Going into application cycle we didn’t have true safeties, instead we decided to apply broadly and hope for the best.
The results are out and our experience was interesting. I would have expected couple of more acceptances. It is definately very competitive even for girls at top CS schools.
DD has four good options to choose from! UCB not being a direct admit to major is less interesting.
Acceptances for CS - UT Austin, UIUC, UC San Diego, UWashington (Direct Admit), UC Berkeley (L&S)
Rejects - CMU, MIT, Columbia, USC, Georgia Tech, UMich, UCLA
Wait List - Harvey Mudd, Rice
The results would have been less impressive, I suspect, if you had been applying for a son. My son would have seriously considered UW if he had had direct admit. Let us know what she decides!
@PurpleTitan - We are OOS for all the schools she has been admitted to. @stardustmom - I am not so sure about that, Couple of DD’s guy friends have admits to multiple top 20 engineering schools for CS.
2, and nonresident direct admission to Washington CS is particularly outstanding.
The UW website notes:
“Computer Science Direct Admission is offered to about 250 freshmen, selected from more than 5,000 candidates. … Computer Science DA is designed primarily for Washington State resident students. Although a small number of non-Washington residents may receive offers, there is a very strong preference for Washington students.”
If I recall correctly, in past years, maybe a dozen nonresidents received that offer. Congratulations!
Interesting she got in all public schools and did not get in the privates. Of course, none of those are easy to get into, but I just noticed that pattern. Not sure if you were eluding to that as well.
Lucky D! Now she gets to look at campuses, culture, costs (including travel) to decide which one is the best fit. She does NOT need to go to UW-Seattle to be able to work at top computer based companies, btw.
Yep. UIUC, UT-Austin, UW-Seattle, and UCSD are all roughly on the same level for CS, IMO (https://m.slashdot.org/story/208691). Cal maybe a tiny bit higher, but why compete to get in to the major if you don’t have to? The only reason to go to Cal is if she is not 100% sure she will major in CS.
BTW, I believe that there are no direct admits to CS at Cal L&S.
@PurpleTitan Ya, I get that. Point was she didn’t get into any privates, was just wondering if OP was trying to find correlation between females getting accepted to CS in certain types of schools and not in others. Cause otherwise, not sure what she is inquiring about, maybe just updating an old thread, a congratulatory thread, idk.
My son got rejected for a ton of privates for CS- Vandy, NW, USC, Stanford ; while being waitlisted for Carnegie-Mellon and Northeastern. And got rejected at UCLA as well. Even got waitlisted for UCSD and UCI.
It just seems like there were 2 things I got out of this - 1)
CS is too popular a major and 2) yield protection had to have been going on at UCI and UCSD. I saw way too many people at these 2 schools with significantly lower GPAs and test scores get in, while kids who could cure cancer were getting waitlisted.
But good news in the end, he got into UCB for CS, albeit in L&S and not EECS.
@ProfessorPlum168:
“yield protection had to have been going on at UCI and UCSD. I saw way too many people at these 2 schools with significantly lower GPAs and test scores get in, while kids who could cure cancer were getting waitlisted.”
Were the kids you were comparing applying to the same major?
Yeah going thru the UCI thread there were quite a few CS majors who got in with lower scores. And people with really good stats being waitlisted.
The stats show about a consistent 35% acceptance rate for Computer Science at UCI over the past couple of years, and I seriously doubt if there would be tons of elite students who would have UCI as their first school of choice for CS, even though it is a good school.
^ From my vintage point there is little yield protection at UC schools though geographical considerations abound, ie instate vs OOS/international and S Cal vs N Cal. My DD applied to five UCs (from UCB eecs to UCI) as CS major this admission cycle, all accepted with regents. Her UCI application was strong enough for admissions to top CS schools like MIT at the same time.
This would have been a big factor in rejections at MIT and USC and others. AT UMICH the anti-affirmative action law would have taken away her “female in Coms Sci” “ hook”