Chance me for these universities & others

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I am a rising high school senior in a highly competitive school.
Please chance me for UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCD, UCI, UW, Cal Poly, CalTech, SJSU, Santa Clara University, Stanford, Emory, USC and any other schools.

I am considering CS and any other variations of CSs with data science, sociology, suggestions will be appreciated.

GPA -3.96
AP Courses
AP Physics1
AP Calc AB
AP CS A
AP CSP
Pre-calc H
Spanish H
Senior year -
AP Bio
AP Calc BC
AP Spanish

SAT - 1420, planning to take another one to increase to 1500+

Local community college courses with 4.0 GPA
Statistics
Psychology
Anthropology
Object oriented design in Java

Internships & Extra curricular activities
Data science internship in ASDRP (Summer)
Apprenticeship program at top 100 software company (Summer & Spring)
UCSB SRA (Summer 2021) in Machine intelligence
Stanford pre-college (Summer 2021)
School Archery club president
AI team president
Part of Robotics team
Vex Robotics competition
Competitive archer at National/International level
70+ hours of volunteering

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nice stats. stellar ECs. SAT score is a bit lower, but most schools are test optional. a strength in your application is that without you even telling me, i can immediately tell that you have a keen interest in computers and robotics. this strength will definitely benefit you. obviously stanford is a reach for everyone, but i think you have a good shot at everything else.

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Stanford and CalTech are a reach even at 1500. Other than that you should have lots of great choices. Are there College Archery teams??

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Thanks for the feedback.

There are a handful of colleges that have college archery teams.

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Congratulations on your accomplishments. I can’t chance you, but do remember that the UCs and CalTech are test BLIND next year…meaning a high standardized test score won’t help you, because it won’t be seen or considered by the AOs.

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What are our 3 UC GPA’s? GPA Calculator for the University of California – RogerHub

CSU GPA capped weighted = UC capped weighted. For SJSU, you needed a minimum 4.25 CSU GPA for a CS admit.

SLO GPA which uses 9-11th grades with an 8 semester cap on UC approved Honors/AP/IB or DE courses taken 10-11th grades?

You good HS course rigor and overall a competitive applicant but you need 1 safety school so consider adding UCSC and UCR to the mix.

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Thank you Gumbymom, is there a way to check what my GPA will be for SLO? I did not see in rogerhub.

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Thank you, I corrected my assumption that UCs were test optional.

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You can use the Rogerhub UC GPA calculator and just add in your 9th grades for the a-g courses. The 8 semester honors caps still remains for SLO for the qualified courses taken 10-11th grades.

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Thanks, what do I do in rogerhub for the 10th grade semester where we got credit/no credit instead of letter grade?

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Do not report any grades for that semester and unfortunately you also do not get any Honors points for the qualified classes for that semester. SLO and the UC’s will still take note of your HS course rigor even though you have no letter grades.

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Thanks

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Updated profile based on 11th grade GPA with summer programs.
I am a rising high school senior in a highly competitive school.
Please chance me for USC, Georgia Tech, Stanford, Cornell, CMU, Columbia, MIT, CalTech, UIUC, UMich, Purdue, UW, UT Austin, Santa Clara University, Harvey Mudd, CalPoly Obispo, UC Berkeley, UC LA and any other schools.

I am considering CS and any other variations of CSs with data science, cognitive science, suggestions will be appreciated.

GPA -3.964, UC Weighted (Non-capped) - 4.48, UC Capped- 4.22, SLO Capped - 4.16

AP Courses
AP Physics1
AP Calc AB
AP CS A
AP CSP
AP Macroeconomics (senior year)
AP Stats (senior year)
AP Physics C: Mechanics (senior year)
AP Physics C: Electromagnetism (senior year)
Pre-calc H
Spanish H
Chem H

SAT - 1520 (Math - 760, RW - 760)

Local community college courses with all As
Statistics
Psychology
Anthropology
Object oriented design in Java
2-D Foundations
Philosophy
Javascript

Internships & Extra curricular activities
Data science internship in ASDRP (Summer)
Apprenticeship program at top 100 software company (Summer & Spring)
Stanford pre-college summer course(Summer 2021)
School Archery club president
Part of Robotics team
Vex Robotics competition
Competitive archer at California State/National/International level
200+ hours of volunteering

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What are the Gender, Ethnicity, Financial ability, Hooks, and State Residency(CA?)

