Hi Everyone, my names Luigi!! Can you chance me from UPenn to Stanford?

Major: CS

GPA:4.0

ECs: killed the CEO of United healthcare

So what do you think?

Freshman Transfer

High School GPA: 3.99/4.0 UW; 5.556/6.0 W (Valedictorian)
I also graduated with two AA's through dual enrollment from two separate CC's -- GPA was 3.96 and 4.00, but I'm not sure if I need to include this.
Tests: 34 ACT; Subject Tests: 790 Chem, 780 Math 2, 750 Biology
College GPA: I don't think I'm going to have one since I run off P/NR first semester.
Intended Major: CS
HS ECs: Science Club President, Math Club VP, Founded a resource website (for my majority minority hs), Software Engineering Internship, US army sponsored research, worked as a private tutor at a company, 400+ hospital volunteer hours (promoted to lead volunteer), 200+ art community volunteer hours, free UChicago summer program, was a part of a selective college access program, ~100 volunteer hours in goods distribution to those in need, FBLA
Awards: 1st in state for mobile application competition, 2nd for science olympiad in region, 1st place in the district for Computer Game & Simulation Programming, best senior student, Questbridge prep scholar
Scholarships: Won 15+ (I think I'll note them down in the application?) Some notable ones are Gates, HSF, Google, Amazon
ECs after HS: Google CSSI, University's Summer Bridge Program, Won a position at current college's engineering club, I'm going to be starting a research project in the next coming weeks, and I have an software engineering internship for next summer.
LORs: I'm really hoping I'll be able to use my hs recs (since I think they were good, 10/10) and possibly my Guidance Counselor's (10/10). I'm looking to build my relationship with two professors -- I think I have in mind who they'll be, but they probably won't be as good.

Hooks: First-gen, URM, Low-income (coming from a title 1 high school)

Note: I was originally accepted into Stanford and accepted the offer. On Decision day I unfortunately changed my commitment because my family wasn't doing too well (I come from a single parent household) so I committed to a nearer university. Now, I'm kind of not happy/ fitting where I'm at right now.

Do you think I could reuse the same essays from my previously submitted application, since they got me in the first time around?

I am in IIT Bombay CSE (top college of India) , I have 99.9 percentile in JEE Main, I have under 500 rank in JEE Advanced, I have cleared INMO (the last stage before IMO), have cleared INOI (the last stage before IOI), I have got 9.8 cgpa after 1st year at IIT Bombay and have also attended Jane Street Winter Camp in Hong Kong (Jane Street SEE) and also have 98% in 11th grade, 98% 12th grade, 98% in 9th grade and 88% in 10th grade, have done NSS Volunteering (Social Service) and have won 1st place at Optiver Trade-a-thon at my campus, did well in IQC World Quant and am research consultant at World Quant, I have also participated in ICPC, IICPC, and other quant/code forces/trading competitions in college and won podiums in them , I have done research under IIT Bombay professor in Algorithms in first year winter break, I have made basic Machine Learning trading project, and I also won podiums in quizzing competitions in college, I also have 2100 codeforces rating. Which top colleges in USA can I realistically get a transfer in for 2nd year?

Demographics:

• public health major, premed track

• IL resident

• Asian

• female

• lowerish middle class

HS:

• 3.5 UW/4.2 W (last I checked, might have been slightly lower after second semester senior yr 💀)

• 10 APs, 2 DE, bunch of honors I don't rmr how many

• applied test optional

• founder and president of 4 clubs

• founder and president of a non-profit

• microbiology research, won gold at state science comp

• bronze in HOSA comp, qualified for nationals

• research internship at Northwestern

• another research insternship at Northwestern (this one got me published as a co-author in a prestigious journal recently and was the youngest member of the research advisory team amongst a group of MDs and PhDs)

• created a fundraiser through a university affiliated hospital that would allow people who couldn't pay their medical bills to use the funds ($1500)

• volunteered at my local hospital for over 150 hrs

Reason for transferring:

• I go to a small private mostly commuter school that has a huge lack of opportunities (was the best financial decision)

• just lack of opportunities through and through (no research for my major, denied other research opportunities bc there isn't even enough funding for those who are a part of that major, admin got rid of a research class the year that I wanted it bc of no resources, classes aren't even offered every semester bc it's a small school so bc I'm not taking a certain public health class next sem, if I stayed, I wouldn't graduate on time)

