Chance Me for UT Austin (Priority), CS Major

*Demographics: Asian/Indian

  • US domestic *: US Citizen
  • State/Location of residency: * Texas
  • Type of high school *: Highly Competitive (Non-Ranking)
  • Gender/Race/Ethnicity *: Male

Intended Major(s)
Computer Science for Video Games

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Unweighted HS GPA: 92.07/100 (3.6828/4.0)
  • Weighted HS GPA (incl. weighting system): 94.817/100 (3.79268/4.0)
    Class Size: 690 (Not in the top 10% for auto admit)
  • ACT/SAT Scores: Will be retaking soon.
    1300 (700 EBRW 600 Math)
    1360 (660 EBRW 700 Math)
    1400 Superscore (700 EBRW 700 Math)

Coursework
AP:
AP World History - 4
AP English Language and Composition - 3
AP US History - 5
APCSA
AP Calculus AB
AP Government
AP English IV
AP Macro
AP Micro
APCS II

Awards
Recognizing Exemplary Students in Digital Graphics and Animation Award: Awarded at my Local High School to ~14 people for expertise in my Digital Graphics Class (Knowledge in Adobe Photoshop, Animate, Maya)

Extracurriculars

*50 Volunteering Hours (46 at my local Library, and 4 at Habitat for Humanity)
*3D Modeling business, 3 - 4 years, providing assets to game developers on the platform Roblox.
*Photoshop business, 1 - 2 years, providing graphic art to game developers on the platform Roblox.
*NFT business, 2 years, used Photoshop to create NFTs. I also learned about Crypto and the Blockchain.
*Started a Computer Science Blog, 2 months, informing high school students about computer science extracurriculars.
*Participated in LeetCode Contests/Challenges, 3 months, programming challenges.
*Hackathon Group, 7 months, created a hackathon group with friends, participated in Global Hacks Hackathon and Google’s Code Jam.
*Have earned 13 online certifications in programming acknowledging my skills in Java.
*Completed 5 Audited Courses for programming topics in Java, C#, and Game Editors such at Unity. Colleges: WashU, Michigan State, UCSD, University of Colorado, uPenn.
*Educational Experience, earned a certificate on Forage that taught me Software Development in HTML.
*Programming Mentor, 8 months, provided assistance in programming to people on Unity Forums and Stack Overflow in languages such as C# and Java.
*Unity Project, will be releasing a game I created in the Unity Engine within the next month.
*Game Development Team, 2 years, I created a team with my friends to create projects on the platform ROBLOX. Although no projects were published, I was able to deeply improve my programming skills in Lua.
*Github Portfolio, 8 months, I have been posting scripts I have created from the last 4 years on my Github, including Swift, C#, Java, HTML, CSS, and Python.
*Programming, I have been programming for roughly 10 years in many programming languages
*Tutoring, Will be creating youtube videos to tutor people in C# soon.

Essays/LORs/Other
Currently in the process of writing Essays and obtaining Letters of Recommendation

Cost Constraints / Budget
~$50,000 (I have 2 siblings applying to college as well)

Schools

  • Reach * - UCLA, UC Berkley, USC, UCSD, CalTech, Georgia Tech, UMD, New York University, uMich, Northwestern, Rice, WashU, Chicago
  • Match * - RPI, UT Austin (Priority), Virginia Tech, Purdue, UIUC, UCSB, UC Davis, RIT, Virginia Tech
  • Safety * - ASU (Rolling), UCSC, UMass-Amherst, Texas A&M, UT Dallas (Rolling), University of Utah

Same as Match Me! Senior LF Match/Safeties for Video Game Programming (CS) [TX resident, 3.6828 GPA, no rank, 1360 (1400 superscore) SAT, <$50k] ?

Duplicate thread. See link above.