<p>Welcome to my lacklustre profile. I am an Indian (the asian kind) living in the Middle East (UAE) I want to do computer science or computer engineering at the following colleges. </p>
<p>carnegie mellon
university of california - berkeley
university of california - los angeles
university of california - san diego
georgia institute of technology
university of texas - austin
university of wisconsin - madison
purdue
university of illinois at urbana-champaign
university of southern california
university of michigan - ann arbor
cornell
stanford
university of maryland - college park
rice
university of north carolina - chapel hill
new york university
university of washington
columbia
brown</p>
<p>Note that I won't be applying to all of them. Maybe half at most.</p>
<p>SAT - Single sitting: 2170 (CR: 740, M: 680, W: 750), Super-Scored: 2220 (CR: 750, M: 720, W: 750)
SAT IIs - Will be taking Math II and Physics in December.
TOEFL - Will be taking in December.</p>
<p>GPA - 3.0 I guess? My school doesn't do GPA. There is a downward trend though.
Courses - I take the hardest course my school has to offer: Physics, Chem, Math, Computer Science, English, all AP level. </p>
<p>Extra-Cirriculars:
-Indian Carnatic Singer - 10 years, sang at three concerts
-Drummer - 3 years
-Guitarist - 1 year
-Events Co-ordinator of school robotic's club
-Took park in Regional Robotics Olympiad - Abu Dhabi
-Member of debate club
-Member of house debate team. Won first last year and second this year within the school
-Member of Student Council
-Singer in school talent's competition. Won second for the past three years
-MC for the same competition this year
-Karate black belt holder
-Know HTML, CSS, C++, PHP, MySQL, Python and am currently learning Java
-Has designed a couple of websites including a blogging system written from scratch using PHP and MySQL
-Working on iOS app
-Administrator of a general discussion forum with almost 150,000 posts over a year
-30 hours of volunteering (World Earth Hour, WWF initiative, Miscellaneous events)</p>
<p>Recs:
-One from my Computer Science teacher, one from my physics teacher. Both average.
-Counsellor rec is also average.</p>
<p>Essays:
-Average</p>
<p>Disclaimer: I say average only because I don't want to be pompous and claim my essays or recs as being the greatest things since sliced bread, especially since I have no idea what other essays/recs from other applicants are going to be like.</p>