Chance me Indian Female for CS (TX resident, 3.98 GPA UW, 1570 SAT) [top 3% rank]

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  • Demographics: US/TX resident, female
  • Intended Majors: CS
  • UW GPA: 3.98
  • W GPA: 4.79
  • Class rank: 20/725
  • SAT: 1570
  • Coursework: AP Comp Sci Principle, AP Comp Sci A, AP Stats, AP Physics 1, AP Mechanics, APUSH, AP Lang, AP Calc BC, AP Psych, senior year: AP Physics 2, AP Chem, AP Lit, AP Macro, AP Micro, AP Gov, AP Physics E&M, have taken all honors comp sci courses offered in my school, Multivariable Calc
  • Awards: few dance awards
  • Extracurriculars: software development internship at reputable firm, dance for 7 years, president of math honors society, nhs officer, cybersecurity summer program, data science certifications, hackathons
  • Essays/LORS: expecting to be strong
  • Cost Constraints: none

College List:
Brown
Caltech
Carnegie Mellon
Columbia
Cornell
Duke
Georgia Tech
Harvey Mudd
NYU
Northwestern
Princeton
Rice
UT Austin
UIUC
Uni of Michigan
USC
Vanderbilt
UCLA
UC Berkeley
UC San Diego

  • thinking about ED to Columbia or CMU
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IMO your list is too reach-heavy.

You are well qualified – but the majority of colleges on your list must be considered a reach for any unhooked applicant as they get many more applications from well qualified candidates than they have spots available.

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Even with your great stats, even target schools can become reach schools for CS if they are admit by major schools.

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yeah im applying to a&m and mainly applying to reach schools as they are the only ones worth going out of state for. would it be worth considering ed anywhere?

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IF you have a definitive top choice and price is no object then it is fine to apply ED to that college.

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okk thank you!

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Not assured frosh admission to the engineering division, and also has secondary admission to major (3.75 college GPA to have assured secondary admission).

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Based on my experience guiding CS applicants, I suspect you’ll get into CMU if you ED.

However, it is very much a “fit” school. So make sure you research it well to determine if you’ll be comfortable with the environment. Definitely visit, if you haven’t already.

Good luck.

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Congratulations on having a competitive profile. Since the UC’s are test blind, your excellent SAT score will not be used for admissions or scholarship consideration, only for course placement.

All 3 UC’s on the list are Reach schools.

UC Berkeley’s CS admit rate was 1.9%

UCLA’s CS admit rate was 3.1%

UC San Diego’s admit rate was estimated at around 5%.

I believe you will have better options than the UC’s especially if submitting your SAT score and probably much more affordable than $75K/year to attend.

Best of luck.

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