#Junior looking to refine/cut down list of schools for CS/mathematics

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mild dragon
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Location/Region: Don't rly care—i just want access to opportunities especially for SWE/quant

Major: CS, Math, Physics, Computer/Electrical Engineering

GPA/Test Scores:

  • Competitive public high school in DFW, TX; ugpa 3.96/4.0, wgpa 5.0/6.0; not top 10% bc of moving around
  • Moved from a high school that has deflated grades to one that has inflated grades
  • Extreme course rigor (calc in freshman year, multiple math DEs like calc3/diffeq/linalg, ap physics C, ap chemistry, etc.)
  • Upwards trend (went from low to mid 90s in freshman year to like 97 average in junior yr
  • 1520 PSAT, predicted 1600 SAT (consistent with all of my practice tests)
  • 5 on all AP tests except for CSP in frosh yr

Costs:

  • Currently on H4 status, might be able to switch to Advanced Parole
  • Guaranteed NMS semi so places that have good merit scholarships for NMS
  • Looking for schools that also consider undocumented students as domestic
  • Will apply full-pay everywhere that isnt need-blind/in state/doesnt consider as domestic

Schools You're Currently Looking At:

  • High Reaches: MIT, CMU SCS, Stanford, Berkeley EECS, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Caltech
  • Reaches/High Targets: UChicago, GaTech CS/CpE, UIUC CpE/CS+X, USC Engineering, UMich CS-Eng, UT CS
  • Targets: UW Madison
  • Safeties: TAMU, UT Dallas
  • Unis outside the US: JMC at Imperial, JMC at Oxford or Math at Cambridge, CS/Math honors at Waterloo
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i put a lot of schools as high targets ngl

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but my reasoning is that if im paying way more for a marginally better university (since TAMU is a t50) its not worth it

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so if theres any universities that give good aid to h4/undoc students other than hypsm lmk

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im instate for TAMU so i pay like 15k/yr + i have nms so some eligibility for merit scholly

grizzled stirrup
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usc uchicago low reach is wild

barren dock
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bro js like me fr

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if ur gonna cut, prob take off umich

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unless u rly wanna go to umich

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hella expensive

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ur list looks fine tho, ur just gonna have to grind during regular decision cycle

mild dragon
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umich seems like a rly chill school and they have a cool math honors program

mild dragon
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or well

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i think the top category should be hihg reaches

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and the rest are reaches/high targets

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also im lowkey a bit torn bw MIT+UChicago EA or Stanford REA

grizzled stirrup
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aight

pale patrol
barren dock
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its just its expensive af for oos

mild dragon
mild dragon
barren dock
pale patrol
wooden wedge
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if you're looking at math specifically i would put uchicago higher in terms of both difficulty & reputation, not too familiar w their cs stuff

wooden wedge
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mit has a good variety of classic supps but no personal statement, stanford has common app pers statement + similar variety of supps (can be easily used a starting pt for many schools), uchicago has a pers statement but v few supps & one of them is a "quirky" one

mild dragon
mild dragon