#sophomore looking for safety/target/reaches

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lethal crown
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**Please tell me on what to improve in my ecs and stats, and please recommend me some schools that you think I could get into **

Location: I go to competitive NorCal high school near Sacramento/Fresno area. Decent amount of people go to UCS and other competitive schools
Major: CS and probably philosophy
GPA: 3.89 UW - but I am trying to get all As this semester to get it up to at least a 3.93. Taking only 1 ap this year
CourseLoad: 1 AP in the summer, 5 Aps junior year, 6 aps senior year
Cost: around 50k -70k
ECS:
Music:
I play clarinet : Accepted to two prestigious music bands, one being the capitol section representing the entire Sacramento region and the other representing California as a whole, accepted to Sac Youth Symphony, Premiere level (Highest), 2nd chair - looking to get it up. Will take band for 4 years, and already section leader.
Next year I will try to get into all-state, will probably get in, all-state is very prestigious in california and am trying to get to concert or symphonic band, will compete in international clarinet association high school solo competition, have a good shot at winning
CS (a bit lacking):
USACO gold, coding tutoring. Imma try to get more cs ecs and work on usaco so i can maybe go plat
Others:
H4H club, I can easily get leadership position next year
Science Olympiad Treasurer
Volunteer Hours > 100, but I'm trying to get that up as well.
Chief Executive Technology/Website manager and overall officer of journalism organization that reports on modern-day news reports

Dream Colleges I have been thinking of:
Princeton, Carnegie Mellon - for CS, UC Berkeley, LA, and all UCS, UChicago, MIT (unrealistic maybe), Stanford.
For safeties definitely the CSU system, but I am not really knowledgeable on that system so if anyone in the comments knows about it, please let me know 🙏

timber echo
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hi

lethal crown
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hello

vapid mirage
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hi

lethal crown
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what do u think of my app

timber echo
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I know CS is more competitive and I cant speak on that specifically but I think overall ur app is really good!

lethal crown
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i know i've sent this post twice

timber echo
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It's a thing they factor in but I can't speak on how it will affect you or anybody

lethal crown
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ic

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how do you think i can go more indepth with my cs ecs? and do you think i should do more hours or work on something like creative wise?

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im also a creative writer so maybe i can work on a project? I js don't know

novel valley
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hi

timber echo
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I think if you try to get your volunteer hours up over the summer, get a solid leadership position in a club or two, maybe work a part-time job or do an internship or job shadowing, and do a passion project at home in your free time (can also be in the summers cuz u have more time) that would be amazing

lethal crown
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okok

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that sounds doable

novel valley
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Ra have you thought abt doing some cs research

lethal crown
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but i will now defo get my hours up as well

timber echo
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also even tho ur cs dont be scared to do humanities stuff, they like when there are STEM kids that like humanities I think so it would be cool as a hobby, but def try to get more cs ec's if possible. I think the passion project would be a good thing for that because it would be more personal and prob be easier to write abt in essays

novel valley
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also for schools

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hit all the public ivies

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so umich gt uiuc ut umd uwiscomad uw purdue

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you can do all of those ea

lethal crown
novel valley
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and hopefully by february you have at least one cs t20 acceptance

lethal crown
novel valley
lethal crown
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yeah i really wanna get into ai research early since that's what i wanna do wit my life

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like study language models and how networks work and stuff

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but i haven't been doing ANYTHING compared to some people here

timber echo
novel valley
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yeah tbf i think you can make a sentiment analysis machine and do some fun stuff with that

timber echo
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like during quarantine I wrote a textbook during the summer for fun

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that was my passion project

lethal crown
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thats amazing

novel valley
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but like rizz was saying passion project is good (less so for your activity list and more so for essays)

timber echo
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its not as cool as it seems tbh

lethal crown
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nah nah that's fire

novel valley
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ra are you asian male

lethal crown
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yes unfortunately

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its pretty sad

novel valley
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nah

lethal crown
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idk

novel valley
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asian male in cs from california isnt that bad if you’re cracked but you just need to have some compelling and differwnt stuff

lethal crown
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which is why i have to get started now

novel valley
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you’re a soph it isnt that bad

lethal crown
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ye but think about it i basically have 1 year left thats it

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cuz 12th is all college planning

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idk

novel valley
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wait let me dm u smth rq

lethal crown
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thanks guys for all of your input tho

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much appreciated 🙏

vapid mirage
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apply to ucsd

lethal crown
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idk

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ucsds pretty hard to get into

vapid mirage
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But ur thinking ab Pton and Stanford

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Make it make sense

lethal crown
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?????

lethal crown
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and I don't think I can get into those, or ucsd, right now with the state of my ecs

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I will fix it

vapid mirage
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fair

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u still got time

lethal crown
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nah

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cuz think about it

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i only have 1 year left for my ecs and things

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not to mention like sat prep

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12ths all university applications, right?

vapid mirage
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correct

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u have like 1 and a half years to figure it out

mossy tulip
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for CSUs, SJSU & Cal poly SLO are really good for CS

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but prob not safeties, especially Cal poly