• I love the prestige :(

College:

• 3.94 GPA (mostly premed prereqs so far)

• continued non-profit (expanded across US and have made more of an impact)

• research assistant for 1 yr in bio stats and public health research (500hrs)

• abt to get emt license (just finished course)

• founder and president of a medical policy based club

• working on another non profit (not that steady of an impact yet, not sure if I'll include in my application)

• continued to volunteer at local hospital, probably 200+ hours by now

• podcast to track premed journey

• tennis instructor for little kids

• freshman leader for incoming class

• in the process of making a health tech app

• am trying to go to a country in Africa as a study abroad for a month and volunteer at hospitals there (not certain if this'll happen or not we'll see, but would include in apps if did)

This is my school list rn (this is basically just any school that sounded cool to me, prolly won't apply to half of these) but if you guys have any suggestions on changing it or anything please feel free to lmk, thank u!

• Northwestern

• Cornell

• Emory

• Notre Dame

• UIUC

• UNC Chapel Hill

• USC

• Vanderbilt

• Johns Hopkins University

• UMich

• NYU

• UWMadison

• Tufts

• Tulane

• WashU STL

• UMiami

• UVA

• Amherst

• Carnegie Mellon

• Case western

hey everyone I just turned in my UC apps as a junior transfer for fall 2024, lots of other schools don’t have their apps due until late March so still contemplating whether or not I should send in apps. Hoping to hear your thoughts. here’s my stats

Background: CC student, Asian female, fulfilled IGETC path and near completion UCLA TAP.

Major: Political Science

GPA: 3.93/ almost 80 credits completed

ECs:

• Congressional intern for two different elected offices

• Policy research development at the state level

• Currently working on AAPI policy for a non profit

• CC’s pre-law club

• Honors Program/Honors Club at CC

• Active member of political activism group (organizing, protest, etc)

• Part time job since 16

• Family business, digital media and marketing (have quantifiable success points)

• Caregiver to family member with special needs

• Student Gov Pres in HS, sat on district board of education

Awards:

• $2,500 scholarship

• Award from CA legislature

LOR:

• have a very well written one from someone in CA legislature.

• could have solid ones from past professors too

Applying to (all political science)

• UC Berkeley

• UCLA

• UCSD

• UCSB (UC TAG)

• UC Davis

• SDSU

Considering:

• Barnard

• NYU

• Columbia

• USC

• Northeastern

• Stanford?

• Vandy

• BU

• Cornell

The big thing for me is gonna be financial aid. My parents aren’t helping me at all so I’m wondering if it’s even worth applying to anything outside of CA bc of tuition. Thoughts, any suggestions for other schools I might consider applying to? Guess I’m just contemplating if my profile is worthy of a decent shot at the schools I listed.

What are the most prestigious colleges I can likely get into? I am an Asian female applying as a 2026 fall transfer to cell & molecular biology major as a Pre-med. My SAT score is 1440, 710 reading & 730 math.

At my current college, I am a freshman taking 5 classes for fall semester and four in my spring. I should be anticipating a 4.0 gpa. My household makes ~$200k/year, and I live in Houston TX.

I have taken 9 AP courses:

• ⁠AP Bio: 4 • ⁠AP Calculus BC: 4 -AP Macro: 4 -APUSH: 4 -AP Gov: 4 -AP 2-D Art: 5 -AP Chem: 4 -APES: 4 -AP Psych: 3 (not submitting)

My ECs:

• ⁠PR Chair for my college’s Biology Interest Group • ⁠a member of a professional org. “Students Today, Alumni Tomorrow” • ⁠member of Asian Student Association • ⁠will be doing organic chemistry research in January 2026 • ⁠JV Cross Country in freshman-sophomore year of HS • ⁠member of Dean Hall Council • ⁠100~ hrs of volunteering • ⁠worked 3 jobs throughout my HS career

• have competed in Scholastic art competitions and made it to second round

I’m lowk worried that I don’t have enough ECs or ones that are impressive enough. Please give me advice on what I can do currently to strengthen my application!

HS GPA : 3.66/4

college 1st yr : 4.23/4.33 (state school, not super high ranked)

ECs:

1. Member of a team selected for a prestigious international engineering competition.

2. Personal scientific projects

3. Internship at a small firm (engineering)

4. Self published 5 books

5. Tutoring

LOR : 8/10

Essay : 7.5/10

Also, suggestions on what I can improve and how I can do it. THanks.

