Chance me for Computer Science at these schools?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>First of all, my stats:</p>

<p>GPA UW:3.0 of max of 4. (OUCH! My major setback.)
Class Rank: Not Ranked. But our course rigor reported by decile, I’m in the second (top 20%)
Senior Course Load: AP Physics C, AP Literature, AP Chinese, AP Computer Science, AP Calc AB, Required religion course.
ACT: N/A
SAT: 2210
Teacher Recs: Won’t get to read them but should be stellar
Extra-Curriculars & Awards:

  • Heavily involved/captain of an FTC Robotics team for 3 years. We represented my state at the International championship last year and have multiple regional/state appearances/wins as well.
  • Involved in model UN/Debate but nothing big
  • Interned at a very large (international) software company for 2 years during the summer. Was then hired as a contractor to write a mobile app for them that would be used as a selling point of some of their new hardware. (was compensated in the thousands for this)
  • Run my own business/website selling some of my other software, annual revenue also in the (low) thousands.
  • Have written several free mobile (i.e. Android) apps. (The most recent of which has seen over 20,000 downloads in its first month)
    Essays: Think they’re pretty good but not sure how to describe them without saying too much
    Race: South Asian.</p>

<p>Schools I’m thinking about:

  • Carnegie Melton (ED)
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (EA/priority deadline)
  • Purdue (EA)
  • UMass Amherst (EA)
  • WPI (EA)
  • Georgia Tech
  • Boston Univ
  • JHU
  • RPI
  • UConn
  • NYU</p>

<p>Please and thank you.</p>

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<p>You do have a major problem in GPA.</p>

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<p>CMU: High reach
UIUC: Reach
Purdue: High match
UMass Amherst: Low match
BU: High match
GA Tech: Reach
WPI: Match
JHU: Reach
RPI: Match/High match
UConn: Low match
NYU: Reach</p>

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<p>@Catria pretty much what I thought it’d be, thanks! </p>

<p>@billcsho yeah I know, slacking off is never good… :/</p>

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<p>@ MyloXy,
Your class rank may help if it is reported. Can your counselor saying something about that in the LOR or the school profile. If a top 20% student get a GPA of 3.0, it may indicate the tough grading curves of the school.</p>

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<p>@billcsho the course rigor (based on how many ap and honors classes I’ve taken in relation to the senior class as a whole) will be reported as a 9/10. (top 10% have a 10, next 10% have a 9, and so on) but the class rank is not even calculated.</p>

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<p>I see. I thought that was your class rank. Then it does not help much. How many AP did you take before senior?</p>

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<p>Just 1, got a 4 on the AP Physics B exam.</p>

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<p>I agree with Catria on everything.</p>

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<p>One last bump. (Also what’s high match? A match that’s almost a reach?)</p>

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<p>^ That’s right.</p>

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<p>I feel that Georgia Tech is a match – I’ve known people with 28 even 27 ACTs who are at Tech.</p>

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<p>@cminusminus yeah but my problem isn’t a low SAT/ACT, it’s a low GPA. I’d venture to say that a low GPA is more of a setback than a low ACT.</p>