<p>I have taken 7 AP classes and 4 honors classes, w/a 3.89 UW GPA (5 semester B's in math/science classes) and 4.48 W (10-12) GPA.
I also have a 2300+ SAT, 750+ science subject test, and 800 mathII subject test.</p>
<p>I have considered most of the top schools/those thought of most often for computer science, but I feel like a lot of them are too high of reaches for me. After those, I feel like my academic stats are too high for the rest of the colleges. I don't care about prestige, just want to be with people who have around my stats academically. Cost is not a factor.</p>
<p>You should start with a safety first which you are assured of admission, can definitely afford, and would be happy to attend Have you got that school selected yet?</p>
<p>All good CS majors will include both theory and practice (programming projects where you apply the concepts you learn) in the courses and curricula.</p>
<p>You want a school where people have your stats but aren’t reaches for you?</p>
<p>I’m confused. You have great stats. You could go anywhere. Are you concerned about rejection or is it that you don’t want to spend money on a lot of schools?</p>
<p>Are you in fact asking for matches where there will be enough students with your stats? Your state flagship ought to have that. </p>
<p>Which college is too reach for you? MIT, CMU, Stanford or Caltech? If that is too high, how about Berkeley, UCLA? Too Big of a school? Try Harvey Mudd… Your thoughts, please</p>
<p>@"Erin’s Dad" Yup, I have a safety- a state flagship.</p>
<p>@ucbalumnus True, what I meant is that I would like a good mix of theoretical and practical application. For example, I have heard that UChicago’s computer science is more theoretical than practical, which I would not want. I would also want the college to have a large selection of courses in the computer science department.</p>
<p>@jkeil911 I feel as if colleges that I can think of now are all either too hard for me to get into (reaches) or safeties. I am looking for more match schools.</p>
<p>@artloversplus I’m in CA, and aren’t all those schools reaches?</p>
<p>You can apply widely to UCs and CSUs (including CPSLO and SJSU) for CS. Some of these should be easier to be admitted to than reach-level.</p>
<p>At Berkeley, L&S is probably somewhat less selective than CoE EECS for frosh admission, but L&S frosh need to make a 3.0 college GPA in the CS major prerequisites to declare the L&S CS major. L&S CS and EECS share the same CS courses, but EECS has more physics and math requirements.</p>
<p>You can look at on-line catalogs and schedules at each school to see what CS courses are offered.</p>
<p>Mudd is a reach, but give it a shot. As a female you have better odds than the averages, and your test scores are up there. The Bs in Math & Science might hurt you, but I’d still give it a shot. My daughter didn’t have all As in math & science, and she got in 2 years ago.</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I don’t love UCs sooooo much… I’d be fine with attending them. Which is why I was hoping for some match private schools. But there doesn’t seem to be any. :(</p>
<p>^^ they expect you know the languages already. More math modeling, theories etc. A small department, about 30 kids this year, but 60 next year. Straw poll found that every kid got in to work with great companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, FB, Twiters… or in top CS Master programs.</p>
<p>In addition to Cornell and CMU consider John Hopkins. It has a strong CS department. One notch down consider Northeastern. Since you want to be around students with stats like yours, apply aggressively to mid reach universities such Brown, UPenn, and Dartmouth. And if you find a university among the reach universities that excites you apply ED. You’ll double your chances. As a female majoring in CS you’ll have extra chances.</p>
<p>OP, students with your stats frequently find themselves with a lot of reaches-for-everybody and not many if any matches. make sure you have a safety, first of all, that you can afford. Then you can look hard for schools that aren’t reaches but that have a critical mass of students like you. I suggest you look at larger schools rather than small ones because you’re more likely to find this critical mass at a larger school like a state flagship, not necessarily your own. </p>
<p>Another way to address this is to look for schools with excellence in your major but not extreme selectivity in admissions. I think, for instance, that Brandeis, where I went to grad school, has excellent English majors, but Brandeis the school doesn’t have the selectivity of Berkeley, nor does Brandeis selectivity for English majors mean that prospective English majors have a harder time getting into Brandeis than other majors. One reason is that this major, English, is seldom ever impacted the way the STEM majors so often are. Unfortunately for you, it looks like you’re heading for a STEM field, yes?</p>
<p>My daughter had slightly better stats than yours with 10 APs and her matches are mostly excellent public schools with the exception of USC. She didn’t want to apply to any place hot.
But Rice and Vanderbilt could be your matches.</p>
<p>Assuming that money isn’t an issue, consider UIUC, UT-Austin, & UMich as well. All have high reputations in CS but all are OOS publics, so don’t expect much fin aid from those places. Merit aid is possible, though, as a high-stats female interested in CS who would bring geographical diversity.</p>