Match Me: What's the best possible schools I can get into RD for CS/Cybersecurity?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Demographics

  • US Citizen
  • State/Location of residency: Illinois
  • Type of high school: Large public high school
  • Gender/Race/Ethnicity: Male, Indian-American

Intended Major(s): CS or Cybersecurity

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Unweighted HS GPA: 3.8
  • Weighted HS GPA (incl. weighting system): 4.2/4
  • Class Rank: N/A
  • ACT/SAT Scores: 1560 SAT (780/780 split)

Coursework
7 AP (3 last year, 4 this year) - CS (4; was dual enrollment), Microeconomics (3), US Gov and Politics (4)

Taking Calc BC, Physics C: M, Stats, and Macroeconomics this year
Will have taken 8 additional honors classes by the end of HS, including honors engineering classes

Awards

  • National Merit Semifinalist
  • AP Scholar
  • High Honor Roll throughout HS
  • 2nd place in Assembly Modeling competition
  • AWS Practitioner Course Completion Cert
  • Spanish Class Student of the Semester Freshman Year

Extracurriculars

  • Model UN (member all four years, became president this year)
  • JV Tennis Team (Soph and JR)
  • Youth Leader at my religious institution (~100 hours over 4 years)
  • Student Council (joined this year)
  • Built COVID Data Visualization website
  • Volunteered 12 hours at food pantry

Essays/LORs/Other
I’d give my essay a 7/10, and my engineering teacher wrote me a rec letter I haven’t read (I’d say she knows me pretty well)

Cost Constraints / Budget
N/A

Schools
Reaches I applied to EA: UIUC, UT-AUSTIN, PURDUE (Cyber), GATECH

What are the best schools I can get in to? I’ve applied to a bunch of schools already but I wanted to know if there are any elite schools (T30s/T20s) I have a chance at that I should also apply to. Thanks!

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My son had a little similar stat to yours last year, and he is attending UC San Diego, majoring Computer Science. He was rejected to UCLA. We are from California.
Honestly, it is easier to get accepted to OSS State Universities than In-State, but you will have to pay much higher tuition. My son’s friend was rejected to all UCs, but got accepted to UIUC computer science. UIUC CS is higher ranking than UCSD. UIUC’s CS is top 5.

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With Your semi-finalist status, maybe look at USC. I think you could get into Florida as a top 30.

Good luck.

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Would you be interested in Canadian schools? I’ve heard good things about Univ Waterloo.

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