History and social studies:
World history
World geography
AP US History
Dual credit US Gov
Dual credit Economics
Language other than English:
APA Spanish 1
APA Spanish 2
Significant Electives:
Engineering
Foundations of cybersecurity
College Coursework
Business Information management
Awards
Varsity Most Valuable Player Sophomore Year
National Honor Society
2nd place Tennis Districts Mixed Doubles
2nd place Tennis Districts Girls Singles
Student of the Month: CTE Dept.
2nd place UIL Speech: Informative
3rd place UIL Speech: Informative
Award of Excellence in Basketball and Tennis fresh. year
Extracurriculars
Varsity Tennis, 4 years
JV Softball, 2 years
UIL Speech, 1 year
National Honor Society, 1 year
Robotics, 6 years
Gifted and talented program since elementary
DECA (Vice President of Finance), 2 years
Communities in Schools
Worked full time during summers
Girls Who Code since middle school
Over 40 volunteer hours
Lead organizer of food drives/organizations and donations
Member of Student Council
Beginner Tennis Instructor
Essays/LORs/Other:
Math, strong
STEM, decent-strong
English teachers, strong
Work supervisor, strong
Schools:
University of Miami
University of Washington, Seattle
University of Texas Austin
Rice University
Colorado College
Colorado School of Mines
Baylor University
Texas Christian University
Texas A&M
Assured (100% chance of admission and affordability):
This is going to sound harsh but it is the truth. If the weighted GPA were the unweighted GPA, it would still be too low for computer science at UT Austin & Washington and for any major at Rice.
Based on your stats and CS major, your listed schools are either reach or high target. Did you apply to any other schools? If not, maybe add Arizona State, University of Arizona or Oregon State for target/safety. Good Luck.
What is your unweighted GPA separately for each year of high school?
Unless I am missing something or there is a huge uptrend, I would be inclined to just forget about U.Washington (out of state), UT Austin, and Rice. Someone I know with somewhat better stats was rejected from Colorado College, but it was a number of years ago (I doubt that admission has gotten easier since then).
Otherwise I do not see any safety on this list, and I am not sure whether or not I see any âlikelyâ.
You should find at least one and preferably two safeties to add to your list that you are happy with.
And like @ucbalumnus I do wonder whether there are any budget constraints.
I agree these are mostly reaches but Iâm a little more generous than some of the other posters in my assessment of your chances for some of these schools. Your GPA is low but you are in the top quarter of your class. That can help a lot, depending on your school. And while some of the programs youâve applied to have single digit acceptance rates, others have acceptance rates of 40-50% so I wouldnât say itâs an automatic no.
I think you have an ok chance at Mines, A&M business (not CS), Baylor and TCU. I personally know people who have gotten in to all of these programs with GPA below 3.5. I do think being in state helps for the Texas schools. But none of these are better than 50/50 chance IMO so you definitely need som more likely admits. Maybe add UTD? Good luck!
As Iâm reading thisâŠI see up to level two of a foreign language, only two lab sciences (unless the other two things you listed are lab sciences), no precalculus (which I think would be a must for CS).
What is your sure thing for admission? Perhaps you just didnât list it?
Curriculum rigor (no Precalculus and no Calc in particular which would matter at all universities listed, even if you took College Algebra hopefully with an A or B; only Level 2 in Spanish would matter to private universities unless your HS didnât offer more than these two courses) and GPA make all of these out of reach or big reaches.
Mines, Baylor, and TCU would be reaches but odds would be low.
UTSA has one of the top-ranked Cyber security programs in the US - if you didnât apply, do so ASAP just in case.
University of Central Arkansas, University of New Mexico, Sam Houston would all be likely if not safeties for cybersecurity and good targets for CS. UHouston, Regis in CO, Loyola in NoLa good targets.
Texas Womenâs has a supportive CS program and networks with UNT (which may be a good target too).
Agnes Scott may still be accepting applications and offers a dual degree with Emory (both are supportive and offer Financial Aid).
Depending on budget, there are other states with universities offering Cybersecurity or Applied CS majors to B/B+ students.
I have taken the psat and have my official test march 5th. Iâve been taking prep classes to increase my chances, but last score from October was 1100
Right now, Iâm just trying to get a realistic opinion so that way I can get my application list together save myself the embarrassment of being rejected
