#Clueless CS Junior

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quartz helm
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Major: CS or Data Science (if CS too competitive), minor in Earth Science perhaps
GPA/Test Scores (optional): 3.994:( unweighted, 4.603 weighted, 1550 SAT
Please do not add your extracurriculars. My ecs are pretty decent, not super duper impressive but decent
What are some target schools? What are reaches? I literally don't know how to classify as target or reach, so pls gimme advice

vital prairie
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what state are you in? your state schools are a great place to start looking.

how much are you budgeting for college? finances for most people are the primary restriction.

your stats are pretty much competitive for every school in the country so I wouldn't worry about stats.

quartz helm
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im just not sure what is my targets

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yk

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like is uc davis a target

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its getting competitive so im not sure now

viscid tulip
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For you, SB may be a target but its hard to tell with CS nowadays (im doing cs too)

quartz helm
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thx for this

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dang san diego and santa barbara are that competitive?

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honestly ucs are so random so ig they are

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would uiuc be a hard target?

viscid tulip
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UIUC is extreme reach for CS

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especially out of state, the aceptance rate is a suprising 4%

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sd and sb not as competitive outside of cs

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ur stats are good so for you santa barbara is probably a target

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i read somewhere irvine cs acceptance rate is 11% but not sure how accurate

quartz helm
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😭 wow thats real competitive

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dam

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how about if i apply for data science @viscid tulip , would my target/reach for uiuc and ucs change?

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i heard data sicence is less competive than cs

viscid tulip
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probably

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but data science is boring as fuck

quartz helm
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hehehaha

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i mean thats what im interested in, but i thought cs = better jobs

viscid tulip
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oh

karmic egret
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UCSD CS is wild

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only the kids who were already accepted to la/berkeley got into their cs

fluid pine
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agree mostly but i'd bring santa barbara down a tier and davis up a tier

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uci and ucd have gotten more competitive in recent years i think? uci has a decent data sci and game programs

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so few ppl from my school got into uci it was weird

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but like you said ucs are unpredictable so just apply to most/all of them and see what happens

viscid tulip
karmic egret
viscid tulip
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Yeah or irvine

novel cave
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you don't know

novel cave
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also don't pay OOS tuiton to do Data Science at UIUC

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makes no sense

quartz helm
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das crazy

quartz helm
novel cave
quartz helm
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cuz u said its not worth at uiuc

novel cave
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If you wanna do Data Science, with your stats, you would easily get into a UC imo

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and it's better to do that, but you should ask yourself if you want to do DS or CS

fair fox
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I recommend applying to cal poly slo engineering as well. strong cs program

quartz helm
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would slo be a safety or nah?

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i cant find the acceptance rate for cs

fair fox
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for cs probably a target

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every other major its a little bit less

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the engineering there is hard to get into

quartz helm
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👍

novel cave
quartz helm
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aight

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ty

untold knot
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For cs basically any target becomes a reach, any safety becomes a target

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unfortunately very true

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my mistake was applying as a cs major with very average /low average stats

vast turret
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if ur into grad school/academeia, i might recommend UCSB CCS (fantastic math and physics, not sure about CS)

quartz helm
quartz helm
tender horizon
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I would recommend applying

quartz helm
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tho u got into cmu...

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so uh ur op

tender horizon
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i mean you could possibly do it too?

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i dont get your point

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I got into both cmu and uiuc with a 3.7 and test optional

vast turret