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11th · STEM· 12d ago
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11th · STEM· 12d agoasian fem CS major, USACO Gold, worried about reach list
junior at magnet school in NJ, 4.0 UW, 1560 SAT, USACO Gold, founded women-in-tech club and ran a hackathon. my schools are MIT, Stanford, CMU, Berkeley, GTech, Michigan, Cornell. lowkey feel like my ECs aren't research-heavy enough compared to other CS kids and my essays are mid. am i just reaching too hard or is there an actual shot here.
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12th· 12d agoMIT/Stanford/CMU are legit reaches even with Gold, that's just the CS funnel. Berkeley and GTech are targets if you nail essays, Michigan and Cornell are safeties depending on your essay game. The women-in-tech club and hackathon are solid differentiation honestly, so don't sleep on those in your essays, but yeah your list is top-heavy. Add one more match school (like Northeastern or UT Austin CS) so you're not banking everything on reaches.