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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]white male 1580 SAT (800 math) 4.7W GPA (4.0UW) Eagle, national CS awards, patent for a product he designed, leadership roles and volunteer roles. APs in all core subjects with 5s on exams. Math through multivariable calc. Teachers proofed essays and loved them. CS major
No: CMU, Stanford, Wisconsin, Washington, Boulder (offered exploratory studies not CS)
Deferred then WL: Ga Tech, Rice, UT Austin

Yes to all "safeties" but I don't believe in safeties for CS

Attending and happy at Purdue. [/quote]

Wow!!  Your boy looks amazing!!  Don't know what else can the "no" schools asked for?  Purdue is great!  Congratulations!![/quote]
Not the PP but parent of a similarly accomplished kid with similar results.   There are just way too many kids for too few spots.   Kids with bad scores just go TO so high scores are just one other data point.  Unique interests seem to help as well as obviously being having a hook or from an under-represented group.  No one really knows.  Have you kid apply and see what happens.  Trying to guess what your kids results will be is not helpful.  [/quote]

Yes. Engineering and CS are incredibly difficult admits for white and asian young men. Definitely need to start thinking about it by 10th grade and have some kind of thing to showcase talent. Robotics is good. And for anyone interested in mechanical or aeronautical, rocketry. DC did rocketry for four years. Definitely a nerd thing, but far more interesting then going to baseball on a Saturday morning. Him and all of his teammates went on to top schools for their interests - MIT, Georgia Tech, Rice, Cornell.

Definitely think the rocketry was a part of it. There are so many young men who want to go into engineering or CS. And not enough spots. They need to find a space to demonstrate their capabilities. For white and asian boys, engineering and CS are just like sports. They need to find a team where they can demonstrate their skills.

So, if you have a boy, do competitive team science whenever you can.

Also, Purdue is awesome for engineering. That is not a second prize.  [/quote]

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