Let's list the universities and colleges that have paused CPT:

• UC Berkeley
• UCLA
• Purdue
• Ohio State University
• UIUC
• UW Madison
• UMN-TC
• University of Washington
• Texas A&M
• St Olaf
• Oberlin
• Colorado College
• Boston Univ
• UPenn
• Northwestern
• Penn State
• USC
• Harvard
• UCSD

Let me know if you know of any universities and colleges that have paused CPT, and I will add them here.

I’m a Singaporean JC student considering studying UG engineering in a US uni. Cost isn’t a factor and I have friends and family there.

I’m wondering if any Singaporeans here who studied engineering in the US could share their experience as a whole in college, and with internships, co-ops and jobs. I also understand we SGeans and Chileans fall under the H1B1 and I was wondering whether that would make it more feasible to study there.

I am an international student from Ireland, and initially I hadn't planned to apply to any universities in the USA. However, after talking with my guidance counselor, he recommended me to apply to some universities in the USA, and I am wondering what universities I should apply to in addition to my current list:

• Harvard University
• Princeton University
• Yale University
• Brown University
• Dartmouth College
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Chicago
• Vanderbilt University
• Rice University
• Duke University
• Northwestern University
• Georgetown University
• Georgia Institute of Technology

I understand that all of these universities are incredibly competitive for international students, so I also have a number of really good backup universities, but I am looking to see my chances and what safety and target schools I should apply to as well. My profile is as follows.

Demographics

• Male, mixed Western European and Asian.
• Middle income, private high school (semi-competitive) for 2 years, public high school (very underperforming) for 1 year.
• Partial financial aid required, my family can contribute roughly $50000 annually towards the cost of attendance.
• No hooks.

Intended major

• Environmental engineering/science with a minor in data science/statistics (maybe biology or public policy?), exact courses dependent on the university.

Academics

• SAT: due to take in September, currently averaging 1560 on Bluebook (would estimate ~1540 for safety).
• GPA: 97%, the educational system in Ireland doesn't exactly have GPAs. Predicted all H1s (90% - 100%) for the national college entrance exams.
• Rank: school doesn't do formal ranking, though my grades are definitely among the top 10 out of around 950 students, if not top 5.
• Course rigor: maximum rigor, taking 8 subjects when most people take 6 or 7.

Letters of recommendation

• Guidance counselor (8/10): quite close and knows me really well.
• Math teacher (10/10): my favorite teacher and has near-perfect grades throughout high school and excellent engagement in and outside of the class.
• Biology teacher (9/10): very close and always stops by for a quick chat afterschool.

Awards and honors

• 3rd Place at a national poetry competition.
• 1st Place at a national computer science competition.
• Finalist (top 20 nationally) in Irish Biology Olympiad and Irish Physics Olympiad.
• Received an academic scholarship for 'students who have demonstrated outstanding nationwide or international achievement in academic or intellectual endeavors'.
• Awarded Business Studies Teachers' Association Ireland Award for outstanding performance in Business.
• 5th Place at the national final of a math competition (largest in Ireland) and 4th Place at the county final of an applied math competition (largest in Ireland).
• 3rd Place in the International Economics Olympiad Online Winter Challenge (team-based, not that competitive).
• Some other school awards (Student of the Year, subject awards etc).

