So, I don’t really know where I stand right now. I know that I can definitely get into CS schools like UWash, UIUC, and such, and have a pretty good chance at schools on the tier of Georgia Tech, but I’m not sure whether I have what it takes to get into the top tier of CS schools (i.e. CMU, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, Princeton, Cornell, etc.)
Here are my Stats and EC’s, I’d really appreciate it if you guys could tell me which CS schools you think I have a chance for:
Current cumulative GPA: 4.0
SAT: 2330
SAT Math II: 800
SAT Physics: 770
SAT Chem: 740
APs: 5’s on Calc AB, Calc BC, World History, US History, Chem, Physics, Computer Science (self-study)
4 on AP Language and Composition
Extra-curriculars:
12 years of martial arts: first degree black belts in Tae Kwon Do and Karate, and a third degree black belt in Tang Soo Do.
11 years of piano, won 6 consecutive national merits from the American College of Musicians
(I also do my piano at CMU)
2 years of varsity tennis and 1 year of JV tennis
First place in state science fair 4 times
First place in regional science fair 5 times
Honorable mention in national science fair
Published in international high school journal of science twice
4 time senator in student government
Gold medal in national spanish exam
Head delegate of Model UN club
Qualified to take the AIME: got a score of 3
2 year member of National Honor Society
Founder and president of an internationally acclaimed organization that teaches kids how to code.
Created my own website that contains online lectures and exercises I made to help people learn to code.
Founded and facilitated online programming competitions for kids.
Had an internship at CMU computer science department
Was in a highly selective academic summer program held at CMU
Also, I’m Asian.
The schools you mention are reach schools for most everyone. You know that. You have a shot like all well qualified applicants. Anyone that says anything else does not know what he is talking about.
Any school with an admit rate (overall or for CS) of 20 and under is a reach for everyone due to selectivity.
You need two schools with admit rates in the 20-30%, and two schools with admit rates in the 35-50%. All four at least need to be affordable (have you talked budget with your parents?)
Case Western, Grinnell, Union, may be possibilities but run the NPC.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Both have very low CS acceptance rates. UWash admits only a small number direct to CS. For CS, UIUC and UWash are considered both better and harder to get into than, say, Cornell.
As others have said, you have a shot at all of these, but none of these are even remotely safeties. Look to add some match schools.
Are you a senior? If so, did you already apply to UIUC?
You’re in the range for CMU, Stanford, UWash (more selective than Cornell, by the way) and other selective CS programs. If the question is whether you should apply to those? Yes, definitely. Will you get in? Maybe. Impossible to know. Plenty of people with your profile apply, and in the end only a few can get selected - it’s not a matter of being “better”; partly it’s just luck.
So, apply to as many as possible and hope one/several will accept you.
You should definitely have a couple of matches/safeties as back up though, because you just never know how the die will roll.
@insanedreamer unfortunately, my school’s guidance counselors put a ‘10 application limit’ on each student, so I have to carefully choose which college’s to apply for 
If you use the commonapp , it doesn’t matter - every university automatically gets whatever your gc has uploaded. Your gc uploads once, it changes nothing whether you apply to five or ten or fifteen.