Chances for Comp Sci Major

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Im thinking of ED/EA one of these schools but I can't decide which one would be the best.</p>

<ul>
<li>CMU</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>UC Berkely</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
</ul>

<p>I would really like to go to CMU, but i don't even with EA if i could get in.</p>

<p>These are the schools im thinking of applying to</p>

<p>-CMU
-Cornell
-UC Berkely
-Caltech
-Stanford
-UT Austin
-Rice
-Duke
-UPenn</p>

<p>Asian with family of high income in Texas
SAT I: 2280
Math: 780
Crit: 730
Writing: 770
PSAT: 218 ( enough for semi finalist)</p>

<p>AP
Comp sci A - 5, Comp Sci AB - 5, US Hist - 3, Eng Lang - 4 Statistics - 5</p>

<p>SAT II's
Math IIc - 800
Physics - 780</p>

<p>ACT: 33 comp
36 math, 35 eng, 31 read, 30 science, 33 writing</p>

<p>GPA: 4.4/4.5 idk weighted
3.6/3.7 unweighted</p>

<p>Freshman - I made all B's in my preap classes except one semester of preap Bio
Sophomore - All A's except PreAp English
Junior - All A's except AP english, and 2nd semester of AP Us hist</p>

<p>Basically, i sucked it up and did really bad my freshman year but picked it up in the ensuing years</p>

<p>9th - geometry preap
english preap
biology preap
spanish I
basketball
intro to business/health</p>

<p>10th - alg II preap
english II preap
chemistry preap
world hist preap
comp sci AP
spanish II</p>

<p>11th - precalc preap
ap eng
ap us hist
ap comp sci ab
ap stats
preap physics
preap spanish III</p>

<p>12th - (this year's schedule)
ap chem
ap physics
ap calc bc
ap gov / eco
ap english lit
comp sci 3 preap
study hall/art</p>

<p>Extracurriculars</p>

<p>Computer Science Club (President) - Numerous awards at meets, including 6th place at Codewars Competition hosted by HP in advanced div, 3rd place at TCEA State competition, and US computing olympiad gold division competitor</p>

<p>FBLA - 2nd place in State in Java programming
Mu Alpha Theta
UIL Academics Teams (teams of 4 people) - Comp Sci, Math, Number Sense, Calculator, Science
National Honor Society
Spanish Honor Society
Manager of Basketball team</p>

<p>Volunteer Hours - 80 hrs
Work experience - Interned at a law firm</p>

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<p>Dude, none of those are safeties. You're being pretty ridiculous. USACO will look pretty good, but you're still betting an awful lot on it.</p>

<p>Questions:
Why is you senior compsci class pre-AP, when you already took AP? Heck, why are you taking any compsci class when you're that high up in USACO -- is there anything they could teach you?</p>

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<p>its preap, because there is no college equivalent of it. Its basically technology apps independent studies preap, but our teacher calls it cs 3. and im taking it as more like a study hall and a way to keep in contact with computer science club, plus we learn some random stuff in that class like different languages.</p>

<p>and lol being ridiculous?</p>

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<p>by the way, could you be more specific? Yeah i know they aren't safeties at all, but how much of a reach?</p>

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<p>Where are your interests besides CS? I know schools like CMU are trying to accept people who don't just code all day, and your test scores and grades alone won't really set you apart since you're looking at such high up schools.</p>

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<p>Hmm yeah. well my other hobbies are math, basketball, physics</p>

<p>I was just wondering if someone could tell me what wud be the best / reasonable school to EA/ED?
and chances for the other schools (be a bit more specific plz)</p>