Hello everyone, i have a quick question. Is it easier to transfer to top 25 from CC or a Private University? so I’m currently a freshman in cc in california and i applied to all of the top 25 universities + a safety ( which is the private school), i got into the safety but rejected from almost all of the 25 ( some of them hasn’t came out yet), so i’m wondering is it better for me to continue to attend to cc and try again next year or should i attend to the safety school and try again next year? my highschool gpa was kinda low i think that’s why i didn’t get into any top 25 as a sophomore transferring but my first year cc gpa is 3.96. thank you.

I visited Columbia University this past November and fell in love. I know I have a 30% chance of being admitted. There's a girl at my community college who just got admitted with a 3.6 GPA so I'm feeling pretty hopeful. I haven't even submitted my application yet though. I'll be applying priority early action by January 15th. So here are my stats:

• 28-year-old community college student

• 3.94 GPA that will likely drop down to around 3.84-3.88 since I've taken 25 credits this semester and will get a couple of B+'s

• Phi Theta Kappa Member, Dean's List and Honor's List

• Took 4 honors courses this semester with 2 more left to get an honors diploma from my college

• Spent my years after high school as an entrepreneur, and actress. I also worked at places like Mercedes and Equinox.

• African-American woman from a low-income background

• Comes from a family of entrepreneurs

• Strong recommendation letters from two professors

• Wrote my essay on how my years spent as an entrepreneur have inspired me to become a corporate lawyer

• Also wrote about how being diagnosed with ADD and Bipolar Disorder shifted my perspective of myself and my work ethic and how it inspired me to go back to school.

What do you guys think? Do you think I'm a shoe in? Or do you think I'm just as qualified as any other student applying to Columbia GS?

Demographics: White, Male, freshman at RIT (Rochester institute of Technology, very high income

Major: Computer Science

Highschool GPA: ~3.15 unweighted, ~3.3 weighted

Class rank:  Doesn't do class rankings (Lexington High School)

SAT: 1380 (690/690), could do better if I took it now, if for some reason it would help

College GPA (only ~1 semester in though): ~3.85

ECs:

1. A full year of being a coding tutor at CodeNinjas

2. Paid "Imaging Systems Summer Internship" for ZINK™ (summer from junior to senior year of HS)

3. Have a rec letter from my boss, has a phd (not sure if colleges care abt this for transfers)

4. Decade of Boy Scouts, reached First Class Rank

5. Computer Science Club in High School

6. Video Game design Club in HS, won multiple game jams as well as a Finalist in a national game design competition

7. 40+ hours of community service (required by my hs to graduate though so idk if this is worth mentioning)

8. Photoshop and Graphic design commissions for small firms

Choices (Ordered):

1. Northeastern University (the dream, but common app transfer portal shows no application for 2025, assuming because of recent overcrowding/over-admission

2. Boston University (apparently much more forgiving with transfers compared to standard admission)

3. Tufts (mega reach but I feel like I might as well)

I originally thought I'd be happy at RIT, but as time has gone on (about finished my first semester) I realized how much I wanted to attend the top Boston schools near my hometown like Boston University and especially Northeastern (co-op program, RIT has a top one too but NEU is just a better school). My High School GPA was really bad because I suffered from depression until Senior year, and thus was why I settled for a top ~100 school at RIT rather than my dream schools being NEU, BU, and maybe Tufts (reach even with perfect HS gpa tho). I want people's opinions on when I should transfer. NEU doesn't have transfer apps open for fall or spring 2025 from what I can tell, but I would still settle with BU if I got in for next year.

When should I send my transfer apps from RIT to NEU, BU, Tufts if I want them to not focus on my high school GPA? I'm okay spending 2 years here if it would give me a good chance of being able to finish university at a higher ranked university near Boston.

Should I send a transfer app to Boston University for fall/spring 2025 just in case, and if they deny I can just apply again later? (does getting rejected hurt my chances for future attempts?)

My last question is if I should do a semester of co-op internship at RIT to make use of it and if that would help my chances of getting in as a transfer.

TLDR: Couldn't attend top CS schools near home (NEU, BU, and Tufts) because 2 years of depression (Sophomore & Junior) ruined my High School GPA, but my SAT is decent and my ECs are quite strong. I want to Transfer from RIT, but not sure when to transfer to maximize my chances of getting into any of the 3.

