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How do you condense your supercurriculars on PS, and is my supercurriculars good?(CS)

I'm interested in getting a CS or related degree in undergrad, and I'm particularly interested in AI ( which I hope to pursue after undergrad), which is why I did/am planning to do supercurriculars to explore my interest.
Here's what I've done, or will do:
- AI: National AI application competition gold award, leader of an AI application exchange activity with another city in my country, and I'll be doing a series of lectures based on AI (DL + CV) with professors of my local college and a follow-up project based on those classes (compulsory, will do in the future)
- General CS: Leetcode and youtube to learn DSA, and made a simplified navigating device based on algorithms learnt
- Maths: youtube + STEP support programme (will do)

Seeing as I've done some activities, I definitely can't mention all of them in detail.
So what do you guys think I should do? Should I just condense them by categories and say what I've learnt in general (or potentially go deep into 1 activity of that category to say what I did exactly), or should I select? If so, which ones?

Another question: I've seen people recommending reading books and forming my own theories, but I haven't done those. Can my supercurriculars still reflect that I'm a decently able student to top universities (Aiming for ICL and edinburgh and UCL)? Or will I get disadvantaged because I haven't done reading? Let me know! :smile:
Not a CS student but would say that what Unis seem to value most about supercurriculars is they demonstrate enthusiasm. PSs that sound curious and engaged will often come across better than a checklist of courses, so I'd definitely recommend going into detail about one or two categories you're interested in and what you learnt from it (and could talk about in an interview), although a checklist as well could also help.
Ultimately, I think its more important to focus the PS on showing interest as they'll already know you're capable from your grades. What they love to see is a student who can learn, rather than one who already knows the content.

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