First time posting, so feel free to tell me if I’m doing something wrong.
Rising Senior
Grades: 3.57 UW, 4.25 W
SAT: 1580
SAT II: 800 Math II and 800 chem
APs: AP Chem 5, AP Calc BC: 5, AP CS: 5, AP Physics 1: 4
ECs:
founder/secretary of a club at my school.
Part of a nonprofit that helps teach kids how to code and am co-president/co-founder of chapter at my school.
Science Olympiad 9 years (state and regional medals).
Teach for school’s tutoring club and am officer.
Intended Major: CS
Colleges: all UCs, Georgia Tech, UIUC, Cornell, CMU (for Info Systems),Northeastern, Purdue and NYU
The UC’s give no financial aid to out of state students. Can your family afford $65,000/year. What is your UC GPA?
A 3.57 UW GPA would make all of these schools reaches, especially CMU.
What’s your estimated class rank? If you are outside the top 10%, all these schools outside the UCs will be reaches for CS. I’m assuming you are instate for CA since you said you are applying to all the UCs?
Agree that all these schools are reaches. CS is an impacted major at all of the UCs AFAIK, so even the UCs with higher acceptance rates still may be a reach for CS.
What are your match schools? You will also need at least one affordable safety.
Run the net price calculators on each school’s site to get an estimate of COA.