Will I be a competitive applicant for next fall's cycle?
- 3.7 GPA as a compe from state's flagship (generally considered t10 public fwiw)
- TA for a couple of classes
- Research doing embedded systems as well as software development and machine learning
- one internship after my junior year (which I'm about to start) at a small defense company working on UAVs, radar, and satellites
- I've done about 50 leetcode questions, hoping to get up to 250 by the end of summer and know all of the major patterns.
- Grind out some pretty cool projects this summer in my free time. I already have an embedded systems and an agentic AI project going on. I have some ideas for some other stuff I want to build afterwards in the realm of ds/ml in sports/finance which are two of my biggest interests.
- I would say I'm mostly targetting amazon and some of the easier to get into faang adjacents like IBM. I'm aware my resume probably isn't good enough for google or other super to notch companies. I'm also hoping I can get into the online masters at like UT or GT and try to move up after a couple years.
I'd appreciate any sort of feedback as far as where I stand among other applicants for next cycle. Thanks yall.