disobedience in Plato and the Civil Rights Movement | |
Beijing National Day School | Investigation into the Visual Pathway Using Visual Crowding Experiments | |
High School Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University | The Roles of Extracellular Vesicles in Cancer and the Investigation of Exosomal PD-L1 in Immunotherapy of Colorectal Carcinoma | |
Beijing No. 4 High School | Text | |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (3) | St. Stephen`s and St. Agnes School | Diversity vs. Inclusion in STEM: Factors that Accurately Measure a Tech Company’s Commitment to Inclusion |
Head-Royce School | The Neurological Mechanisms That Cause Us to Choke Under Pressure | |
Klein Oak High School | Gravitational Wave Detection: Event GW170814 and the performance of matched filtering and -consistency testing in the presence of Gaussian noise, non-Gaussian distributed noise, and transient glitches | |
New York University (4) | United World College Mahindra College | An Olympic Face-Off: Examining Tensions between Olympic Principles and Political Neutrality |
Shanghai High School International Division | Violent Video Games: Factors Underlying Violent Video Games and Their Popularity Among Chinese Teenagers | |
The Webb School | Design of Si02/Ti02/Hf02 band-pass filter with high transmittance at the visible band | |
Jiangsu Tianyi High School | The Changing Description of Women in Film Noir | |
New York University-Stern | Beijing No.80 High School | The Literature’s View on the Differences Between Entrepreneurial and Managerial Leadership |
Northwestern University (9) | Northside College Preparatory High School | The Effect of a High-MAC Diet on microbial diversity and immune response to S.typhimurium infection |
Mountain View High School | Evoking Emotion: How Social Media Contributes to Political Polarization | |
Coppell High School | The Role of the Chaebol versus the Entrepreneurial First-Generation in South Korea | |
Shanghai World Foreign Language Middle School | 2020 Risk Report: Unstable Factors in the USA | |
Pine Crest School | Autonomous Vehicles and their Integration into Society | |
Ruth Asawa School of the Arts | Timber Skyscrapers: Recent Advances and a Study of Mj?st?rnet | |
The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University | The Secret Of Laughter: how James Thurber creates humor in his short stories | |
Rydal Penrhos School | What Made Singapore Successful in its Management of the 2003 SARS Epidemic: From a historical and Social Perspective | |
Beijing No.4 High School | The Neurocognitive Basis of Mind Wandering Interaction between Attention, Working Memory, and Consciousness | |
Princeton University | Norman High School | Medicine Organization and Alerting Machine |
Rice University (7) | BASIS Independent Silicon Valley | Primality Testing Algorithms and Prime Number Generation in Cryptography |
Hangzhou Foreign Languages School | Unimolecular Semiconductors: Comparison of Electrical Characteristics between Biphenyl-Dithiol Derivatives with Different Conjugate System Complication/Substituents and the Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor | |
African Leadership Academy | Investigating the Effectiveness of Restorative Community-Based Justice Systems as a Method of Preventing Ethnic Violence | |
Nanjing Foreign Language School | COVID-19 and Plastic Waste: Facts and Advice on Plastic Waste Management | |
Nanjing Foreign Language School | Tactile channel basis of brief sensory memory | |
MacArthur High School | The Promise of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSC) in the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease | |
Qingdao No. 9 High School | Design and Development of Remote Self-Parking and Exiting Vehicle Model for Disabled Drivers | |
Stanford University (12) | William Howard Taft Charter High School | Georgia and Belarus: Analyzing Economic Growth in Post-Soviet States |
Indian Springs School | The Effects of Class Culture on Education and Social Mobility in the United States | |
Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy | Rethinking Memes: Critique and Alternative to the Dawkinsian Meme Theory | |
Henry M. Gunn High School | How Erasmus’ Laughter Advances the Vision of Shared Humanity | |
St. George`s School | Canada’s proposed single-use plastic ban: Motivations for enactment and policy design suggestions | |
Franklin High School | Will the Movie Theater Industry be able to recover from COVID-19? A Comparison study between AMC, Cineworld, and Cinemark. Evidence from analyzing firm-level pre-crisis variables. | |
