<p>My god swingtime, chill out. There is no reason to get so emotional about this! He is just asking about some of the schools he is interested in. He never said these are the only schools he’s applying to. Also Carnegie Mellon is not that hard to get into. I know many seniors with similar gpa and worse SATs who have gotten in. Here’s this years admission stats. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/carnegie-mellon-university/1305040-official-carnegie-mellon-university-2016-rd-results-5.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/carnegie-mellon-university/1305040-official-carnegie-mellon-university-2016-rd-results-5.html</a>
And class rank in public schools can be very different from those in competitive private schools. In public schools usually only the top 5% get into top 20 schools, but in some of these private schools over a quarter of them do.
Although many of these schools are reaches (as they are for most people), I think he still has a chance at all of them.</p>