Chance a junior please! Asian female in CS

uclasimp
Thu, 01 Apr 2021 01:04:19 +0000

disclaimer this is my first time using cc so i apologize if im doing something wrong lol. also please be brutally honest

Demographics - texas resident, big public high school, no hooks

Intended major - CS

Stats -
SAT - 1580
ACT - 34
GPA - 4.0 UW, top 4% of my class

Coursework

basically the hardest classes you can take at school. i mainly did this for the gpa boost but I feel like aos will see through that so rip

Awards

TSA national qualifier for webmaster

abrsm grade 8 piano passed with merit

some regional/state awards in database design

the ap scholar thing (I think that what its called)

some minor art awards

ECs (dont wanna be too specific because i dont want someone recognizing me lol)

internship as an enterprise technology intern (2 months)

hosted free summer coding camp: 3 weeks long, 5 hours on weekdays, taught around 20 students (9-15 years old), helped each of them develop their own personal website and taught them basic web design

another internship at a pretty unknown company (managing multiple websites, creating a full stack application with mysql) 1.5 years

red cross: lead advocate for area’s youth action campaign - created virtual event ideas and lead team, gathered 150~ participants (i actually didnt put a lot of work into this but it sounds a little bit impressive lol)

will be participating in machine learning research at a local college this summer, im really excited about it

i like sewing so i basically just sew a lot of stuff during summers and donate it to hospitals (like lovies for infants, covid masks, etc) 2 years

might publish an app to the App Store but its nothing major and probably won’t get many users

dance: dont really have anything major to show for it because a lot of plans got cancelled because of covid (3 hours a week)

coding projects in my free time; developed an app for a competition but didnt win rip, some fun projects in django and flask, freelance web developer for a local business, leetcode

im really passionate about protecting wildlife and climate change, so im part of an environemtnal club at school (minor leadership role)

probably the only significant boost to my application by the end of this year might be getting a good leadership position but thats it

schools im planning to apply to:
safety -utd, tamu
match - purdue, umass amherst, ucsd, wpi, cal poly slo, northeastern
reaches - ut austin (dream school), uiuc, cornell, cmu, ucb, ucla (also dream school), gtech, stanford for funsies, umich

obviously my list is really long right now but what are my chances? please be very honest lol and i would really appreciate advice to boost my app