Match Me CS & Business [TX resident, 3.53 GPA, not top 10% rank, 1500 SAT, 30 ACT, <$30-40k/year] including out-of-state safeties

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Major
Planning on either double majoring cs & business, or major cs minor in business, currently in junior year of public hs in TX,

College Preferences
out of state, most likely suburban area, medium sized college, budget I’m not sure tbh but my guess would be like 150,000-200,000

GPA

UW - 3.16, B is 3, A is 4

W - 4.26, Honors max possible is 4, AP max points possible is 5

Test Scores

SAT - 1500 (750 Math + 750 English)

ACT - 30 (34 Math, 33 Science, 29 English, 24 Reading) - probably wont submit act score

Grades + Coursework

Freshman Year - straight A’s, all honors

Honors Bio, Honors English, Debate 1, Honors Algebra 2, Honors World Geo, Honors French 2 (french 1 in ms), Orchestra

Sophmore Year - half A’s, Half high b’s, 2aps A’s in both

Honors English, Debate 2, Honors Chem,WHAP, Honors French 3, APCSP, Honors Precal

Junior Year - only A was APUSH, rest were mid-high Bs,

AP Chem, APCSA, AP Lang, APUSH, Honors Physics, Calc BC

Senior Year - just my schedule haven’t taken any of these yet as I am an incoming senior

CS 3 Honors, AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Physchology, AP Micro & Macro, AP Stats, AP Physics C

AP Scores

WHAP - 5

APCSP - 4

*Havent got scores yet but these are my predictions

AP Chem - 4,5, leaning more towards 5

APCSA - 4,5, leaning more towards 4

AP Lang - 3,4, leaning more towards 3

APUSH - 4,5, leaning more towards 4

Calc BC - 4,5, leaning more towards 5

Volunteering

COT - org that helps non native english speakers learn english, 100 + Hrs

Local Storehouses/Food Banks - 20+ Hrs

Extracurriculars

9th grade - orchestra, debate 1 (competitions every friday + practice 4hrs a week)

10th grade - COT (1hr every sat night), debate 2 (competitions every friday, + practice 4hrs a week)

11th grade - COT(1hr every sat night) + officer position in managing their website, coding competitions (every other weekend for abt 3hrs, preparation abt 2-3hrs a week), NHS,

12th grade - COT(1 hr every sat night + same or higher level officer position, NHS, *planned extracurriculars - robotics team or coding competitions

Other Courses/Programs

John hopkins cty- Art and science - 8 weeks winter of 2021, 9th

  • Learned relationship between art & science, how both are complex & related to each other

Harvard- public speaking/stem - 2 week residential camp summer of 2021, 8-9th summer

  • Informative speech, advocacy, ted talk, improved presentational skills

Coursera- python course from Upenn - 4 weeks , 9-10th summer (certificate of completion)

  • Variables, lists, sets, Conditionals, Dictionaries, Jupyter notebook

Dallas Science Academy- Python and AI - 8, 9-10th summer (certificate of completion)

  • Using Python to analyze data sets

UTD Java Summer Program- 8 weeks, 10th - 11th summer (certificate of completion)

  • Learned 1st object oriented language,classes,objects,loops,conditionals, Intro to recursion

Coursera - python with data science from Upenn - 4 weeks 11th-12th summer (certificate of completion)

  • Data frames, pandas, numpy, querying data, data aggregation

WPI Program - engineering focused program on campus at worcester polytechnic institute, somewhat selective

  • Learning mech & robotics engineering, basics of business & entrepreneurship, college app writing

John Hopkins CTY - Multivariable Calculus - 11th school year (certificate of completion)

  • Covers calc III in college
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What is your weighting system.

In other words, some (the most common) seems to be +.5 for Honors and +1 for AP - but you show a weighted much higher than a point.

Yes, you wouldn’t use your ACT score but your splits are odd - as you show an excellent SAT English but much lower ACT.

You will have many options but - what are you seeking besides OOS.

Large, medium, small?

Rural, suburban, urban

Big sports, no sports…same with Greek.

Most important - budget - how much is your family able to spend.

Tell us more please.

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just did

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If your AP is +1, then how do you explain a weighted 1.1 over your unweighted.

You’d have to have every class as an AP - and then it’d still be too high. You show Honors as the same as a regular class (4).

Your UW matters more but it helps determine rigor.

