Neel Kolhe

"I graduated from Lynbrook High School this year and am going to attend Berkeley, majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences as a Regents Scholar. I look forward to solving the difficult problems in CS, stemming from my love for math I developed through my childhood, competing in competitions and later learning to spend hours on longer, proof-based problems as well.
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I’ve qualified for the USAJMO twice and AIME in 5 different years. I’ve placed 5th in the Algebra round at the Berkeley Math Tournament, 4th in the Algebra Round at the Stanford Math Tournament, and 6th in the PuMaC Algebra Round.
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I’ve been studying at Random Math since the end of fourth grade. Random Math helped me learn how to problem solve - in my years there, I continued to be pushed to dive deeper into math topics and spend hours simply thinking about math. This gave me the tools to go deeper into math.  Throughout high school, I attended the Ross Program twice and researched combinatorics in the MIT PRIMES program, which I would not have been able to do without the love for math I found through Random Math and the work ethic it gave me.
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To me, one of the best parts of Random Math was meeting some of my closest friends - people I not only did math with, but played basketball, foosball, and Chess with as well.

I’ve taught different accelerator courses at Random Math, including the G2, G1, and F2 levels this year."