Will I get into a T20 College with bad grades for CS?

dandantheman
Thu, 28 Mar 2019 06:14:21 +0000

I am currently a junior, but I am wondering what my chances are with the grades I currently have. All my on level classes are A’s, but my AP classes are falling behind. I believe I have a strong profile outside my grades, but I wanted to see if my transcript would keep me out of top colleges.

Grades:
I have mostly A’s, but I have a few B’s and one C.

Sophomore Year:
AP Computer Science: A, A
AP World History: B, B
AP Chemistry: C+, B

Junior Year:
AP Calc. AB: B, A-
AP Physics A: A, A-
AP Biology: A, A
AP Lang.: B+, B+

Senior Year:
AP Calc BC
AP Physics B
AP Env Sci.
AP Lit.
AP Gov

Scores:
AP Chem - 5
AP Computer Science - 5
AP World History - 4
SAT 1 - 1370
SAT 2 - 1550

Leadership:
Founded non-profit that creates coding/cyber tutorials (over 100k viewers)
Founded cyber security startup
Founded school’s cyber club
Founded coding seminar at local middle school
President of school’s coding club
Vice President of Business Club
Secretary of Mock Trial team

Activities:
Intern as a software developer at computer vision startup
Compete in hackathons
Compete in Mock Trial competitions
Drone Cinematography
Large coding portfolio
Volunteer for special needs (I have an autistic brother so I’m not just doing this for college)

Hackathon Awards:
Cruzhacks College Hackathon - 1st place (only high school team competing)
Codeday Winter - 1st place
Codeday Fall - 1st place
TinoHacks - Category Winner
Saratoga Hackathon - 3rd Place

Summer Activities
Stanford Intensive Law & Trial Camp - freshmen-sophmore summer
MIT LaunchX - junior-senior summer
Cyber Security research project - junior-senior summer

My dream schools are MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Northwestern, USC

Am I competitive enough to attend these schools for CS?