<p>I EA’d to MIT; deferred, then accepted RD. I would suggest doing EA to MIT and UChicago instead of SCEA to Stanford because I know amazing people who were flat out rejected to Stanford early (you know, those 4.0/2300+/amazing activities kids), whereas MIT/UChicago defer most instead of reject.</p>
<p>If she’s extremely involved in activities (and I assume she is), she probably has better things to do than taking standardized tests. I know MIT and especially Stanford are extremely essay-focused, and amazing essays will make up for the “low” CR.</p>
<p>I would add another safety UC, just to get rid of the nerves come this time of year next year. My son was very happy when he got into Cal Poly on March 7. Made waiting for those other acceptances much more bearable.</p>
<p>I’m not the one you address to. But beef was right. If I were you I would add UMich as the safty. It is rolling, you could get acceptance as early as in ealy Nov. With her stats, she has very good chance being invited to apply honor program as well. The UCB has extremly short time window to accept the applications as far as I recall this year. I heard some classes size in UCB is huge (over 400 or 500?). Besides you never know, it might supprise you that you don’t have to pay the full OOS, they offer pure merit based scholarship to OOS!</p>
<p>I’d say USC is still slightly easier than UCLA OOS and definitely easier than Berkeley OOS. That said, it’s not a safety, perhaps a “safe match”. If you are applying for its accelerated medical education, then the admission for the BS/MD program becomes a different animal (though I think you can still get into USC without acceptance to the BS/MD program).</p>
<p>I see; then USC is perhaps about the same as UCLA (given her high stats–if she has relatively low GPA, UCLA becomes more difficult) but definitely not as competitive as Berkeley EECS.</p>
<p>I think your assessment in post #30 is pretty good. The only thing I want to add is while Northwestern is a match, the HPME program would be a reach, even more so than Columbia but the two admission is separate (unless your D tells them HPME is the only reason she applies to Northwestern..;)).</p>
<p>Thanks Sam Lee: She will be applying to Northwestern for EECS and for HPME.
She didn’t include Northwestern to her regular EECS as she thinks she might be prefer doing EECS at a UC than at Northwestern but if people thinks it make sense to apply U Michigan then it might be better to apply to Northwestern with and without HPME.
That will increase 1 more match school for her.
I don’t think my D is averse to the idea of applying to UCs other than UCB, UCLA and UCSD but she might prefer to go to a private college with some scholarship money.
Are there any other good private safeties she can consider that might provide scholarship money?
How about Rice/Emory/Vanderbilt/Tufts/Boston/Leigh/NYU etc?</p>
<p>AnotherNJMom: My D is not in favor of going to OOS public university. During their CC classes at school it has been told that there is no sense in applying to OOS public universities if you are from california. There have not been a single student matriculating to U Michigan over the last 3-4 years we have tracked the school acceptances.
So it might not be a good idea.
Though increasing the number of UCs to apply to seems like a good idea.</p>
<p>ricegal: How do you think calpoly is rated with respect to UCD/UCI?
My D seems to prefer a UC over calPoly too as it wil provide her more breadth of subjects.</p>
<p>MY D retook SAT1 June 8th and got 2340 (800M, 800CR, 740W) with 12 on Essay.
Will that change any of the following reaches to high matches or matches?
Reaches: Ivies + MIT, Stanford, Caltech
Or is any of the following be considered as high match/match?
Caltech, Cornell, Columbia (Fu College), U. Penn, Brown</p>
<p>UCB EECS has less than 15% acceptance rate, and used to be less than 10%. Having said that, UCB is less quirky when it comes to admission, so your daughter should be fine. Cornell, Columbia (Fu College), U. Penn, Brown shouldn’t be harder to get in and I’d venture a guess that she’ll get into all of these schools. A girl majors in EECS is hard to find, kinda like URM.</p>