HS Senior, intending CS [CA resident, 3.96 UW, 1530 SAT)

Demographics

  • US Citizen
  • State/Location of residency: California
  • Public High School, well ranked

Intended Major(s)

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Unweighted HS GPA: 3.96
  • Weighted HS GPA: 4.48 (10-12 A-G UC)* Class Rank:
  • SAT Scores: 1530 (780 math, 750 english)

List your HS coursework

  • English: 9A, 10A, American Lit H (Sem), Creative Writing (Sem), AP Lit (Senior)
  • Math: Geo H, Alg2/Trig H, Analysis H, AP Calc BC (Senior)
  • Science: Bio H, Chem H, AP Chem, AP Bio (Senior), AP Phys C (Senior)
  • History and social studies: World Hist, US Govt/Cont. World Hist, APUSH, AP Econ (Senior)
  • Language other than English: Japanese 2, 3, AP
  • Visual or performing arts: Freshman Band, Wind Ens (3 years), Jazz Ens H (4 years)
  • Other academic courses: CS Capstone, Living Skills (Sem, Senior)

Awards

  • JLPT N4 (2024), N3 (2025)
  • Unanimous Superior / Gold 1st at various band/orch comp as lead trumpet
  • All State Band
  • Presidential Volunteer Service

Extracurriculars

  • USACO Silver, 1700 Codeforces
  • Tri-M Music Honor Society
  • Vice President (Junior), President (Senior) of Japanese Culture Club
  • Chartered and Secretary of Card Game Club (3 years)
  • Competitive Programming Club
  • Sailing Racing Team (Freshman)
  • Made website for Japanese Teacher
  • School District AI Ad Hoc Comittee member
  • Intern at Semiconducter Company
  • Another Internship
  • Tutorted SAT and AMC 8
  • Various CS Projects (Websites, Manga Translator)

Essays/LORs/Other

  • Likely strong essay, good lors

Schools

  • Assured: ASU (acecpted, thus no other safety)
  • Target: Purdue, UWM, UMass, Stony Brook
  • Lower Probability: UIUC (CS+Linguistics), UMD, Northeastern
  • Low Probability: Harvey Mudd (CS+Math), UChicago (JP Studies), Tufts, JHU, Rice, UMich, BU, Carnegie Mellon (JP), GIT

I Intend to apply CS or Mathematics for most schools unless noted otherwise

Edit: UChicago I want to apply CS and considering ED (wondering if ED is reasonable)

Congrats on ASU.

My belief, all your targets - especially SB. Likely UMass which is strong. UMD as well.

NU and BU are reaches unless you ED. Yes U Chicago is reasonable if it’s your top choice and you are willing to pay nearly $100k a year, double others - unless you qualify for need aid.

The rest I think you’ve labeled appropriately.

Best of luck. And congrats on ASU - fine school.

You list a UC GPA but no UCs?

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