Asian M16. Hello everyone, I hope you are having a good day. I know you probably get these questions A LOT, so hopefully I’m not a huge bother. I am currently a junior in high school, and I am a very good student (4.8 GPA on 5.33 Scale), and college interest is now nagging at me. I am very interested in CS, I am a software lead for Robotics, CS club VP and P next year, I have an internship setup next summer, I am currently engineering and coding a TVC rocket like SpaceX with my buddy, and a robotic lawnmower project during the summer. I am planning on competing in USACO and ACSL, even though it’s my first year and I haven’t really done anything. I want to get into a top 20 CS school, like UIUC, U Maryland, U Wisconsin, MIT, Stanford, Berkley, etc. even though I will probably nev…
Asian M16. Hello everyone, I hope you are having a good day. I know you probably get these questions A LOT, so hopefully I’m not a huge bother. I am currently a junior in high school, and I am a very good student (4.8 GPA on 5.33 Scale), and college interest is now nagging at me. I am very interested in CS, I am a software lead for Robotics, CS club VP and P next year, I have an internship setup next summer, I am currently engineering and coding a TVC rocket like SpaceX with my buddy, and a robotic lawnmower project during the summer. I am planning on competing in USACO and ACSL, even though it’s my first year and I haven’t really done anything. I want to get into a top 20 CS school, like UIUC, U Maryland, U Wisconsin, MIT, Stanford, Berkley, etc. even though I will probably never get in. I’ve been demoralized recently because my parents said that they needed to talk with me about my intended choice of major (I was planning on double majoring CS+Math or CS+Physics), and I want to become either a Quant, go into AI, Quantum Computing, or just regular CompSci. They said CS might not be a good fit anymore, there good friend said his son majored in it and can’t find a job and is complaining about it, he is now going into accounting. I’m worried, I have big dreams, and I’m wondering if I should change to engineering. Is the AI hype train justified, is it exaggerated, is AGI and ASI even possible, am I cooked. I want to follow my passion, I love computers and learning about technology, I love math, and I’ve been into this stuff since I was in 6th grade. I also want a job that will be able to support me. I’m not a genius or anything, but do y’all have any advice for me? Anything would help I just want to hear the community’s thoughts on this matter. I hope this wasn’t an annoying post. God Bless 🙏.