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
