Chance me for incoming Junior Transfer: Brown, Columbia, Stanford, UPenn, UNC, Northwestern, Cornell

Schools: Brown, Columbia, Stanford, UPenn, UNC, Northwestern, Cornell

Currently at a T80 school, private and in Texas

Ethnicity: Hispanic

Major: Computer Science B.A or B.S., depending on the school

GPA: 3.91

Rigor: Calc 1 & 2, Machine Learning Grade Course, Physics Mechanics, Discrete Math, CS 1 & 2, German, Intro to fin. Accounting | Taking Lin. Algebra, Calc 3, Physics 2 this semester

Extracurriculars (Very Strong imo):

President of the Entrepreneurship Club—Built a program funding over $15k to students and basically built a mini-startup accelerator.

SWE Intern at Series B Startup (first intern hire in team of 100+) - Got hired in fall, spring, and now a summer return offer.

Startup CIO at a pre-seed startup that was funded 100k in a startup accelerator over the summer. Built a product that scaled to 8k users.

2x AI & Data Science Research Assistant. Made a Computer Vision system for the school For two different professors. 1 pending Paper publication as of now.

Executive Dir. of Computer Science for the University’s Quantitative Finance Organization. Gave 6 lectures on how to program.

Completed and presented the summer Python Quantitative Finance Project for a Goldman Sachs vice president.

Worked at Wells Fargo over the summer as a banking clerk right out of high school.

Awards:

Capital One Tech Summit 2nd Place award | 5% acceptance rate

Won Second place in the Undergraduate Research Competition as a freshman.

1st place in the school-wide Hackathon.

4th Place at Datafest State Competition

Honor roll, etc.

Recs:

2 from professors and one from an executive director of the business school who graduated from Ivy, founded a Fortune 500 company, and a decade of entrepreneurship experience

Essays:

Writing my narrative centered around tech & entrepreneurship | in progress

High school: 3.4 GPA at UW | turned it around; let's go

Posted Feb 15, 2026, 3:19 AM UTC

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