SAT 1600 Score, CS Major

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1600 SAT will look good at any school you apply to. Not clear what the question is here.

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Anonymous wrote:The advantage was there but not so much now at many competitive schools.

Most competitive schools would really like to see gender parity in cs and engineering. So girls do have an advantage since even today there are still far more boys interested in those two majors.

I find it somewhat depressing that 60% of college students are female, most of the majors are majority female and all everyone talks about is how terrible it is that more males go into CS and Engineering and how we should “fix” it.

No one stopped males from going to college. I don't know why more females going to college is depressing.

It is depressing as the dating pool is getting smaller and smaller for these females that are str8 or bi with intention of hetero marriage, in our suburbs as im sure in yours being an Ivy educated mom turned part time pilates instructor married to a guy making over 500K is still the ultimate success story-lets be for real.

so our daughters chances of this are smaller and smaller--they will most likely marry guys at or below their own salary potential, some even talk of women marrying migrant workers as that ratio is 90/10 men....as this is a stem post lets do talk about the math

As someone with an Ivy education (and a PhD), this would only be said by someone who doesn't actually hold a degree from an Ivy, a graduate degree, or a top-notch education. In these circles, not having a substantive job of some sort (it can be a volunteer position, but widely understood as meaningful) especially as one's children are older is, well, not ideal. We are polite about it and don't say anything, but we all assume either debilitating mental illness or self-centered. An elite education is a privilege, and you are meant to give back to society.

Jeez-I never said these women just go around parading in Lulu's all day, they do other stuff as well to be accepted by their friends who are probably like you, they virtue signal, but to be the sole provider and be a great mom to three kids with full time work-Ivy or no ivy-im sorry this isnt possible nor realistic!

Is English not your first language? Your communication is awful...perhaps you are making a different point than what we think you are making. It is getting lost in your run-on string of words.

This conversation isn't going anywhere ands it my last post. You can go ahead and respond so you feel satisfied having the last word. However, the point is that it absolutely doesn't benefit our daughters hearing they have to have it all and all of the time. This is why depression rates of the new generations are so high.

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Anonymous wrote:1600 SAT will look good at any school you apply to. Not clear what the question is here.

Read through the thread. "Look good to any school" doesn't mean you will get accepted.

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Anonymous wrote:One thing to keep in mind regarding TJ applicants is that all these talks about WGPA>4.4+ and SAT>1550 is for the current and past 2 years senior classes. The cohort and distribution of WGPA will be different for the next year senior class since they were admitted under the new system and the composition of courses they are currently taking is different from the current senior class. So no one knows the WGPA necessary to get into UVA. For the current senior class if you have high unweighted GPA but low weighted GPA (4.2ish), which perhaps shows a lack of rigor comparatively, UVA may admit for the Wise campus.

Not only that, but if you are banking on UMD for CS, don't. It's getting tougher to get into UMD for CS.

They cut the class size down to I think 700 -- 600 direct admit, and 100 transfer, and I think most will be from MoCo CC. It will be almost impossible to transfer into UMD CS within UMD or from other 4 yr universities.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1168132.page

No argument with the difficulty getting into UMD CS, but don't think it's the TJ kids that weren't directly admitted. It's all the others placed in L&S that will now be virtually impossible.

This year many TJ kids were not direct admitted to CS and were admitted to L&S when they wanted CS

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS magnet, 1580 SAT, 4.0 uwgpa, 4.92 wgpa

UMD with merit.

Denied at MIT, CMU, etc.. WL at UMich, ultimately decided not interested after getting off the wl.

It's brutal, especially if you are a white/asian male.

+1. So true.

This is what we're telling our asian son who is MCPS magnet with similar credentials, class of 2025. But, we also say that you can make a solid path for yourself at UMD or similar caliber university.

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This is a really depressing thread ...

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS magnet, 1580 SAT, 4.0 uwgpa, 4.92 wgpa

UMD with merit.

Denied at MIT, CMU, etc.. WL at UMich, ultimately decided not interested after getting off the wl.

It's brutal, especially if you are a white/asian male.

+1. So true.

This is what we're telling our asian son who is MCPS magnet with similar credentials, class of 2025. But, we also say that you can make a solid path for yourself at UMD or similar caliber university.

UMBC also is very good for CS and Computer Engineering, eap in cybersecurity.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS magnet, 1580 SAT, 4.0 uwgpa, 4.92 wgpa

UMD with merit.

