I’m really sorry in advance for the weird formatting, it says I’m not allowed to add links in posts so I had to put dashes between college names.
Demographics: Asian female, WA state, high-income, Dartmouth-legacy
Intended Major(s): Computer Science
ACT/SAT/SAT II: 1580 (780 R 800 M). Also 780 on US History Subject Test
UW/W GPA and Rank: 4.0 UW
Coursework: Most rigorous course schedule available at school, 12 APs and full IB program
Test scores: 5’s on AP US History, Lang, Gov, and Physics C Mech, 4’s on AP Physics 2 and Lit, 42 IB points
Awards: National Merit Semifinalist, Gold and Silver medals for National French Competition
Extracurriculars:
- FTC Robotics (6 hrs/week, gr 9-12): Programmer, documentation leader, java teacher. Write robot code; lead engineering notebook documentation; taught 15 students Java. Team wins regional/state awards each year; won 2018 State; finalist 2020 State
- Speech and Debate (6 hrs/week, gr 9-12): Expository Speaking Squad Captain. 8 tournaments/year; qualified for State in 2019/20; finished top 1/3 2019 State; critiqued speeches for & trained 30 novices, 10 of whom won awards
- Paid software development internship at tech company (10 hrs/week, gr. 12, $20/hr): Perform sprint planning, QA, code development, unit & functional testing, and debugging
- HOSA (1.5 hrs/week, gr 9-12): 1st in Nutrition & 10th in Pathophysiology 2018 State; 5th Nutr. 2018 Intl; 3rd Nutr. & 5th Medical Terminology 2020 State; 2020 Intl qualifier
- Animal Welfare Club: (1.5 hrs/week, gr 9-12): President. Coordinate weekly activities for club of 40 members; direct club debates; write for club website; raised $2.5k+ in 10+ fundraisers
- Hackathon organizer (1.5 hrs/week, gr 12): Founding member and research and logistics officer of 501©(3) nonprofit. Helping arrange an international virtual Hackathon for high schoolers scheduled for Jan 2021
- Hackathon participant (3 hr/week, gr 12): Participated in 5 hackathons, won Best Web App and Domain sponsor prize once
- Coding summer camp (8 weeks, gr 12): Learned python, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Service project (12 weeks, 20 hrs/week, gr 11-12): Sewed 150 cloth menstrual pads to donate to a clinic in Ghana summer 2020 after going there for a service trip to build compostable toilet in Aug 2019
- Environmental fundraiser (12 weeks, 6 hrs/week, gr 11): Sewed 60 scrunchies and 15 bags out of repurposed materials to sell at a fundraiser that raised $1k for school environmentalism club
Essays/LORs/Other: Essays are average, LOR from AP World History teacher is amazing, LOR from IB Physics teacher is average, LOR from counselor is average
Schools:
Reaches: Dartmouth-Brown-Cornell-Northwestern-Vanderbilt-WashU-Tufts-USC-UCLA-NYU-Northeastern (top choice - EA)-Boston University (EA)-Georgia Tech (EA)-Michigan (EA)-UNC (EA)-UVA (EA)-UIUC (EA)
Targets: Calpoly, UF, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin (EA)
Safeties: KU (already got accepted EA), Virginia Tech (EA)Ohio State (EA)
Please tell me honestly, while I like all the colleges in my list I’m not super attached to any one college so it won’t hurt my feelings. I really want to get into Northeastern though so let me know my chances for that one especially!