Look, the harsh reality is that you're largely an unproven entity with no pedigree. Your ACM achievements are impressive, but they're being weighed against the

Look, the harsh reality is that you're largely an unproven entity with no pedigree. Your ACM achievements are impressive, but they're being weighed against the fact that, outside of that, you're a relative unknown. It's also possible that people aren't even noticing your competitive coding stuff because it's pretty far down and not emphasized. Also, if you just applied now, it may very well be too late for the big companies. They do their recruiting push for internships in the fall. By January, most internships are filled. Ultimately, due to timing and due to lack of credentialing, you're at a huge disadvantage, so you have to do EVERYTHING YOU CAN to stand out. Here are some suggestions. Your TopCoder rating is pretty good, but I'd have no way of knowing that without clicking on it, which people NEVER do. Make it easy. List your rating and translate it into a percentile. Your projects sound boring and uninspired. Explain what you built and focus less on the tooling you used. Link to the actual projects on GitHub. Make sure you're listing stuff you built yourself rather than stuff you did in class. Provide GitHub links for the individual projects you list. No one is going to wade through your GitHub and figure out where the gems are. Lastly, your bullet points about what you worked on are completely uninspired. I have no idea what you did at any of your internships beyond what tooling you used. Explain your contributions in plain English in the context of the project you worked on.