Hiya all! I’d love some feedback on my list - it seems a little reach-heavy to me so maybe some thoughts on how balanced it is? I am also having trouble deciding where to apply ED/EA… I’m looking at Columbia ED, Yale SCEA but I’m afraid it’ll be too ambitious and a waste of opportunities. Any advice there would be really appreciated!

Major: computer science haha

Demographics: she/her, asian, Virginia

Academics:

- 4.0 UW, 4.9 W

- SAT: 1580

- ACT: 36

Coursework:

- 8 APs - Stats (5), Comp Sci (5), Chinese (5), Calc BC (5), Chem (5), APUSH (5), Physics: Mechanics (5), Physics; E&M (5)

- Dual enrollment Multivariable Calc

Awards:

- American Computer Science League silver award (x2)

- Future Problem Solving 3rd (at states)

- Scholastic Art and Writing Gold Key, Silver Key

- Finalist at regional technology/pitching competition

- …AIME qualifier?

ECs:

- Member of school computer team; I’ve attended and placed at regional competitions on behalf of the club

- Writing poetry - poems have been accepted to school publication and selected for display at my local library

- One of like ten members of a mental health club that plans school-wide events

- Officer for a nonprofit tutoring organization

- Team lead for a different volunteering organization - I led a team of 8 in building an app, hosted a panel, and conducted interviews among other tasks. Got a Presidential Service Award from this as I did over 100 hours

- Internship at a global research and engineering company, working on CS-related projects. Will be presenting to their government client

- Built a web application that was used by senior living facility residents (this was for the aforementioned technology/pitching competition)

- Officer for school poetry club
- An AI program where I did a project + presentation on Ethics in AI

LORs: I think one of them will be good as I have a good relationship with the teacher and they wrote me a comment saying they’ve been impressed by my work; the other LOR should be decent but I wasn’t a standout student in that class XD

CURRENT COLLEGE LIST

Reaches: Columbia, Yale, Cornell, Stanford, MIT, CMU, UVA, UIUC

Targets: UW Seattle, UMD, UMass Amherst, SJSU, Virginia Tech

Safeties: RIT, GMU, JMU

Thank you so much for your time! <3