Nanjing Foreign Language School | Fantastic Reflections: Literary and Historical References in Calvino’s Baron in the Trees | |
Newport High School | An Examination of the Applications of Torricelli's Law | |
McLean High School | Female Warriors in Two Different National and Cultural Contexts: The Cases of Mulan and Joan of Arc | |
Milpitas High School | An Analysis of Sustaintable Transportation Solutions for Santa Clara county, California | |
UWC Maastricht | Collectivism in propaganda during China’s Cultural Revolution | |
Chongqing Nankai Secondary School | The Effects of Paraffin Particles on the Thermal Diffusivity of Portland Cement | |
Tufts University (2) | Nanjing Foreign Language School | How Does CCP’s Policy Aiming to Influence National Unity Influence Uyghur-Han Conflict? |
UWC Pearson College | The Influence of Gaullism in the Evolution of France’s Intergovernmental Response to the Breakup of Yugoslavia | |
University of Chicago (20) | Nanwai King`s College School | Relationship Between Coping Strategies and Burnout of Long-Haul Truck Drivers |
Dougherty Valley High School | Understanding the Racial Implications of a European Worldview | |
Shanghai Foreign Language School | Evaluating the Effectiveness of Government Responses to COVID-19 in Authoritarian vs. Democratic Countries | |
Northside College Preparatory High School | Analysis of XANES Data to Arrive at the Composition of an Unknown Sample | |
Chengdu Foreign Languages School | Hong Kong Protest: Western View as Almost Exclusively Political, Not the Case | |
Windermere High School | Investigating the Rise of the European Populist Radical Right | |
Letcher County Central High School | The Effects of Artificial Intelligence On the Workforce | |
Keystone Academy | Is Bilibili the Next YouTube of China? A Valuation of Bilibili Inc. | |
The Experimental High School Attached To Beijing Normal University | The Influence of Quantum Computing on the General Well-Being of People in Industrialized Nations | |
Beijing 101 High School | How Hong Xiuquan’s Modification and Localization of Christianity Helped to Gain Support for the Taiping Rebellion | |
The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University | Parrhesia and Epimeleia Heautou in Plato’s dialogues: An Expansion and Evaluation of Foucault’s Ideas. | |
Flintridge Preparatory School | Culture vs. Genetics: The Social Implications of Misleading Advertisements on Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Ancestry Testing | |
The Affiliated High School of Peking University | Tilings of Height 2n Rectangles with 1 x 1 Squares and n x n Squares | |
Beijing No.4 High School | The Neurocognitive Basis of Mind Wandering Interaction between Attention, Working Memory, and Consciousness | |
The Experimental High School Attached To Beijing Normal University | Tibetan Buddhism in Tibetan Art | |
Shanghai Weiyu High School | The Political Use of May Fourth in Contemporary China | |
Changzhou No.1 High School | The Sociological Role of Buddhism in Contemporary China | |
The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China | Next Generation Small Molecule Therapeutics for Treatment of Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria | |
The Experimental High School Attached To Beijing Normal University | Music, Culture, and Cultural Change on Taiwan’s Lan Yu Island | |
Hangzhou Foreign Languages School | A Study on Continued Fractions Involving the Fibonacci, Lucas Numbers and Related Identities of the Golden Ratio | |
University of Notre Dame | African Leadership Academy | Career Success of Quantitative Analysts: A Skill-set Analysis of Their Likelihood of Upward Mobility and Effective Leadership |
University of Pennsylvania (15) | Bellarmine College Preparatory | How Search Engines Affect the Exchange of Quality Information Across the Internet |
The Harker School | A Macroeconomic Analysis of Iceland through the Financial Crisis, Present Day, and Beyond | |
The Hill School | An Overview of Major EDCs in the Chesapeake Bay Area: Assessing the Risk of Ospreys Due to the Contaminants | |
Hong Kong International School | Evaluating Olivine and Limestone Ocean Acidification Mitigation Methods for the Mediterranean Sea | |
Lynbrook High School | Can Crocs’ Restructuring Initiatives Save the Company from Decline – Again? A Valuation of Crocs, Inc. | |
Academy of American Studies | Microfinance and Female Empowerment Assessment Through Entrepreneurial Business Ventures in Rural Nigeria | |
Harrow International School Hong Kong | The Evolution of Caliban: Representing Darwin in Beerbohm Tree’s Production of The Tempest | |
