No good awards on my Common App

My parents are willing to go full pay
I have removed Northwestern, and already gotten into Upitt(rolling)
I’ve got UC Berkeley, UCLA, CMU, Columbia, Cornell(ED), JHU(ED2, Applied Math+Statistics), Emory, Georgia Tech, UIUC, University of Michigan, Northeastern, Vanderbilt, Washington University in St Louis, and a SUNY. I wanted UW but it’s a bit far away and the number of essays they want killed me, so I removed it
I am ecstatic about Upitt and am willing to attend. On my school’s Naviance, I am well within range for UC Berkeley, JHU, Northeastern, UIUC, and Georgia Tech, and for others I am within range, which hopefully means that I am at least academically qualified. It’s the awards that I worried about before, which is why I made the post above^, and I’ve gotten some new insight.

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Also NYU

Well then…you have an acceptance already that you would be happy to attend. Apply to other colleges, and then just see what happens.

With my stats, would it be possible to get a scholarship/honors college from any college? Will they look at awards? If I were not to end up at any of the Top CS/Data Science programs I will at least get some money at the place I go.

You need to get off the awards. Again it’s whAt you do, not who recognizes you.

You won’t get money at the OOS publics. You might at Pitt. The other top schools you chose like Vandy and WUSTL have merit but it’s very difficult.

You have Pitt in the bag. If you want merit you need to apply to schools a tier lower. Or publics that give like Bama, Arizona etc

But if PITT works then you are playing with house money so u can try

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Yes you have the potential for scholarships and honors college acceptances. Please….forget about your “lack of” awards.

Did you hear about scholarship from Pitt?

Many of the colleges on your list don’t give a nickel in merit awards…Cornell, Penn, Columbia, JHU. Very few and highly competitive awards from the rest. Except…really nothing from any of the UCs unless you receive a regents scholarship which I think is $2000 or so.

But apply and see. You are in a great place. You already have that affordable and good acceptance that you would be happy to attend in Pitt. So…apply elsewhere if you want to.

I am a bit flummoxed by your list. Trying to figure out what schools like UCLA and Cornell have in common. Did you make your list based on USNews rankings? Really consider the other things beside rankings. Do you want to live in a nice warm urban climate like UCLA, or do you want to be in a rather small town/rural area like Cornell?

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When you apply to the top schools they have lots to choose from like you.

If you apply to a tier lower private or public you’ll have your best odds of getting $$

I’m applying to a lot of the higher ranked CS or Data Science schools, and I didn’t really get to visit any colleges besides the ones on the East Coast, so I haven’t paid too much attention to the campus or chemistry. I do really like cool, isolated locations, which is why I liked Cornell.

I like pretty much any campus and have no real preference on climate