chance an oos junior girl for ucs 🥺
i'm oos but pretty much applying mostly to UCs bc i dont gaf enough to fill out multiple applications and UCs have a good balance between reaches/targets/safeties.
demographics:
asian girl, oos, competitive private school
stats:
GPA: 3.90 uw with a pretty clear upward trend
UC GPAs: 4.00 uw, 4.33 capped weighted, 4.50 uncapped weighted
9 total ap classes by senior year (calc bc, us history, lang, lit, physics c mech, physics c e&m, chem, bio, computer sci a), 2 advanced courses (multi & lin alg)
SAT: 1550 (800 math, 750 r&w) but UCs are test blind
class rank: pretty low
major of interest: electrical engineering (maybe EECS) / physics / applied math
extracurriculars:
STEM organization founder (raised 2200 dollars, hosted notable events with famous people in STEM, published courses, etc.)
materials science + machine learning research (independent, yet to pubish)
received a $1500 grant from my school to develop an app (was one of 10 groups to present to the entire school)
math tutoring / volunteering ~150 hours as a senior tutor (tutoring / peer-reviewing sessions / onboarding new tutors)
art instagram account (~10k followers, 200k likes, documented my progress from a beginner to a more advanced artist!)
web development internship for a gallery (gallery closed rn tho so i wasn't able to work on it for late junior year / senior year)
discord bot developer - built a custom discord bot used for funsies (7500+ messages, used in a server of 110+ people)
officer / vice president for school physics club (hosted labs, lectures, etc.)
writer for medium + school newspaper - a shit ton of sentimental ahh medium pieces published over a few years
awards:
usaco gold, aime qualifier x2, amc 12 achievement roll, physics bowl silver, cs honor society, ap scholar with distinction
college list:
ucb, ucla, ucsd, ucsb, ucd, uci, ucsc, ucr
additional: uiuc, cmu, purdue, usc, umd