Would these be safety schools?

Applying to College
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<p>My stats are wierd becuase my gpa is much lower than what it shows with my test scores, so i can't really tell which classes are safeties and which are not. </p>

<p>I'm applying for a computer science major, and I'm female, if that helps. I also live in California.</p>

<p>I just ended junior year with a 3.5 UW gpa and 3.72 W gpa (4 ap classes).
My ACT score in currently a 32, and I will probably raise it to at least a 33.
Sat Subject are 750 in Math 2 and 730 in Chemistry
AP scores are 4s and 5s</p>

<p>I have ok extracurriculars
-Badminton team: will be 4 years by end of high school(2 years varsity + will be captain senior year)
-Career and Job Planning Club: President/Founder
-President of advertising committee at library
-100+ hours volunteering/community service at library
-Secretary of teen volunteer team at library
-Member of a Gov. Student Advisory Board of the county I live in(California bay area)
-Developed a phone app on iphone and android(Generates a tiny bit of income but there is a projected growth:) )
-45 hours of volunteering for key club and csf in freshman year
-Took community college classes in Calculus 2, sociology, and psychology got an A in both(does this factor into my gpa?)
-Speech and Debate for 2 years, went to octofinals at a tournament</p>

<p>Would these colleges be safeties for me? Which ones wouldn't?</p>

<p>UC Santa Cruz
UC Riverside
UC Merced
SJSU
CalPoly Pomona
Santa Clara University
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Univeristy of Washington
Purdue University - West Lafayette
Rutgers University - New Brunswick
Penn State </p>

<p>Thanks for any help!</p>

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<p>What is your budget like? It’s not a safety if you can’t pay for it.</p>

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<p>Part of being a safety is that you can afford it. Many of these are out of state public universities, which would likely give very poor need based aid. Unless your parents have banked enough to pay for them and/or can easily cover the cost of them, they would not be safeties.</p>

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<p>Scores are good but the competition out thre is quite GREAT. Well, the California system can be a bit tricky, so you can say with your STATS, that SJSU, Santa Cruze and Merced are safeties. They rest, should be considered Matches and in some cases. like the OOS schools reaches. You just never know.
Best of luck to you.</p>

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<p>UC/CSU-weighted GPA?</p>

<p>Price limit? Have you run the net price calculators on your candidate schools?</p>

<p>If your UC-weighted GPA is 3.9 or higher, then UCR can be a guaranteed-admission safety if it is affordable and you sign up during June or July: <a href=“http://admissions.ucr.edu/whyucr/ourguarantee”>http://admissions.ucr.edu/whyucr/ourguarantee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>At SJSU, computer science is the most selective major for admissions:
<a href=“http://info.sjsu.edu/static/admission/impaction.html”>http://info.sjsu.edu/static/admission/impaction.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The CSU eligibility index used in the lists above is calculated this way:
<a href=“Cal State Apply | CSU”>Cal State Apply | CSU;

<p>UC/CSU-weighted GPA is calculated this way:
<a href=“Cal State Apply | CSU”>Cal State Apply | CSU;

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<p>Being female helps, but U of I CS and UDub CS would definitely not be safeties OOS. Actually, I don’t think they’d be safeties even in-state. OOS, they’re probably reaches.</p>

<p>I would not consider any of the OOS CS programs safeties with your stats.</p>