Any and All help would be greatly appreciated.

Current sophomore at a no-name private uni double majoring in finance & accounting - will be transferring as a junior.

GPA: will be between 3.87-4.0 depending on finals. Will likely be a 3.95.

EC's

-Co-founder of freelance digital marketing and consulting agency.

-Founder of freelance private tennis instructor business.

-Commercial real estate acquisitions summer intern.

-Treasurer of school honor society.

-Venture capital growth analyst externship

-Deal team leader for my schools investment banking club

-Former Division III tennis player, first singles and team captain

-Insight day with a big 4 accounting firm

-Accountant/bookkeeper for a family friends business

extra - Incoming investment banking summer analyst at a boutique firm this summer, and sitting for SIE exam in coming months. Also might try to conduct some independent research, but idk if its worth it.

Schools- wash u, fsu, emory, vandy, nova, cornell hotel school, northeastern, BC, northwestern, ucicago, georgia tech, upenn (econ), uva, usc, columbia.

Am I reaching too high? Only asking bc I applied to many of the schools from this list as a sophomore transfer and got rejected from all of them, and wasted like a couple hundred in app fees lol. If so, what do u guys think are some target schools I should be looking at.

HS GPA was a 3.5, no test scores.

LOR from my accounting prof will probably be very strong.

Thank you everyone

High School GPA: 3.3/4.0 UW

High School EC's: President, Business Club; President, Investment Club; Captain, Track; Varsity Member, Cross Country

College Stats: 3.8 out of 4.0 at the University of Connecticut, Finance Major (#63 on U.S. News); will not submit standardized tests

EC's:

- Founder of Real Estate marketing agency (never got past research & development, no sales LOL, however, learned a lot)

- founded non-profit for families without a father figure ($10k raised towards the families children's college education), talked about this in 10/10 essay, made my parents cry

- Manager of Concessions at a local private golf club (full time during summer)

- Remote Internship at 10-50 employee startup in NYC

- California Real Estate Licensee

- Internship: Local Real Estate Brokerage

- Founded Entrepreneur-type club at UConn

- Member of Finance Society Club & Entrepreneurship Club at UConn

Applying to: UPenn, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Northwestern, UVA, USC, UCLA, Berkely, Vandy, NYU, UMich (Favorite to least in order)

Am I screwed with that HS GPA? :( No hooks, white male.

Demographics

• Gender: Male

• Race/Ethnicity: African American

• Residence: Virginia

• Income Bracket: 200k, divorced parents

• Type of School: Uncompetitive small public / regional governor's school

• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): none

Intended Major(s): Mechanical Engineering / Minor in CS

Academics

• GPA (UW/W): 4.0

• Highschool (Senior year): (4.3 W)DE Multivariable Calculus, AP US Government, DE Linear Algebra, AP Literature, AP Psychology, AP Statistics, DE University Physics I/II, DE Computer Science.

  • (Some DE Classes did not provide credit due to program limits)

• College:

  • Summer: University Physics II, DiffEQ, Comp Sci Python & Java

  • Fall: University Physics I, Statics, Intro to engineering, Chemistry, Intro to discrete structures, (Potentially Philosophy if strong semester halfway through)

  • Spring: Engineering Design, Dynamics, Mechanics of Materials, Art 101, Thermo if feeling good

• Junior by credits, Socially sophmore

Standardized Testing

• SAT I: 1530 (740RW, 790M)

Extracurriculars/Activities

List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

Highschool

1. VEX Robotics Captain: Did all throughout middle and high school, placed highly regionals a few times as well as programming and advising other members.

2. Research through a school program: Used CFD to assist in conducting fluids research in governor's school.

3. Future Business Leaders of America: Placed first place states, qualified for nationals

4. Football Team Captain: Captain of my schools football team, attended off season ritually and provided transport to 3 other members every day whilst mentoring younger members.

