<p>EC - Lots of volunteering (Cancer fundraisers, Soup kitchen, YMCA, Salvation Army, Binky Patrol etc); NHS, Beta club; Played tennis for school (#1 ranked at school); Plays Guitar;
Awards - Science Olympiad (regionals), French Extempore, Tennis
Summer School - 2013:Two 4-Credit courses at Harvard (Programming with Java; Advanced Writing); 2012: Duke Young writer's camp</p>
<p>She is interested in studying Computer Science and/or Maths. We are planning on the following.
Match - NC State, Purdue, UNC Chapel Hill (?), Georgia Tech (?), U Mich (?)
Reach - UC Berkeley, UCLA, Duke, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>Any comments/ suggestions are welcome. Should we be looking at something else? Are the reach schools too much of a long-shot?</p>
<p>She may be a match for Carnegie Mellon in math, but CS is not likely. The CMU Computer Science is its own school. The admission statistics for School of Computer Science last year was:
SAT CR 720-800 Math 780-800 WR: 720-800
Standing in class Top 2%
Average GPA 3.88</p>
<p>What do you think her chances are at the other schools for Computer science?
UNC Chapel Hill, Georgia Tech, U Mich, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Duke, Cornell</p>
<p>UNC Chapel Hill is a great computer science school, and being in state is excellent. If your daughter is OK with taking a foreign language, I would highly consider it. My son refuses to take a language (other than a programming language) in college, so UNC left his list. Duke is the same on the foreign language – I only mention it because my son also ruled it out. Duke is also really difficult to get into. Berkeley CS is excellent, but it is a big, crowded school and their CS is extremely competitive for getting in. Also, if you need any financial aid, I would not apply to U Mich or UC schools because they are expensive for OOS and give no financial aid to OOS. (U Illinois-UC is also expensive for OOS though it wasn’t on your list). We have ended up looking for mostly mid-sized private schools with solid CS programs for our son – Rochester, Rice, Tufts, Northwestern, Penn.</p>
<p>@Skyrior – I am not sure I agree that the list is fine. I think a lot of those really strong public schools are hard to get into for out of state students. Compsc mom’s daughter has good stats, but not automatic in CS at most of those OOS public schools. For example, I believe the OOS admission rate for UNC is about 10%.</p>
<p>I think the Matches and Reaches have been correctly identified. Of course, there are not any strictly speaking safeties but as a whole I’d imagine she would get into at least one match school. To be safer, of course you should apply to more safeties, but that would burden the student, and it is not that cheap to apply to a school…</p>
<p>might look at Holy Cross(don’t have to be religious) top25 LAC with good computer science program. Like Duke, Holy Cross has good balance of academics and social activities. HC is also need-blind for admissions-meets 100% demonstrated financial aid. Holy Cross has JAN15TH application due date.</p>
<p>UNC-CH: Match
UMI: High match
CMU: Reach
Berkeley: High match (can you afford full-freight?)
UCLA: Match/High match (can you afford full-freight?)
NCSU: Safety
Purdue: Low match/Match
Cornell: Reach
Duke: Reach</p>