Prospective CS/EE major

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I am a Florida resident and don’t have a lot of financial flexibility when it comes to choosing a school. I want to do something with computer software. Here are my stats:</p>

<p>Freshman year:
4 Honors
2 elective classes (Keyboarding and PE)
1 FLVS class (Honors chem)
No ECs</p>

<p>Sophomore year:
2 AP (World History [4 on AP exam] and Chemistry [1])
2 Honors
1 FLVS class (Latin 1)
Volunteered at a tutoring organization for the middleschool I attended</p>

<p>Junior year:
4 AP (AP English [4 on AP exam], AP Bio [4 on AP exam], AP Stats [1 on AP exam], AP U.S. History [5 on AP exam])
6 DE classes: College Algebra and Visual Basic programming, C++, Precalculus Trigonometry, Networking 1 and 2
Volunteered/tutored at that same tutoring organization
Practiced martial arts (I had done it for 7 years but quit for freshman/sophomore year)</p>

<p>Senior year:
3 AP (AP Lit, AP Gov/Eco, AP Physics)
6 DE classes: French 1/2, Calculus 1, Linear Algebra, Networking 3/4
Volunteered/tutored, martial arts</p>

<p>SAT: 1950
UGPA: 3.6
WGPA: 5.1</p>

<p>My extracurriculars are severely lacking but as one could tell from looking at my schedule, I am an extremely dedicated student and can handle the stress of taking 10 classes at once in a school year and still excel.</p>

<p>My question is: should I try to go Ivy League? Perhaps MIT? Or should I stay in FL and go Ivy as a grad. As an undergrad I plan to take part in as much research as possible and get my ECs nice and turgid with determination in my field when I apply for grad school. If I say in FL, what is the best school for a EE/CS major?</p>

<p>I would also like to point out that most of my DE classes(VB programming, C++ programming, Networking 1/2/3/4) are all pertinent to my career interest. I sure hope that counts for something when colleges look at my transcript.</p>

<p>Please excuse and punctuational or grammatical mistakes I’ve made when writing this – I was in a bit of a hurry.</p>

<p>THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL THE HELP IN ADVANCE</p>

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<p>can anyone help me out?</p>

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<p>Where do you live in Florida? I live in Florida too. Anyway your chances at HYPS don’t seem good especially because your EC’s aren’t there. You may want to stay in FL, try UF, USF, UCF, and UM and a couple of the trade schools or another possibility is go to CC for 2 years get your AA and then go to a University as a transfer you will save tons of money and then try for ivies as a grad student. Ivies would decline you because you need to remember your competing against kids who have 2400 SAT, 36 ACT and perfect GPA’s and what not.</p>

<p>-UW GPA seems low.
-SAT is way too low.</p>

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<p>Yeah, not gonna happen with a 1950.</p>

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<p>Where should I go as an undergrad? What should I do as an undergrad to improve my chances of getting into a good Ivy league school?</p>

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<p>First I’d suggest posting this in the College Search and Selection Forum instead.</p>

<p>Second, here are some schools that fit your academic profile but hopefully aren’t too expensive:</p>

<p>Cooper Union: Will be moderate reach but gives full ride to those accepted and has a good engineering program
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology: In the middle of nowhere but a good engineering school.
Carnegie Mellon: Another reach. I’d apply to the engineering school instead of the computer science school because the engineering school is easier to get into.</p>

<p>Hope this helps!</p>

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<p>^CMU is very expensive, and they don’t give out much need based aid.</p>

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<p>what about Georgia Tech?</p>

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<p>I’d certainly look at GT as cdelapena2 suggested. I’d think that would be the best “good” school you have a good chance of getting in to.</p>

<p>Your stats (GPA/SAT/EC) are low for the Ivies. But, you never know. So, go ahead and apply and see what happens.</p>

<p>Check these links out below.</p>

<p>For CS: [Best</a> Computer Science Programs | Top Computer Science Schools | US News Best Graduate Schools](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings]Best”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings)</p>

<p>The rankings above are for graduate schools. But, there will certainly be similarities between graduate and undergraduate schools.</p>

<p>For CE/EE: </p>

<p>[Best</a> Undergraduate Engineering Schools | Top Undergraduate Engineering Programs | US News Best Colleges](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering]Best”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering)</p>