<p>According to my school, I've got a 4.1/3.4, but I've recalculated my UC/CSU GPA and found that I'm actually 3.75/3.41. Now, hopefully private Jesuit schools will count all of my honors credits and religion classes, but for the majority, this is what I'm dealing with. Please check out my list and tell me which matches are now reaches; also, I realize many of the reaches are unrealistic! Just bear with me x)</p>
<p>Note- I want to major in Computer Science! So I'd also like to ask, would it help me to apply to a different major then switch into STEM once I get in?</p>
<p>I'm a girl at a private, Roman Catholic school in southern CA
GPA 3.75w/ 3.5uw
SAT 2090- 680Math 640CR 770Writing
EC's:
Red Cross Club President
Student Exchange Program Club Officer
NHS
CSF
Medical Magnet Program at my school
IDTech camp- Programming in Java
Verified Certificate of Achievement- CS50 through edX
Assisting in administering vision exams to folks at nursing homes- about 80 hours
About 100 Community service hours, includes
- 3 summers of VBS
- 8 years of altar serving
- Some volunteer work with the Knights of Columbus
One season of sports in school, two outside of school</p>
<p>I'll have 6 AP's by the end of senior year. Let me know if posting my classes would help.</p>
<p>College List</p>
<p>Reach:
Stanford
UC Berkeley
UCLA
USC
UCSD
Boston U
U of Texas- Austin
Cal Poly- SLO</p>
<p>Touch:
UC Davis
UCI
San Diego State U
Santa Clara U
UC Riverside
USD
U of Washington
---Northeastern
---Cal Poly Pomona
---Chapman U
---UC Santa Cruz</p>
<p>Would any of these colleges be sure bets for me?</p>
<p>I have to say that Stanford is beyond a reach for you. It would be a “reach” for someone with a 2300 SAT and an unweighted 4.0. It had a 5% acceptance rate last year. UCLA and UCB are probably a reach with a UC-weighted GPA of under 4.0. My son had a similar composite SAT score and a UC-weighted GPA of just slightly over 4.0, and he did not get into Berkeley. He is from out-of-state, but he wasn’t applying to a STEM department. I think that most of your “touch” list are pretty likely, apart from Northeastern and Davis for Engineering (you can probably get into Davis for Arts & Sciences).</p>
<p>Have you looked at the cost of your schools? For instance, UT will cost ~$50K/year. Are your parents willing to pay that? Both UT and UW are OOS public Us which don’t really offer aid to OOS students.</p>
<p>probably not. gaming the system is near impossible. admissions officers have seen it all, and this one they’ve seen in 20% of their applications.</p>
<p>gotta consider your family’s ability to contribute to your education, OP. run those net price calculators.</p>
<p>If frosh admissions selectivity differs by major, then changing major after enrolling likely means facing another admissions process.</p>
<p>Note that some schools, like UC Berkeley and UC Davis, offer CS in both the engineering division (College of Engineering) and the liberal arts division (College of Letters and Science).</p>
<p>You need to find out what your family will contribute and run net price calculators to see financial aid estimates.</p>