#shotgunning us asian male trying to become an engineer of sorts

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ember laurel
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  • Location/Region: Looking only in the United States, prefer to be out of state (CT), prefer for the school to be close to happenings (suburb/city)

  • Major: Electric Engineering/Computer Engineering/CS

  • GPA/Test Scores: ~3.8 UW/1540 (800 Math)

  • Curriculum: not looking for anything specific, just want a prestigious university

  • Size: medium-sized school

  • Costs: doesn't matter too much

  • Schools You're Currently Looking At: University of Connecticut, Northeastern University, UMass Amherst, Purdue, UMD College Park, UIUC, UW Madison, Georgia Tech, UMich, UT Austin, Northwestern, Duke, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, UPenn, Harvard, Cornell, Brown, Rice, Yale

  • Additional: i want to ed to northwestern because i think its my best chance to a prestigious university with good engineering program, but idk how to figure out if its really right for me. hope that makes sense.

mellow pilot
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Mostly solid list but why yale and why only berkeley

ember laurel
mellow pilot
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Other ucs than berk, theres sd and la and theyre all in the same application

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Tbh this list is really similar to mine

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Plus similar stats as well

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…and same major

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Gl bro

whole hazel
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you already have 20 schools on your list, is there a reason you’re looking to apply to more? any specific criterion you feel isn’t represented by your list?

abstract crater
ember laurel
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also im thinking abt eding to maximize my chances and idk how to decide if a school is a right fit

ember laurel
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like you dont have to write new ones

mellow pilot
mellow pilot
abstract crater
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yeah shared application for UCs

lament perch
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UCs are the same essays

whole hazel
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i guess add princeton? they have a great engineering program

abstract crater
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UW seattle, UNC, mit, stanford
just for completeness. upgrade your shotgun from 20 ga to 12 ga

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and what of our friend cornell

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Costs: doesn't matter too much
do you mean you can afford anything or you mean you're going to figure it out later? because now is the time to figure it out.

hexed badger
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harvey mudd cuz why the hell not

pulsar scroll
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would take out harvard if ur not set on cs

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and yale 😭

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if youre

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100% sure you wanna do cs and not ece then

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i wouldnt take them out

pulsar scroll
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so for example

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overall prestige? program prestige for cs? program prestige for ece? cs program quality? ece program quality? quality in a specific subfield of cs/ece you're looking to go into? (these last three are only somewhat correlated with program prestige) general temperament/vibes of the student body? social life?

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i'd be careful of "just want a prestigious university" bc imagine you end up liking ECE and you go to yale where the program isn't very well-known

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but it's up to you in the end

prime spire
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Virginia Tech

paper cypress
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This was basically my list ahaha

ember laurel
ember laurel
pulsar scroll
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just curious

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also are you from cincy hahaha

mellow pilot
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Prestige does matter but its usually not for the reason youd think

ember laurel
ember laurel
abstract crater
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Are your parents paying for your applications too? Because I think you got a good list lol.
Since you're going for prestige and the associated high cost, go for private over public imo. This is completely grass is greener but I could not imagine paying $70k/year for the public uni I went to.

pulsar scroll
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also dont apply to northeastern

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scam

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so then like
uconn, purdue, umd, uiuc, gt, umich, uta, northwestern, duke, berkeley, cmu scs (transfer to ece is easier), penn, cornell, rice

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thats 14 but u get the idea

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if you really wanna apply to harvard yale brown and you get in make sure you're absolutely set on CS before committing 😭

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up to u in the end

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also to find out if u wanna ED i think the best way is to talk to current students and see what they like and dislike abt NU

hexed badger
pulsar scroll
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yesssss

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purdue!!!!

faint crow
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if you are full pay and cant afford it, its as much of a scam as any school, but if whatever offer you do get you can afford id say its still a good option if you care abt things like scenic location, work experience, study abroad, mid of extrovert/introver school, etc (and also keep in mind it is very well respected for cs)

pulsar scroll
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it is a really good school

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if you apply just make sure you care about the school and are ready to show that as well (e.g. attaching a "why northeastern" supplemental essay that they don't ask for) because so many of my friends who just tacked it on to their college list bc its prestigious got rejected and only those who demonstrated more interest actually got in

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anecdotal evidence ik but it might apply in ur case

faint crow
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i mean a lot of people who do apply dont rlly care for the school cus no supps, but in my experience if u can show literally any reason of why u want to go to the school then that could help

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i visited twice (randomly) prior to being accepted but im sure it helped

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although he funny thing abt supplementals as u said is that i saw someone talk abt doing that on reddit, and i was gonna do it myself

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i procrastinated HEAVY on that and ended up reconsidering it, but i still got in without the supplemental

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im sure that visiting the campus, ea/ed, and doing that supplemental method (which could be risky but could also work) should be best in ur favor

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also SAT, they like that

faint crow
paper cypress