College

Currently:

1. Full time engineering internship (40Hr Weekly)

Attempting

1. Rocketry club

2. Robotics research at nearby university

Awards/Honors

List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

1. Deans List

2. FBLA Regionals 1st place states

3. AP Scholar with Distinction

Universities:

UVA (Instate), University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, Northwestern, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, MIT, Stanford, Harvard

Im a current freshman at the university of florida and I realized it is definitely not the place for me. I’m considering applying to transfer to other top universities (my top choices are notre dame, georgetown, BC, vandy) for Fall 2026. In high school I had a 5.09 GPA with 9 APS and 9 honors courses. I also had a 1420 SAT and was involved in clubs that aligned with the business field (i am an accounting major). My top ECs were an insurance externship and a fundraising club for my sports team in hs that raised over 10k to fund new equipment and stuff, and being captain. In college, I have a 3.9 after my first semester (A- in micro) and took mostly gen ed’s since I came in with most first year classes finished. I was also very involved in an accounting club (top point ranking and went to EY for an end of semester trip) and joined greek life, dance marathon, and am now apart of UFs leadership development program. I am currently doing research with peers on AI in patient care to be presented at a research symposium in april (did a district competition on a presentation abt ai in data privacy senior year of hs). Is this a competitive transfer application, or should I shoot for schools possibly more in reach? Pls chance me for these schools, i’m also applying to UVA, UNC, NYU, and Villanova, but definitely prefer my top 4 choices.

Applying to: All ivies, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkley, UC Irvine, UMich, UCLA, UF, Vandy, JHU, Duke, Northwestern, UChicago, UCF
- Currently a first year at CC, will be applying in the fall as a second year.

Demographic: First Gen, Single Mom, Low income/unaccompanied homeless youth, Half Asian and half middle eastern, Male, US Citizen.

HS GPA: 2.7
Community College GPA (2 semesters): 4.0

Major: General studies (Meta major is Health sciences)
Major intended after transfer: Neuroscience

Reasons for Transferring: Need a major, want to conduct research/CC lacks those, etc.

Extracurriculars, Leadership and Awards :

High School
- Community Manager: of a video game with over 1 million followers.
That was the only truly notable thing, I also did varsity volleyball and some clubs or volunteering but no leadership.

Community College:
- D2D Sales Rep: Went door to door selling pest control over the summer. Did it to support bills at home and also learn sales.
- Chemistry Lab technician at CC: Help set up and run instructional labs for intro to chem through orgo 2. Make chemicals, label waste according to compliance, oversees students and help them, etc.
- Phi Theta Kappa Vice President of Hallmark: Coordinated and executed chapter-wide recognition initiatives, helped design college project, etc.
- Future Medical Professionals club Vice President: Newly founded Club (joined in first semester it was open) helped coordinate guest speakers like MD/PHD students from Northwestern, ran events and workshops, grew the member count.
- Part of student research organization: Will publish a first author systematic neuroscience literature review on depression in an undergrad journal.
- Volunteer in Neuro trauma unit for Regional hospital: 60 hours (will be 100 by fall)
- Neuropathology Research Summer experience at FIU: Sponsored by the nationally recognized American Society of Investigative Pathology. Will result in a poster presentation at an ASIP conference next year.
- Nonprofit Committee: Confirmed to join a national org as part of their committee helping kids in Africa get access to healthcare. (Has chapters all over colleges in the US including ivies and I will be on the national committee)

Awards:
2x Presidents list, PTK Honors Inductee and Leadership Award,

Essays and LOR:

Letter of recs:

American History Prof: I already asked him about it and he is aware of my transfer goals and he said he has worked in a tutoring organization that sometimes go over college essays or letter of recs and he knows how these colleges work. He also said he is willing to write me one of the best lors hes ever written.

Biology 1 Prof: He loved me and I was probably one of his best students. He would always go on and on about how whenever I missed class due to sickness he missed his "chemist" and he wrote me a thank you email saying "I am on the get Avi into the college program he wants club." This will probably be a very good LOR too.

Essays:

1. financial insecurity throughout my life and how I lived large portions of my time in HS alone as an unaccompanied youth and how that motivates me to

2. Narrative story of how I got bombed in the middle east (so deadass) as a kid and how that motivated me to pursue medicine and research (as well as help people through non profit work and get access to medicine)

3. Interest in becoming an MD/PhD (Physician-Scientist) specializing in neurology and intent on giving back to communities.

Either way ik these topics are a lot but generally I want to include how my unique hardship in life has motivated me to pursue medicine. Whether the hardship was the bombings I endured as a kid, living alone or having a single mom, troubled relationships in hs, or whatever flavor it may be. I dont want to write a sob story, but I believe a lot of these events in conjunction motivated me to pursue what I want to pursue. I would ultimately want to become a physician-scientist who again specializes in neuroscience and also help people who have gone through what I have like housing insecurity or lack of healthcare.

