Chance/Match [US citizen outside the US] Junior - STS/CS/Data Sci [3.96/1580]

I agree with other replies at least to the point that you do not have any safety on this list. I am not sure that there is any likely on the list, although you are an exceptionally strong student and it would not surprise me at all if you were accepted somewhere.

Based on your stats and interests I would be tempted to add U.Mass Amherst to your list. However, this is ignoring the national merit scholarship potential, which is something that I do not know anything about. U.Mass has a very good computer science program and does offer some merit for some out of state students. Also, U.Mass has quite a good music program.

You might want to double check this, but I thought that I heard at some point that Columbia was one of few schools that considers you legacy if your parent got any degree there, including a graduate degree. It might help a bit, but I would still consider Columbia to be a reach.

This makes you an out-of-state student for any public university. It shouldn’t matter at the private universities, but Columbia and Stanford are reaches for pretty nearly anyone (this is assuming that you do not have a Nobel Prize and neither parent is the head of state of a friendly country).

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