Taipei Fuhsing Private School | Calcium Reduces Aminoglycoside Entry Into Hair Cells Through Slow Mechanotransduction Adaptation | |
Pine Crest School | Social Media Influence on the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem | |
Pine Crest School | Us vs. Them: An Analysis of the Causes of Partisan Polarization | |
Johnson College Prep | Pascal's Triangle and Fibonacci Numbers | |
Navkar Public School | A Study in the Growth of Nations: India and Germany Identifying Divergence in these Converging Countries through the Solow Growth Model | |
Monte Vista High School | Exit, Voice, and Violence: Contemporary Responses of Non-Hindu Groups to the BJP's Hindu Nationalism | |
African Leadership Academy | The influence of shape, size and material on the optical properties of blue light emitting quantum dots | |
Maggie L. Walker Governor`s School | Dynamics in the Modern American Anti-Abortion Movement | |
Vanderbilt University (4) | NSU University School | Sensory Deficits and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Diagnostic Tool for Early Detection |
Tenafly High School | BIPOC Lives Matter: Environmental Justice and African-Native American Communities on Social Struggles and Resilience | |
The Experimental High School Attached To Beijing Normal University | Alumni Network: a Crucial Part in University Entrepreneurship Programs | |
Shandong Experimental High School | Lithium Ion Batteries: Testing Different Anode Materials’ Discharging Performances by Establishing a Physics Simulation Model | |
Washington University in St. Louis (9) | Monta Vista High School | Permaculture-Based Design to Improve Water Quality |
The Experimental High School Attached To Beijing Normal University | The Sharing Bike Recognition Object Detection Algorithms Research | |
Wuhan Britain China School of Wuhan Foreign Languages School | A Study of Empress Theodora as Patroness of Art & Architecture in Byzantium | |
Wuhan Britain China School of Wuhan Foreign Languages School | Effect of Heated Acupuncture on the Proliferation of Neural Cells in Substantia Nigra | |
Nanjing Jinling High School | The Bilateral Relationship Between Sleep and Brain Aging: Role of Oxidative Stress, Ion Homeostasis, and Other Factors | |
Servite High School | The Therapeutic Effect of Listening to Music: Can Music Induce Physiological and Hormonal Changes? | |
Saint Anthony`s High School | The Efficacy of Remdesivir for SARS-CoV-2 Treatment | |
Nanjing Foreign Language School | A Study of Rumination and Leadership – Targeting Women | |
The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China | Endorphins and Pain: The effects of endorphins on postoperative cardiovascular pain and analgesia. | |
Yale University (14) | Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts | Application of EEG signal analysis and machine learning in seizure prediction. |
Liberal Arts and Science Academy High School | “¿Que Dijo?” Adolescent Feelings Towards Language Brokering and its Effects on Family Conflict: The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity | |
L.C. Anderson High School | Pinpointing the Dynamic Lives of the Hypodermic Needle: Observations on an Object Situated in Urban America | |
Coral Reef High School | "Praise of Folly” and Imagination | |
Madison West High School | The Relativity of Reality and Power of Systems of Value in Don Quixote | |
The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University | Constructing Islamic Identity in a Context of Diversity: A Comparative Study of the Ashab Mosque and Hagia Sophia | |
Loyola High School | A Comparative Analysis of Bead Sort using Rust and Orca | |
Harrow School UK | Kevin Project | |
Flintridge Preparatory School | The Power of Civil Society in Promoting Peace: An Overview of Basque and Catalan Organizations in Spain | |
Flintridge Preparatory School | Type of Synaptic Dysfunction and Severity of Autism: A Potential Correlation | |
The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University | Hackenbush in Python | |
School for Advanced Studies - Wolfson | Predicting Marital Satisfaction in Mail-Order Relationships: Congruence of Benevolent Sexism Between Partners and the Moderating Role of Women’s Femininity | |
Greenhill School | Gender Quotas and Single-Member Districts: Incompatibility at the Superficial Level | |
Saint Paul Central High School | The Viability of “Tower in the Park” in Public Housing for Densely Populated Cities |
Colleges | Students' High School | Pioneer Research Topic |
Barnard College | The International School Bangalore | A comparative analysis of the neuroinflammatory effects of SARS CoV- 1 and SARS CoV- 2 on causing encephalitis |
