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Gap year or transfer?
**Demographics:** East Asian Male, US citizen living abroad, Small private school
**Intended Major(s):** CS, comp eng
**ACT/SAT/SAT II:** 1580 (770 EBRW, 800M) one sitting
**UW GPA and Rank:** 3.97/4.0
**Coursework:** Maximum rigor
Extracurriculars (I’ll be a bit vague)
1. Internship creating app at rehabilitation company
2. Independent research creating surgery robot prototype for small animals
3. CS club founder, trained for cs competitions
4. UPenn summer program (<10% acceptance rate)
5. Independent research applying math to chess
6. First aid staff at university sports team
7. Part of orchestra donating money from concerts
8. First aid club founder and president at school
9. Varsity sports starting member
10. Art interest, submitted portfolio (pretty good)
**Awards:**
1. USACO platinum
2. AIME qualifier, distinction award
3. Conrad challenge innovator
4. National engineering competition finalist
5. ACSL intermediate division finalist
**Letters of Rec:**
Not gonna rate these. I know my GC rec is good. The other two were probably nothing extraordinary. I also had one external LOR from my internship mentor which was probs good
**Interviews:**
Probs 7/10. Nothing extraordinary
Results
Accepted: uiuc, ucsb, ucsd, ucd, uci
Waitlisted: brown, cornell, rice, jhu, vandy, cmu, umich
Rejected: northwestern, mit, princeton, harvard, stanford, usc, duke, dartmouth, columbia, washu, emory, nyu, UPenn, ucla, uc berkeley,
Final thoughts - going to reapply, should I take a gap year or transfer after going to uiuc. (Our school onky sends students to cornell and duke at best, would this matter in getting into other ivy unis)
3.97, 1580 한방, AIME distinction, USACO Platinum 및 기타 전국대회 수상자 정도면 한국에서도 정시나 수시로 설카포 컴공 들어갔을 머리인데 아이비리그 T20 UCB UCLA NYU USC 등 미국 명문대들 올 광탈 ㄷㄷ
그것도 얘는 시민권자인데 이러면 요즘 유학생중에 T25급 이상으로 cs 다니는 애들은 진지하게 한국입시 씹어먹는다고 볼수 있겠노....
Gap year or transfer?
**Demographics:** East Asian Male, US citizen living abroad, Small private school
**Intended Major(s):** CS, comp eng
**ACT/SAT/SAT II:** 1580 (770 EBRW, 800M) one sitting
**UW GPA and Rank:** 3.97/4.0
**Coursework:** Maximum rigor
Extracurriculars (I’ll be a bit vague)
1. Internship creating app at rehabilitation company
2. Independent research creating surgery robot prototype for small animals
3. CS club founder, trained for cs competitions
4. UPenn summer program (<10% acceptance rate)
5. Independent research applying math to chess
6. First aid staff at university sports team
7. Part of orchestra donating money from concerts
8. First aid club founder and president at school
9. Varsity sports starting member
10. Art interest, submitted portfolio (pretty good)
**Awards:**
1. USACO platinum
2. AIME qualifier, distinction award
3. Conrad challenge innovator
4. National engineering competition finalist
5. ACSL intermediate division finalist
**Letters of Rec:**
Not gonna rate these. I know my GC rec is good. The other two were probably nothing extraordinary. I also had one external LOR from my internship mentor which was probs good
**Interviews:**
Probs 7/10. Nothing extraordinary
Results
Accepted: uiuc, ucsb, ucsd, ucd, uci
Waitlisted: brown, cornell, rice, jhu, vandy, cmu, umich
Rejected: northwestern, mit, princeton, harvard, stanford, usc, duke, dartmouth, columbia, washu, emory, nyu, UPenn, ucla, uc berkeley,
Final thoughts - going to reapply, should I take a gap year or transfer after going to uiuc. (Our school onky sends students to cornell and duke at best, would this matter in getting into other ivy unis)
3.97, 1580 한방, AIME distinction, USACO Platinum 및 기타 전국대회 수상자 정도면 한국에서도 정시나 수시로 설카포 컴공 들어갔을 머리인데 아이비리그 T20 UCB UCLA NYU USC 등 미국 명문대들 올 광탈 ㄷㄷ
그것도 얘는 시민권자인데 이러면 요즘 유학생중에 T25급 이상으로 cs 다니는 애들은 진지하게 한국입시 씹어먹는다고 볼수 있겠노....
도대체 HYPSM 들어가는 사람들은 무슨 EC를 한 거임?
어짜피 증명할수도 없는거 다 조작이고 과대광고지 울나라 사례 모르노 ㅋㅋ
역시 뒷구녕으로 들어간다는게 진짜였네 ㅠㅠ
이런거 볼때마다 교육학 같은 아무도 안하는 전공에 맞춰서 활동 쌓은다음 쉽게 T20 들어가서 CS로 전과하는게 나은거같음 - dc App
솔직히 난이도 많이 올라간것도 있겠지만 해외에 있는 작은 사립학교라는게 좀 아쉬운듯
미국 상위권 공립학교 다니는데 여기서 까이는 학교들이지만 ucla, ucb 1년에 50명 넘게 가고 아이비나 스탠포드도 1년에 5-10명정도 감
ㄴㄴ 그렇게 많이 가도 한국애들은 소수임. 쭝국판, 인도판이지... 순수 한국 남자애가 ucla, ucb 간다면 난 그놈을 존경한다.
와 저것보다 얼마나 잘해야하는건지? 저정도면 최선치 아닌가?
admission officer들이 에세이에서 감점을 많이 한거같은데?
설카포는 니애미 ㅋㅋㅋ
저정도면 설카포 맞는데? 너 설마 저기 대회들이 수능보다 쉬울거라고 생각함?