So OOS mid size - $40-50K a year - UAH could be a good fit for you. Tennessee Tech or UT Chatanooga. Millersville would be a good fit but very reginal, etc. A school like Arkanss or Oklahoma are bigger but could work. MIzzou too. U Denver is an outside possibility.

Many schools could work but you do need to understand your grading scheme. And is there a specific part of the country that you prefer over another?

btw - Texas is huge and you can stay in state but still be far from home.

Good luck.

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didnt even think abt that mistake with the GPA calculation, I might’ve mistyped when I was calculating it because my school didn’t update it yet on transcripts so had to calculate it myself. also I was looking for like midwest, northeastern area, or east cost

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So midwest - they may be too big but a Kansas, Mizzou, the Dakota schools like U of North Dakota, maybe Nebraska. There can be others like Missouri State in Springdale, Southern Illiniois in Carbondale - not necessarily suburban. Central Michigan - again, not necessarily suburban.

Northeast - maybe U Maine or UNH - U Maine is close to a larger town. Maybe some SUNY schools like New Paltz - but they’ll be more regional. Maybe a Coastal Carolina - a bit southern but still the East - or Millersville or Christopher Newport. Outside change but UVM can maybe work too.

For a private, you might look at U of Dayton.

Good luck.

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what do you think about purude,uiuc,pittsburgh, rose-hulman (rose hulman would be just major in cs tho)

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ignore the gpa I put up their my weighted hs gpa excluded 2nd sem junior year is a 4.21

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Purdue - please work on the names. No and it’s huge.

UIUC - No. and it’s huge.

Pitt - maybe if you apply early but not within budget - so that’s like a no.

RHIT - it’s very small - as in tiny - and it’s very rural. Possible.

You know what would be a safety - if your transcript shows a 3.8 (i.e. weighted GPA) - Indiana Kelley - one of the top ranked b schools in the country - but it might be over cost.

b4 you go further, don’t guess on budget but have the discussion with your folks - about what you really have so you don’t waste time chasing schools you can’t afford.

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For the kind of environment you’re saying you want, and the ability to mix business and CS flexibly (so, not a super-reachy and exclusive CS program), my first thought is the Catholic U’s, which tend to be mid-sized and suburban or urban-suburban, and to have solid business programs. You’d need to look at ones where your stats would be competitive enough to get some merit, to bring the cost down to your budget. Your high SAT will help with that.

So, for example, Creighton U. Some of the specializations in their business school already include the computational piece, i.e. Business Analytics, and FinTech. Would a major like that be enough “business + CS” for you, or do you want an even heavier CS concentration? There’s also a CS major, and a CS certificate. Omaha has lots of business opportunities for internships, etc. That’s just one example. On the east coast, one example would be Loyola Maryland, which has an Info Systems & Data Analytics major in the business school, a full CS major in Arts & Sciences, and also an Interdisciplinary CS major that’s designed to be blended with a second major.

Do these kinds of schools appeal to you?

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Do you have 2 identical threads posted!

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Class rank? That is very important if you apply to any Texas public universities.

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OP is not seeking Texas.

They threw out (in the other thread) UIUC, Purdue, Pitt, RHIT

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Will you be applying to any Texas schools, or only OOS?
What’s your rank?

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I’m a little confused. Texas doesn’t use a 4.0 grade scale. It’s a 100% scale. Plus, it’s impossible to have a 3.1 GPA with a weighted 4.2. You’ll need to re-check your transcript and revise. There’s limits on helpful advice we can give with those numbers.

Also…why OOS? Texas has a huge amount of in-state options for a fraction of the price. Save that money for graduate school.

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How is your unweighted GPA 3.16? You list your grades above as

Freshman - All A’s (4.0)
Sophomore - half A’s, half B’s (3.5, cumulative 3.75)
Junior - 1 A and the rest B’s (definitely lower but hard to see how this it can get down to 3.16)

Is it possible you meant your junior year UW GPA is 3.16? That makes more sense. And, if so, then your cumulative UW GPA would be 3.55 which is MUCH better.

I hope you reply and let us know if that’s the case. Because even with a downward trend, a 3.55 and 1500 SAT with high rigor (which you have) is pretty good. Please let us know!

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My school doesnt show rank if you arent top 10%, and Im not ranked, but my guess would be like top 25%

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Sorry this is my first time using this, still figuring out how it works lol

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I probably messed up with uw calculation, cause my school doesnt do unweighted just take the weighted one into account that acc calculated by my school

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Im planning a mix of both but mostly OOS, class rank i replied to someone else regarding this

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