Daniel Kang
Founder • ISEF Winner • Stanford Scholar
- Admitted to Stanford, Yale, UPenn, Brown, Columbia, Duke, and more with full ride scholarships
- 1st Place at Intel ISEF, EUCYS Award (Top 9 at ISEF), 3x ISEF Special Awardee, three-time ISEF Finalist
- Nationally recognized as Top 300 Regeneron STS Scholar
- Minor Planet Named in Recognition: (34490) Danielkang
- First at ISEF, EUCYS, TISF, GISF, and Google State Fair
Daniel Kang is the Lead Mentor at Kang Consulting and a Stanford University senior from Guam whose path into elite research and college admissions was entirely self-directed. Without access to established academic pipelines or institutional guidance, Daniel learned how opportunity works by building it himself—cold-emailing professors, transforming his home into a DIY lab, and independently developing a research project that went on to win Best of Category at the Intel ISEF, the first achievement of its kind from the Oceania region. Daniel later earned full-ride admission to Stanford University and other top institutions without consultants or legacy support. Today, Daniel leads Kang Consulting’s research and admissions mentorship, guiding students across backgrounds—from first-time researchers to international competitors—into universities such as Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Yale, and Princeton, and toward top honors at ISEF, Regeneron STS, and other elite competitions. His mentoring philosophy centers on clarity, authenticity, and ownership, with a singular goal: helping students become the strongest, most compelling version of themselves for rigorous summer program applications and competitive college admissions cycles.