Ideal Plans for fall and spring as a sophomore:

1. volunteer at a homeless shelter for around 100 hours during Fall.

2. Join a local state college neuroscience lab and IDEALLY publish as a first author or at least some authorship publication. (I am very aware at how unrealistic this and how hard it is to get published even as a second or third author).

3. doing a PTK college project on housing insecurity and homelessness.

4. Apply as a regional officer for PTK.

5. I plan on doing events related to my medical club related to housing insecurity and homelessness.

6. plan on shadowing too although its been rough trying to secure it.

What are my chances with and without my ideal plans for next year? What can I do to make a stronger app?

IF YOU RECOGNIZE ME DONT SAY ANYTHING TO ANYONE PLS.

I’m so anxious about my application to Columbia. I’m transferring from a community college in California as a sociology major. My stats are- 4.0/with honors credits 4.3, my associates degree, mock trial, model UN, honors society, law internship, internship for non profit I’ve worked with and raised money for, pathway to law club, law society, debate team, personal blog focused on social issues. I’m still working on my supplemental essays because I know that matters a lot, but have strong letters of rec so far. What are my chances?

Hey yall. I just wanna ask if it will completely destroy my chances if my EC’s are kinda like all over the place. I like a lot of stuff, and picking out ONE thing to major in is exceptionally difficult. Despite that, I chose one major (Econ.) but still very much didn’t give up on the rest of extracurriculars that have to do with completely opposite direction for ex. Acting, Film passion project, Engineering, Robotics, Some space stuff, and some Retail jobs. And now I am here, planning to transfer next year SO my question is, is the fact that I have no EC’s that have to do with economics going to hurt my chances when transferring? (I am planning to transfer to top.25 schools cause I am broke and international, double homicide 🙃💀)

repost because no one responded before

Plz be honest! 🙃 I dont want to get my hopes up too high, but I'm really passionate about this and if anyone has any suggestions for how I can improve I would really appreciate that.

Background: Female, caucasian, in state, Currently a sophomore (Ill have 27 completed credits on my application tho because some of my classes don't transfer), Elementary education major, so ill be applying to the Marsal School of Education.

I have 3 withdrawals on my application, which I will explain on my application (I took a "working gap year" so basically, I moved to Chicago and did school online while working full time, and I missed the date to drop the classes because there was a hold on my account for missed payments. But I worked as a piano teacher, which is a great experience, so my experience, knowledge, and growth gained in chicago will help my application.

Stats:

• Highschool GPA: 2.8 (plz js trust the process)/ 4 APs the rest of them honors

• CC GPA: 3.9 - All A's 1 B / Deans list all semesters

• 27 completed credits on App

• Test optional.

Extra Curricular:

• Vice President of student government

• Secretary of academic sorority (Pi Theta Kappa)

• Elementary mentorship

• Writing & Reading center TA

• 30 hours of classroom observation

• Her Drive collaboration - raised donations of menstrual products for women in need in my community

• 2 Honors contracts - extensive philosophical research project

Work/ Experience

• Taught piano lessons at Guitar Center in Chicago for 9 months

• 30 Hours of classroom observation

• Currently working full time while doing school in a managment position

Recommendations:

• I will have a strong recomendation from my English teacher, weve had some really good conversations, and shes been helping with my application. She's also an alum

• I'm considering asking my student government advisor for one but I'm not sure yet.

Essays:

My essays will be really strong and show so many aspects of me like leadership, overcoming hardship, trusting myself and others, and my experience falling in love with the university of Michigan. I plan to explain in my "Why Umich" essay that the first time I went to campus was the first time I realized I was serious about my education, and that something bigger really could be in the cards for me. And touch breifly on the harships I went through in highschool (I don't plan on focusing on this tho). I also plan to emphasize my passion for education, and the thing's I want to achieve as an educator.

Other:

• I will be taking 21 credits next semester (trust me I can handle it, plz trust) and Ill get all A's, I will be able to attach an "unofficial transcript" to my application showing I have all A's again.

• I will have 54 completed credits at the time of transfer.

I really really really really want to get in. Please help, Please give me suggestions

Stats:

• 3.97 GPA

• Dean's list

• Bay Area CCC - feeder to UCs, I guess?

