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Demographics

  • US domestic (US citizen or permanent resident) or international student USC
  • State/Location of residency: (state is important if you apply to any state universities) CA
  • Type of high school (current college for transfers): Public
  • Gender/Race/Ethnicity (optional): Female
  • Other special factors (first generation to college, legacy, athlete, etc.): Varsity Athlete,

Intended Major(s)
Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Unweighted HS GPA: 3.89
  • Weighted HS GPA (incl. weighting system): 4.24
  • College GPA (for transfers):
  • Class Rank: School does not do class rank
  • ACT/SAT Scores: 1280

Coursework
(AP/IB/Dual Enrollment classes, AP/IB scores for high school; also include level of math and foreign language reached and any unusual academic electives; for transfers, describe your college courses and preparation for your intended major(s))

AP Calculus AB, AP Lang, AP Stats, AP Comp Sc Principal, AP Comp App, AP Env, AP Seminar
Hons. Chem, Hons. Principals of Engineering, community college VPA course -11th

** Planned Course work for 12th**
AP macro, AP gov, AP research, AP Physics C, AP Calc BC

Awards
Academic Award by a national lab
Nationally ranked french speaker

Extracurriculars
(Include leadership, summer activities, competitions, volunteering, and work experience)
Taught coding at two different non-profit
Wrote in the school newspaper
Worked with Google engineers on a school project
Teacher’s Assistant
Microsoft certification and Coursera coding courses

Essays/LORs/Other
(Optionally, guess how strong these are and include any other relevant information or circumstances.)
Yet to work on the Essay, Will easily get LOR

Cost Constraints / Budget
(High school students: please get a budget from your parents and use the Net Price Calculators on the web sites of colleges of interest.)
Prefer public universities but am ready to stretch

Schools
(List of colleges by your initial chance estimate; designate if applying ED/EA/RD; if a scholarship is necessary for affordability, indicate that you are aiming for a scholarship and use the scholarship chance to estimate it into the appropriate group below)

  • Safety (certain admission and affordability)
  • Likely (would be possible, but very unlikely or surprising, for it not to admit or be affordable)
  • Match
  • Reach

I need advice on what should be on my school list.

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What is your local Cal state? Most likely a safety if not highly impacted for CS/ME.

Plans to retake the SAT? UC’s and CSU’s are test blind.

What is your current Math SAT score? AP scores?

College Budget/year? Are you looking for merit? Willing to go OOS?

UC/CSU GPA’s? GPA Calculator for the University of California – RogerHub

What are you looking for in a school? Location? Greek life? Sports?

Likely/Safety: San Francisco State, Sac State, Chico State, CSU East Bay, Cal poly Humboldt

Possible Match schools: Cal Poly Pomona, CSU Fullerton, CSU Long Beach, San Diego State, UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz, Arizona state, Univ of Arizona, Univ of Utah

Reach schools: Cal Poly SLO, UC Davis, Santa Barbara, San Diego.

High Reach: UCLA and UCB.

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Plans to retake the SAT?
Not planning to. Most of the public schools are test blind as I see. Will we miss out on a private OOS school, what do you suggest ?

What is your current Math SAT score?
740

AP scores?
Did just one yet, AP Comp Sc - Score 3

College Budget/year? Willing to go up to 50K/Yr

Are you looking for merit? Not sure

Willing to go OOS? Yes

What are you looking for in a school? Location? Greek life? Sports? Academics and after school placement

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Some OOS schools may require the SAT/ACT for admissions and merit aid. If you plan to apply only to CA publics, then you are fine.

ME/CS are very marketable degrees so school name will not be as important for job placement. Post grad jobs will be up to you meaning, attending job fairs, through internships and networking. You can research which employers recruit from each school by checking the career center.

So you would be just as happy attending a school like Humboldt in a rural/isolated location vs a school like San Diego State near beaches and a large city? You will get a good education at the Cal states and UC’s but there should be more than just academics.

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You might want to also check out the WUE schools if you are considering OOS schools.

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