Chances for Purdue, UIUC maybe GA Tech CS

GPA: 4.5 or 4.6 Class Rank is 5/422 but I expect it to drop honestly, got some Bs in some dumb classes

Course Rigor: Did not take the AP Test for all classes but I will have 11 by the end of senior year otherwise all Pre-AP except for required classes. Top 10 public school in the state

ACT:34 E35 M33 R34 S32

Plan on taking SAT Math Subject 2 Test

Race and Gender:Asian/Indian Male

Income: Middle to Upper Class

Residency: Missouri

ECs:

-Robotics for 4 years: will be Treasurer for Senior Year, on programming team

-Technology Student Association for 2 years: Competed in International Rocketry Challenge and Glider Challenge sponsored by Boeing at Wash U

-NHS 3 years, very little participation

-Viking Leadership Council: 50 students selected across the school to advise Activities director on ways to make the school a better place

-Boeing Explorer Post: Won 1st place out of 4 teams, teams were made up of about 200 people across the STL Bi-State Area, possible Boeing summer internship for the next summer

-Summer Camps: Invited to Leadership in Practice camp at Westminster College in MO; attended Space Exploration camp at Missouri S&T, was the Schematics lead

-3 years of Varsity Tennis, went to Districts 2 times, have 1 1st place medal 3 2nd place medals and 3 3rd place medals for Conference championships

-Volunteer Hours should be 100+

-Volunteer at middle school lego robotics club and help with competition design and technical difficulties

-Mu Alpha Theta for 3 years, tutor students on math

Possible hooks: First person in family to attend US college

-Worked as a dishwasher at local restaurant over summer

If you have any other recommendations for which colleges I should I apply to that are prestigious in CS please let me know. Thanks in advance.

A 34 puts you in play.
Purdue had a 28% CS admit rate last year.
GT ~12%.
I imagine UIUC’s rate is somewhere between Purdue and GT.

Since you are from Missouri I’d suggest Missouri S&T “Rolla” for a safety.

I assume since you’re looking at OOS that affordability isn’t an issue.

Big 4 - MIT, Stanford, CMU, Berkeley - all chances < 8% for CS. CMU has SIS and Berkeley has L&S CS where the odds of getting in are a little higher.

Second tier - the 3 you listed are in the prestigious 2nd tier. Also, Cornell, CalTech, Michigan, UW-Seattle, UW-Madison, UMD, UCLA, UCSD, UT-Austin are in that 2nd tier along with Princeton. The public schools you have a good chance at getting in all of them, but CS admission rates tend to be much much lower than the university as a whole. Cornell and Princeton being Ivies will of course be very difficult to get in. Caltech will be < 8% also.

So which tier do you think I would be best suited in? Also, the public schools that you listed should be harder to get into right? Since they would take IS rather than OOS. If you could narrow down some schools from those tiers what would you think suit me best? I’m only concerned about acceptance atm. Thanks for your help.

Also, I do have S&T as a back up and will most likely get near to full tuition there.

It’s hard to answer that question. It’s very possible you can go to any school in the Top 50 for CS rankings and get reasonably the same education as well.

CS undergrad enrollments:
UC Irvine 3000 (includes 300 CS game science)
U Maryland 2500
Georgia Tech 2200
Arizona State 2200
Illinois 1700
UCSD 1700
Purdue 1700
Central Florida 1700
Texas 1500
Michigan 1500
Oregon State 1300
UC Berkely 1300
Washington 1000
NC State 1000
MIT 900
UCLA 900
CMU 700
Stanford 700
Texas A&M 700
M S&T Rolla 500
.

The number for UC-Berkeley is way off. There’s 3172 by official count (EECS+LSCS), and if you include LSCS sophomores declares plus people trying to make it into CS, that number probably goes close to 4000.

https://eecs.berkeley.edu/about/by-the-numbers

Those numbers are from the ASEE for CS… not EECS.