Chance a nervous hispanic student who is applying to a bunch of reaches?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I want to major in CS and maybe learn business/economics. What are my chances at any of these school during RD?

CMU

Georgia Tech

Uchicago

WashU

Vanderbilt

Rice

Brown

Yale (my sister currently attends)

Notre Dame

Cornell

1560 SAT (770R/770M)

I got a 750 on math level 2 and a 770 chem.

Race: Hispanic

Classes: Freshman Year:

Honors Bio Engineering Honors Honors Geometry

Sophomore Year: Honors English Honors algebra 2 Honors chem

Junior Years Honors English Honors Precalc AP Chem (5) Ap Comp Sci 5 ApUSH 4 Honors Spanish 4/5

Senior Year: UCONN ECE English AP calc BC Ap Stats Honors Data Structures (post AP comp sci) AP Spanish Lang Ap Physics C

Extracurrics: Started a startup based around plant disease diagnosis and food security since junior year

Started a club to encourage computer and entrepreneurship since sophmore year (charter club called Hack Club)

President of chess/philosophy club since sophmore year( member freshman year)

President of student ambassadors program (member junior year) president senior year

Volunteered at local food pantry all 4 years

Volunteered at Local historical society working to digitize historical records

Did Track and Field all 4 years (Went to local championships for relays/long jump)

Volunteered at STEM camp for young kids during summer of senior year

Member of Exec board for blue ocean entrepreneurship competition

Honors:
AP scholar
NMSC commended student
Semifinalist for Diamond Challenge entrepreneurship challenge
NHRP scholar
Member of top 150 for Paradigm entrepreneurship challenge
National Honors Society
Spanish Honors Society

Recommendations:
Getting letter of rec from my comp sci teacher who also is advisor of my club and is aware of my startup project
Letter of Rec from my English teacher

GPA: 3.71 UW

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You may want to check your SAT scores listed above.

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Oops (I got a 790 on math)

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You’re right, those are a bunch of reaches! GPA is on the low side. Here’s the good news, as a programmer myself, it doesn’t matter where you go to school. Tech is ridiculously employable. After about 3 years of experience, employers don’t even where you went to school because they’re desperate to find qualified applicants for a job that’s been vacant for 5 months.

There’s no competition. There are abundant high-paying job opportunities in technology. Just find a school that works for you. I went to a regional state university and I’ve already interviewed at Google and Amazon. I actually turned them down because the state of Texas has better job security and a stable retirement.