<p>Okay heres the run down, I'm a junior right now, and my top choice is Carnegie Mellon, USC, UCSD and then Purdue, UCD, and UCI, UCSB, Harvey Mudd. these are my stats:</p>
<p>MAJOR: Electrical Engineering with Computer Science or Computer Science Engineering</p>
<p>Unweighted gpa: 3.78~3.83
Weighted: 3.82 (My school goes by the college prep. grading system, hence I hate my school)
Sat scores (should be around here by Jan. test): Math:730 CR: 660 W:710
Total SAT Reasoning: 2100
SAT 2s Scores should be above the 700 range. And Im taking the Math IIC, Physics, and Bio M exams.</p>
<p>Course Load: 6 honors and aps together: (h. algebra 2 9th, hon. geo and ap bio 10th; h. precal, ap comp sci, apush 11th; ap econ, ap calc, ap stat 12th) downside I got a C in ap bio 1st semester and a D in second sem. and made it up at a community college. Talked to counselor and he said that the grade which i got in the community college would factor into my unweighted gpa. (will colleges frown upon with this grade?)</p>
<p>Couple of questions: I have been taking pratice exams in the college board, princeton, and barrons books and I have been getting in the 720s to the 750s in the math; 700s in the writing; and 630s in the CR range how accurate can these results be to the real test?</p>
<p>What are my chances at these schools? Pleasseeee dear god let me into CMU!!!</p>
<p>well, im south asian, and i know a lot of people at cmu, and overall cmu has a larger south asian population, and besides i want to stay somewhere else other than cali, (im a resident here).</p>
<p>CMU's Computer Science is tied with MIT. A CMU student has told me that grads from their SCS (yes, they have a dedicated school for CS there) can get management (meaning being in charge of a group of beginning programmers..I think that is how he put it) positions straight out making 80-90k+. He just tranferred to SCS from the EE track....he was one of the rep students encouraging me to apply so I don't know if he was trumping it up or not. I imagine the selectivity of the CS school will be quite high but I am not sure what kind of stats would be needed. Something to think about. I applied there for Chemical Engineering though.</p>
<p>Class rank would be helpful, and I'm not sure what you mean by the college prep system.</p>
<p>I don't understand why you went through the trouble of AP bio, at the very least, you should have dropped it before second semester. Did you get A's at the community college? (a D is going to be hard to get around)</p>
<p>I think you need to improve your test scores, and you have time, so don't worry. Try to get your CR above 700 and your math above 760 - then you will have a chance at CMU.</p>