Chance a hopeful Asian male for CS [NC resident, 4.0, 36, 1580, parents will pay 1/2 cost]

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Thank you for your advice!

For the titles, should I just remove the titles and only list the organization name?

For the 124k, I personally helped secure that amount.

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Thank you!

How would you suggest I include all of that into the extracurriculars section?

Or is it more of a narrative I have to weave through the EC section and my essays?

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Thank you!

By working in summer, do you mean internships?

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Will they pay for UNC and NC State? What happens if you do not get into a T20 (you are an excellent student, but acceptances are not guaranteed)?

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Hi,

For schools not in the T20, they said they would pay half cost of attendance for the full 4 years and co-sign loans for the other half.

Also, wouldn’t having a lot of AP and dual enrollment credit eat away at cost of attendance for UNC and NCSU? Because I’m in-state

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Yes, you might be able to graduate in less than 4 years.

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delete

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Not the best way to pick a college, but if your parents are paying they get to set the rules.

Just to make sure we’re on the same page - which T20 list are you looking at? USNWR?
That list has:
CMU, MIT, Stanford, Cal, Cornell, Georgia Tech, Princeton, UIUC, Caltech, UWash, UT Austin, Columbia, Harvard, UCLA, UMichigan, JHU, Purdue, UCSD, UMD, UPenn, UWisconsin and Yale.

Are you going to expand your list to include all these?

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Go get a full ride at NC State. Good school with deep RTP tech connections.

https://studentservices.ncsu.edu/your-money/financial-aid/types/scholarships/

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In the past, they’ve used “T20” as a catch-all for any prestigious school, so I’m not sure as to what list they’re using.

To be safe, I’ll remove Northeastern, CWRU, UMass Amherst, and UPitt from the list, add UNC Charlotte as a less-expensive in-state likely, and add all the T20s from your list that aren’t on there already, except MIT and Caltech.

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So basically top 20 for CS reaches, or full tuition or greater merit, or nothing (except maybe the in state public you can commute to), since 1/2 cost otherwise would be too expensive?

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Ok. I want to clarify that I didn’t mean you should apply to all these. I was checking if these are the schools your parents will pay in full for. You don’t need to apply to all of them - instead, create a balanced list. Some are easier admits than others. Cheaper too.

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Pretty much

I live in commuting range for Chapel Hill and NCSU.

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Ohhh okay, thank you for clarifying.

Just asked them, they said that they would pay for all of the ones in those list + the University of Waterloo.

I’m probably going to need to remove Northeastern and CWRU, I was originally planning to apply to those two because of no essays, but the cost of attendance is going to be rough, even with half off.

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If they are including University of Waterloo, would they also include some other Canadian universities? McGill has a great international reputation, as does University of Toronto.

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Understatement of the year.

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Are your parents going to pay the full cost for other colleges on your list (e.g. UCLA, UCSD, UIUC, Georgia Tech, Purdue, UMass Amherst, U Pitt)? Why not also remove those that they wouldn’t fully pay?

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All but the last two are CS T20s and OP said:

Referring to this list:

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Some of these (UIUC, GT, and Purdue) are absolutely T20 CS schools, which I believe is the criteria.

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Oh, I see. USNWR has created a problem for another family…

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