Should I be doing anything else?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm a Sophmore going into 11th next year and I want to know what you guys would recommend for someone who wants to go to these colleges (not official) and wants to pursue these majors or minors (not official).</p>

<p>Potential Majors/Minors:
Animation/Special Effects
Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering - General
Computer Graphics
Computer Hardware
Computer Hardware Engineering
Computer Software
Computer Systems
Game and Interactive Media Design
Graphics Design
Robotics
Software Engineering
Web/Multimedia Design</p>

<p>Colleges:
MIT
Cal-Tech
University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign
California University - Berkley
Georgia Tech
Princeton
Carnegie Mellon University
Stanford University
Cornell University
University of Washington
University of Texas--Austin
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor</p>

<p>Courses I planned to take (Tell me what should be changed if this doesn't sound good enough):
PRIMARY COURSES:</p>

<p>ADV PL ENG LANG COMP
ADV PL CALCULUS AB
ADV PL PHYSICS B
ADV PL U.S. HISTORY
ADV PL CHEMISTRY
ADV PL US GOVT/POL
DEBATE III HONORS</p>

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<p>All other computer courses such as Intro to Eng. Design or Intro to Info Tech., etc are too easy and I'm probably going to do them over the summer since I'm what one would call a "computer nerd".</p>

<p>Thank you very much for those who took this as seriously as I am.</p>

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<p>Are there any clubs at your school that have to do with robotics or engineering? If so, join one, unless you’re already part of one. If not, create one. Your courses look good enough to me, so…I guess the only thing I’m not seeing is ECs, and for all I know you just didn’t write them down.</p>

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<p>ECs as in Engineering courses? And I don’t believe their are I should start one, but do you have any suggestions?</p>

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<p>You have public Us from 6 different states. Is your family prepared to pay $60K/year for college (because that’s what it would be for most of those OOS schools)?</p>

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<p>If your HS offers calc BC, then you should consider taking that instead of AB (for schools like MIT/Cal-Tech).</p>

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<p>Maybe look into summer programs. Carnegie Mellon has an excellent one.</p>