What are my chances? (Stanford, UCLA, UCB, USC, etc)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Applying to:
*Stanford (unsure if I should apply)
USC
UC Berkeley
UCLA
Princeton
Brown
UIUC
U Michigan
Cornell
Northeastern
BU

Bio:

Avg: 92.5 (School does not use 4.0 scale; without Freshman year, my avg would be around a 93.6)
SAT: 1450
ACT: 34
SAT2 MATH2: 800
SAT2 CHEM: 780

APs (school limits the amount of APs we can take):
APCS, AP Spanish, AP Calc AB, AP Chem, AP Gov

Community Services:
150+ from Library Volunteering, Key Club, and Red Cross

ECs:
Participated in many dance showcases in school
School Hip-hop Dance Team (we competed in regional competitions)
Plays Flute (9th-12th School band), Guitar (outside of school but did not take ABRSM exams)
Participated in CS internship where I managed databases and sorted information for medical groups (~200 hours)
-Self-taught HTML and Python
Coordinator for club that helps manage students who volunteer at libraries
Member School’s dance club
Member of School’s table tennis club (for Sophomore year)
President of coding club
(I can speak 4 languages but I don’t know if that’ll be relevant?)

Recs:
Junior Math Teacher
Sophomore English Teacher
One from my Internship

Awards:
Mainly dance related awards and certificates for volunteering, nothing too outstanding

Major: Computer Science (with the possibility of Biochem)

Region: Northeast USA
Class: ~900 students
Race: East Asian
Sex: Male
Family Income: ~$100000

Thanks

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You have high reaches, reaches and matches but no safety schools. As an OOS student there is no financial aid at the UC’s so they are financially out of reach.

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GPA avg: 92.5?

Convert to weighted and unweighted 4.0 scale so we know what you’re talking about.

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You have a number of OOS publics, can you afford the costs?

You won’t get any funding from the California publics.

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Stanford: Reach for all applicants and extremely low acceptance rate
USC/UCB/UCLA: Reach due to low acceptance rates for CS.

Agree with other posters, no financial aid for the UC’s so expect full fees at $60K/year.

You need some solid Match and Safety schools first then pick a few Reach schools to complete your list.

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Low GPA and SAT score makes everything except UIUC, Boston University and Northeastern University reaches. Stanford is probably out of reach. You are out of state for most of these schools, which will definitely not help you much. Good luck!

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@“aunt bea” yeah :frowning: i think we can manage it though

@TheComeUp sorry, I believe that should be around a 3.7 or 3.8

@Gumbymom Yeah I certainly agree. I just left them out for this post.

@sparkykoolkat I’m thinking about leaving my SAT score out but I certainly agree.

thank you everyone! :slight_smile: