Any chance at Carnegie Mellon???

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Applying to CIT:</p>

<p>Asian Male Resident of Westwood, MA
GPA: 3.18 UW, 5.18 W (out of 6.0) - school does not weight AP's and honors differently
Rank: School doesnt rank
Competitive school (we send about 5 students to Ivy's every year)
Class size: 220
Most rigorous course load
- 9th grade - All honors classes
- 10th grade - AP Chem and the rest honors
- 11th grade - AP US History and AP Physics B and the rest honors
- 12th grade - Taking AP Stat, AP Calc, AP Physics C, AP Lang and Comp, Honors Spanish, Honors Psychology</p>

<p>AP Chem - 4, AP US - 3, AP Physics B - 4</p>

<p>ACT: 33 (34 M, 34 S, 34 E, 31 R, 9 essay)
SAT: 2080 (750 M, 680 W (8 essay) , 650 CR)
SAT II Chem: 720
SAT II Math I: 720
SAT II Math II: 760
SAT II Physics: 640 (screwed this one up...)</p>

<p>EC/Volunteer:
-Internship for two summers at Harvard Medical School in the New Research Building (Summer of 11th,12th)- Did mostly computer stuff (installed servers, software, hardware, etc.) to help in research for the Humane Genome Project
-Began a branch of Akshaya Patra in Massachusetts (11th, 12th) - Akshaya Patra is an organization which gives free food to underprivileged kids in India
-National Honor Society (11th, 12th)
-Academic Decathlon (10th, 11th, 12th) - won award for speech in statewide competition
-Science Team (10th, 11th, 12th)
-Key Club (9th,10th,11th,12th) - Recently elected as Vice President
-Percussion (9th, 10th)
-Religious (Jain - props to anyone who's heard of Jainism) Education (9th,10th,11th,12th)
-Created advertisements for nationwide Jain phonebook (summer - 9th)
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (9th) ? Educational Studies Program - I went to MIT every Saturday for 10 weeks and took classes in Economics, Debate, and How to start a high tech business
-Selected for and attended Boys State (11th)
-Leadership Development Program (summer - 9th) - I helped organize games and take care of little kids
-Minuteman Press School (Summer of 12th) - I learned about printing and marketing (my parents started a printing business and Minuteman Press is a franchise, so we all went to this school for 2.5 weeks and learned about how to start the business, how to price jobs, how to print on a press, etc.)
-National Honor Society (11th, 12th)</p>

<p>Sports:
9th - Soccer, Ski Team, Outdoor Track
10th - XC, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track (letter)
11th - XC, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track
12th - XC (letter), Indoor Track, Outdoor Track</p>

<p>Recommendations:
I'm definitely going to get good ones from my GC, my math/computer science/engineering teacher, and my english teacher
Also getting a supplemental rec from the guy I worked under at Harvard Med</p>

<p>Awards: Honorary Mention State Speech Competition
AP Scholar
Commended Student for National Merit Scholarship</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>bumpppppppppppppppp</p>

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<p>anyone????</p>

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<p>How the #$&<em>#(!</em>@ do you have a 3.1 UW while a 5.18 weighted????</p>

<p>That's absurd. CIT has an acceptance rate of ~10%. I don't see any individual passion among your e.cs. Just seems like a bunch of college-appealing stats although some of the "charity" work is decent. </p>

<p>Don't put too much weight on the GC recs. You definitely have a shot at CM, but CIT is kind of a stretch. </p>

<p>You must understand, these schools look past GPA and SAT. They want to see interest associated with THEIR department, not general accomplishments. I'm not familiar with CIT, but I know kids with weak scores who got into excellent schools because they had a certain passion and pursued it with everything they had. Ditched charity work, clubs, and "leadership" roles. </p>

<p>Good luck, you definitely have a shot! I'm sure someone else can recommend some other schools similar to CIT.</p>

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<p>your Ec's are where you shine. Your GPA hurts.
How did you get an internship at Harvard Med? that's awesome! did you have connections or something?</p>

<p>anyway, I think you are likely for CMU, but for CIT, i think it might be a slight reach becuase of your GPA. it's debatable whether your EC's make up for that. then again, I sure wouldn't be surprised if you got in.</p>

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<p>thanks for the replies</p>

<p>Haha yea it was wierd how I got my internship. I read an article in the Boston Globe about how the lab was working on the human genome project and I just emailed the head of the lab and he just offered me a place at the lab. I wasnt doing much at first becuase they had never gotten a High Schooler in their lab and they didnt really know what I was capable of but now I've basically carved my niche. Im also getting a rec from the head of the lab so I'm really hoping that helps</p>

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<p>Also, if I dont get into CIT, can I still get into CMU?</p>

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<p>Sorry, but do you think I should apply to H&SS and then transfer into CIT or is it harder to transfer once in CMU?</p>