Stats as a rising sophomore (Very mid ECs, how do I make my app better?)
Most of my app isn't fulfilled yet, most of these are just things that I think I'll be able to do by college app season.
Demographics: Asian Male at big Virginia high school (sends ~10 kids to t20s each year). No hooks.
Intended major(s): Physics + CS (Will prob apply as a different major and then switch after going to college)
Academics:
- SAT: Goal of 1570+
- Class rank: Idk but idt its that good
- GPA: 3.93 UW / 4.12 W (Shitty freshman yr)
- Coursework:
- 9th: All honors
- 10th: AP Calc BC, AP World, AP CSA
- 11th: Multivar Calc DE, Data Structures DE, APUSH, AP Lang, AP Chem
- 12th: AP Stats, Linear Algebra thru Community College, AP Physics C Mech, AP French, AP Lit, A Gov, AP Cyber, AP Micro/Macro
Awards:
- AIME Qual
- USACO Gold/Silver (Hopefully)
- AP Scholar with Distinction
Extracurriculars (vague for dox reasons; lmk if reordering anywhere could help )
- TSA Competition Winner (State Level): Participated in a coding event with peers and moved ahead to the state level (Hopefully get up to national level)
- Teaching Assistant at Religious Class: Collaborated with the main teacher to teach kids about religion, high time commitment (7th-12th Grade)
- Summer Program: Governor's School at Virginia for STEM (Hopefully 10th Summer), already went to a summer program at UVA (9th Summer)
- Math Tutor: Top 5% on schoolhouse.world (will probably send schoolhouse portfolio to colleges if it is good) and also teach privately outside of school from math levels spanning Pre-Algebra - Calculus BC
- President, AI & Machine Learning Club : Hopefully able to grow size and teach club members basics about AI and also make them do projects
- Passion Project, (Utilized Machine Learning): Not sure what I want to do yet but I'll start thinking of some ideas as school starts
- 100+ Hours of Volunteering
- (Some leadership role), Mu Alpha Theta Honors Society
- Member, (hopefully get some leadership role), Computer Science Honors Society
Other Materials:
Essays: Idk much yet, will start researching on writing essays in sophomore yr
LORs: will try to get closer to some teachers this yr for potential LORs in the future
Schools:
- Cornell (ED)
- Virginia Tech
- University of Virginia (UVA)
- Georgia Tech
- MIT
- Princeton
- Duke
- CMU
- University of Maryland
- UIUC
Any suggestions for improving my app? What other ecs should I do? Also what are some other potential schools as I feel like 10 schools is too low?
Posted Aug 4, 2025, 4:38 PM UTC