Academics:
- GPA: 4.0 UW / 4.6 W
- SAT: 1560
- Rank: 6/450
- 11 APs so far, mostly 5s
ECs:
- USACO Gold (been grinding for Plat)
- Founded women-in-tech club junior year, 40+ members, ran a hackathon with 100 attendees
- 3 years tutoring middle schoolers in math, 4 hrs/wk
- AMC 12 honor roll twice
- varsity tennis since sophomore year
Schools I'm looking at:
MIT, Stanford, CMU SCS, Berkeley, GTech, Michigan, Cornell
so like, I know the reach schools are a reach, but I'm lowkey anxious that my ECs don't stand out enough for CS specifically because hackathons and coding clubs feel kind of generic at this point and I don't have like a published research paper or a startup or anything that's actually impressive and I'm wondering if I should even bother with HYPSM or if I'm just setting myself up to get rejected and should focus more on matches instead, but also I feel like I should at least try because my stats are decent and the women-in-tech angle is something. am I being realistic or am I cooked 😭
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ngl your USACO Gold is literally the spike here, not the hackathon (everyone has those now). Reach: MIT, Stanford, CMU SCS (CS recruiting is brutal even with great stats). Target: Berkeley, GTech, Michigan.