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There is a reason there are impacted majors. As far as I know all majors are competitive for selection at the UCs.</p>
<p>Check link for changing to an impacted major at UCSD such as CS.
<a href=“Home | Computer Science”>Home | Computer Science;
<p>@BrownParent:</p>
<p>Where did you get your information from?</p>
<p>With that whole “Trojan Family” thing, I would be shocked if USC doesn’t consider legacies.</p>
<p>And indeed, they do give a bump to legacies:
<a href=“USC values legacies but avoids nepotism - Daily Trojan”>http://dailytrojan.com/2013/11/05/usc-values-legacies-but-avoids-nepotism/</a></p>
<p>They even have a name for them: SCions.</p>
<p>Almost 25% of the student body are legacies.</p>
<p>Are you confusing USC with CalTech, perhaps?</p>
<p>@PurpleTitan That is reassuring. Thank you.</p>
<p>While there are no guarantees, with your stats and triple-legacy status, I would be surprised if you did not get in to USC (unless you do something like stand up and slap your interviewer in the face).</p>
<p>There is no interviewer necessary. My daughter never went to see the admission officer when he came to her high school, never did a formal tour, never interviewed but she was accepted. I think the fact that her sister went there and did well must have a positive effect on the admission result.</p>
<p>@DrGoogle if you don’t mind me asking, what were the stats of “her sister”- your older daughter, I presume?</p>
<p>Both of my kids got into USC, one for Cinema and one for Computer Science/Engineering.
Both got 2300+, the Cinema one went to a very competitive high school with maybe 3.6 uw GPA and 4.0 WGPA, top 20%(2008) and the engineering one went to a less competitive high school with 4.0 uw GPA, top 1% (2013). But I think most colleges now are getting very competitive, kids with stats from 2008 might not be able to get into today.</p>
<p>@OP:
I think you’ll get in. Maybe not necessarily to CS if that’s your first choice of major. UCSD can let you identify a second choice. You also has a big chance to UCLA and UCB. Your stat is comparable to my daughter (although I don’t know your ECs and your SAT1 is a little bit higher) and she was accepted to every UCs she applied including Berkeley, UCLA (Regents) and UCSD. I think she applied to too many schools because I insisted. I was worried that she will not get in to anything.</p>
<p>Hum sorry about the legacy misinformation. Whatever I read at the time I was helping someone apply last year surprised me too, but I must have thought it credible enough that it stuck in my mind. No idea what that was.</p>
<p>I think it is a low match for op. We are using two low matches as a safety.</p>
<p>@2018dad ah, my parents are on the other side of things. They want me to apply to only a few schools- they asked me why I thought Stanford was a reach with my stats. (Obviously, it’s a reach for everyone, but they’re under the misconception that plain old test scores + GPA will get you into anywhere). I don’t want to post my ECs here for privacy, could I inbox you my ECs and we can compare?</p>
<p>@BrownParent no problem, I’m just glad it’s been cleared up</p>
<p>@1203southview what do you mean? so do usc and ucsd count as a safety because the chances are higher that I will be admitted to at least one of them?</p>
<p>Well you can give your parents the admissions figures for Stanford for last year. or so the the results thread and give them some case studies. I definitely know someone rejected early action last round with your stats and a hook.</p>
<p><a href=“Stanford Common Data Set | University Communications”>http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/2013</a></p>
<p>@ocean321
You can PM me.</p>
<p>Yes, that is what I meant. My son is applying to a large number of reach schools and two non reach schools that are only relative safeties. There is no true safety school that he would love so two okay schools and the sheer number of schools is his safety. Hope that makes sense.</p>