Suggest some Safeties please!

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hey, I thought I had narrowed down my list, and it is fairly narrowed down but I wanted to make sure I had like real safeties, not safeties that I feel I doubt myself. </p>

<p>My stats are....(from chance thread) </p>

<p>My major is going to be Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or EECS
I am a male at the most competitive high school in the area. I am a Senior.</p>

<p>Academics:
-Cumulative GPA (Unweighted):3.75~3.8 (grade change being made)
-Cumulative Weighted GPA: 4.4~4.5 (will go up due to grade change)
-UC GPA: 4.08 (capped at 8 classes)
- Taking the most difficult classes offered at school
- Doing the full IB Diploma programme
- Have taken IB Physics & IB Economics
- Extended Essay (Research Paper) to be done in Computer Science
- Upward trend in grades since freshmen year
- Taken AP Calculus AB (Only AP offered at school due to IB Programme)
- Took Calculus II at a local CC (Goes farther than Calculus BC received an A)
- Have taken computer courses at CC in past summers (Received As)
- Taken 2 years of Physics (higher difficulty levels)
- Senior Year I am taking 5 IB Courses (3 Higher level & 2 Standard Level) as well as an Honours Course
- Possibly taking Calculus III at a CC during the school year</p>

<p>SAT: 720 Math, 620 CR, 600 Writing (Retaking...will try and bring up to 2150/2200+) </p>

<p>ECs:
- Participated in Speech & Debate for four years, taken up leadership positions and won awards (Regional & national) - attended Nationals as a Sophomore
- Member of FBLA (Qualified to states but unable to attend due to robotics conflict)
- Went to the World Championships in Robotics and won the award for best programming - Lead progammer
- Treasurer of Robotics Team
- Member of Moot Court (I am consistently top 16 in the national competition) - Captain senior year
- Member of the Academic Decathlon team (Used to be treasurer)
- CSF/NHS member
- Volunteer/Intern at a local organisation that builds new computers and donates them to low income families
- Interned at Robotics teams - Helped bring another Robotics program to a high school near San Francisco.
- Been on the Varsity Boys Golf Team for four years
- Learning Tabla (Indian Instrument)
- Have learnt some programming languages on my own but no accredidations
- Youth Commissioner in the local city government committee</p>

<p>Unique Characterisitics:
- Not much here except
- Fluent in five languages (English, Hindi, Kannada (South Indian), Sanskrit, and Japanese</p>

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<p>anyone? please D:</p>

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<p>The University of Oregon offers a renown Honors College, good CompSci and Physics programs (my majors at U of O), good financial aid, and plenty of opportunities for internships in Portland. PM me if you have any questions!</p>

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<p>RIT in Rochester, NY.</p>

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<p>RPI, WPI… How much can your family afford? I assume you are in-state for CA? Then the CSUs.</p>

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<p>cal poly slo, of course</p>

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<p>How much is cost / financial aid a concern? Your safeties should be definitely affordable.</p>

<p>For admissions safeties, consider Cal Poly SLO, San Jose State (low safety based on [SJSU</a> Admission](<a href=“http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/admission/rec-1208.html]SJSU”>http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/admission/rec-1208.html) ), and the mid-level UCs (e.g. Santa Cruz, Davis, Irvine; see [University</a> of California - Freshman admission profiles](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/freshman/profiles/index.html]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/freshman/profiles/index.html) and [University</a> of California: StatFinder](<a href=“http://statfinder.ucop.edu%5DUniversity”>http://statfinder.ucop.edu) ).</p>

<p>If you apply to Berkeley, note that Letters and Science (where you can declare the Computer Science major after completing the prerequisites) is generally regarded as being less selective for admissions than the EECS major in Engineering (both majors share the same Computer Science courses; the EECS major allows taking fewer CS courses if you want to emphasize EE, and has additional physics and EE course requirements).</p>

<p>Out of state, Minnesota is probably a low match, and Virginia Tech is probably a safety or low match, based on your stats. Both are less expensive than most out of state public universities.</p>

<p>If you want to work in Silicon Valley, note that students at local universities like Berkeley, Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, and San Jose State have the advantage of convenient recruiting in their career centers (companies don’t have to fly to recruit, and students don’t have to fly to interview).</p>