I have a list of good match schools but I feel like I don’t have enough safe and reach schools to get a good spectrum. It would be great if I could get some schools that are reach and safety (preferably in the north east or California but I am open to really anywhere). I plan on studying computer science in college.
Stats:
SAT I: 1970. M: 700, CR: 690, W: 580
GPA: 3.4 weighted, 3.2 unweighted (my school doesn’t do GPAs correctly
APs: AP computer science (5), APUSH (4) (Every other class was honors)
Senior year course load: AP Gov, AP Calc AB, AP Physics C, (AP computer science principles is a maybe), and honors english
ECs:
-I founded a successful internet security startup where over the past 2 years I was the CTO and lead developer. We have had fortune 500 clients and have been featured on the security brief with Paul Viollis. This has taken around 40-45 hours a week (It is a little less during the school week but that is made up for during the summers and weekends) which totals to around 4000 hours.
-I have done technical consulting for a internet security firm
-I have done freelancing on my own for a while working on various different software products across different industries
-I have competed in 6 hackathons at various universities and high schools (2 were high school the rest colleges) and I won a prize at Rutgers spring hackathon this year for building the best smart home product
-I spoke in front of 200 investors and industry professionals at New Jersey Tech Council’s internet of things conference
-I have been an active member of Model UN for the past 4 years and have taken up a defacto leadership role
-I may become a teaching assistant for a AP Computer Science class this year because it is the first time this teacher is teaching this class and he said he may need my help with the class
Volunteer Work:
-I taught 2 workshops on internet security to the teachers at my school last year and intend to do it again this year
-For over 5 years every Sunday I am a teachers assistant at the Sunday school in my temple which was about 2.5 hours a week during the school year
-Freshman year I was one of 2 teenagers who were selected to be members of the rabbi search committee at my temple which was tasked to find a new rabbi after our previous one retired. I spent about 150 hours on that.
Letters of Recommendation
-My sophomore History Teacher and Model UN teacher: She has been the adviser for model UN and is my favorite teacher in high school she has done so much for me over the years and already wrote my one letter
-Sophomore algebra II trig teacher: He is also the teacher I may be the teaching assistant under this year
-Principle/teacher of the Sunday school I teach at
So I am going to be applying to these match schools:
-Rutgers
-University of Maryland College Park
-UMass Amherst
-Purdue
I am likely to apply to UPenn as one of my reach schools
and Rochester Institute of Technology as a safety
Sorry for the long post but I would greatly appreciate if you could give me some suggestions on reach and safety schools to apply to.