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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]
No idea.  My kid had multiple internships, even one paid, a few competition wins and was deferred from Ga Tech and Northeastern and flat out rejected from UIUC.   Very high stats and highest course rigor.  [/quote]
Any luck at UMD?[/quote]
DP.. my kid got rejected to both UIUC and GA Tech, accepted to UMD honors for CS.

Deferred at MIT and UMich.

Very high stats.

[b]Very strange college admissions world[/b].[/quote]
Not strange at all because you don't understand how top college admissions works. Stats is only a very small part of the credentials AOs look at. You didn't mention anything else other than stats, so I guess your kid didn't have much else to show for.[/quote]
I didn't mention them because those are more revealing, but DC did various activities, mostly non STEM related to show that they are well rounded; DC had the highest achievement in a national organization.

In any case, I know of another student in a magnet program, high stats,  who is already working as a programmer for a company , and even this student was rejected at these T10.  I think this student being rejected at T10 made my DC feel better since they know this other student is a lot more capable than them.

Like I said, Very strange college admissions world.[/quote]

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