#Looking for more targets

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marble anchor
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Asian male from Seattle, Washington (wealthy area with a bunch of tech parents and students pursuing CS lmfao)

Intended Major: Computer Science/Engineering

Some cool things about me ig:
First gen, born in Japan, lived in China, Australia, and moved to the US in 8th grade. Also started learning English in 7th grade when I moved to Australia. Can speak Japanese, Chinese, and English fluently. (I might write my essay on this)

Stats:
4.0 UW GPA (our school doesn't have weighted GPA)
1520 SAT (720 Reading, 800 Math)

Classes:
14 APs (Scored 5 - AP Chem, AP World, AP Physics 1, AP Japanese) Took 6 aps this year (AP Calc AB, AP Physics 2, AP CS A, AP Macroecon, AP Microecon, AP Lang, idk about my scores tbh). Also taking 5 next year.
2 honors

Looking into schools near coasts, probably in urban/suburban settings - more opportunities and internships in cities i think. Not too worried about costs in general. I prefer mid-large schools but don't mind smaller schools as well.

The current list that I have:

Safety: University of Washington (Non-CS), UC Riverside (?? I'm not really sure about this school), Cal Poly (Idk about this either) ----- I have trouble finding safeties because of the competition in CS majors

Target: UC San Diego, Boston U, Georgia Tech, NYU, UC Irvine, Northeastern, UT Austin

(Gatech and UT austin are probably hard targets)

Reach: CMU, UC Berkeley, UCLA (idk about their CS program), MIT, Stanford, Princeton

In consideration: John Hopkins, Rice, and probably more targets

crisp spear
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georgiatech is definitely not a target, and unless you're from texas UT Austin isn't either

it is kinda hard to find targets in cs, and i dont think i applied to many schools that'd be considered targets

but vanderbilt and umich, uva, and umd for EA work as targets

marble anchor
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alright thank you

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Everything in CS is kinda unpredictable tbh T_T

indigo basin
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Virginia tech can work as a target for you
Great CS program with an awesome community and the best dining in the nation!

trim finch
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UT Austin is a reach, if you dont live in texas, since they only take 8% from non texas americans

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UCSD and gatech are reaches with lower than 10% cs acc rates

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NYU is not a teach either

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Heck UCI isnt even a target

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some of the targets I recommend are Umass amherst, UW-madison (they dont admit direct into cs), potentially UF, and maybe one of UIUC's easier cs majors like cs+music if you like that? although its more like a hard target with 15% or so acc rate

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Cal poly cs isnt safety

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8% acc rate

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penn state is a safety

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asu is a safety

crisp spear
trim finch
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their medium SAT was like 1550

crisp spear
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ah damn, then i might've been wrong

trim finch
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yea NYU is super competitive now, a few years ago I'd def consider a target but not anymore

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upitt is a safety too

jade plank
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rit wpi look like targets

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great ones at that too

stone tree
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Pretty sure UT Austin OOS for CS is like sub 5% lol - also consider schools like Purdue, uw Madison (these may be hard targets - soft reach) or uiuc (def reach)

rain hazel
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WPI, RIT, UMD, Umass Amherst?

twin shuttle
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having applied to colleges out of both hs and cc, UCR is the one school i regret not applying to either time around

trim finch
jade plank
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for oos publics, you gotta apply ea

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or you have little to no shot

jade plank
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because only 6% of the class is oos from what i understand

wary whale
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i've heard umd cs is pretty good. might be a good target

trim finch
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umd oos cs acc rate very low

wary whale
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oh

marble anchor
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Does this basically mean that most CS programs in top 50 schools are reach?

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most cs program acceptance rate seems to be below 20%

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A lot of my senior friends who applied to these school got in though

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Similar coursework + gpa

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I was also wondering how enrollment number plays into this

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even at the same acceptance rate, if a school has more enrollment, does that mean I'm more likely to get in?

marble anchor
crisp spear
jade plank
# marble anchor is it a reach

uci is a literal crapshoot in and out of state nowadays. definitely on the reachier side, 5 years ago, no, but now things are different. id say that irvine, sb, sd, la, and cal can no longer be surefire targets.

mild rivet
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ive noticed that a lot of people use ASU as a safety

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is there a specific reason for that?

trim finch
mild rivet
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ah

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ok

summer swan
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upenn philly is dope asf 😍 and we have a lot of engineering kids from seattle

celest siren
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i was wondering why u aren't applying to UW for Computer Science

marble anchor
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but yeah i am applying to uw comp sci

real pond
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colorado school of mines! weird name but good target

sullen fable
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Against the rules

feral lake
sullen fable
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No worries!

craggy plover
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you probably already know this but just in case, fyi the appeal success rate for UW CS is really high in the area you live in speaking from personal experience lol. so please don’t forget to appeal if results don’t go your way