Bowdoin College | African Leadership Academy | A Review of the Effects of Game-Based Learning Designed for Mastery of Mathematics Achievement for Elementary Students |
Bryn Mawr College | Benjamin N. Cardozo High School | Bone of Bones is She: The Painful Humanity of Porcia (Portia) Cantonis |
Colgate University | African Leadership Academy | The Biosynthetic Development of Cow's Milk Allegrgens Casein (ΑS1-CN) and Β-lactoglobulin Genetic Based Detector |
Colorado College (2 ED and 1 EA) | Ningbo Xiaoshi High School | Plato on Women's Equality |
Shenzhen Foreign Languages School | Combating Domestic Violence in Chinese American Communities | |
Hangzhou Foreign Languages School | Understand it While Ignoring it: How Meaning affects Inattentional Blindness? | |
Hamilton College | Beijing National Day School | Application Reaction of Males and Females Receiving Different Levels of Income to Gendered Wording on Job Advertisements |
Harvey Mudd College | Nanjing Foreign Language School | Chatbot for the Future: A Practical Ethics Guide |
Haverford College | The Affiliated High School of South China Normal University | Civil Disobedience to Violent Protest: Locke, Mill, and the Case of Hong Kong |
Macalester College (3) | San Domenico School | Craving for Attention: Schizophrenic Patients’ and their Families’ Views on Neuroimaging Technologies in the United States from 2000 – 2020 |
Bugil Academy | Comparison of Drowning People Detection Systems for Water | |
Hangzhou Foreign Languages School | Understand it While Ignoring it: How Meaning affects Inattentional Blindness? | |
Middlebury College | Whitney M. Young Magnet High School | The Kiki Bouba Effect: Implicit Sound Symbolism Between Separate Language Families |
Pomona College (3) | Comparative Cultural Studies on Contemporary Environmental Concerns Among Young People in Ecuador and Germany | |
Robert College | Searching for Additional Mass Around Sagitarius A* | |
Yk Pao School | ’A Town of Lucid Lunatics’: Grotesque Imagination and Fantasy Laughter in One Hundred Years of Solitude | |
Smith College | African Leadership Academy | Zaha Hadid: Architecting with Context |
Swarthmore College (2) | Flint Hill School | Star-Critical Ramsey Numbers for Multiple Copies of Complete Graphs |
The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China | The use of mirror therapy for treatment of phantom limb pain and partial paralysis and brain plasticity | |
Williams College (3) | Golden Valley High School | The contribution of Julian Huxley’s ideas in religious naturalism to modern-day transhumanism: How Christianity is affected by futurism. |
Nanjing Foreign Language School | The Theodora Panel at the San Vitale Church | |
University School of Nashville | Nietzsche’s Agon with Plato: Truth, Morality, and Modernity |
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Appalachian State University | Arizona State University (6) | Babson College (2) |
Bard College | Birmingham University | Butler University |
Case Western Reserve University (14) | Central Michigan University | Chapman University |
Clark University | Coe College | College of Wooster |
Colorado School of Mines | Creighton University | Drexel University (8) |
Duquesne University | Durham University (9) | Elon University |
Emerson College | Fordham University (5) | Geneva College |
George Mason University | Georgetown College | Georgia Institute of Technology |
Hofstra University | Howard University (2) | Indiana University (4) |
Knox College | Lake Forest College | Lewis & Clark College |
Loyola University (2) | Manchester University (3) | Mercer University |
Michigan State University (3) | New Jersey Institute of Technology | North Carolina A&T State University |
Northeastern University (3) | Ohio State University (2) | Oklahoma State University |
Oregon State University | Pace University | Pennsylvania State University - University Park (6) |
Portland State University | Reed College (4) | Rhode Island School of Design |
Rider University | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (6) | Rutgers University - New Brunswick (9) |
Santa Clara University (9) | Spelman College | SUNY Buffalo |
SUNY Stony Brook | Temple University (2) | Texas A&M University |
Tulane University (4) | United States Naval Academy | University of Alabama |
University of Arizona | University of Central Florida | University of Colorado |
University of Delaware | University of Denver | University of Georgia (2) |
University of Illinois (3) | University of Kentucky | University of Louisville |
University of Massachusetts (7) | University of Memphis | University of Minnesota (5) |
