Demographics
- US citizen
- State/Location of residency: VA
- Type of high school (current college for transfers): Northern Virginia Community College
- Gender/Race/Ethnicity (optional): Asian
- Other special factors (first generation to college, legacy, athlete, etc.): Below in the ECs section.
Intended Major(s)
- Computer Science
GPA, Rank, and Test Scores
- Unweighted HS GPA: 3.1
- Weighted HS GPA: N/A
- College GPA (for transfers): 3.3 GPA, 5 Fs, 4Cs, and 11 W.
- Class Rank: N/A
- ACT/SAT Scores: N/A
Coursework
- Typical engineering/cs classes for community college students.
Awards
- $12,000 scholarship from NSF.
- $3,000 scholarship from 2 defense companies and a random Microsoft scholarship for stem.
Extracurriculars
- I have a 3.3 GPA, 5 Fs, 4Cs, and 11 Ws at my current CC (my GPA was bad due to non-diagnosed ADHD).
- Non-tech start-up with $160k revenue, $80k profit during COVID.
- Solo-started a charity hobby project and raised $3k for a nonprofit to help with COVID-19.
- A NASA internship.
- 2 NASA student programs (did really well in one and was the only team that got the max score, then received a fully paid trip to a NASA research center in Cali for a week).
- Short internship with a F500, helping a nonprofit.
- Non-traditional & first-gen student (both my parents didn’t finish 5th grade).
- Multiple disabilities (learning and physical).
- Low income.
- Working in healthcare full time (at 5,000 hours now) while going to school full-time.
- 2 hobby projects lasting a whole year to finish from the business with real revenue/profit.
- I handmade hundreds of products sold during COVID-19 (these products are very niche and hard to make. It took a whole day to make each of them).
- My parents and grandparents were victims of Agent Orange before I was born (I might also have it).
- Full-time systems engineering offer at a well-known aerospace company.
- currently in two interview final rounds for engineering/pm intern in an F200, so I may able to land a summer 24 internship.
- One JPMC swe internship before I transfer.
- Mentored 5 first gen students and helped one transfer to a uni with full tuition cover.
- Babysitting 2 of my sisters for 11 years.
- Support my mom with her brain tumors and after surgery
- Spent three years inventing the world’s jiggliest and smoothest flan that will melt in your mouth. I had to make multiple batches each day, every day for 3 years. I put a ton of time into research and finally created something that even the Japanese can’t do with their purin. I have spent thousands of hours on this, from making all the flan recipes to reading different articles on the dessert from the very beginning of the internet in various languages. To use most of my saving and fly out to another country to try their most famous flan.
Essays/LORs/Other
- Essays: Not started yet.
- LORs: I will likely receive strong LORs from my mentor, as well as from my math, counselor, and English professor.
Cost Constraints / Budget
- N/A
Schools
- Safety: GMU
- Likely: VT, UVA
- Match: T20
- Reach: T5, Berkeley, Oxford, Harvard, and MIT.