<p>good sats, good grades, good ECs, bad college choices. </p>
<p>your list is very prestige motivated and some schools aren’t really known for their computer science courses here. try refining your list with more research. i’m surprised also that you don’t have CMU. shove it in there, they’re good for com sci. and i think they’ve a new center for com sci. coming up too. </p>
<p>@calcruzer: it also depends on the context of your school. in my school, top 5% = 4 students and i’m pretty sure more will go to HYPMS + ivies than just 4 kids. trust me on that one.</p>