Chance a below-average indian applying to basically no safeties

Demographics:

• Sex: Male
• Race/Ethnicity: Asian
• Residency: Texas
• Income: upper middle-class
• School(s): Public small-sized high school (400 students in senior year)
• Parents' education: Undergrad from India

Intended Major:

For most schools I'm doing computer science, but I'm doing cog sci at Columbia and Stanford

Stats:

• GPA: 3.81 UW & 4.5 W
• SAT: 1540 (EBRW: 770, Math: 770)
  • School's average SAT: 1300
• Rank: 29/377
• Course Rigor
  • APs: 9 taken so far, taking 7 right now. Took BC got a 4 and APCSA got a 5

Awards

Really nothing of note, but:

• Academic All-Region for my Swim Team
• NHS
• AP Scholar with distinction
• National Recognition Program
• Certified Information Technology Specialist in Java

ECs

• 2 Internships at different companies where I worked on the flagship product. Worked with a mentor on one of them and in a team of 5 in the other. Coincidentally, both products were used by 30+ businesses.
• Created a ML/AI Project which detected Coronary Heart Disease. Advanced to the Dallas Regional fair and got a perfect score from a judge
• Founder and Co-President of a cultural club a my school with 80+ members, where we teach South Asian Culture, volunteer, and host events
• Varsity Swim for 3 years, JV Swim for 1
• Volunteered at temples for 160+ hours where I taught Hindi, served foods, and set up cultural events
• VP of an org which taught kids how to play chess. Tutored as well
• Tutor at another org. Coached a First Lego League Team and taught kids how to animate in JavaScript
• In a competitive CS Team, but wasn't able to compete cuz of certain reasons. Only really competed in the school
• Independent Study Philosophy where I read books, watched lectures, and had informal debates with friends
• Esports: Founder of a brawl stars e-sports team which competed in the international monthly qualifiers. Also got top 100 with various brawlers nationally

Essays:

My essays were reviewed by a lot of people and they said it was strong. Idrk tho so just assume about a 7 or 8/10

College List:

UT Austin

Texas A&M--College Station

Georgia Tech

UI-Urbana Champaign

Univ. of Wisconsin

Purdue

UMich Ann Arbor LSA

Cornell CAS

UWashington

UCLA

UC Berkeley

UC-San Diego

MIT

Columbia

Harvard

Yale

Stanford

Carnegie Mellon (SCS)

UPenn

Brown