Demographics- White male, NC, no hooks (unless one parent dropping out of high school and college counts, but the other is highly educated)
Intended major: CS + Business
GPA- 3.9 UW / 4.3 W (3 B’s, 2 freshman year and 1 sophomore year, upward trend?)
ACT- 34 Composite, 35 SS (36E, 35-36 R, 34M, 32S) Dunno my writing yet, but it was an 11 last time and I feel pretty confident that it will be a 10+ this time around.
ECs: Developed a mobile app, 250+ hours via online tutoring through my state’s online class system (all math and programming tutoring), co-lead of one of the volunteer teams in that system, 80+ hours volunteering at a local food bank, ran a fundraiser for this food bank that raised $1k, NSLI-Y Chinese summer program (virtual because of Covid-19 :/), peer mentoring program at my school for middle and elementary schoolers (40+ hours)
Awards: NHS, Presidential Service Award Gold, Ap Scholar (not that great I know)
Schools: Stanford (REA?), CMU SCS, UIUC, Rice(?), Cornell COE, Harvey Mudd, Columbia Engineering, NC State (gunning for the Park Scholarship), UNC (Morehead-Cain?)
I’m also looking for some good schools in California that I might be able to get a full (or mostly full) scholarship at. Thanks!