Hi I am a senior in high school and very worried about getting into a decent college. I am having a hard time finding good computer science schools that will accept my stats. Any help would be appreciated.
SAT: 1720 (Superscore)
ACT: 23
Major: Comp Sci
AP Classes: 2 in 11th, 3 in 12th
GPA: 3.5 (UW), 3.56 (W)
Class Rank: top 50%
Race: South Asian
Income: $186,000
Extracurricular Activities/Clubs:
Application Developer, created 6 apps. 10k+ downloads on 2.5k+ downloads on others
Cofounder of organization aimed at helping poor people in developing places
Website manager for the organization
Website manager for local religious place
Mobile and Technology Associate at retailer
Hospital Volunteer, helped develop part of their internal computer network
Active religious volunteer
I run a eBay store with thousands in sales
I would like to attend,
SUNY Poly Tech, SUNY Albany, UMASS Amherst and Lowell,
Reach: Worcester Polytech, Purdue, John Hopkins,
I really just want to get into Umass Amherst, I would love to know the chances for this.
An issue for you, is that you’ve spent so much time on your ECs, that most schools would be concerned that these ECs were at the expense of your grades/stats. Your GPA doesn’t match your test scores.
At a university, you take courses, other than CS, to get a diploma.
Are your Math scores much higher than the composites? For CS majors, that might make a difference. However, if you can raise your overall scores, it would definitely help.
With those stats, you will get in somewhere “decent”, as you describe it- so do not worry about that. I don’t know much about UMass Amherst admissions, so I cannot offer much sound advice in that regard. Your extracurriculars sound interesting and distinguish you- use your essays to really highlight them. Your limiting factors are your test scores/GPA. Your GPA is pretty much locked in as a senior, but try to improve your test scores if you can. I actually had a similar high school GPA and I ended up alright.