<p>Yes, do present your programming experience: list languages, projects completed, competitions won (such as codeforce, etc), any money earned from it…</p>
<p>Yes you can do a nice job of presenting these things trying to give an idea of time spent and mastery for a nice EC. Some people do make websites with online resume and demo but you can’t be sure anyone can take the time to look.</p>
<p>College algebra is just considered a remedial class for those who didn’t have the usual HS sequence. I’m not really sure how it is seen to take it as a hs student. You would normally want to be at least enrolled in precalc/trig as a sr.</p>
<p>Visit the Alabama forum here to learn more.</p>
<p>What is your budget can you afford out of state schools?</p>
<p>Yes but Calculus is a necessity if I am not wrong in most of the top programs though you should also see if you can give SAT subject test 2 with 750 above top univs might accept you as you have a good ACT</p>
<p>Actually precalculus is a necessity, not calculus. Calc is nice to have if you apply to a STEM major but not require.</p>
<p>we still have the question of money, OP. Are you sure you can afford these schools?</p>
<p>No, I don’t know if I can afford these schools, I guess I was totally misinformed about financial aid for OOS schools. I’ll have to re-evaluate my options a whole lot.</p>
<p>Do you think Cal Poly is an option for me? I can’t seem to find a calculator for their financial aid, and I don’t know their reputation for generosity with it.</p>
<p>CA public schools are not funding OOS students. Cal Poly OOS is about 32k per year. Most CA students who are low income are funded through Calgrant for tuition only at CSUs and have to find their own money for room and board. Calgrat is from the state taxpayers and not available for OOS students. Middle class pays full fare at CSUs (instate 22k). You will only get any Pell you are eligible for plus student loans. The rare people who get something get a couple thousand.</p>
<p>Let us know if we can help to explain FA and your options. That’s what we’re here for.</p>
<p>CalPoly is about $25K/yr for in-state this year. OOS students spend an additional $248/credit hour; at 30 credit hours per year, that’s is an additional 7440/yr.</p>
<p>Here’s the CalPoly net price calculator, but don’t expect much relief from OOS schools:</p>
<p><a href=“Cal State Apply | CSU”>Cal State Apply | CSU;
<p>You are going to have to check admissions requirements at the colleges when you search. </p>
<p>For instance, CSU’s usually require 4 semesters of algebra and 2 of geometry. But Cal Poly asks for 4 algebra, 2 geometry and 4 advanced math.
<a href=“Cal Poly Admissions”>Cal Poly Admissions;
<p>It doesn’t look like you will meet the admission requirements for UA either
<a href=“Freshman Requirements – Admissions”>http://gobama.ua.edu/steps/freshman-req/</a></p>
<p>Given this new info about your Y chromosome handicap, OP, you can remove Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, and Smith from the list I suggested in #7. </p>
<p>Apply to Alabama, for sure, but you may be able to go for relatively the same money to Colorado College, Carleton, Macalester, Richmond, USC, Vassar, Vandy, or UVA. Some of these are going to be reaches for you, but not all. I haven’t checked out Skidmore or Illinois Wesleyan for the size of the department, but you might want to consider them. I did rule out Pitzer because the CS at Harvey Mudd is over-enrolled, and I also eliminated St. Olafs and Dickinson as too small but you might want to or have that option. And don’t forget (I’d say as a final recourse) @BrownParent’s suggestion that you examine the Midwest Student Exchange Program:</p>
<p><a href=“http://msep.mhec.org”>http://msep.mhec.org</a></p>
<p>I might be wrong about meeting the UA req’s or not, take a look for yourself. If you meet it you should apply right away I think the deadline for the award is Dec 15 and don’t wait till the last minute. You don’t have to go there but it would be nice to have it as an option.</p>
<p>Alright, thanks for the info on Cal Poly. Looks like that one is a no-go.</p>
<p>Thanks for the list jkeil. I’ll be sure to apply to Alabama and Colorado College. However, do you think it’s worth it to even apply to schools like Vassar or Vandy? Money is kind of tight, and I can’t afford to be dishing out a lot of $50-$75 app fees. If so, which ones would you think I would be best off applying to (chance of being admitted, potential financial aid, etc)?</p>
<p>If money is tight to the point college fees are a problem, you’re probably eligible for a fee waiver.
Go tell your guidance counselor - all s/he has to do is check “fee waiver” and give a reason, such as “financial circumstances” or others (there’s a whole list). Essentially, colleges don’t want a lower middle class student to not apply because of the application fee.
You can also fill that out, give it to your counselor, then photocopy it and send the copies to each college not on common app.
<a href=“http://www.nacacnet.org/studentinfo/feewaiver/documents/applicationfeewaiver.pdf”>http://www.nacacnet.org/studentinfo/feewaiver/documents/applicationfeewaiver.pdf</a>
There are also colleges that are “free to apply” (no application fee).You can search the commonapp for those
<a href=“https://commonapp.org/Login#!PublicPages/ApplicationRequirements”>https://commonapp.org/Login#!PublicPages/ApplicationRequirements</a>
CLick on “app fee” and the colleges will re-order themselves from $0 to $75 :)</p>