Chance / Match Me - 1230 SAT / 27 ACT, 2/2 APs, 8/8 DE - Computer Engineering [GA resident, 3.6 GPA, need close to full FA / scholarship]

Auburn and Rutgers won’t be affordable.
You will definitely get into a GA public.

As an aside: Why not add Howard?

However, Gtech, UGA, GState won’t be going anywhere.
If you can decommit from early graduation and strengthen your application, you could be a valid candidate to one of the very generous meet need universities - they’re “reach for everyone”, ie., almost no chance, but if you get in you’d have no loans (all grants& scholarships + a small job), they’d cover room&board, books, plane tickets to go home (basically think of the rock star football players’ treatment but for academics& ECs), more than a full ride and guaranteed for 4 years… and with family income under 30k it’d be really helpful to you and your family.
You wouldn’t have anything to lose: beside that application you’d still apply to Tech, UGA GA State… And would still get in. You have nothing to lose.
(And we can spend the n ct 6 months brainstorming college ideas with you).

In order to boost your chances you’d need to take DE calculus 1&2, DE physics, DE Chem, College Spanish 2 &3, CS, and a few classes considered especially rigorous like Philosophy(freshman intro) and History (a specific seminar or a non-survey, because so far you’ve only taken surveys), with As. Train using Khan Academy to bring your SAT to a 1400 or your ACT to a 32.

Look into Questbridge, the rising seniors summer program to help you with your app and increases odds of acceptance through their CollegeMatch (the full scholarship program) ×7.

This is less reachy than the typical Questbridge universities but still impressive

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