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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aside from high grades and SAT scores, what can a student do to stand out when applying to top CS programs?[/quote]

It is incredibly competitive, so apply to lot of colleges including multiple safeties. CS can make your safeties look like reach schools.

EA to as many public schools as possible (GATech, UIUC, Purdue, UT, UMD, Wisconsin etc).

These are my sons stats - UW 4.0, SAT 1560, 12 AP's including APCSA, Physics-1, Calc BC, APUSH etc,  multiple self-directed coding projects, multiple hackathons, USACO silver level, speech captain at school, multiple speech finalist etc.

He got accepted for CS at UMDCP, got alternate major at UIUC, [b]got multiple UC's[/b], rejected by GATech, Stanford, UT, and deferred by a few others.

So CS is a crapshoot regardless of the EC's, grades and SAT.

So apply broadly and keep your fingers crossed.[/quote]

UC results are out ?[/quote]

Only UCSC, Riverside and Merced. Davis is expected this week. Rest after that.[/quote]

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