Carnegie Mellon ED Chances??

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Asian
School: Competitive Public</p>

<p>Applying for:
SCS - 1st choice
CIT (ECE)- 2nd choice
IS - 3rd choice</p>

<p>Sat: 2220 (680 CR 750 M 790 W)</p>

<p>Sat II: 800 Math 2c
770 Chem
Taking physics later</p>

<p>Honors/AP Classes:
H English - 9,10
H Math - 9,10,11
H Global Studies - 9
AP World -10
AP Chem- 11
AP Bio - 11</p>

<p>GPA:</p>

<p>W GPA: 3.7 (upwards trend...but yea its bad :P)
UW GPA: 3.5</p>

<p>Took 18-100 (Intro to Electrical and Computer Engineering - weeder course) and 15-100 (Intro to Programming) at CMU. Bs in both classes. [didnt add this into my gpa] </p>

<p>Courseload: every honors class and top level classes in math + science; only missing ap physics, hoping to take next year!</p>

<p>Senior Year Classes:
AP Calc BC
AP Comp Sci
AP Physics C
Gov/Econ
Ceramics
Brit Lit or World Lit</p>

<p>Honors:
3rd Place Regional Science Fair
Various insignificant school honors :P</p>

<p>ECs:
-Own/Founded my own business
-Own my own network of websites/startups
-Above has made 5 figures
-Science for Youth
-CSF
-Varsity track</p>

<p>Leadership:
Chief Technology Officer, Team leader, and Secretary of a Science Club/Organization
The organization expanded to 4 cities within a couple months and teaches kids science at seminars we hold. There's usually 150-250 people at these seminars</p>

<p>Volunteer:
Various things around the city
Dedicated a portion of my business to donating to organizations (human trafficking, american red cross, etc.) <- donated thousands</p>

<p>Summers:
-Working on websites/businesses
-AP/EA at CMU</p>

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<p>I think your EC’s will definitely stand out… Try to get the GPA a little higher, nab a few more SAT points, and you should be a shoo-in. :)</p>

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<p>Good chances - no guarantees, but definitely in the running. Just curious, since you did AP/EA, does that mean you can apply EA and find out super early? Is there any reason you aren’t doing that? (I guess if you want the ED benefit, that makes sense…just curious, though!)</p>

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<p>Carnegie Mellon is known for its Compsci and getting in there is practically impossible for anyone who doesn’t have PERFECT scores. Or at least that’s what past seniors have told me. My friend had a 3.9 UW GPA and a 2300 with volunteer hours and leadership positions in numerous extracurriculars but she still didn’t get in. Your SAT score is really good, maybe not the best but it’s better than most including mine(: Your chances are amazing with that SAT score and your extra curriculars. But I think if you were to apply to SCS you’ll probably have a less chance of getting in than if you were to apply to the other two schools just because the SCS is so competitive.</p>

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<p>The reading score was from missing nothing but sentence completions >.< i have bad memory so I doubt I’ll be able to memorize 5000 sat words in time x_X</p>

<p>Everything is solid right now, since senior year is starting so my GPA is stuck :stuck_out_tongue: and my parents wont let me retake the sat ._.</p>

<p>anyhow, should I add the carnegie mellon transcript onto my gpa? I can choose to do so or just send it in separately - because if I do so, my uw goes down but my w goes up. i’m definitely keeping the Bs though since 18-100 is well known for its difficulty as a weeder class</p>

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<p>Bumpppp :P</p>