UC GPA: 3.78UW/4.53W/4.03W and Capped 11 AP/Honors/Dual Enrollment Courses
GPA: 3.73UW / 4.31W GPA
I HAVE A LARGE UPWARD TREND:
Total of 12 Bs in HS, 7 of them came from Freshman year.
SAT : 1440 and a 1500 Superscored.
SAT II: I took Bio by self-studying and got a 710 and math II and got a 750. So I did decently.
MAJOR:
I am applying for a CS or Business Administration or Public Policy to Most of These Schools. I know schools like UW, UIUC and a few others will weigh the specific major more difficult, so assume that the major is not a big factor, as I will declare a non-weighted major, and try and switch to a new one (or in UW case apply for the business major etc)
Please let me know safety/reach/match. I do have a strong upward trend, as can be seen by my 10-11 UC GPA.
Colleges I have/going to apply for:
UC System:
UCLA/Cal/UCSD/UCSB/UCD
California Privates: Santa Clara University and USC (Please note I am applying to the public policy school which is “easier” then the regular school)
States: San Diego State Cal Poly SLO (Business)
OOS Schools:
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.
University of Washington - Seattle
University of Texas - Austin
UIUC
University of Toronto
UBC
University of Indiana (Kelley School) (Safety as all i needed was like a 1350 to get in the school directly according to the site)
Privates:
Babson College
Rensselaer Polytechnic
NYU - Tandon or CAS. (NYU engineering is actually easier to get into than CAS which I find strange, but apparently true)
Boston College
If you are not directly admitted to your desired major at these schools, getting into the major may be highly competitive, at least for CS. Majors like CS are additionally competitive because they are “full”, so the CS departments do not have much capacity to allow many undeclared students or students in other majors to change into the CS major.
Even where the competition to get into CS is not so extreme (e.g. UCB L&S CS), there could still be a high GPA threshold to meet (e.g. UCB L&S CS requires L&S students to earn a 3.3 college GPA in the prerequisite CS courses to declare the major).
@ucbalumnus for UW, if I end up going there and do not get into the business program they have an option to transfer in, as in you apply like all the other UW students into their specific business school. I am applying for a public policy major, as that is something I am actually interested in, I am doing this at schools with heavily weighted CS/Business majors (UW, UCLA, Cal etc.)
I understand the in university requirements as well, I am willing to work to get into that specific major, and if I do not, there are other majors I am interested in such as Econ, Fiance, and Public Policy, (etc.) I probably should have noted this. I tried to edit my posting but couldn’t.
At Washington, you might be interested in the Political Economy Option within the Political Science major and could take additional courses at the Evans School of Public Policy.
From my college counselor, and school counselor I have been told this in terms of the Reach-Match-Safety Format:
Reach:
UC Berkeley
University of Michigan
UIUC (I would only go to CS)
UT Austin (I would only go for Business)
High Match - Match
USC (Public Policy)
UCLA (Luskin School)
Cal Poly SLO (Business)
UofT I meet the requirements for the major (Canada School)
UBC I meet the requirements for the major (Canada School)
Babson
Rensselaer
NYU (Tandon or CAS)
BC
Emory Oxford College
The University of Washington (I would go here even if I do not get in direct)
Safety
The University of Indiana
San Diego State
Santa Clara University
The price of tuition is not a big deal for my family.<<<<<<
Is that solid? They would pay 250K? As this is a promise by your grandparents, you really need to have some kind of guarantee. Have you sat down en famille and worked out the low down dirty details? Like how their own financial security looks? You would pick your best instate school over OOS spending down your grandparents money, though, right? You would get FA instate too?
@Sybylla Yes it is solid. I know for a fact that my grandparents will be paying for it, as they paid (and are currently paying) for my sister and brother, who go to / went to schools with 50K tuition. My grandparents are very well off.
@VANDEMORY1342 What would you say then? I had a situation that explains my very poor performance in my first semster of freshman year, and it is quite evident that it was the issue, as my grades have been solid after the issue was fixed. I do not feel comfortable sharing it here however. My GPA without that one semester is a 3.83UW and a 4,45W on the 4.0 scale, I am saying this just so you can see how much of a difference it makes.
Your grandparents sound like wonderful people. You are such a lucky kid! I hope UCSB and UCI make your list. They are both very nice locations and your capped weighted GPA makes you a competitive applicant.