Projects

What is most impressive to top colleges is that you are either

1. Someone who has an impressive "spike" narrative evidenced by your ECs and/or intellectual vitality/curiosity. This could be either academic (Intel National winner etc., holding X amount of US Patents) or artistic (music, dance, painting, theatrical, sculpture, etc), or athletic (Olympian, or State champion), or cerebral (level 1800+ Chess master).

2. Some who has depth and breadth of impressive ECs but not 1 significantly more than the other. So if you have 5-10 Tier 1 and 2 ECs, that means you are a not Spiky per se but a conscientious generalist which many successful admits are. You might be a good candidate for a future spike in Architecture, or Business or Law. You just are multidisciplinary but haven't figured out what you want to do yet.

What is not impressive is a dabbler. Someone who joins a lot of clubs but holds no leadership positions nor has any significant measurable impact either through those clubs or community service activities. I'm not sure whether you are American or live in another Country or not. When you apply to colleges in Europe or Asia, its more of a meritocratic process meaning that your grades and test scores define where you will be accepted or not. In the UK you need certain kinds of A-levels, in China you need a Gao Kao test score, in S.Korea you need a high CSAT score. In the US, grades and test scores are still the main component but there are literally hundreds of other criteria that play into the admissions process at top colleges. So it is less of a meritocratic process. Essays, recommendation, whether you are an ALDC, come from a marginalized demographic or not, and have impressive ECs.

There are 10 slots for ECs to fill out on the Common App. Most people have 10 ECs but not all them have Tier 1 and 2 ECs. From your list of activities, I personally can't tell what Tier ECs the fall into however none of them seem to be Tier 1 ECs.

There are also 5 slots for Honors/Awards on the Common App. Again, I can't tell if you have any significant honors or awards associated with these ECs or your academic narrative.

Therefore, my suggestion is that you properly fill out the College Vine Profile and add all your ECs, Grades, Test Scores etc so you have a CV Profile. Then curate a list of colleges that you are interested in applying to. CollegeVine will run their proprietary chancing engine and spit out a chancing % percentage for each of the schools on your list. These are not the same as the official published admission rates. Rather they are a more realistic probability of you getting into these kinds of schools based on your particular data set as inputs into the chancing engine.

Once you do these things, you will be able to study the output and see where your application is strongest or weakest. Only then can you put together some sort of strategy to fix the gaps or holes in your application narrative. It's not a matter of checking off the boxes for ECs either by group or sub-group that matters. It has nothing to do with fulfilling some admissions taxonomy. What's important is that your ECs are genuinely impressive and that you hold some leadership roles and show evidence of your personal impact either in school or in your community.

Hope that clarifies things a bit for you.

Good luck.

I am going to just leave a small comment. Think about running a few summer camps for kids. STEM summer camps with your robotics team for a small fee where you could teach children about STEM, programming, robotics, and the overall engineering/design process. This would be a FANTASTIC way to advance your extracurriculars. You could run it for 3 week in July and with the help of local summer camps (for training and advertisement) you could make a huge impact in your community.

I believe that you have plenty of projects already. Perhaps just focusing on doing your best in these projects will help your choice colleges to see your dedication. Hope that helps!