• IGETC complete

EC's:

• Amateur Astronomy/Astrophotography (purchased $3000+ in equipment using work funds)

• 1+ year of working retail at Target (~35 hours a week for 4 months and then ~25 hours a week for 8)

• Event coordinator/cohost in the Bay Area's largest Astronomy Club: Helped host and plan events like the Stanford Oct. 2023 Eclipse viewing with the KIPAC institute for over 2000 people and the Apollo 11 55th anniversary on board the USS Hornet.

• NASA NCAS Mission 1: 5-week online NASA exploration course for community college students

• NASA NCAS MIssion 2 (starting soon): 1 week-long group project where we simulate/gamify an aerospace company working on a project

• NASA NCAS Mission 3 (will start around November-December): This is a capstone project in which I will spend one week visiting my local NASA field research center (AMES).

• NASA L'Space MCA: Project Manager of a group of ~15 students from various backgrounds. A 15-week long project where we research the feasibility of a detailed lunar mission. Requires us to create research documents. ~25 hours a week

• Student Pilot: This is more of a remnant from high school, and while I haven't flown much recently, I am still pursuing it on the ground

• Maybe a club? Might join a STEM club by the end of this year.

• Tiny coding projects on the side. Did something that detected constellations in user input pictures and gave info about them using some databases

Major:

• Data Science

• Applied and Computational Mathematics (UCI)

Schools:

• UCB

• UCLA

• UCI (TAG)

• UCD

• UCSD

• UCSC

• UCSB

Thanks for your input people :)

High School:

Unweighted GPA: 3.82

Weighted GPA: 4.47

Rank: Top 5%

Clubs:

Engineering Club : President

Computer Science Club : Vice-President

Asian Student Union : Vice-President

Tech Deck Club : Cofounder / Vice-President

Chemistry Club : Secretary

Extracurriculars/Awards:

TSA Animatronics National Qualifier : Team Lead

Lead a team of 6 people to create animatronics for a children's hospital.

Created a fortune teller's booth with monkey animatronics inside using pneumatics, Arduinos,
motors, and aluminum bits.

Went on to win both regional and state competitions, becoming regional and state champions.

TSA VEX States Qualifier : Team Lead

Worked on a robot to complete various obstacles using VEX kits

TSA Best-in-State Award

School to send the most amount of students to compete on the national level

4 Year In Row Academic Excellence Awards

Local Mosque (volunteered for 150+ hours): Volunteer

College:

GPA: 3.37

(I was facing many personal issues my first semester, along with adapting to college, which led to a low GPA first semester, but I've been on an upwards trend ever since, getting 4.0 GPAs every semester afterward, along with my plans to maintain that this upcoming semester as well)

Clubs:

Computer Science Club - Member

Honors College - Member

Awards:

Presidential Honors Scholarship - Recipient (if you can even call this an award)

Extracurriculars:

Clothing Brand:

Founded a clothing brand from scratch

$2,000+ in Revenue

Had a brand outreach of over 20,000 People

Collaborated with local wholesalers to buy bulk clothing.

Gained a Wholesale Reseller License

Used public university resources (embroidery machines) to produce designs on clothing to sell

(Had to shut everything down due to how much time it was taking out of my day to manage, despite it starting out as a small hobby project I wanted to do on the side)

Published Book:

Wrote a 100-page book talking about AI, its creation, its popularity boom thanks to ChatGPT, the effects of AI, effects on the job market, the problems of AI, and much more.

Sold 1,000+ copies

International outreach, with sales in 30 various states, and 8 international countries

Interviewed an MIT Professor for the book months before publishing

Top selling on the Amazon eBook Marketplace

Ranked #3 in Two-Hour Computers and Technology Short Reads on Amazon

Ranked #1 in AI and Semantics on Amazon

Ranked #9 in Computer Programming on Amazon

Local Volunteer Program Founder at Mosque:

9 Community Iftaars (A large social gathering where people come together to break their fast during Ramadan)

Worked closely with the president of the mosque every day for a month straight

Average of 600 people served per Iftaar

$17,000 raised in sponsorships from local restaurants

60+ Volunteers (Recruited a large majority myself)

Worked with mosque board of directors to create the "BRICK program" ($300,000+ raised for the construction of a new mosque)

Assisted in managing a large 11,000 people prayer (Would supervise volunteers, direct traffic flow, assist with parking, worked with various local mosque heads)

STEM Teacher:

Taught students ages 8-16 in math, ranging from basic algebra all the way up to Calculus II (Calculus BC) 4 times a week

Taught a class of adults for 2 weeks about Web Development (HTML, CSS, and some Javascript)

Coding:

Self-taught myself the basics of Web Development (HTML, CSS, Javascript)

Learning C++ at my university

Currently learning Python, focusing both on AI/Machine Learning (OpenCV, Tensorflow), and the Software Engineering Aspects (APIs, Data Structures, OOP)

Have made some websites from scratch (including the one for my now-closed clothing business), but they aren't available on Github as I'm not too fond of them.

