<p>Here’s some more detail on the ECs:
- national level essay contest
- two time winner of [Google</a> Open Source Blog: Google Code-in 2012 Grand Prize Winners… Drumroll Please!](<a href=“http://google-opensource.blogspot.in/2013/02/google-code-in-2012-grand-prize-winners.html]Google”>Google Code-in 2012 Grand Prize Winners... Drumroll Please! | Google Open Source Blog)
- [Google</a> Online Security Blog: The results are in: Hardcode, the secure coding contest for App Engine](<a href=“http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.in/2013/05/the-results-are-in-hardcode-secure.html]Google”>Google Online Security Blog: The results are in: Hardcode, the secure coding contest for App Engine)
- several national level quizzes based on CS / IT
- debate team
- writer for the school magazine for several years and now the editor
- etc.</p>
<p>I’m worried because none of these are proper Olympiads or science fairs, and that almost seems to be a prerequisite for getting in. </p>
<p>Aside: do you have any suggestions for colleges that are great for CS and are need blind for international students. I still have my heart set on Stanford, though. :-/</p>