<p>Sex: Male
Ethnicity/Race: Black
Age: 17</p>
<p>Junior Year:
SAT: 1450 (Yes I know my score was pitiful. I plan on retaking it my senior year and i also plan on taking the ACTs)
GPA: 3.1
American Literature CPI: 93
Spanish I CPI: 88
Algebra II H: 85
Physics H: 88
U.S.History II CPI: 96
Religion III CPI: 83 (not really sure whether this might count towards my GPA since its a course that a catholic high school offers)</p>
<p>Senior Year:
College Pre-Calculus (I am taking this course at a community college)
College English Composition (Same status with above. I am taking the remaining classes at my high school)
Honors Economics
Honors Anatomy and Physiology
Honors Religion/Bio-Ethics
AP Computer Science </p>
<p>I am part of my schools Soccer team. The only volunteer work i have done is at a local nursing home close to me. To increase my chances of getting into college i plan on taking more extra-curricular activities along with studying hard and raising my GPA to AT LEAST a 3.5/3.6. The major i am seeking is Engineering. The schools i Plan to apply to are</p>
<p>Drexel University
Worcester Polytechnic
North Eastern
Rensselaer University
Rochester University
Carnegie Mellon University
Pennsylvania University
Brown University (I highly doubt I will make it)
MIT (Also have doubts of being accepted into this one too)</p>
<p>CMU, Brown, MIT - extremely high reach.
Drexel - reach
Worcester - high reach
Northeastern- reach
Penn State - low/mid reach
Rensselaer- mid/high reach
Rochester- mid/high reach</p>
<p>Don’t apply to Brown, CMU and MIT with that SAT (not being mean).</p>
<p>Yes i know my SAT’s score are beyond dismal, i plan on retaking it along with taking the ACT. Going through some of threads here i feel awkward having some pretty low scores/grades and also having a pretty lousy GPA to</p>
<p>Don’t feel awkward, we’re just obsessed with college and most of us are overachievers haha</p>
<p>You should apply early to Drexel. </p>
<p>Forget Brown, CMU, Rochester and MIT. No chance. Even if you bring up the SAT, you can’t make up the GPA quickly enough.</p>
<p>Penn State- Not University Park, maybe other campuses. You do mean Penn State, right? Not University of Pennsylvania?</p>
<p>yea penn state. but what do you mean though about me not bringing up my GPA enough. lets hypothetically say i manage to get at least a 92 in all my classes, wouldn’t that be good enough for me to get into some of the schools since it could probably bring my GPA to around a 3.5 if not more</p>
<p>Drexel University - Target
Worcester Polytechnic - High Target
Northeastern - High Target/ Low Reach
Rensselaer University - High Target
Rochester University - Reach
Carnegie Mellon University - High Reach
Pennsylvania University - High Reach
Brown University - High Reach
MIT - High Reach (To be honest, I don’t think you’ll be accepted, but you can try if you really have a passion for it)</p>
<p>Definitely look at Penn State and a few other state schools! Best of luck!</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1196782-chances-brown-will-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1196782-chances-brown-will-chance-back.html</a></p>
<p>You can’t raise your gpa that dramatically that quickly. And a 3.5 is still VERYVERYVERY low for Brown, MIT, and CMU. I have a 3.6 and I’m being told I probably wont be accepted for that reason.</p>
<p>Remember, you are sending apps in after only one more semester, so yes, you could get a 3.5 for that semester, but it won’t raise your cumulative GPA enough.</p>
<p>If you apply anywhere early, that school would get the GPA you have right now.</p>
<p>Unless you have a really good essay and prove worthy out of school, MIT might put u on the bottom. My neighbor was a professor and his son went to MIT and he says that most kids are rediculously smart in HS but College trumps them.
My advice: Invent something that will affect a lot of people. Seeing as u want to be an engineer?? Make solar panels on buildings that are cheaper and more efficient or make a particle accelerator…</p>
<p>yah i read that your GPA and scores don’t matter if your going to MIT. all they want to know is what projects or extra curricular activities you have done</p>
<p>incorrect as in how, i went to an information sesion there the other day and a couple of students said that even though they had a lower scores compared to the other people who sent in admission they were able to get accepted due the fact they had done more EC activities than them. i am not saying that is the case with all of them but just the few i talked to</p>
<p>It is true that they value ECs more than many other schools. That’s not to say that gpa and sat’s ‘don’t matter’ by any means, however-- all of their students are still 300% academically-qualified to attend the school.</p>
<p>what field engineering??
If ur doing MIT might as well try Cal tech</p>
<p>MIT and CMU require Math and Science SAT subject tests in addition to the SAT or ACT.</p>
<p>@sarcasmrulse i am trying to go for: computer, electrical/electronics, robotics, or software architectural. anyone that i seem to like and have an aptitude for</p>
<p>@schmohawk i plan to take a mat and science subject test</p>