I am incredibly nervous about receiving my acceptance/rejection letter, and I am stuck somewhere between optimism and the more realistic outcome.
My SAT score was an 1170, I’m ranked as the 20th in my class of 120 students, and I take all honors and AP classes. I am involved in more than 10 of the extracurricular activities that they have limited me to list, and I feel confident in my recommendations (although I legally was not allowed to view them). I have won the Congressional Art Award this year, but I did not win anything in the visual arts category for the YoungArts scholarship program. This is something that lead me to give up hope getting into Carnegie Mellon University.
I feel that the main thing that would contribute greatly to my admission is my artwork, which is very original and unique. It is not strict with measurements like architecture needs to be, but I feel that my originality will bring attention to my style of what I can develope into the measurements.
I want to be optimestic and hope for the best, but not getting any awards for the YoungArts Scholarship program made me want to think more realistically, along with my average standard grades. As far as I am as a student though, I obviously work incredibly hard. My class is all a .10 of a point within each other’s averages, so that’s why I appear to be lower. Please give me any thoughts to ease my mind, with brutal honesty.
HI. I can feel your pain. My daughter is going to apply to CMU (she’s now a junior) for architecture and she has the same sorts of questions as you. Were you accepted?