I really like Occidental’s campus and general vibe, and they’ve got a cool 3-2 engineering program with Caltech where I could major in CS at Occidental and then get 2 degrees in 5 years from the two schools.
And I’m also worried about the math score. I know Caltech is test-blind this cycle, but for like MIT and the other STEM-heavy schools, I know it needs to get up. I’m retaking the SAT and ACT, but I don’t feel all that confident about getting the score up. I guess I could go test-optional as a last resort, but I don’t really want to.