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Computer ScientistClass of 20213.8+1500+/34+stem
Computer Science Applicant
Female · Asian · Bay Area · Competitive Bay Area public school
Income: Upper class
Academic Profile
GPA (UW/W)
4 (UW)
SAT
1560
AP Courses
12
Honors
3
AP Exams Taken
AP EuroAP CSAAPUSHAP Calc BCAP Psych
Extracurricular Activities
- Treasurer/Webmaster for student organizationRaised money, nothing special.
- Hackathon organizerCoordinated logistics for successful events.
- Local volunteer5 hours per week.
- Outreach for school tech journalLogistics and sponsorship work.
- STEM mentoring
- CS summer program
- School volunteering
- JV Sport
- MusicJust for fun, no awards.
Awards & Honors
- ★USAPhO Semifinalist
- ★National Merit Semifinalist
- ★Description: $2500 Scholar after application season ended.
Essay Topics
Common App Essay
Just OK, personal essay was generic and about an extracurricular.
Interview Experiences
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Performance/Outcome: My interviewer was awesome and we had eerily similar interests. 7/10.
- Cornell University
- Performance/Outcome: Not evaluative, just asked questions.
- Duke University
- Performance/Outcome: Interviewer was a recent grad, fun conversation. 5 or 6/10.
- Wellesley College
- Performance/Outcome: Didn't click, but conversation was okay. 4/10.
- Yale University
- Performance/Outcome: By far the worst. 2/10.
Letters of Recommendation
STEM teacher
Didn't know me outside of school, really great rapport though - 6/10.
History teacher
Also didn't know me outside of school, probably fine - 3 or 4/10.
Counselor
Large public high school, only spoke to her once a year for 2 minutes - ?.
College Decisions
Accepted (11)
Georgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of FloridaUniversity of Illinois, Urbana ChampaignUniversity of Southern CaliforniaTexas A&M UniversityUniversity of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, Santa CruzSmith CollegeTufts UniversityWesleyan UniversityCarnegie Mellon University
Waitlisted (7)
California Polytechnic State UniversityUniversity of California, DavisUniversity of California, Los AngelesUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraCornell UniversityWellesley CollegeJohns Hopkins University
Rejected (6)
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Washington, SeattleUniversity of California, BerkeleyDuke UniversityStanford UniversityYale University
Profile Tags
ResearchHackathonSTEM ClubVolunteeringCommunity ServiceJunior VarsityMusic PerformanceLeadershipClub