Bay Area CS 录取案例

 

Student Profile

 

Attribute

Detail

Location

Bay Area (California)

Intended Major

Computer Science

Unweighted GPA

3.96

SAT Score

1540

Household Income

High Income

Region

Bay Area

Extracurriculars (ECs)

Strong ECs — all centered around business and computer science

Legacy Status

Penn legacy

Application Context

Competitive Bay Area CS applicant

 

College Admission Results

 

University

Result

Stanford

Rejected

Georgia Tech (GTech)

Accepted

University of Michigan (UMich)

Accepted

Purdue

Accepted

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

?? Waitlisted

MIT

Rejected

Caltech

Rejected

UC Berkeley

Accepted

UCLA

Accepted

UC San Diego (UCSD)

Accepted

UC Irvine (UCI)

Accepted

Yale

Rejected

Dartmouth

Rejected

UPenn

Rejected

Cornell

Accepted

Harvard

Accepted

Princeton

Accepted

Brown

Applying (pending at the time of post)

 

Summary Insight

 

A Bay Area CS applicant with near-perfect GPA (3.96) and 1540 SAT saw strong results at top publics and several Ivies, but rejections from Stanford, MIT, and Caltech — a common outcome for Bay Area CS candidates due to regional competition and oversupply of top STEM profiles.

 

Admitted: Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Berkeley, UCLA, UMich, GTech, Purdue, UCSD, UCI

?? Waitlisted: CMU

Rejected: Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Yale, Dartmouth, UPenn

Pending:Brown