Chances for Computer Engineering at UCs, Stanford, etc

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I will be applying as a computer engineering major for the following schools. I am an Asian female and go to a competitive high school in CA. What do you think my chances are?

Colleges:
-UC Berkeley
-UC Davis
-UCLA
-UC San Diego
-USC
-Stanford
-MIT
-Caltech
-Carnegie Mellon
-Cal Poly

Unweighted GPA (4-point scale): 3.97

Weighted GPA (5-point scale): 4.42

UC GPA: 4.29

of AP/IB/honors courses (including senior year): 8 AP, 4 Honors

Class rank: School does not rank but guessing around top 10 to 20%

Class size: 615

Standardized Testing:
-SAT: 2230
-ACT: Taking in fall, aiming for 35

SAT II scores:
-Biology: 740
-World History: 770
-Math 2: Taking in October

AP scores:
-AP World: 5
-AP Biology: 5
-AP Calc AB: 5
-AP Comp Sci: 4
-AP Lit: 4
-AP Spanish: TBD
-AP Calc BC: TBD
-AP Stats: TBD

ECs

-Intern at Science Museum (2 years): Help visitors with engineering challenges, such as marble machines and making robots using craft motors and household materials. Volunteered approximately 175 hours
-Library Volunteer (3 years): Volunteered approximately 100 hrs
-Webmaster of a Recycling Club (1 year)
-Treasurer of an Art/Craft club (1 year)
-Speech and Debate (2 years)
-CSF(3 years)

Employment:
-Intern at a startup (1 year): Create interactive infographics using javascript, html, and css. Made infographics using google drawings and did a little bit of quality testing
-Intern at a national lab (3 months): Created data visualizations for a homeland security project. Learned a variety of programming languages

Honors/Awards:
-A winner of a writing contest (500 entries)
-Won a few local speech and debate tournaments
-Principal’s award for over 3.5 GPA unweighted

Ask me if you need clarification for any of the following. Thank you in advance for taking the time to assess my chances.

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@foxtroll MIT/Stanford/CalTech - mid/upper reach
UC’s - low reach/near match
Your passion really shows for CSci through EC’s (which are also strong)! Your gender will also help, only thing holding you back as it stands for MIT/CalTech/Stanford is test scores. Best of luck!

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CalTech is very GPA and test score centered. Aim for 800 in Math 2. Your current SAT score is right under (or at) their 25th percentile.

4

for UCs, you seem like you are in tip top shape. Did you get ELC? Regardless, your stats look good enough to get you into one UC on your list (I can’t tell which one, CE and CS admissions are terrible), but maybe try raising your SAT a little.

5

CE is easier than CS by looking at admission stats at several UCs, in particular UCLA. Berkeley is the only exception because EECS is harder than L&S CS.

6

You are set with the SAT. Don’t even bother taking the ACT.

7

UCB: Low Reach
UCLA: High Match
USC/UCSD/SLO/UCD: Match
CMU/Cal Tech/Stanford: Reach