I know considering I’m OOS it’ll be super tough. Just out of curiosity, I was born and brought up in California and attended a year of high school there before moving would that be helpful at all? Also considering that I’m applying to CS would it be useful to link my github page (if there’s a way at all) since I have a lot of projects on it?
Male applying from Washington State for Engineering (CS first choice, EE second)
3.9 UW GPA
4.2 Capped UC GPA, 4.33 Uncapped UC GPA
1550 SAT (800 Math, 750 RW)
800 Math II 800 Chemistry Subject Tests
Extracurriculars: 3 varsity sports, coding internship, made multiple apps on the app store and two websites, some volunteering, retail job
The first question you need to consider is whether or not your parents can pay the OOS fees. ($60K per year!)
As a current non-resident, it will be tough. Do your parents still have property or ties to California? You may want to check that.
Your SAT looks good and the fact that you were in sports helps a lot with UCLA; they like athletes who have learned how to manage their EC’s and studies.
You look like a well qualified and competitive applicant. If your parents can pay the OOS fees, you stand a good chance.
Best of luck.
Yes cost is not an issue, I’ll be able to attend without loans or anything scary for my family financially.
@Gumbymom thank you!
@“aunt bea” My parents don’t own any property there anymore but what other things would count as a tie to the state?
Being a resident is the key. If you don’t live in California anymore and didn’t attend for most of your high school, then you have to be considered as a non-resident.
CS is the hardest major to get into followed by CSE. Ucla now offers a Computer Engineering Major in the newly renamed ECE dept. If you are interested in that you may want to consider it. It should have lower applicant pools than CS or CSE.
@10s4life Oh, thank you! Yeah I think I’ll chose that as my primary major. Do you think it would make sense to choose something like materials engineering as my alternate major considering that it has a higher acceptance rate and then switch to the CS/CSE/ECE major?
@Cleepople only choose Mat sci if you want it. Switching into any major with computer in it is very difficult