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This post may be a little off the topic:
I am a high school senior and I have been working on my OS project
for about three years.I am now applying for colleges, and I am
considering to put my experience developing my OS(actually I did little coding,
most of the things I have done are reading related books and designing the OS
models/structures).Do you think that would be a good topic for a college application essay?
I know I shouldn't ask
such question on this board, but since many of you guys are undergraduates/high school students,
I think you may make some valuable comments.Thanks.

Btw:Do you know which colleges have good OS Dev projects(especially hi-secure OS) by faculty or students?

my own "final work" before graduating was my O.S. (well a first building block of a microkernel rather than a whole kernel, actually). I dunno whether it could fit a "college application" as every country seems to have its own rules, but if you find some kind professors in your surroundings, why not ...

For those colleges that i'll be applying to because of there computer science or technology departments, the development of a kernel is something i'd deffinatly put on the application(amoung many other accomplishments). For placing it in an essay, that i would be unsure about. If theres a significant event that happend to you because of its development then useing it to focus on that event would be fine. If something about the the operating system describes a charectoristic of you (such as persistance), then mentioning your OS to tie that charecteristic into your essay would be fine.

I'm at that point where i'm starting to look into colleges and the application proccess as well. i'm a junior in high school.

Don't forget that admissions boards are also looking for people who they feel will "fit in" with student life. OS development shows a good grasp of research and programming skills, but in the main it is a fairly solitary activity. It might be better to concentrate on something with more of a teamwork or social aspect and leave the OS dev topic until such time as you can use it to show aptitude in the subject (Perhaps at interview time).

That's not to suggest dropping it in favour of "How I party with my friends on the weekend" .