<p>I'm from New Jersey and I am Asian</p>
<p>GPA: 3.93 (Weighted, but my school has a very different scale. Will colleges be able to tell?)
LAST and BEST SAT: 2200 (CR:760 M:720 W: 720)
SUPERSCORE: 2280 (CR:760 M:800 W:720)
Rank: 4/300ish
A.P. Scholar with honor junior year and possible A.P. Scholar with distinction next year</p>
<p>Classes:
Rigorous schedule composed of honors and A.P.'s
Sophomore Year: A.P. European History
Junior Year: A.P. Gov., Biology, U.S. History, and Lang and Comp.
Senior Year: A.P. Calc, Computer Science, Physics 1, Environmental Science, Literature</p>
<p>ACTIVITIES:
-hundreds of community service hours (road cleanups, creek cleanups and other service opportunities provided within my clubs)
-Supervisor at my local elementary school
-Volunteer at my local library
-student tutor
-member of NHS in my school
-treasurer of Key Club
-Officer of my Human Rights Club
-Member of my environmental club
-Member of my Varsity Tennis Team and XC team</p>
<p>I plan on majoring in Computer Science. What are my chances at getting accepted into these Schools? and am I good enough for a scholarship?</p>
<p>As an OOS student you will get little to no financial aid or scholarships toward the $55K/year cost of UCSB and $30-35K/year for SLO. You have competitive stats which may make you eligible for Regents at USCB, but that scholarship is around $6000, a drop in the bucket considering the cost.
Here is a link for UCSB scholarships:
<a href=“http://admissions.sa.ucsb.edu/cost/scholarships”>http://admissions.sa.ucsb.edu/cost/scholarships</a></p>
<p>I know SLO will sometimes give OOS students a small scholarship but still not very substantial. SLO and UCSB like to accept OOS students that are full pay to offset their costs. </p>
<p>For USCB, you need to calculate your UC GPA, see link: <a href=“GPA Calculator for the University of California – RogerHub”>http://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/</a>
For OOS, only 4 AP classes 10/11th grade will count for the extra honors points.</p>
<p>SLO uses your 9th grades also in their GPA calculation along with a bonus points system to rank the applicants:
<a href=“http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=statsp&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Dcal%2Bpoly%2Bslo%2Bmca%26fr%3Dipad#search=“cal%20poly%20slo%20mca””>http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=statsp&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Dcal%2Bpoly%2Bslo%2Bmca%26fr%3Dipad#search=“cal%20poly%20slo%20mca”</a></p>
<p>CS is very competitive, especially for SLO and you do have a good chance but if you are looking for good scholarships, you would be better off looking closer to home where your hard work to be better appreciated.
Good Luck</p>
<p>Thank you so much for the response! Yeah you pretty much verified what I had thought and been told. I will probably end up staying home, but my dream had always been to make my way west.</p>
<p>@Gumbymom Thank you for the response, one question when I looked at SLO it came out to around 25k for OOS, am I looking at it wrong or making a mistake?</p>
<p>25K is for in-state. For OOS, you need to add on $268/unit x 16 units/quarter x3= $11,904 on average on top of the $25K. Also your transportation may be higher than $1100/year to fly back to NJ. It’s still a good deal compared to the UC’s.</p>
<p>@Gumbymom thank you for the clarification!</p>