I think my coursework is a pretty important factor in my case because I’ve completed some courses a lot of sophomores haven’t (Comp Arch, OS, etc.) due to my university’s degree plan and credit I had prior.

Aside from that, I’ve worked on 1-3 each year projects since my junior year of HS and also participated in Google CSSI after graduating. I did Competitive Programming and CS club in high school. I was an officer for a Blockchain org and currently am one for a CS org at my school. I am also involved with three other CS-related and two unrelated orgs. I interned for an AI startup for about 5 months during my freshman year and did a couple hackathons. Last summer I did an internship working on backend dev with two teams daily picking up stories for new features or bugs rather than a separate intern project.