Acceptance?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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<p>Sat I:</p>

<p>CR: 710
M: 690
W: 750</p>

<p>Sat II:</p>

<p>Chem: 730 (Not happy about it, taking it again)
US History: 740
Lit.: 740</p>

<p>AP CHEM: 5
AP ENG. LANG./COMP.: 5
AP US HISTORY: 5</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>Chess team captain / first board 10, 11, 12
(sucked in 9th but I was there)
1 Years varsity X-Country
3 years JV track
1 year JV wrestling (random I know)
5 Years TaeKwonDo (Brown belt now)
2 years teaching sunday school to 2nd and 3rd graders
American Legion Boys' State - (does anyone even know what this is? they said it was cool ... )</p>

<p>and a bunch of other crap that probably everyone applying to college has done</p>

<p>No clue what I look like to a college. You tell me. I'm just not sure what colleges are at my level. Any help would be awesome.</p>

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<p>Well the thing I see is that you don't show a lot of dedication to one thing. Like I should be able to tell what you want to go into by you're stats and EC's</p>

<p>You're test scores are strong and EC's are interesting.</p>

<p>It might be of more help to us if you told us what you want to go into.</p>

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<p>since apparently this is really important too, here's my GPA ...</p>

<p>W: 4.28
UW: 3.85</p>

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<p>yeah i really have no idea what i want to do ... it's a problem for me ... lib arts?</p>

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<p>that's at least what I was thinking.</p>

<p>I don't know much about HSS so I'm going to refrain from answering you're question althought I would say you have a good chance.</p>

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<p>HSS?? sorry I'm a complete noob to this site, what is that?</p>

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<p>lol sorry... It stands for college of humanities and social sciences</p>

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<p>ahh ok lol thanks</p>

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<p>CMU is divided into a bunch of different schools (humanities and social sciences, computer science, tepper school of business, carnegie instiute of technology (engineering), college of fine arts, mellon college of science). You apply to a specific school, rather than CMU as a whole. I think you can apply to three different schools; I know you can apply to two. Because CMU has specific programs that are well known, admissions standards very a lot between the schools.</p>

<p>H&SS at CMU is a bit different than many schools; I've heard to it referred to as a program in applied liberal arts (we have technical writing majors, not English Lit majors). H&SS, other than the cognitive psychology department, is not particularly well known, so it's a bit easier to get into than the other schools at CMU.</p>

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<p>the economics department in H&SS is good also, unless that is fully in Tepper now</p>

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<p>ivyguy is right - sorry I forgot!</p>