Seriously dudes, dudettes, and seniors....

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Can anyone please tell me which are the easiest to get into based on my application's strenghts and weaknesses?</p>

<p>Major: Computer Science (not engineering)
REACH SCHOOLS (want to apply to the three easiest reach schools with decent computer science departments)</p>

<p>U Rochester (high acceptance rate)
Union College (so-so computer science department?)
Lehigh
U Maryland (high gpa)
USC (legacy)
UVA (in state)</p>

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<li>GPA (2.9), 5 AP's </li>
<li>SAT score is below average/average (1950)</li>
<li>essay; international experience (Bolivia, Korea, Peru, Argentina), Living with Father's Absense (War in Iraq-Diplomat)</li>
<li>EC's; intern at Smithsonian Institute, Janmedia Software Development Company (<a href="http://www.janmedia.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.janmedia.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li>
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<p>that gpa is really going to hurt you at any school... you better have a rising trend and have a good explanation for why you did so poorly</p>

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<p>rejected from union</p>

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<p>Unless your gpa is clearly rising or you go to an impossibly diifficult school, you need to look at some other schools that are true safeties. Union, Lehigh, Rochester, and in-state Virginia would be long reaches. </p>

<p>BTW, what is your class ranking? That would give us some idea how hard your school is. Are you looking at any clear match or safety schools?</p>

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<p>My school doesn't have class rankings. It's a really large public school (3000+) and supposedely the best in Virginia (Westfield High School). Average SAT here is about 1130. About a third of all 3000 were on the honor roll so I'd say it's competitive.</p>

<p>Safeties and Match are already set. I just hope that this 1950 SAT score isn't a waste. Grades also are on the rise (2.2 to 3.6 jump my junior year)</p>

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<p>However my senior year (3 AP courses - tough course load) I got two C's so it went back down (2.8-2.9). Anyways I think I can pull off all A's and B's second quarter but I dunno if it will hope. As for the first two years of my high school I basically had problems because of 2 reasons) moving around and because my dad went to iraq for a year. My junior year I kicked ass (3.6 GPA).</p>

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<p>btw UofR doesn't have a high acceptence rate. It have a 48% acceptance but the majority of the acceptees had high gpas and high sats. Your GPA is seriously weak, and UofR looks more at the transcript and the idvidual than the test scores. Your ecs are strong and your essay sounds real sweet. So i'd say crunch senior year and bring up that gpa significantly. Leigh is pretty competitive, right?</p>

<p>Good luck</p>