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Asian Female, California, highly competitive high school, hoping for merit scholarship

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What is your budget? Have you run the net price calculators at the schools on your list? Many schools on your list don’t give merit scholarships (Stanford, MIT, Mudd, Columbia, Cornell, CalTech), or give relatively few merit scholarships to OOS students (UIUC, Mich, UW).

Is the 3.964 GPA unweighted? What are your AP test scores?

All in all a reachy list for CS. UW and UIUC both have single digit CS acceptance rates. You will probably get into Santa Clara…is it affordable? Do you have at least one affordable safety school?

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I see no mention of English or History courses in your list of AP or honors courses. Were those courses all taken at regular level? That will hurt at higher ranked schools.

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Some of the schools on your list practice enrollment management which means they are need aware for admissions. With will your family pay annually for you to attend college?

CS is an impacted major at many UCs…perhaps @Gumbymom can say whether Cal and UCLA are on that list…plus Cal Poly SLO.

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You are very qualified applicant but as stated above, CS is crazy competitive. For example, UCLA has around a 5% or lower acceptance to the CS major.

  1. I do not see any safety schools. Add UCR, SDSU, CSULB, Cal Poly Pomona or your local CSU as possible Low Target/Safety schools. I saw plenty of UC GPA 4.2+ applicants for CS get no UC acceptances last year.

  2. Are you local to SJSU? You need to calculate your SJSU impaction index. Link below: Impaction | Admissions
    Then compare that to the CS index threshold from last year: 3400

  3. You are within range with your SLO GPA for the College of Engineering: 4.12 - 4.25 however, CS is the most competitive major at SLO with a projected # of applications of 5838 for 205 spots.

  4. Are you applying EECS or CS for UCB? For UCSD, make sure you select a non-capped major as an alternate. Also list alternate majors for UCD, UCSB (not in Engineering College) and UCI.

I will list the 2020 admission stats which are not major specific so impacted majors such as CS will have lower admit rates and require higher stats.
2020 Freshman admit rates for UC GPA of 4.20 or above capped weighted and not major specific:

UCB: 37%

UCLA: 38%

UCSD: 78%

UCSB: 81%

UCD: 86%

UCI: 60%

UCSC: 92%

UCR: 97%

UCM: 98%

2020 UC capped weighted GPA averages along with 25th-75th percentile range:

UCB: 4.22 (4.13-4.30)

UCLA: 4.25 (4.18-4.31)

UCSD: 4.16 (4.04-4.28)

UCSB: 4.15 (4.03-4.27)

UCI: 4.11 (3.96-4.26)

UCD: 4.10 (3.95-4.25) Updated for 2021

UCSC: 3.94 (3.71-4.16)

UCR: 3.88 (3.65-4.11)

UCM: 3.68 (3.40-3.96)

Admission Rates for California Applicants:

UCLA: 10.1%

UC Berkeley: 16.8%

UC Irvine: 20.1%

UC Santa Barbara: 28.0%

UC San Diego: 28.5%

UC Davis: 39.0%

UC Santa Cruz: 54.5%

UC Riverside: 64.0%

UC Merced: 99.7%

Best of luck and I think you need to cut down your list of Reaches and consider adding a couple of safety schools.

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3.964 is unweighted
AP Physics1 (3)
AP CS A (3)
AP Calc AB (5)
AP CSP (5)
Have not looked into the budget yet, hoping for merit scholarship and parents support.