I would like at Purdue, UMD, VATech, maybe Pitt, UIUC, GA Tech. Last two are not quite "safeties", though. |
RIT, RPI, UMBC, Stevens UMD CS not a safety unless don't care about being direct admit. |
UMD CS is not a safety for someone with very high stats? |
Well and the TJ kid in competition with the other TJ kids, some of which probably got through with high GPA. Magnet schools definitely not a help in this process. |
It is not. In fact there are kids in the honors college that were not direct CS admits. The honors college has an average GPA of 4.65, middle SAT 1480-1560, ACT 34-35. |
It’s a lottery because the kids are all the same. UMC, suburban, 1450+, 3.8+, classical instruments (piano/violin NEVER accordion or blaster beam), Key Club, Shadow a Doctor (parent or parents friend), STEM (NEVER classics or poetry or basket weaving), essay is about dead grandma/dog or trip abroad opened my eyes, Model UN (France, NEVER Papua New Guinea) there are only four future professions: law, medicine, engineering or finance. You’re the AO at an T25 and you get 25k applications that look like this-100 alone from TJ. Now what? |
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I don't think it was a typo. This reflects what we saw in real life last year. This year should be different, assuming there's really no more "affirmative action" for up-market white men. |
GU>BC |
In state or OOS? |
This is why people should want schools to require test scores. Your nephew looked like every other applicant because the UCs never saw the 35 ACT. That score sets him apart from the all the other kids with 3.9 GPAs (and there are a lot of them). Oh well. |
I agree. I also want to add that as much as I respect teachers, they are not necessarily experts in college essay writing. Some require the essay to be written as part of English class. Mine wrote an essay for the class that they did not submit - wrote their own essay for admissions. They just disagreed with the teacher's direction and felt they wanted to write it completely on their own and with no guidance. |
Wrong. 35 ACT did not help my kid one bit. |
they don't consider race or scores and I assume she was OOS |
And it definitely didn't hurt. Your kid was rejected for other reasons. 35 is outstanding and should alway be submitted |