Just took the ap csa and it was so easy, way to easy for a ap class. Section 2 probably only took me 15 minutes and i took a 1 hour nap at the end.
Not saying that they should make the course harder, but this class is such a joke. I swear someone can easily cram the material for this class in less than 3 days simply learning the basics of looping through an array
2 people I know and myself talked about this and we believe that this evidence was hella good
Hey everyone. just wanted to see what you all think about my profile. i feel like my college list consists of way too many reaches and want to see if yall have any suggestions.
Context: Junior, First gen, Asian, Male, California, Middle Class
School: Private School (200 students in my class), Not very competitive. Does not rank but ik I am def 1/200.
Intended major: Comp Sci/EE and possibly w/ business
GPA: 4.00 unweighted, 4.69 weighted. (5 aps, 10 honors, 3 DE)
Course Rigor (APs): My school only allows APs for juniors and seniors. Currently in chem, ush, csa, lang, spanish (def gonna get all 5s except lang & spanish probably)
Next year I'm taking 2 more DE (business and engineering courses) and 4 aps: lit, physics c, bio, calc bc (i have 3 required non-ap classes seniors need to take)
Ive literally taken the most rigorous schedule offered at my hs because of its limits.
Test Score: 1450 SAT (First SAT, no studying) I plan on studying during the summer and ik i can get low-mid 1500 with a bit of effort.
Major ECs:
Varsity Football: 4 Years. Our teams d1 and pretty good in cali. Football takes up a lot of my time. Also volunteer as a youth coach during the offseason
Varsity Volleyball: 2 Years. quit ts bc i got to lock in
Clubs: 4 Years, President of Comp Sci Club (do wide range of stuff). Member of Finance Club (participated in wharton stock comp). Member of Math Club (compete in tournaments and comps (never placed), personally always scored highest in AMC at my school but never qualed for AIMEs or such)
Student Govt/ASB: 3 Years, various roles, admissions ambassador
Comp Sci TA: 3 Years, TA for a summer class for highschoolers for comp sci, takes up most of my summer and I have been doing it since freshman summer (this year will be my third)
Hackathon Founder: 1 Year, Created a non-profit and currently organizing a hackathon. learned a lot about communication, event management, and such
Piano: All my life, been playing since a kid. will talk about it in the awards. Used to be fairly good but have fallen off cuz im busy
Part Time Job: always been working at my familys small business. Help a lot on the business side because my parents are immigrants.
Volunteer Work: Volunteered 100 hours at local chess club for kids, won school volunteer award for it (not very impactful as my other ecs)
Software Developer: Projects here and there, do not really know how to write this as a EC though. I usually just make some apps for fun that are useful for a short period of time. Ex. AI study tool games for my friends.
Awards:
4x Hackathon Winner: won over 1.5k in prizes. definitely gonna win at least 1-2 more.
Advanced Level Piano, Certificate of Merit: was pretty good at piano. Would've played in more comps but I was busy with sports.'
President's List Student Athlete Awards: very good grades during sports
Def gonna get AP Scholar award.
Current Info:
my summer consists of football, ta, hackathon organizing, cc classes, and prep (college apps, ap summer homework, and sat)
im also doing the congressional app challenge with a friend and we feel like we a REALLY good chance of winning
im also interested in the service academies as an alternative to colleges, got accepted and going to both West Point SLE and NASS.
i am not and will not do research in hs. i simply do not have the time, have the interest, nor willing to spend money for research opportunities. im also not doing allat cold emailing and stuff, again i have no time. football seriously takes up so much of my high school life.
College List: lowk all reaches because atp, if i dont get in anywhere, im going to cc.
Dream Schools: UPenn M&T, Berkeley MET, West Point
Reaches: UCLA, Harvard, GT, UMich, Stanford, CMU, MIT, USNA, USAFA
Realistic Dream Schools: USC, Purdue, UCSD
Only safety Im applying is SJSU
My school isnt very competitive compared to others, but most of my friends got into really good schools with not as impressive ECs as mine I would say. They said their essays carried but i am a horrible writer. i would love to get some feedback, good or bad
does anyone recommend a cs and business major? Currently a junior and I have interests in both, but Ik just a solo comp sci degree might be cooked.
I have ecs that go along with both, ex. non profit comp sci organization, 4x hackathon winner, and such.
Is this a good major to pursue? Is anyone here doing it currently? Would it be extremely more competitive than just a CS major? What are some great schools that offer this.
anyone taken the school sat recently? i did and i thought it was harder than the March (but I think I did better). Mod 2 reading was hard as fuck
Also, a lot of my classmates from previous years said that there scores were comparably higher on the school sat. maybe because of the familiar environment