Demographics: Gender, race/ethnicity, state, type of school, and hooks (URM, first generation, legacy, athlete, etc.): Indian male, Bay Area, moderately competitive school, no hooks
Intended Major(s): CS
ACT/SAT/SAT II: 1560 SAT 790 Math 770 ReadingUW/W
GPA and Rank: 3.97 UW 4.36 W 4.29 UC GPA (above the average for students admitted into every UC at my school)
Coursework: AP/IB/Dual Enrollment classes, AP/IB scores, etc:
5 honors, 3 were weighted
5 APS finished, 8 APS by end of senior year
AP Scores: AP Biology (5), AP Comp Sci A (5), AP Psych (5), AP Calc BC (5), AP Stats (5)
Awards:
USACO Silver
PSAT NSQMT Semifinalist (got a 1510 so im pretty sure ill get this)
AP Scholar with Distinction
2nd in Lockheed Martin Codequest Hackathon
Extracurriculars: Include leadership & summer activities
- Part-time job as developer at educational tech company in India, used C# to work on school grading and reporting portal and attended meetings with CEO and senior developers
- Intern at educational tech company in India, used Python to write teaching software that helps students get better at math by using Python code to split problems into steps that students have to solve
- Intern at block coding company (kinda like Scratch), wrote test scripts in Javascript that would quickly create basic projects written using the software for testing
- Summer camp teacher in game development (paid), taught game design to K-5 kids using Scratch and created my own teaching materials
- Afterschool teacher in AI (paid), teaching the concepts of AI to K-5 kids using Leonado ai
- Working on my own video game, doing programming by myself and leading the game design with a couple of friends
- Robotics teacher at afterschool (unpaid), taught robotics to kids using LEGO EV3 robots and helped them create projects like a LEGO sumo bot and compete against each other
- Tutor for afterschool (unpaid), helped K-3 kids with their homework after school
- Founded App Development Club, we were able to make two apps so far
- Worked on AI stock market simulator with a graduate student mentor
- Completed AWS Solutions Architect Certification
- Participated in Cisco High School Externship Program (career exploration)
- Did some volunteering at an elementary summer school
Essays/LORs/Other:
LORs:
1 from US History teacher, decent relationship with him but nothing too crazy, guessing maybe 6-7/10
1 from English teacher, also should be 6-7/10
1 from my boss for my #2 EC, 10/10 for sure
Essays:
Should be decent, good enough to make me competitive for the schools, but I doubt they’re going to be the reason I get into anywhere
Schools: List of colleges, ED/EA/RD, etc:
Purdue (EA), Gatech (EA), Case Western (EA)