#Looking for Target Schools for CS|Engineering

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spring spear
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Location/Region: America, can be near cities but should be separate enough to have its own culture and stuff

Major: CS/Engineering
Minor: Classics/Latin

GPA/Test Scores: 3.85 UW/4.71
35 ACT + 10 Writing Section
17 APs - 15 5's, 2 4's
I've taken stuff like physics 1 + 2, chem, calculus ab + bc, statistics, computer sciences, a bunch of stuff

Extracurriculars and Awards:
National Latin Exam gold medalist twice
AP Scholar with Distinction 3 times or so (lol)
3rd/4th places in state chess tourneys

newspaper club co-leader/webmaster/writer/editor
made indpeendet chess classes for neighborhood kids over google meets
did lessons in coding club for school competitoins
science bowl team 2 captian
~300 hours at locla library
~50 hours at saint mary's food bank
national honor society
junior classics league

Size: Large overall student body but small class sizes
I wanna be experience many different kinds of people but also be in classes where i can build relations with the prof

Costs: <50k per year? I'd like some aid lol who wouldnt

Additional: Profs should teach undergrad classes > grad students
Many research opportunities for undergrads

Colleges:
Safeties: Purdue, Arizona Statue University, Northern Arizona University, University of Illinois
Target: Stony Brook, Texas A&M, UT Austin
Reach: UCs, carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech

I wanna have a better idea of the chances I have in my targets and reaches and also expand my list to include more targets and reaches.

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im in az btw

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so asu, nau are guaranteed admissions

turbid shadow
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Very solid list

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For your EC's, you should really not include NHS.. With the amount of service hrs u have, you definitely qualify for the presidents volunteer service award (administered by the white house). Look for some organizations that offer the PVSA certificate, you just log your hours and get a paper signed by the president

warm hollow
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by u of i, do u mean uiuc? because their cs/engineering is by no means a safety. Purdue is fairly competitive as well

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also, if you're interested in uc's I'd do more research on each individual uc's and their rankings since they do vary

humble pumice
# spring spear im in az btw

University of Illinois is only competitive for stem, their CS acceptance rate is 6.8% as reported on their website, so not a safety

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UT Austin is a reach too

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According to Texas law, UT Austin can only allow 8% of their incoming students be from out of state

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Acceptance rate for cs there might be around 1 or 2

spring spear
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@warm hollow @humble pumice

really helpful, i didnt think to look at more specific to major admission rates, this makes a bunch of those top engineering schools reaches which makes much more sense lol

even further establishes that i need good targets

humble pumice
warm hollow
sterile crane
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RIT, WPI, RPI, George Mason

acoustic lark
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def look at RIT

spring spear
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Awesome, these colleges seem awesome, though I’ve heard some sus stuff about RPI, thank you everyone!!!

acoustic lark
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but yeah a lot of people said the administration isn’t the best so def keep that in mind

severe tapir
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As I’m applying to RPI