Coursework
*(AP/IB/Dual Enrollment classes) 12 APs, 1 DE. Maxed rigor
Extracurriculars
-Chess Top 100 for age group nationally, 4k+ in prizes, top 99.9 percentile Chess.com
-T30 Biomedical Engineering Internship. Did research on machine learning applications to lasers. Group leader. Presented posters at Biomedical Engineering Society to Professor and PHDs.
-Web Development Internship at a small company. Leader of 10 interns to develop a mobile app.
-Research paper with T30 Professor on machine learning and biology. Will be submitted to a journal soon.
-Founder of Computer Science Club. 10% of grade, 1k+ in prizes. Several hackathons and competitions. USACO Silver
-Math Team, Member for 5 Years, Second Highest AMC Score in the school, Competed in several competitions
-Robotics Team made it to states
-Swimming 7 years
Essays/LORs/Other
Rec Letter from T30 Professor
Schools
Safety: ASU, Merced, Riverside, Penn State, Cal Poly Pomona
Match: UC Davis, Cal Poly SLO, UW
Reach: Purdue, UIUC, UCSD, UCI, UCSB, BU
High Reach: UMich (OOS), UT Austin (OOS), Georgia Tech (OOS), UC Berkeley, UCLA, Georgetown, USC, CMU, Cornell, Brown, Columbia
Hoping my grade dip won’t mess me up too much and I can get into at least one of my lower reaches.
Cal Poly SLO uses 9-11th grades in their GPA calculation with an 8 semester Honors point cap for eligible courses taken 10-11th grades.
CE/EE admit rates:
Campus
Computer Eng
Electrical Eng
UC Berkeley
4% EECS
4% EECS
UC Davis
Extrapolated <35% Selective major
Extrapolated <50%
UC Irvine
CE 21%/CSE 7.5%
25%
UCLA
3.9% CE/CSE 3.1%
13.2%
UC Merced
89%
89%
UC Riverside
52%
79%
UC San Diego
Extrapolated <15%
Extrapolated <25%
UC Santa Barbara
19%
29%
UC Santa Cruz
46%
42.5%
Cal Poly SLO
21%
45%
UCLA/UCB: Reach
UCD: Target for EE and High Target/Low Reach for CSE (selective major)
UCI: Low Reach for EE/CE. Reach for CSE
UCM/UCR: Likely/Low Target
UCSD/UCSB: Low Reach
UCSC: Target
SLO: Target for EE. Low Reach for CE
CPP: Likely
Overall admit rates based on the Capped weighted UC GPA and not major specific:
If so test blind in most cases. I did err. I thought you put CS. My bad. It’s not the biggest reach on your list. Sorry. Still a reach tho.
“In fact, when reading your application, the reviewers will not see your test scores, if provided. However, high test scores (1400 SAT/31 ACT or above) may be considered for a handful of students who may not otherwise be admitted”
Your safeties are very solid. No shame at all in ASU. Nor the others. They’re likely in many cases to provide similar outcomes to the others.
Yea I noted my error. But wanted to point out the SAT won’r help
A reach but not your biggest. Hence my correction.
Any budget issues or desires to hit a certain price ?
With your stats, you could be at good schools for $20k a year with merit - all in, not just tuition. But given your list, I’ll assume no budget issues.
Well as an example at Alabama you’d be $30,500 off $33K tuition. It’s ABET. It’s solid. And it gets a ton of OOS smart kids because of it.
Seems like you seek a name though. It’s solid but not going to impress at a cocktail party. UAH for smaller. MS State too and others.
It’s like my son. He chose it over Purdue (meche) but still works in a hiring class with Purdue, Michigan, CWRU and more. Less name but ABET schools as well. Interned and lives in summer with Ga Tech kids. He did a second summer. They were not invited back.
Listen, all the schools you list are fantastic. If your family is ok paying then great.
As you didn’t answer @thumper1 on budget (that I saw) just pointing out you have options across the price spectrum. Some $300k less over four years. You’ll have lots of great options either way - even if you only get into the safeties. Good luck.
Check prices. Cornell already $88k COA. Columbia $90k. B4 inflation so it’ll be $100k in four years.
If you qualify for need aid it will cut that.
Would you choose them over Pomona, Merced or ASU (low 40s most likely). If so apply. If not remove. This is the discussion to have with family - if Merced is $200k less, would you still send me to Columbia or Cornell etc. if so leave them and apply. If not find others that will reward you financially or save the app time and cost.
Penn may be another to look at too for ECE if simply seeking a big name. .
