chance a bay area data sci gooner

Demographics: south asian female, CA, large semi-competitive public school, middle-middle class

Hooks: woman in stem bro i guess

Intended Major: data science (public policy as my alternate / second choice)

SAT: 1520 (770 math / 750 english)

GPA and Rank:
- freshman to junior yr: 3.81 uw / 4.22 w

- uc gpa (soph to junior yr): 3.84 uw / 4.16 w capped / 4.44 w uncapped

- notes: my school caps the # of weighted classes u can take at 4 a year in soph and junior yr, and 1 during freshman yr, so i guess thats something to keep in mind. another thing is that in my first semester of calc bc sophomore year yr i got a C, and second semester i got a B. i'd say that's the biggest red flag in my app. i was going through some mental health stuff and i was planning to allude to that in a piq. also i got a 5 on the ap exam, so idk how bad the grade looks with all that additional context?

Coursework:  6 APs, 4 honors, 5-6 college classes

Applying to:

1. all ucs: merced, riverside, santa cruz, davis, santa barbarba, irvine, san diego, la, berk (we go way back)
2. some csus: cal poly slo, long beach, pomona, sjsu
3. california privates: santa clara university, usc, claremont mckenna
4. u maryland
5. umass amherst
6. rutgers
7. wpi
8. case western
9. georgia tech
10. virginia tech
11. purdue
12. uiuc
13. upenn
14. uw madison
15. nyu
16. georgetown
17. uw seattle

Awards

1. huge data sci competition semifinalist + team leader (top 4% of 700+ teams intl)
2. front page local newspaper (300K daily circulation) feature + interview (a few quotes) on political outreach work
3. commended scholar for psat (most likely)
4. ap scholar

ECS:

1. data sci club president - organized workshops, data competitions involving students across the bay area.
2. semifinalist + team leader in the comp i mentioned above - it was abt hockey analytics which i already was rly passionate abt, so it was sooo much fun. i created and taught my team members to create power rankings, calculated matchup probabilities, visualized line disparity, and created a slidedeck explaining our process for a panel of experts.
3. data consultant for local campaign - analyzed voter files, predicted turnout, optimized canvassing. it was so much work and the data was super messy and we had pretty much no budget but it was a rly great experience imo i grew my skillset a lot.
4. officer of other stem club - more of the same, organized workshop for 150 elementary aged children, led meetings.
5. literary journal reader - this is pretty random, but i was a poetry reader for a prestigious journal and read and reviewed 250 - 300 poems over a six month period.
6. independent math olympiad tutor from home - basically js taught two kids strats to solve math olympiad problems 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑
7. part time tutoring job - nothing crazy here except my boss.
8. tutoring volunteering - got like 30 hrs, pretty typical.
9. misc projects - nhl prediction model, write ups analyzing civic engagement and political knowledge rates, app with a mental health angle.

recs from my club advisor who was also my freshman math teacher (6/10), my english teacher from junior yr (8/10), counselor (prob a template)

also guys im ngl i js locked in like two months ago i was actually nothing before that so all my ecs are helllaaaaa recent. shit got real this yr😭