#Need help deciding whether i should ea or rd to schools (for a reason)

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low jasper
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GPA: 3.77 UW, 4.4 W
major: Computer science
SAT: 1530
EC's: Pretty strong (founder/ceo of startup that raised funding, app thats being used in mount sinai hospital, Tiktok - (100k followers, 150M views), ecommerce business that made 25k and donated 5k of it, paid full stack developer (internship), research internship, pres of comp sci club (which i increased from 5 to 80 members) etc
Essay: I hope its good lol
Colleges: T20 Comp Sci Schools, ED to cornell, and some safeties

what im really worried about is my GPA, its pretty low for T20 Comp sci,

I had a 3.99 UW frosh, 3.54 UW soph, and 3.8 UW junior, i screwed up soph year.

Heres what im thinking - should I EA/RD. With ea i wouldnt be able to show my senior year grades, with rd atleast i can fit in first semester. im confident i can get all A's, and that would average me out to like a 3.83 (cus all A's is a 4)

is it worth it to EA or RD?

LMK! Thanks (and idk if i would actually be able to put that gpa because my school only calculates gpas at the end of the year cus we use genesis, but im assuming theyll see it in my transcript atleast)

austere grail
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maybe do a rea/ed at ur top choice then ea at ur targets/safeties/any school with EA merit

low jasper
austere grail
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apply ea to schools that have ea merit scholarships

dull junco
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also for schools like purdue and uiuc you almost have to apply ea because most of their cs spots are filled up in the ea round

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probably don’t apply to straight cs at uiuc

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cs+advertising or cs+econ sounds more suited to you

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also be SURE that you will have your grades for first sem in (AND on your transcript, its not enough just to know them) by december 25th if you want to consider applying to schools rd instead of ea to wait for grades

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if your grades arent on your transcript by dec 25th there is no point at all

low jasper
low jasper
dull junco
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the advice i always got was just apply ea to them no matter what

haughty estuary
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This is not really a college list question

tender skiff