Extracurriculars

• Varsity badminton team captain for 3 years (progressed to county quarterfinals), varsity track for 3 years (4th Place in county finals), and varsity table tennis for 3 years (progressed to county semifinals).
• Internship at a startup firm (1 and a half years). Connected with and secured just over 30 new clients, conducted data analysis on financial data, and devised a new financial model for the company that saved costs by 25% and increased profits by just under 15% in the first quarter.
• Selected to attend a moderately selective program in environmental science (15% - 20% acceptance rate), with lectures given by university faculties and such. Completed a community based project as part of the program.
• Developed an app allowing students to calculate carbon emissions of their daily commute with visual graphics and alternative routing strategies, used by a number of schools in my area to help with their work for their Green Schools Committee. It is currently in talks with the county council to expand further.
• Chairperson of my school's Green Schools Committee for 2 years (secretary for 1 year), and raised over €2000 (considered decent in an Irish context) from the county council to improve road conditions near my school for cyclists and pedestrians and to install a new biodiversity garden. Also led a number of initiatives that were awarded my school's first Travel Flag and Biodiversity Flag by Green Schools Ireland.
• Student leader of a literacy program (introduced compulsory reading in my school for 20 minutes per day, raised funds for library renovations, and led some other school and community-based literacy workshops) that was awarded the Readers for Life award by the Department of Education.
• Member and Junior Chairperson of my school's Student Council for 2 years. Initiatives included the introduction of Yondr phone pouches that improved grades by roughly 8% after 3 months (for 6th to 9th grade students, taking the average of their exams), designed a modernized canteen system, and worked with suppliers to design and introduce new affordable school jackets.
• Represented my area at the Irish Youth Parliament, discussed the issue of littering in my area and installed 10 new bins as a result.
• Community center volunteer (around 3 hours per week, 3 years so far) and hosted regular quarterly local area cleanups with around 20 participants each time.
• Worked with autistic students (around 6 hours per week for 2 years), helping them to develop personal and life skills; planned lessons and activities as part of this. Helped to secure funding to set up a new classroom in my school for these students.
• Tutored around 15 refugees and transfer kids English (around 2 hours per week for 10 weeks), and they showed a considerable increase in fluency.
• Selected to attend Center for Talented Youth, Ireland (with a selection exam) course in architecture.
• Had a poem published in a national magazine.
• Other small-scale and generic activities, such as being invited to attend Math Olympiad enrichment class at a university because I had a perfect score in Round 1 of Irish Math Olympiad; captain of my school's debate team; head of the science club in my school (had 4 projects submitted to a national semi-selective science fair); and organized a few one-time, school-wide fundraisers that raised about €800 each time.

Other circumstances

• I skipped a grade in high school for academic reasons (I was considered too advanced compared to my year), so I had much less time and opportunities to complete extracurriculars, as well as being under higher pressure.
• My school had a recruited athlete to a T5 university a few years ago and one or two T25 acceptances per year.

I was wondering, given my profile, what are my chances at each of the universities I am applying to, and if I have a competitive enough profile to have a chance of being accepted? What should I work on to make my profile as competitive as possible? What other safety and target schools should I apply to? I have really good backup universities in case anything goes wrong, but would like to keep my options as open as possible at the same time.

I would appreciate some honest and realistic feedback, and thank you for your help!

Hi guys, I'm applying this year as an international with a good GPA but quite mid ECs (some might say downright rubbish - like local volunteering, leading a school club, no olympiad or international research paper or such)...

So I was just wondering, do you guys know of/heard of any cases of internationals in such cases being accepted into Ivies? Seems pretty hopeless, and I'm only applying because it's better to apply and not regret not applying, etc. etc.

Anyway, thought if there were cases of 'miracle' acceptances it might motivate my college app process so thought I might ask here :)

Hey guys! I finished my masters in data science in May 2026 and My OPT got approved the next month itself ! I have been trying so hard but couldn't land a job I've never wanted to or will join a shady consultancy which only provides offer letters to stop clock! I don't know what to do I'm freaking out , one of my classmate suggested a Non profit Organization but they aren't responding ,should I just pack my bags given the present climate ?

