I got the Fordham Presidential Scholarship in 1979 - full tuition and R&B - I remember the letter said it was worth $25,000! I couldn’t fathom such an amount. I lived in the neighborhood and commuted! My guidance counselor called me in and asked how I got it - I told her I saw a flyer on your bulletin board - required 90 average, top 10% of class, some SAT (can’t remember the cutoff but mine was 1430.) No interview. 
@RandyErika
New to this site, but of all the threads I have read here this rings the most true.
My kids had better grades than me/ went to a better high school/ had better board scores and couldn’t get in to the schools I did.
Same number of schools but many more applicants.
And, in our day, so much more casual and less pressure.
In the mid-2000s, in the wake of the tech bubble crash, at UCB, the L&S CS major graduated under 100 students per year, and was not a restricted major, so that students with 2.0 GPAs could enter it.
In 2017, the UCB L&S CS major graduated 557 students; it has been a restricted major for some time, requiring a 3.0 GPA in the prerequisite courses for students who entered in 2013 (raised to 3.3 GPA in 2015). This is in addition to the 401 students who graduated in the EECS major that year; based on number of students in upper level EE versus CS courses in the class schedule, nearly all EECS major emphasize CS rather than EE.
Other schools have also had surging interest in their CS majors.
In 1981, I was at an inner-city HS in Chicago, where I was at a predominantly AA and Hispanic HS, finishing as the valedictorian. No AP classes and with so-so test scores, didnt even hit 1400 for the SAT. Got into Northwestern and University of Illinois, but couldn’t afford to live in a dorm and thought that Northwestern’s exorbitant $10,500/yr tuition was way too much. Wound up going to DePaul and its more affordable $4,200/yr tuition and being in the first full Computer Science graduating class 4 years later.
Fast forward 37 years. My kid is waaaaaay smarter than I ever was, having near perfect test scores that by itself would put him the running at any school in the US, 10 AP classes, one of the top 40 chess players in the US in his age group in the US, blah blah blah - and gets rejected by Northwestern, amongst other places. He spends a good 7-8 hours a day on homework, whereas I probably spent 7-8 hours a week. Life is sure different.
I can now reminisce with a smile though, since my kid did make it into and going to that wonderful UCB L&S CS program in the fall.
Graduated in August '69 after two years of high school in California and one year + a summer of English in Illinois (where four years of English was the only absolute requirement). I did not have four years of math or science or anything else, but I had always been a year ahead in every subject (and there were no APs back then). Accepted to Reed. I might have applied to Swarthmore and Antioch as well (and maybe Marlboro College in Vermont?) but I honestly don’t recall. SAT 740 verbal 800 math. No ECs to speak of except for being a bad wrestler and a general smart ass. I would probably have been totally screwed in today’s world.
If there was posting on a site like this way back when I was in high school (late 70s), I never would have needed to ask, “How do you manage your stress in high school?” That’s a sad reality these days for many.