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11th · STEM· 2d ago

CS girl from NJ magnet, worried about reach list

Academics: - GPA: 4.0 UW / 4.6 W - SAT: 1560 - Rank: 6/450 - 11 APs so far, mostly 5s ECs: - USACO Gold (been grinding for Plat) - Founded women-in-tech club junior year, 40+ members, ran a hackathon with 100 attendees - 3 years tutoring middle schoolers in math, 4 hrs/wk - AMC 12 honor roll twice - varsity tennis since sophomore year Schools I'm looking at: MIT, Stanford, CMU SCS, Berkeley, GTech, Michigan, Cornell so like, I know the reach schools are a reach, but I'm lowkey anxious that my ECs don't stand out enough for CS specifically because hackathons and coding clubs feel kind of generic at this point and I don't have like a published research paper or a startup or anything that's actually impressive and I'm wondering if I should even bother with HYPSM or if I'm just setting myself up to get rejected and should focus more on matches instead, but also I feel like I should at least try because my stats are decent and the women-in-tech angle is something. am I being realistic or am I cooked 😭
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11th· 2d ago
ngl your USACO Gold is literally the spike here, not the hackathon (everyone has those now). Reach: MIT, Stanford, CMU SCS (CS recruiting is brutal even with great stats). Target: Berkeley, GTech, Michigan.

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