Chance Me (USC, Caltech, EECS Berkeley, Stanford, Cornell, NYU, Cornell, Brown) for CS or SWE

Hi there,
I have been browsing this site for a while but I haven’t posted anything. I am a White Male that lives in Santa Barbara, CA.
School: CS Academy at SBHS
Grades/Stats/Test Scores:

4.0 Unweighted GPA
4.67 Weighted GPA
36 ACT Composite Score
1,590 SAT Comp Score

7 years of Programming Experience (C++, Java, Python, SQL, Objective C, Ruby, HTML %, and CSS 3)

Letters of Req:
Calc AB teacher
3 CS teachers
AP Physics 2 teacher

Will post my classes later…

Requesting Imput: @Gumbymom and @ProfessorPlum168

I meant to say HTML 5, sorry about that…

as far as Berkeley goes, theoretically you should be fine with your stats, but EECS is always seemingly like a lottery since they get a ton of 4.0/1560+ applications. But if you’re not applying to UCLA, you interestingly enough probably have a better chance. I have a theory without much proof that for some great candidates like yourself, you get into one or the other but not both.

Anyhow, you’ll get into a lot of great schools. though in my personal opinion NYU and Brown do not rank as well with the others on your list.

You should be competitive at any. Agree with @ProfessorPlum168 that NYU and Brown not as strong as the others in you area of interest. Anecdotally, I know one student that got into both Cal and UCLA. :wink:

One of my boys got into both Cal and UCLA; a lot of kids do.

I am not familiar with your school, reg. curriculum and college placement.
With that said, the first thing that popped out is Calc AB instead of BC.

CS has become very competitive lately, and these schools expect Calc BC and SAT IIs.

NYU is the odd one out, unless you have other interests you want to pursue there.
Good luck!

@NCKris
I am a senior taking Calc BC right now, my Calc AB teacher was the one who wrote the letter of rec.

@ProfessorPlum168 NYU and Brown can be tak3en out of that list, I guess. I am In state btw.

My SAT Subject Test Scores are:
Math Level 2: 750/800
Physics:770/800