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[quote=Anonymous]Our school does not offer math beyond AP Calc BC. My son is admitted to 2 top 20's (he did get rejected from 4 others though) and he was accepted to his targets (2) and likely (1).
His courses:

9th: Alg 2, Pre-AP Cs, Spanish 2, some science class (I forgot - it was one of the environment/geology ones)
10: Pre-Calc, AP CS, Spanish 3, AP World History, Honors Bio
11: AP Calc AB, regular US History, regular English, Honors Chem (double block) and Integrated Physics (double block)
12: AP Calc BC, AP Gov, regular English, AP Physics 1, 2 and C:Mechanics (Yes, they take all 3 in one year double block at our backwards school)

So, not the strongest list compared to many other applicants but did check the physics and math through calculus boxes. I would recommend at least 3 yrs foreign language. He did get into a top 20 more liberal arts focused school so I think it is still possible for a STEM kid who avoided AP humanities like the plague. He does have VERY strong ECs that are related to CS and that he did entirely old his own because he loves it; he did not participate in any robotics activities. His GitHub is amazing and he codes and reads code like an English professor would read, analyze and write novels. His brain just "works" that way. He also had a PT job where he worked 15 hrs a week. No sports. I would say he was not your average maxed out on rigor and school based leadership/EC and he still came out OK but the competition for CS is BRUTAL and you have to stand out in some way. [/quote]

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