University of Mississippi | University of Nevada | University of Oklahoma |
University of Pittsburgh (2) | University of Puget Sound (2) | University of San Francisco |
University of South Carolina | University of Tennessee | University of Texas (2) |
University of Texas - Austin (5) | University of Virginia (2) | University of Waterloo |
University of Wisconsin - Madison (11) | University of Wyoming | Washington State University |
Wayne State University (2) | Western Kentucky University | Westminster College |
Willamette University | Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2) | |
Non-US Universities | ||
Bocconi University | Eindhoven University of Technology | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (2) |
Imperial College London (14) | King's College London (25) | KU Leuven |
Maastricht University | New York University - Abu Dhabi | Queen's University |
University College London (38) | University of Alberta | University of Amsterdam (2) |
University of Auckland | University of Bath | University of Bristol (3) |
University of Cambridge (2) | University of Edinburgh (26) | University of Groningen |
University of Hong Kong (HKU) | University of Leeds | University of Manchester (11) |
University of Nottingham | University of Oxford (12) | University of Southampton |
University of St Andrews (10) | University of Sydney (3) | University of Toronto (26) |
University of Warwick (12) | University of Western Ontario | York University |
All Pioneer scholars shine in their own ways. The following students responded to our editor’s invitation to feature their accomplishments. We welcome all Pioneer Scholars to share their stories and pictures with the community by sending an e-mail to [email protected].
High school:
Choate Rosemary Hall, US
Pioneer Research Paper:
Comparative Inquiry Into Western Liberal Democratic Values
Attending institution:
Yale University
High school:
Monte Vista High School, US
Pioneer Research Paper:
Trophic Cascades Caused by Overfishing Analysis and Prevention
Attending institution:
Boston University
High school:
High Technology High School, US
Pioneer Research Paper:
Sustainable Urban Development
Attending institution:
Harvard University
High school:
Seoul International School, South Korea
Pioneer Research Paper:
The Study of Biology: How Biology Gives Rise to Sexism
Attending institution:
Cornell University
High school:
Achievement First Brooklyn High School, US
Pioneer Research Paper:
Social Justice and Activism in African American communities
Attending institution:
Stanford University
High school:
International Department of the Affiliated High School of South China Normal University, China
Pioneer Research Paper:
Chinese Tracking: An Unexploited Hotspot with Underlying Benefits
Attending institution:
Stanford University
High school:
Scholars’ Academy, US
Pioneer Research Paper:
The Relationship between the Molecular Structure of Insecticides and their Biological and Environmental Implications
Attending institution:
Stanford University
High school:
Beijing National Day School, China
Pioneer Research Paper:
The Development of Folk Music in Modern China
Attending institution:
Brown University
High school:
Carondelet High School, US
Pioneer Research Paper:
Research into Human Genetics and Precision Medicine
Attending institution:
Brown University
High school:
International Department of the Affiliated High School of South China Normal University, China
Pioneer Research Paper:
Ethical Considerations of State Responsibility toward Refugees: Analyzing China’s Refugee Capacity from a Socio-Economic
Attending institution:
TBD
High school:
Beijing No. 2 Middle School, China
Pioneer Research Paper:
The Brother as an Other: Redefining Otherness through Examining the Similar
Attending institution:
Stanford University
High school:
Midlothian High School, US
Pioneer Research Paper:
Astor Piazzolla’s Libertango: Musical analysis of a Contemporary Epitome of Tango
Attending institution:
Stanford University
2018 Pioneer Alum that got accepted to universities with highly selective admission rates
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 a particular program may distinguish a student, no single credential will determine admission results.
Average SAT Statistics: Evidence-Based Reading=725, Mathematics = 786
Average ACT Statistics: 34
Average TOEFL Score (International Students): 112
Average IELTS Score: 8
2017 Pioneer Alum that got accepted to universities with highly selective admission rates
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 a particular program may distinguish a student, no single credential will determine admission results.