Chance our STEM son to a fit college on west coast

Chance Me / Match Me!
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  1. Student
    • Demographics: Asian Male
    • State/Location of residency: Central California
    • Family: Middle class
  2. Intended Major(s): 1st - biomedical engineering, 2nd - computer engineering,
  3. Stats:
    • GPA: HS uwGPA: 3.98; UC cap/wtGPA 4.25; UC fully wt GPA 4.6
    • Class Rank: Top 5% (Ranked 25th out of 500 students, public HS)
    • EC: Music bands, major related pathway leadership, tutoring, research
  4. Class taken: 33 A-G courses (12 AP, 3 Honors, 2 DE, 4 CC classes)

Return from last year’s closed thread for more detail:

Applied Schools:
• Safety: ASU, SJSU
• Match: UCD, CSULB, UCSC, SDSU
• Reach: UCSD, UCSB, UCI, CPSLO
• Super Reach: UCB, UCLA, USC, Northeastern

So far, ASU, SJSU and CSULB accepted him. USC and Northeastern deferred from EA.

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Congrats to your son on his acceptances! Hopefully there will be more to follow.

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Thanks for your kind words. ASU accepted him with a 12k scholarship and into Barrett Honor, but the tuition is still higher than the UCs. This week, SJSU and CSULB gave us a chance to stay closer to home.

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After UC released 2022 student undergraduate admission summary, we noticed our DS high school students admission rates are as follow:
UCB 2021 27% to 2022 13%
UCD 2021 45% to 2022 31%
UCI 2021 29% to 2022 26%
UCLA 2021 11% to 2022 5%
UCSD 2021 38% to 2022 20%
UCSB 2022 13%
UCSC 2021 87% to 2022 48%

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CSULB is now a safety if admitted (including to desired major) and affordable.

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Yes, CSULB is a great looking school. With a general admission rate of 47%, my son feel fortunate to get admitted last week.

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My boy got the acceptance email this afternoon from UCSC - his first match UC school acceptance - Feeling energized. His major is Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics. We are from the CA Central Valley.

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3/13 update:
On 2/28, DS23 received an email invitation to UCSC College Scholars Program (CSP). The UCSC website says each year about 250 new frosh join the CSP program. No scholarship was mentioned.

On 3/10, DS23 received UC Davis admission to their BioChemical Engineering major. Each year they seem to graduate only about 15 seniors in this major. This one is close to home. We live in the Central Valley. So we are ecstatic about the UCD admission.
Also, we did not receive CPSLO admission when they rolled out their decisions on 3/10 so we won’t expect an acceptance from CPSLO.

We have scheduled college walking tours on 3/15 to UCSC and 3/16 to UCD to check them out.

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Well, the result of last application came out today. Here are the result
Super Reach:
UCB - BioEngineering (accepted)
UCLA - Computational Biology (waitlisted)
USC - Computational Neuroscience (rejected)
Northeastern - CS + Neuroscience (rejected)

Reach:
UCSD - CS +bioinformatics (rejected)
UCSB - CS +informatics (rejected)
UCI - Biomedical engineering (accepted)
CPSLO - biomedical engineering (waitlisted)

Match:
UCD - Biochemical engineering (accepted)
CSU Long Beach - Biomedical engineering (accepted)
UCSC - Biomolecular engineering and bioinformatic (accepted with Regents scholarship $5k per year)
San Diego State - Computer engineering + bioinformatics (accepted)

Safety:
San Jose State - Biomedical engineering (accepted)
Arizona State Univ - Biomedical Informatics (accepted with $12k merit scholarship)

Next step: Attending admitted student days and campus tours to make an informed decision.

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Great choices! Congratulations :tada:

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DS23 committed to UC Berkeley, bioengineering major last night!

Looking forward to the new 4 year journey. Thanks everyone from this CC forum support and knowledge. Sincerely wish good luck to everyone and your child to find their fit college.

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