I have a uw 3.81 GPA, 2290 superscore SAT, go to a top 10 CA public high school, took 5 AP courses, got 750,800,800 on my 3 sat subjec tests, top 10 percent of my grade, good ECs, good recs and good essays and CA male applying for computer science. Chance me for:
CMU SCS
Cornell
Dartmouth
Emory
Northwestern
Rice
Umichigan
Upenn
USC
Thanks so much!
There’s a forum for chancing, if you want to waste your time on a useless activity. (Also, sorry, not “interesting”–your credentials and college list look like those of a zillion other CC’ers.)
@MommaJ can you change me for these schools then? thanks
any other help? thanks
Your gpa is on the bottom end of the range for the top schools on your list but your test scores are in line. The rest of what you posted is too vague for anyone to venture any sort of guess about your chances. Carnegie SCS has the lowest acceptance rate in the country. Are your test scores, grades and ECs (especially computer-related) among the very top in the entire nation? If not, I’m afraid it will be a high-reach school.
I don’t believe in chancing, sorry. The best you or anyone else can do can do is look at the statistics of admitted students in past years and see where you fit in, keeping in mind that in some of the schools you list, most applicants have significant credentials and the percentage of accepted applicants is very low.
Thanks @Falcon1 !
anyone else wanna help? xDDD
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I think you should target the best CS program at UC
@ClarinetDad16 I want to do CS for a bank tho? Your thoughts?
Geographically where would you want to work?
Where are your safeties?
Your stats are too low for most of those schools and especially for that major.
You live in California, but you have no California publics on your list. Can you afford those schools?
Oh and a CS degree, at those schools, does not guarantee being specifically employed by a bank.
I think you guys need to lighten up. The OP’s sat score is above the averages for some of these schools(I only looked that up for upenn and Emory since its like 3 in the morning an I’m not too keen on doing the math). And honestly I don’t think colleges are going to look at an applicant that much differently if their 110 point away from a 2400, I mean that’s like a 95 on a test and anyone who disregards that is a little silly. Plus SAT scores/goals are more like a gateway to the application process. I’m pretty sure if you go on http://bigfuture.collegeboard.org or the schools website you will see that you do have a chance at some of these schools.yeah your GPA might be kind of low,but based on past acceptance threads for these schools I’m pretty sure I’ve seen students with your stats get accepted. Though ec’s and essays do affect things(so hopefully those are fine)So you know relax and just apply. If you don’t apply you won’t know. Just do you,relax and go through the college application process with no expectations, that’s what I’ve been doing,already being okay with being accepted/rejected to the schools I’m applying to because it will all work out somehow in the end. You may want to add some safeties. But, honestly with your stats there are probably some great safeties to apply to. Remember to be excited your even going to college, some of the kids from my school last year either ended up not going to college or chose to go to cc(nothing wrong with community college it is a respectable place), but you have a 2290 and can get into most colleges in this country. Be confident in/proud of yourself! 
You have a shot at all of those schools. A lot will depend on your ECs and essays.
Carnegie Mellon SCS is probably the toughest to get into and is very specific. Penn SEAS is probably the second toughest. Your gpa is below avg. for Penn, but your ECs and essays could get you in. If you have some coding experience that would help.
Also, I hope you are applying to these schools because your genuinely interested in them and not just because they are some of the top schools in the country.
Also when I said sat/goals I meant sat scores/GPA
Thanks @Tookme10mins and @Much2learn , Yes hopefully they see my gpa/sat as past the thershold and can focus on my ec’s essays which I hope to shine in to see me as a hollistic applicant
@Tookme10mins @Much2learn Hopefully they can see my passion in essays/ecs over my average stats
@aymaoletsgo yeah hopefully. Anyways good luck and try not to stress out too much.