I’m going to be a senior in a high school in California. I have a 3.7 unweighted GPA and a 4.2 weighted GPA, and have taken and passed all 7 AP classes with a large number of honors classes as well (I am going to take 4 more AP’s this year for a total of 11). My SAT score is 1490, and my superscore is a 1520. I have a 34 on the ACT. My class rank is 27 out of 855. My extracurriculars include:
Varsity Basketball (9th-12th grade)
National Honors Society (10th-12th grade; board position in the biggest club at our school)
Cool 2 Be Kind (10th-12th grade; club to raise awareness against bullying).
Tutoring (11th-12th grade)
Basketball coach/ trainer (10-11th grade)
100+ hours of community service
Volunteering at Kaiser Hospital
Volunteering at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center
Peer College Counselor- helping educate students at my 4000+ on what to do to get into college and their possibilities.
Internship in Pharmacy
Internship in Restaurant Management
My list so far is:
-UT Austin
-UMichigan Ann Arbor
-UWashington
-UIUC
-Duke
-Georgia Tech
-Harvard
-Lehigh (Computer Science & Business Integrated Program)
-Northwestern
-Stanford
-Purdue
-UPenn (another Comp Sci and Business Integrated Program).
-UCLA
-UC Berkeley
-UC San Diego
-UC Santa Barbara
-UC Irvine
-Cal Poly SLO
-Cal Poly Pomona
Do I need more match/safety schools? If so, can you please recommend strong safety schools with good computer science programs?
Thank You.
You need to lop off some schools. An honest personal assessment - Stanford and Harvard is probably close to zero chance. Northwestern probably zero chance as well unless you ED. UCLA is unlikely with Engineering. No idea on Penn but probably very low. On the other end, Pomona is a good safety.
The others are all reaches and some are matches. You probably want to get it down to say 10-12 schools. Chances are you’ll probably get into a couple of the UCs, UIUC and Purdue. The others, iffy.
With a 3.7 UW your chances for UCLA CS which is single digit in admit rate will be practically 0. The median UW is a 4.0. The campus wide including L&S has a 3.8 at the 25th percentile already.
I would take @ProfessorPlum168’s advice and remove many of the super Reach schools from your list. As pointed out, CPP would be a good safety school and looks like your only safety school on the list. I would add UC Santa Cruz and/or UC Riverside for safety schools or San Diego State/Long Beach as safety schools.
UCLA/UCB would be Reach schools. UCSD would be a Low Reach-High Match School. UCSB/UCI would High Match- Match schools. UC Davis might be a good Match school and SLO would be a Low Reach school.
I cannot comment on most of the OOS schools, UT Austin as an OOS applicant is a Reach. Purdue probably a Match.
With CS, you need to apply widely and the competition is fierce so what might look like solid Match schools from a few years ago are now Reach schools.
Best of luck.
You have no safety schools or any schools approaching a safety on your list.
You have all reach schools on your list. You’re going to end up with all rejections, or an acceptance to 1 or 2 schools you can’t afford. Purdue is a match for your stats, but it’s out of state, so you probably can’t afford it. For these schools your SAT is about average, but the GPA is well below average.
Also make sure whichever school you have on your list, you’ve determined that you can afford it. Otherwise you’re completely wasting your time. For computers, it makes almost no difference where you go to school.
Not sure about others, but I would not cobsider Mich, Lehigh, and NU safeties for you. I think you have a chance if you apply ED1 to NU or Lehigh because they admit majority from ED1. Michigan is ultra tough for out of state, especially for engineering or business.
I read and comment on chances just to compare mine, so I have seen quite a bit. Dont be surprised how many 3.9UW and 1500+ with good EC applications out there.
Good luck to you.
OP you have posted the same question again and I have moved that thread over to the California Colleges forum where you might get some different answers.