<p>State schools tend to weigh GPA quite heavily.</p>
<p>In any case, getting rejected ED is no reason to panic if it’s a reach school. What school was that?</p>
<p>BTW, you’re aware that OOS publics won’t provide much fin aid, I hope.</p>
<p>That out of the way, keep in mind that at UIUC, their various CS+whatever programs in LAS are easier to get in to than CS in Engineering.</p>
<p>Finally, there’s no reason to panic because
- Some schools are easier to transfer in to than straight out of HS (UNC comes to mind for OOS students). UMich, UVa, UIUC (LAS), USC, Cal aren’t very difficult either if you keep your CC GPA high and go to the right CCs (in fact, UVa, USC, W&M, & all UC’s besides Cal & UCLA have auto-admit transfer arrangements with certain CCs if your GPA is a certain level, though granted, they may not promise you a place in CS).
- Harvard Extension is an option.</p>
<p>Life and where you end up is what you make of it.</p>