Founder · Senior Engineer · 11+ years educational mentorship
Founder, AI College Prep Academy · Senior software engineer · 8 years building software
Jinwoong is a 2018 UC Berkeley graduate who has worked the rare double track that makes AI College Prep Academy possible: eight years building software at companies that include Amazon and Ring (he is currently a senior software engineer), alongside eleven years running his own private education practice that began while he was still an undergraduate. He has also founded and shipped AI software for non-technical owners in a privacy-regulated healthcare industry — work that sharpened the exact skill the AI College Prep Academy curriculum is built around: teaching people who aren't engineers to use, evaluate, and ship AI in real-world work. Across more than eighty mentees he has placed students at Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Northwestern, Georgia Tech, and other top-twenty universities, and his students have been admitted to selective summer programs including the Wharton M&TSI and have been district winners of the Congressional App Challenge.
8 yrs
Production software engineering
80+
Students placed at top universities
11 yrs
Private education practice
Where 80+ mentees have landed
Career arc · 11+ years
The continuity is what makes the difference. Across more than eighty mentees, the relationship continues past the admit letter — into first internships, first full-time roles, and into graduate-school admissions.
Stage 01
Across 80+ students placed at Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Northwestern, Georgia Tech, and other top-twenty universities — through 11+ years of 1:1 mentorship outside this program.
Stage 02
A select group of mentees has gone from admit to first internship at top-tier engineering and product orgs.
Stage 03
Several mentees stayed through career launch — full-time roles in product management, software engineering, and data science at Fortune 500 companies, and admissions to top-ten medical and law programs.
Co-Teaching Faculty
Every track will be co-taught by a working professional in that field — not a graduate student, not a generalist instructor. The mentor relationship continues past program end.
Representative profiles below — faculty curation completes before Summer 2028
Recruiting from · Northwestern Feinberg
A practicing physician-in-training who guides clinical-intake agents, evidence retrieval, and the ethics of deploying AI in patient-facing workflows.
Recruiting from · UChicago Pritzker Law
A working attorney who guides contract-review agents, citation systems, and the framing problems unique to legal AI.
Recruiting from · Booth / Kellogg alumni network
A practicing analyst who guides 10-K ingestion, sensitivity analysis, and the management-framing pattern recognition that turns reports into investment memos.
Recruiting from · McCormick School of Engineering
A working hardware or systems engineer who guides CAD reasoning, tolerance analysis, and the manufacturability tradeoffs that distinguish a real engineering project from a toy demo.
Recruiting from · Chicago tech founder ecosystem
A working founder who guides customer-discovery agents, pricing experiments, and the back-office automation that lets a one-person team feel like five.
A project that genuinely helps people reads to admissions readers very differently from one that does not. That is the thread running through every passion project we help students design — across pre-med, pre-law, and pre-software intersections — and it is the foundation of every decision in the curriculum.
— Jinwoong Lee, Founder
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Selective by design
Selective admissions for the inaugural Summer 2028 cohort. We expect a 40 to 60 percent admit rate. Rolling applications through Spring 2028.
“We do not yet have AI College Prep alumni data — by intent, not omission.”
— Jinwoong “Peter” Lee, founder. No guarantees, no implied admit promises — outcomes get published here when they are real.