brutally forced into doing engineering by indian parents

Chance Me for Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Caltech

demographics

  • Gender: Male
  • Race/Ethnicity: Indian
  • Residence: South California
  • Income Bracket: High
  • Type of School: very competetitive public hs
  • Hooks: none

majors:

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Computer Engineering
  • Robotics
  • EECS
  • Possibly Mechanical Engineering at some schools

Academics

GPA (UW): 4.0/4.0 (but i do have a couple of A-)

Weighted GPA (9–11): 4.39

UC GPA (10–11): 4.58

Class Rank: School does not rank

SAT: 1510 (retaking)

PSAT NMSQT: 1430

Coursework, AP scores

(all AP/honors taken in 10-12th) and 11th grade scores are predicted

AP Chemistry (5), Precalculus Honors, AP Physics 1 (4), AP Macro (5), AP Lang (5), AP Physics C Mech (5), AP Physics C E&M (5), AP Calc BC (5), AP CSA (5), AP Micro (5)

taking calc 3 or multivar this summer

taking AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Bio, AP Stats senior year

Extracurriculars

1. Captain of school engineering team(10th-now) Captain of a 30-member engineering team for a boat engineering competition. Previously helped lead the team to win the tech and video award at competition. raised $1500+

2. Captain of FRC/engineering team #2 (10th-now) captain of engineering and FRC team with 30 students. Led control subteam of 8, raised $5,000+ for the team, mentored 3 NASA JPL Invention Challenge teams

3. UCSB SRA (summer before 11th) attended and wrote research on complex systems (related to major) but it was more economics side

4. passion car project (11th-now) designed and built multiple versions of a small kart which drives and currently working on autonomous

5. electrical engineering club president (11th-now) founded club with almost consistent attednacne of 30 people teaching basic ee topics

6. competitive programing club president (10th-now) President of club that competetes in ACSL competiton and qualified for finals 2024-2025. also made USACO gold.

7. Treasurer of physics team organized lectures, did labs, and fundraised 1k+

8. Competitive Mathematics & Physics (10th-now) Prepared independently for AMC, AIME, and F=ma., AIME Qualifier (4x), AMC 12 Scores: 132 and 118, AIME 2025 Score: 6, F=ma 2025 Score: 14 (1 point below USAPhO qualification)

9. school app coding lead (10th-now) led development of school app and made many pages and tools such as webscrapers to automate

10. VP of coding club (9th-now) organized and taught workshops, hosted coding competitions, guest lecture events

11. Peer Tutor did approximately 50 hours of STEM tutoring.

13. NHS, CSF did 25+ hours for NHS and got a school award for having one of the most hours. CSF i just stayed member for all years

Awards / Honors

  • Solar Regatta Technical & Video Award
  • USACO Gold
  • AIME Qualifier (4x)
  • ACSL Finals Qualifier
  • Conrad Challenge Innovator Award
  • AP Scholar

Schools

  • Stanford
  • MIT
  • Caltech
  • Cornell
  • UC Berkeley EECS
  • Georgia Tech
  • UIUC
  • UMich
  • UCLA Engineering
  • USC
  • ALL UC's

Questions!!

  1. chance me for these schools, especially Stanford, UCLA, Caltech, Berkeley, Gerogia Tech
  2. do i REA to stanford or caltech?
  3. what should i do to make my profile better?

note: i am not actually forced into doing this major (that much.) and i like doing what i do thats why i do so much in it

Posted Jun 8, 2026, 10:23 PM UTC

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