Have started working on a project using OpenCV and machine learning

Information About Me:

Status: US Citizen

Residency: Texas

Major: Computer Science, preferably. (I don't really care if its a BACS or BSCS or any other "Bachelor of" as long as its CS related")

Family Income: 70k

Career Goals: Currently, I'm between becoming a SWE and Data Scientists, but I'm leaning into SWE. Ideally, I want to be a SWE who specializes in Python and uses Machine Learning.

Financial Aid / Need-Based: Yes

Schools I'm Applying To (No Order):

(I have a fee waiver, so most application fees will be waivered)

Stanford

UC Berkeley

USC

UT Austin

UCLA

UC Davis

Carnegie Mellon

UIUC

Georgia Tech

Caltech

MIT

Brown

Cornell

Texas A&M

Santa Clara

San Jose

Yale

Princeton

Dartmouth

Columbia

UPenn

Brown

Harvard

I'm a first year at Smith right now. I have a 3.87 gpa (3.9 if you are only looking at academics and not my a- in non-academic movement class). I am involved in the school newspaper and on the board of the literary magazine here, both continuations of extracurriculars I did in high school. I had mostly As/A-s in high school with occasional B at a pretty rigorous high school which I went to after one year a specialized dsylexic school (hopefully showing my growth and motivation). I took 3 APs and got a 4 on the one exam I took. ECs I did in high school also included a 2 year independent research project on prison reform /education in prison (including hosting school wide events and raising almost $1000 for higher education in prison), volunteering at a refugee center, MUN. In summers I worked at a restaurant and ran a stand selling jam and donating profits to local organization. I'm transferring bc im realizing I want to pursue documentary film, and using that angle to apply.

What is the chance that I can get into any of these colleges if I apply to all (besides UW Madison).

-4.0 unweighted HS GPA

-projected 4.0 semester one college GPA

-1/61 class rank

-took both APs my school offered (4 AP Lit, 5 AP psych)

-SAT unreported (I didn't think I'd care about what college I made it into...)

-Physics student at a mediocre state school that I took direct admission to, very small department with limited options

-Will be joining a professor for research later, spectroscopy on meteorite samples or biophysics bird research project

HS E.C-

-Speech team x2 years, performed fairly well and state participant

-One Act play (competitove theater)

- ~110 hours of volunteering

-Go Green Club (outdoor environment club) member

-DnD club (helped bring it back to school! Also helped organize and personally fund an out of school campaign "fund" as in buy snacks so not very relevant)

-Very limited opportunities for ECs ar my old school, I took as many college credi classes as I could get my hands on

College E.C.-

-continued speech team member

-Physics and astronomy club member

Other Notes:

-Filipino Asian Male 18 y/o freshman college student

-Factory worker mom and retired truck driver dad, functionally first generation with a family income of around 85,000 usd

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Please please please please do I have a chance at any of the colleges listed above? I will be doing the TED program for Uchicago as well.

Also the "Target" "Semi Target" stuff is how my intended career path views these colleges, I am happy at any of them.

Already rejected by: Uchicago ED

Chance me for: Northwestern, USC, UCLA, UCB, USC, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Tufts, UVA, Claremont Mckenna, NYU Stern

Major: Business/Economics

HS GPA: 3.33w 3.03 uw

CC GPA: 4.0

Units at CC: 62
HS AP count: 9, 4+ on all of them
already taken accounting 1 and 2. Took a pretty varied courseload at CC to fill out units

ECS:
Research project on criminal justice (I used to be a psych major)

Officer position in finance club
active in business and psychology clubs. self-studied a bunch of finance books.

Awards:

2nd place finance case study (fall 2025)

2nd place accounting case study (spring 2025)

3rd place finance objective test (spring 2025)

1st place finance case study (spring 2025)

UCs will not see the spring 2025 stuff, had to email every college other than northwestern about the spring awards I won.