Good Technology Oriented Schools for A Mediocre Student?

Lancern
Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:01:07 +0000

See, the thing is, I want to study programming/game dev in college. But, from lurking on CC forums, I don’t think I have a chance of getting into the ‘best’ tech schools there are (Caltech, Stanford, MIT, etc).

My unweighted average is a 3.5 right now. I’m a junior in high school, and I could probably get that to 3.7 by the end of term 1 of Senior year…
It’s important to note that I have no ECs relating to computers or computer graphics or programming at all. I know I need to have more ECs, but would it be okay if I started participating in them Senior year of high school?