<p>I was rejected from all of my target and reach schools with a 4.02 GPA and 2250 SAT with 800 in Math II and 740 in Bio. I only got into 2 out of the 15 schools I applied to, but it is what it is. (I applied to Brown, Cornell, Harvard, Stanford, Tufts, UChicago, USC, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, WashU, MIT, Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, and UMass Amherst.)</p>
<p>I got into the Commonwealth Honors College at UMass Amherst and since I'm an in-state student, the tuition will be pretty cheap. The CS program there is selective, and the major itself is a pretty good guarantee of a job. But I would've LOVED to go to California for school. My top choice was Stanford or UC Berkeley..(realistically speaking, it was UCLA) but I was only admitted to UC San Diego as a Biology major with a specialization in Bioinformatics. The CS major was impacted and I was admitted with my second choice. I suppose I kind of like biology, but I don't know what I can do with a bio degree once I get out of college. My mom's been telling me how a ton of her friends who are bio researches can't find a job right now.</p>
<p>So the final question comes down to, what are the pros and cons of each option? At first, I was bent on not going to UMass Amherst because I didn't want to associate myself with that name, I thought I would definitely get in somewhere better...I guess I thought a little too highly of myself >.< </p>