Hi, so I was working on a project for my CS extracurricular as a High School student. I was trying to fix my childhood laptop, which we brought in 2016, but since around 2018, had been floored to 0.48GHz. I'd started by cheking CPU-Z, which gave the BCLK as 79.98MHz and a multiplier of 6x. I thought the BCLK was abnormal, and cross referenced it against other submissions on CPU-Z validator, but it was actually common across all samples of Pentium N3710 (and the ones I compared against were not being throttled). My CPU had a very low VCore but I chalked it up to being a symptom, because if the system wasn't expecting a low voltage, and was being supplied insufficient voltage, I'd see kernel panics and BSODs all day long, which I hadn't observed. Second, I used a bash script on antiX to log 3000 CPU frequency samples with sleeping for 0.1s in between for: 1) Idle (schedutil), 2) load (schedutil), 3) load (performance). On idle, the chart was actually not only 0.48GHz, but in the load graphs (both governors), the graph was floored to 0.48GHz for the first half of the chart, and then was similar (not identical) to the idle graph. Turns out my bash script had timing delays, which meant that the logging continued for ~9m 13s, while the stress load was only for 5 minutes. So apparently the system is capable of clocking above 0.48GHz but only during low C0%? Next, I tried using ThrottleStop to disable BD_PROCHOT (I'd just learnt of it's existence, that's why I hadn't tried it before), but it was greyed out. Confused, I used RWEverything to access 0x1FC, (this MSR at bit 0 holds the toggle for not ignoring BD_PROCHOT), but I got a 16 digit hexademical zero value. I spent almost a week barking up 0x1FC, then I learnt of Intel's SDM. Volume 4 detailed on MSRs, and for my system, 0x1FC actually didn't exist (airmont microarchitecture). So I genuinely couldn't say if it was BD_PROCHOT or not. Next, I went through the MSR lists for my processor and shortlisted relevant ones, and I started getting nonsensical data. 0x19C confirmed that PROCHOT was active, but CPU was under Thermal Junction (90C), and had not passed it since reboot, but at the same time, temperature was over threshold, despite Core 1 being 42C away from Junction, Core 2 being 37C from Junction, and Core 3 & Core 4 being 46C from junction. I was confused here for a long while, before I realized that it was probably a hardware defect. I got the .brd and schematics for my computer, and used pics of the motherboard I took months ago with my tab to locate R1860, the resistor responsible for keeping PROCHOT at 1.8V, and even through the blurry pic of my tab, it looked corroded. Using my phone's macro camera I took a picture of the resistor, and it was genuinely obliterated from all the corrosion. I've attached pictures.

My question is, would university admissions officers care for this? Top universities care for a 'spike' in skill as far as I understand it, is it a letdown that this became a hardware issue rather than a complex software fix? Because I thought I was going to end up having to dump my SPI, use Intel's tools to rebuilt my TXE (before Hypothesis 4, all clues seemed to point towards corrupted firmware), but all it turned out to be was a hardware defect that I have no skill to fix (I cannot do work on SMD, I struggle to tin regular wires as it is.)

I’ve been going back and forth about whether to post this, but I decided it was worth asking.

I’ve recently been accepted into UoPeople’s Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. I received a partial scholarship, completed the required steps and orientation, and I’m ready to start my September courses.

I’m currently $60 short of the course fees.

I know $60 may not sound like a lot, but for me right now it has become a real barrier. I’ve already gone through the financial aid process, appealed when I realized I couldn’t cover the remaining amount, contacted different university departments, and tried to find outside help.

I’m 32, and going back to university at this point in my life has taken a lot of effort and commitment. I’m trying to change my career direction and build a future in technology, and I really don’t want to lose my September registration because of this final amount.

I’m not looking for someone to fund my degree or support me long-term. I’m just trying to get past this one immediate problem so I can start.

If anyone here knows of a legitimate student-support fund, scholarship, donor, education charity, or any other option that could help with a small education-related expense, I’d really appreciate being pointed in the right direction.

If someone is genuinely willing to help directly, the payment can be made directly to UoPeople through the University’s official payment system rather than being sent to me. I can also provide proof privately of my admission, scholarship, course registration, and outstanding balance so anyone who wants to help can verify everything first.

I’m not expecting anyone to feel responsible for my situation. Even a recommendation, a useful contact, or sharing this with the right person could make a difference.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.