Computer Science for UIUC, UMich, Purdue, UC's, Cal States?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hello! I posted this before but noone responded so I was hoping I’d get better luck.

Colleges: UCLA, UCB, UCI, UCSB, UCSD, UCD, UCR, CPP, Cal Poly SLO, SJSU, SDSU, UMich (EA), UIUC (EA), USC (Priority), UWash (RD), Georgia Tech (RD), Purdue (EA), NorthEASTern (EA), NYU (RD), University of Wisconsin - Madison (EA)

Race: Indian
School: upper class asians, 70% asian school
Rank: School does not rank, but competitive for LA county.
GPA: 3.90 UW, unsure of my weighted
3.92 UC Unweighted, 4.25 UC Weighted + upward trend (1 B in freshman year and a B the summer after freshman year, straight A’s after that)
Major: Computer Science / Computer Engineering / CSE, I have second choices like math+cs for uiuc and cognitive science for ucsd and software engineering for UCI, etc.

Test Scores:
ACT: 35 ( 35 reading, 35 writing, 35 math, 36 science, unreleased Writing) → concords to 1530-1560 on SAT
SAT: 1480 (710 English, 770 math, 8-6-8 essay), 1440 (740 English, 770 math, 5-4-6 essay), superscore 1510 (740,770). I’m probably not gonna send my SAT to most schools tbh.
Subject Tests: Chemistry (790), Math II (790).
AP:
9th: No APs allowed in school
10th grade: Computer Science A (5)
11th Grade: English Lang (4), US History (5), Computer Science Principles (5), Chemistry (3) [I took principles because it was the first year it was offered at our school]
12th Grade: Calculus BC, Spanish Lang, US Gov & Politics, Physics C

Extracurriculars (mediocre):

Peer Tutor for 150+ hours at high school and 2 different middle schools (10-12), also tutored students and helped them learn computer science.
Event Coordinator for Leo Club, 70+ hours (10-12)
Carnatic Singing, performed many concerts for more than 6 years (until 10th)
Classical Singing (11-12)
Participated in a music camp over the summer, performed an opera (12)
Played the Guitar for 6+ years (9-12), Member of Rock band Club (10)
Created a video game for my friend’s birthday (9)
Took a course at a summer tech camp to learn C# and Unity to create video games (9)
Member of cultural school from a very young age (6+ years) , I learn my native language and participate in indian cultural events. I’ve volunteered for many events and I’m an active member. Also member of the student board.
Assistant teacher - I help young students learn my native language at the aforementioned school. (11-12)
I don’t have this completely confirmed yet but I’m getting an internship soon at a tech company?

Awards:
California Scholarship Federation (10-12)
AP Scholar w/ Distinction
National Merit Commended Scholar

What do i have a chance to get into?? Which ones are reaches, matches, and safeties?

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You are competitive for all the UC’s and CSU’s.

Best of luck.

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thank you, hopefully my essays end up stellar

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You’re competitive for UMich EA, but the overall EA acceptance rate is about 20%. The overall acceptance for OOS is 19%. So UMich is a reach for all OOS.

You will have to decide whether to apply to LSA or CoE, since both offer a degree in CS. Acceptance to the UMich CoE will be a bit more difficult than LSA.

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Competitive for all except for UCLA and Berkeley EECS, and a reach for UW-Seattle.

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UCLA, UCB, UMich, UIUC, USC, UWash, Georgia Tech, Purdue, Northeastern, and NYU are all reaches in CS for anybody. So you may want to cut a few (or not, if you’re happy having that many reaches)

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2018 Freshman admit rates for UC GPA of 4.20 or above capped weighted and not major specific: 
UCB: 37%
UCLA: 41%

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@MWolf yeah I’m aware that all of those are reaches, I have a lot of safeties though (cal states, santa clara, ucr and ucsc) and a decent amount of matches so I decided apply to a lot of reaches.

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@switchoroo In that case, I would say that, as long as you’re happy with attending any of your safeties, and you can afford them, you’re actually done with setting up your college list.

Go and shine in your Senior year, and good luck!