Thank you all for sharing your time and thoughts. This week we visited GaTech, Cal and Stanford. Stanford engineering tour was fine but didn’t gain much knowledge about CS dept. We were hoping to gain additional perspective on how data science, AI related courses can be organized at Stanford UG curriculum. Campus is beautiful and engineering tour guide talked in very general terms. So, gained an understanding on the university surroundings and student interactions etc… which is still good outcome of the trip. I wish Stanford does a session specifically for CS interested kids.
My suggestion to her is NO on SAT retake, UT Touring program is my preference, but will get behind her decision.
She would be eligible for automatic admission into UT Austin as she is in top 3 students out of 200 in her class.
@CA94309 She is not averse to coding but not too excited about coding competitions. She really likes to understand the concepts and big picture well and come up with solutions by connecting dot that are sometimes not easily visible.
@MYOS1634 Thank you for your suggestions on UTD, Penn and UEdinburgh. UTD was on our mind as in-state backup. Unfortunately 15APs are to maintain class rank in her school.