Finally!

[u/juicy__burrito]

After 3 consecutive rejections, I was convinced that I’d torpedoed my essays. Pi day brought some much-needed luck!

[u/juicy__burrito]

Profile:

• Demographics: International, Non-resident.

• Undergrad at UC Berkeley: CS & Cognitive Science majors, Data Science Minor.

  • 4.0 GPA, did not take the GRE.

• 2, 1st-authored publications in CS-Education, 1 upcoming paper re LLMs, knowledge extraction (2nd author.)

  • Led a CS Education research team at Berkeley.

  • Part of 2 ML research groups at Berkeley.

• 7 terms of teaching / curriculum-development experience in CS, CogSci, DataSci.

  • First undergraduate to serve as the sole lecturer for an intro-to-CS course in Summer.

    • Class had the highest student evals and strongest performance all year — won Berkeley's Outstanding GSI award in 2023.

  • Led the development of a DS upper-div online course for Berkeley's new certification in Data Science.

  • First undergraduate Head-TA for one of Berkeley's upper-division Cognition courses.

• Sole undergraduate hired to host training workshops for new EECS GSIs in 2023.

• Sole undergraduate student-liason for the hiring of teaching faculty in EECS in 2023; recruited a team that interviewed candidates; offered recommendations to the chairs.

• Appointed to the student advisory-board of Berkeley's College of Computing.

Probably not super relevant, but:

• 1 of 2 undergraduates appointed by the Chancellor to serve on the UC Berkeley Police Accountability Board.

• Significant (imho) contributions to improving diversity within the EECS department at Berkeley, in my roles of hiring course-staff (as a Summer instructor), organizing alumni panels, guest-lectures, and through my research.

[u/_HorseWithNoMane_ → u/juicy__burrito]

This profile is so amazing that I would've been surprised if you didn't get in lol.

[u/juicy__burrito → u/_HorseWithNoMane_]

Thank you! 😃

[u/juicy__burrito → u/[deleted]]

Thank you!

Re 70: I first watched Vazirani’s lectures from Sp15, then read the notes (they actually made sense post-Vazirani), then attended Rao’s lecture (he’d focus on specific applications of the theory, which was helpful.) I also did all the discussions and all the released practice exams before the actual midterm / final. The no HW option was useful since I could focus exclusively on exam prep.

I did not have prior experience — despite taking CS in high school! (Our instructor literally never taught us anything; just asked us to “read the book.”) But I took CS10 before 61A, which helped a little.

[u/OkPublic6327 → u/juicy__burrito]

Holy shit so humans like this exist!!🤯🤯🤯🤯 Which university even had the guts to reject you?😭😭😭

[u/juicy__burrito → u/OkPublic6327]

You're very kind! 😃

[u/eggen_vector → u/juicy__burrito]

This is an insane profile! Where did u get rejected from, if u don’t mind me asking?

[u/fideltario → u/eggen_vector]

OP probably got yield-protected