Tests: 1490 New SAT (Math: 800 Reading: 690) (Will retake, hopefully 1520+)
EC Activities:
USACO Silver (Looking to become gold this year)
FIRST Robotics (Electrical/ Programming captain)
Officer of two clubs: One for making video games, another for helping homeless people in need
Research volunteer at UCLA (microbiology)
Cyber security CTF Competitions
Violin for 8 Years (nothing special)
Android for 2 years, published 1 app (some more in progress)
Asian Male, current high school junior in a relatively competitive high school in California
Looking to study computer science as my first choice, electrical/computer engineering as my second. I feel like I have some good ECs but my GPA/test scores are not super competitive.
Reach:
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
Target:
UIUC
UC Santa Barbara
(will expand this list soon)
Definitely add Cal Poly SLO and a few other UC’s to your list. What is your UC GPA? https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/
Also what is your HS course rigor? AP/IB or DE courses?
@Gumbymom Thanks for the suggestions, I’ll definitely look into Cal Poly SLO and I forgot to add UCLA + UC Irvine onto my list (oops).
UC GPA is 3.82 according to that link.
Honors Science and History (freshman and sophmore), Honors English(Freshman to now), Honors Precalc(this year). This year I am taking 3 AP courses (APs are only offered to upperclassmen in my school): Computer Science, Physics, and Statistics and I am planning to take the AP Calculus BC test. Planning on taking AP Chemistry, AP Government, AP Bio, and AP English Lit next year.
UC’s are very GPA focused so having good test scores many times is not enough to get into the very competitive majors like CS. SLO also has about a 10% acceptance rate for CS so make sure you have at least another safety on your list.
