Chance me!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hey, I’ll be a senior next year and I want to know what my chances are for these schools.

Schools: USC, UIUC, Stanford, NYU, any other competitive computer science schools?

Major- Computer Science

SAT- 1570 (790R, 780M)
SAT II- Physics (700), Math 2 (740)… planning on taking Math 2 again, shooting for an 800 hopefully
AP Tests- Computer Science A (5), Physics 1 (5)

***My HS is on a 5.0 gpa scale, so the max possible w all AP/honors is 6.0
Freshman yr: No APs, W gpa: 4.3
Sophomore yr: No APs, W gpa: 4.9
Junior yr: AP Computer Science A, AP Physics 1, APUSH, W gpa: 5.4
Senior yr: AP Calc BC, AP Psych, AP Lit, AP Chem, gpa: TBD

UW gpa: 4.5, W gpa: 4.9

Recs: Getting letters from my AP Physics and AP Computer Science teachers

ECs
National Honors Society
Varsity gymnastics team
Volunteering at hospital(2 hrs/wk)
Writer for school nonfiction book
Worked on school magazine
Working on learning Swift to hopefully code an iOS app over summer

I know my gpa is much lower than it should be, but I’m hoping that will be negated slightly by the fact that I have good gpa growth (shooting for a weighted 5.8).

Thanks

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What is your budget? Have you run the NPC on all of these schools?

Without considering budget, for a CS major these all look like reaches to me. IMHO you need to spend more time thinking about safety and match schools.

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I’m not really sure about my budget, it’s probably something I’ll think about more once I figure what my options are; however, I do know that if I got into a good school like the ones I listed above, I’d probably be willing to spend the money.

What match schools would you recommend me looking into? I live in Illinois near Chicago, btw.