“And some students said they completely screwed up the interview and still got Trustees.”
apparently they did not do as badly as they thought…
I’d be pretty nervous if I were a 17 year old interviewing for the chance to win $ 240,000- wouldn’t you?
OP, if your kid get even half a scholarship I would go to USC. I’ve been poking around my daughter’s Facebook account and one of her roommates graduated not too long along with sky hgh GPA, not valedictorian of engineering school, that’s another kid from high school, but 3.95 and above from USC industrial engineering and she is now a partner at a hot VC company in a Silicon Valley. Unbelievable! Sounds like a fairy tale. Who needs Stanford?
@mom2mom , is your daughter aware of the College for Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara? It’s a highly selective school-within-a-school, “a graduate school for undergraduates” is their motto. Students have tremendous academic freedom and do graduate level work pretty much starting in their freshman year. A nephew worked with a Nobel Prize winner when he was there - as an undergrad. Definitely check it out - they do have a Computer Science track.
@katliamom yes. CCS at UC Santa Barbara is on my D college list. Thank you for mentioning it.
@mom2mom Your daughter does have a hook in applying to CalTech – she’s female. According to the CalTech common data set, the acceptance rate for men is 6% (=309/4832), but for women it is 16% (=267/1693). Engineering-oriented schools actively work to improve the male/female ratio. Stanford is already more balanced and is more gender agnostic, making it a tougher admit.
Thank you @jrm815