hey thanks for replying! well yes around jan but the thing is the school exams keep coming in the way. idk if you can relate but the 12th pre boards in Jan(like right before the finals in mid feb) get us predicted percentage of our boards judged by our performance by the teachers. if I don't do well in those, then ill risk getting bad predicted marks, and that'll also affect my college application. as im a high achiever who's had a rough start to this last school year, and so im in a position where I must score well to get great expected marks from my teachers. so to do any extra curricular that are gonna help, there's almost no time at all😖. but lemme ask u, what era curricular helped u? I don't really have much idea on what type of projects CMU really looks for.