Denied at MIT, CMU, etc.. WL at UMich, ultimately decided not interested after getting off the wl.

It's brutal, especially if you are a white/asian male.

+1. So true.

Breaking news: affirmative action is over

Move on

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Anonymous wrote:One thing to keep in mind regarding TJ applicants is that all these talks about WGPA>4.4+ and SAT>1550 is for the current and past 2 years senior classes. The cohort and distribution of WGPA will be different for the next year senior class since they were admitted under the new system and the composition of courses they are currently taking is different from the current senior class. So no one knows the WGPA necessary to get into UVA. For the current senior class if you have high unweighted GPA but low weighted GPA (4.2ish), which perhaps shows a lack of rigor comparatively, UVA may admit for the Wise campus.

Not only that, but if you are banking on UMD for CS, don't. It's getting tougher to get into UMD for CS.

They cut the class size down to I think 700 -- 600 direct admit, and 100 transfer, and I think most will be from MoCo CC. It will be almost impossible to transfer into UMD CS within UMD or from other 4 yr universities.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1168132.page

No argument with the difficulty getting into UMD CS, but don't think it's the TJ kids that weren't directly admitted. It's all the others placed in L&S that will now be virtually impossible.

This year many TJ kids were not direct admitted to CS and were admitted to L&S when they wanted CS

How do you obtain admission information from "many" kids? That's strange because there are 100 addional CS direct admits than last year. The restrictions are students coming over from L&S.

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Anonymous wrote:Kid got a 1600 SAT Score and is looking for CS Major. Are there any good colleges which his score would give him an edge on. ECs average.

Completely diverging- the sad sad truth is even in this round, if you are Asian and South Asian, the trick to getting into highly selective colleges for males is to strategize and provide evidence for humanities major. Non DC city. Two kids from top privates going to Harvard. Their proclaimed majors? History and the other Gender studies. I know first hand, there is no intention to study either in college. Will go for CS.

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Anonymous wrote:Kid got a 1600 SAT Score and is looking for CS Major. Are there any good colleges which his score would give him an edge on. ECs average.

Completely diverging- the sad sad truth is even in this round, if you are Asian and South Asian, the trick to getting into highly selective colleges for males is to strategize and provide evidence for humanities major. Non DC city. Two kids from top privates going to Harvard. Their proclaimed majors? History and the other Gender studies. I know first hand, there is no intention to study either in college. Will go for CS.

And to add: Both had close to 1600 SAT and very high grades.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS magnet, 1580 SAT, 4.0 uwgpa, 4.92 wgpa

UMD with merit.

Denied at MIT, CMU, etc.. WL at UMich, ultimately decided not interested after getting off the wl.

It's brutal, especially if you are a white/asian male.

+1. So true.

Breaking news: affirmative action is over

Move on

Not fully over.

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Anonymous wrote:Kid got a 1600 SAT Score and is looking for CS Major. Are there any good colleges which his score would give him an edge on. ECs average.

Completely diverging- the sad sad truth is even in this round, if you are Asian and South Asian, the trick to getting into highly selective colleges for males is to strategize and provide evidence for humanities major. Non DC city. Two kids from top privates going to Harvard. Their proclaimed majors? History and the other Gender studies. I know first hand, there is no intention to study either in college. Will go for CS.

And to add: Both had close to 1600 SAT and very high grades.

Around here, the other trick might be to avoid TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly your kid’s biggest problem will probably be that they’re coming from TJ. They need to knock their application questions out of the park.

This. No college will have unlimited opening for students from any HS. So a qualified student will always partly be competing against other students from the same HS for the N admissions slots that a particular college will allocate. Yes, TJ probably has an N greater than say Robinson, but TJ is filled to the brim with qualified students many of whom will have a bunch of quality ECs and other non-test/non-GPA differentiators.

Fortunately, next year for class of '25 TJ seniors, the class became much weaker vs. prior years due to the new admissions standards. Should be much easier to stand out.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS magnet, 1580 SAT, 4.0 uwgpa, 4.92 wgpa

UMD with merit.

Denied at MIT, CMU, etc.. WL at UMich, ultimately decided not interested after getting off the wl.

It's brutal, especially if you are a white/asian male.

+1. So true.

Breaking news: affirmative action is over

Move on

It's not. My DC's school is (still) vocally trying to even out male/female students.