Chance a Junior

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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<p>Applying to business school.</p>

<p>ACADEMIA:</p>

<p>Freshman GPA: 3.52
Sophomore GPA: 3.52
Junior GPA: 3.75 W, 3.7 UW
Overall GPA: About 3.6</p>

<p>SAT Critical Reading: 610
SAT Math: 600 (Terrible, retaking in May)
SAT Writing: 680
Total: 1890</p>

<p>Still waiting on ACT scores.</p>

<p>My School does not rank.</p>

<p>AP Courses:
Biology (This year)
Computer Science A (Next Year)
Economics (Next Year)</p>

<p>3 letters of recommendation (math teacher, club advisor, guidance counselor)</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS: </p>

<p>President of Support our Soldiers Club
-Interviewed WW2 Veteran, contributed to National Archive</p>

<p>100 hours of Red Cross Volunteer work
-Office management, computer database organization, phone duty, etc.</p>

<p>4 Years of Varsity Swimming</p>

<p>Member of School Atmosphere Committee
-Helped create a video to send to New England Board of Accreditation to display information about our school
-Spread word about school ideals and beliefs in various ways</p>

<p>HOOKS:</p>

<p>I am of Hispanic descent.</p>

<p>I will not be applying for financial aid.</p>

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<p>Although I’m not familiar with the Business school (I applied to MCS, HSS & CIT–getting into the first two), I think you have a decent shot. Its going to be difficult considering your test scores, but my test scores were similar. CMU likes to give preference to African Americans and Hispanics due to the large volume of Asians and whites at the school. My advice is to try to raise your scores. In my experience subject test scores don’t mean all that much seeing as I got 620 Math2, 560Chem, and 460USH. As long as you raise your test scores you should have a pretty good shot.</p>