Chance me UCLA UCB

Krish_Katariya
Sat, 16 Apr 2022 06:56:54 +0000

demographics:

indian male junior

Large public school in CA, not as competitive as bay area but pretty competitive

Intended major computer science. Income >200k

Academics

UW 4.0 W 4.56

35 ACT

school doesnt do ranking

7 aps by the end of the year, 11 planned. (average at my school is 4 by end of year, school allows very few AP’s in 9th and 10th)

coursework:
ap art history
calculus 1
calculus 2
ap physics 1
ap environmental science
ap computer science principles

ap scores: apah (5) ap psych (5) ap csa (5) (school doesnt offer ap classes 9th/10th)

awards

usaco silver qualifier

ap scholar

district science fair 2 times first place winner

county science fair first place winner

cyberpatriot semi finalist platinum division

extracurrics

team leader for local district cubesat program, sending 3rd nano satellite into space.

CTO for non profit creating applications to detect skin cancer using ML

co host for podcast talking about prominent stem topics

cyberpatriot team leader, training regularly, reached platinum division semi-finals

internship at local company creating training courses for chemists with html CSS JS

volunteering at local soup kitchen weekly

participate in national cyber league annually

managment and logistics for nonprofit making engineering education more accessible to K-12 students

volleyball for 9th and 10th grade, both JV

tutored/taught kids python for volunteering hours

planning on releasing research paper on science fair research study over summer

EDX berkeley data science certification (is this an EC?)

this summer: internship at larger company + very likely summer research program

letters of rec:

one decent from math teacher

one good from physics teacher (teacher really likes me, nominated me for specific school awards and has a phd)

schools
i wasnt sure what my calibre is, but i want to get into UCB or UCLA for computer science