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Rather than declaring your love for computer science, why not artificial intelligence? Artificial intelligence uses computer science and statistics and focuses on adaptive algorithms to make decisions that generally get better over time. Even better, what about artificial intelligence (AI) ethics? What happens when millions of people lose their manual jobs because AI algorithms can do them better than they can and it creates substantial inequality?

If you built a candidacy on the niche of AI ethics and took coursework such as AP Computer Science, online coursework such as Justice by Michael Sandel and Andrew Ng's famous machine learning class on Coursera, attended a futurist conference that addressed issues like singularity, and took a Yale Young Global Scholars class in literature, philosophy, and culture, you would be substantially more interesting than a student with a generic interest in computer science.

Rather than loving biology (as a wave of pre-medicine applicants do), how about marine biology? As I write this, I spoke to a boy in Shanghai today who is doing some exciting activities from Blackfish Public Screenings to joining PETA to online coursework in marine biology to AP Biology to advanced diving certificates to establish his interest in marine biology. Advancing from a generic biology interest to marine biology puts you in a much less competitive crowd because you can now articulate to an admissions officer a much more interesting and differentiated academic plan.