What Illuma actually does.
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Service 01
Student database
Browse thousands of real, de-identified applicant profiles — GPA, testing, activities, and school-by-school outcomes.
- Full profile per card — major, GPA, SAT/ACT, race, gender, state
- Every application decision with round (RD / EA / ED / REA)
- Activities list with grades and role
- Search by major, state, or school name
- Filter by focus (STEM / Business / BioPreMed / Humanities / Arts)
Real admits · past cycles




- T2Democratik AI · Marketing / ComDev intern (10th–12th)
- T2TiE Silicon Valley Program · Student entrepreneur, top-8 pitch
- T3#Snapchat · News reporter / social media manager
- T3School Investment Club · Founder + president; managed $8K sim portfolio
- T3FBLA (Business) · State regionals — Business Communication, 3rd
- T4Local food bank · Weekly volunteer, 300+ hrs across 3 years
- T4Math Tutoring · AP Calc + AP Stats tutor (paid, 2 yrs)
- StateFBLA State Champion — Business Communication
- NatlAP Scholar with Distinction
- StateNCTM Rising Star (Math)



- T3Varsity Tennis · Captain, section semifinalist
- T4JV Tennis · 4 years, singles player, captain 1 yr
- T2Symphony Orchestra · 1st violin, concertmaster senior year
- T1Physics Research @ Columbia · REU intern — muon detector calibration
- T1USA Physics Olympiad (USAPhO) · Semifinalist (top 400 nationally)
- T2Science Olympiad · State medalist — Astronomy, Optics
- T3Math Club · AMC/AIME contest coordinator
- NatlUSAPhO Semifinalist
- NatlAIME qualifier (2 yrs)
- StateState Science Olympiad Medalist


- T3Varsity Tennis · Captain
- T4JV Tennis · 4 years, singles player
- T3Orchestra · 1st violin
- T2Physics Bowl · Team lead, top 10% nationally
- T2Independent research · Numerical relativity simulations
- NatlPhysics Bowl — Top 10%
- NatlAP Scholar with Distinction




- T1Robotics · FRC · Captain, worlds qualifier 2 yrs
- T2USACO · Gold division, top 25% Platinum
- T1Sympy · Open-source contributor, 12 merged PRs
- T1MIT PRIMES · Research student — combinatorics
- T2Local hackathon · Founder + organizer, 200 attendees
- T4CS Tutoring · AP CS-A tutor, 20+ students
- T4Volunteer coding club · Elementary school outreach
- IntlFRC World Championship Finalist
- NatlUSACO Gold Div
- IntlSympy top-contributor 2024




- T1Debate Team · Nat'l qualifier, captain, 3rd place TOC
- T2Lit Magazine · Editor-in-chief, tripled submissions
- T2Youth Court · Judge; presided over 60+ cases
- T3Model Congress · Senate delegate, best-speaker award
- T3Poetry Slam Society · Founder, weekly open-mic
- T3State Library archives · Volunteer — 19th-century manuscripts
- NatlScholastic Writing — Gold Key (Poetry)
- NatlNSDA Nationals — Semifinalist LD Debate
- StateState Model Congress Best Speaker



- T1Bio Research · NYU · Summer researcher, sickle-cell drug screening
- T2Debate · State qualifier (Lincoln-Douglas)
- T2Policy Podcast · Host, 5K downloads / episode
- T2HOSA (Future Health Professionals) · State medalist — Med Terminology
- T3Local free clinic · Volunteer 150+ hrs, patient intake
- T2Youth Legislative Council · Elected rep, drafted 2 city ordinances
- T4Church youth group · Board member, coord'd food drive
- StateHOSA State Medalist
- NatlCoca-Cola Scholar semifinalist
- NatlAP Scholar


- T1FRC Robotics · Mechanical lead, worlds semifinalist
- T2Rocketry club · Founder + president, first launch 2 mi altitude
- T2AIAA Design/Build/Fly · Aerospace team, 2 seasons
- T4Physics tutor · AP Physics C, 15+ students
- T3Machine shop internship · CNC operator, summer + weekends
- IntlFRC World Championship Semifinalist
- StateOhio Governor's Merit Scholarship



- T1DECA · State champion — Business Finance, ICDC top-6
- T2Model UN · Head delegate, 3 gavels
- T2Girls Who Invest (GWI) · Scholar, 2-week campus intensive
- T2Local nonprofit consulting · Founder, 4 clients, $12K raised
- T4Varsity Tennis · 3-year letterman
- T4Youth Debate League · Junior coach + judge
- IntlDECA ICDC Top-6 Finalist
- NatlGWI Scholar
- StateNJ Governor's School — Business



- T3Clinic volunteer · 150 hrs / yr, patient intake + Spanish translation
- T1Health equity blog · Founder, 8K monthly readers, cited by county health dept
- T2TX Public Health Youth Council · Elected rep, testified at state hearing on ACA outreach
- T2HOSA · State medalist — Public Health
- T4AP Bio study group · Founder, weekly meetings
- T4Grocery-store worker · 20 hrs/wk to support family
- StateHOSA State Medalist — Public Health
- NatlQuestBridge College Prep Scholar
- NatlCoca-Cola Scholar semifinalist
Under the hood
Most AI college tools invent 'similar applicants' from a base model's training data. Illuma's search hits a real corpus of self-reported historical outcomes — the same rows the admit-probability regression is trained on. What you browse is what the model sees.
- 01One corpus, two surfaces
The browsable database and the ML predictor read from the same source of truth. No divergence between what you see and what the model learned.
- 02De-identified, structured
Free-text posts are parsed into structured fields — stats, activities, outcomes, and round — so filters actually work. Post IDs strip personal detail.
- 03Diverse by design
The stratified pool spreads across focus and outcome buckets so heavy-STEM and T20 dominance does not bury the rest.