Both admit to the engineering division, and both have secondary admission to major later. UMN secondary admission is automatic with a 3.2 college GPA. Texas A&M is automatic with a 3.75 college GPA, and some majors like CS have little or no space for non-automatic admit students. Assume that Texas A&M is eventually a reach to get into the CS major.
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āSome CSUsā depends on which CSUs. Specifically, the following may be difficult admits to CS with a 4.12 weighted capped GPA:
- CPSLO: not transparent about admission formula or thresholds.
- SJSU: admission index = 800 * 4.12 = 3296. The fall 2023 frosh threshold for CS was 3440, so it would be a reach unless the OPās high school is in Santa Clara County (+200). The DS threshold was only 2080.
- CPP: admission index = 1000 * 4.12 + 450 = 4570. The fall 2023 frosh threshold for CS was 4672.
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How is the admit rate to these schools for students with your GPA applying to CS?
Average admit GPA is in the rage of 3.8-3.83 for most of these type of schools. For Purdue, it was average gpa of 3.75. - Placing me in the 30-50 GPA percentile for most of the type of schools.
Also wanted to note that I am hoping that my extracurriculars, essays and other subjective parts of my application will be more reflective of my profile for the schools and will appeal more. I understand GPA and other quantitative data is like half of my profile which puts me much back.
more than halfā¦much moreā¦
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Questions: Was your 10th grade math pre-calc honors? Did you take Econ in both 11th and 12th grade? Did you take a foreign language and art?
Are you really going to apply to all of the UCs? Which CSUs are you looking at?
Which is why some CSUs may be hard - they tend to me very stats focused, and less EC-interested and not at all essay interested. In that sense, the UCs might actually go better for you than the CSUs. For CS, though, most are still high targets/reaches, except for Merced.
The OP Said in a earlier post that they are local to SJSU so they would get the 200 added. I think the chances for computer science are good if the impaction index says the same as this year.
I agree for the OP UCās would be better than CSUās. the school admit rates he posted is very similar to our school district. I think in addition to UC Merced. UC riverside also may be likely. UC santa cruz could be a match.
UC Davis and other UCās would be a reach.
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Took PreCalc H in 10th grade, and in 11th i took Econ&VE - business class. I took Spanish 2 in freshmen year and Spanish 3 in sophomore year. Finished my art credit freshmen year with an art class.
I will be applying to all UCās and for CSUs, im looking at SJSU, Cal Poly SLO and CSU Long Beach
Iām worried about your ED choice. Both will be tough given your GPA is top 25%. If you were in top 5% then it would make more sense. I think you might get deferred. So have a plan in place for ED2.
Since you are full pay, have you thought about applying to the top international schools (U Waterloo, Imperial College London)? You can get a degree in 3 years in the UK.
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And will just add that you might want to consider NEU as an ED 2 option. Their acceptance rates for both EA and RD are super low-both in the 5-7 % range. (It is an easy app requiring no supp essay and they had over 90k apps last year.) ED applicants have a tremendous advantage with an acceptance rate @ 35-39%. They are a bit needy though and require lots of demonstrative interest so sign up for those info sessions if you can.
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