Chance an Average-ish Student

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Personal
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Asian
Grade: Rising Senior
School: Poolesville High (Magnet Program: Science, Math, Computer Science House)</p>

<p>Academic Performance
GPA: ~3.47uw, ~4.3w (been increasing every year)
APs: Gov't & Politics 3, Calculus BC 5, Comp Sci AB 5, World History ??, Statistics ??
(?? = scores not yet received)
SAT: 1830 (Read:630 Math:630 Writ:570)
ACT: 32 (Eng:30 Math:34 Read:33 Sci:32 CombEng+Writ:28)
Both SAT & ACT taken once, ACT taken after SAT, both had 0 skipped questions and 8/12 for writing score</p>

<p>Additional Information
- Green belt on Taekwondo (further advancement needed sparring, I was pacifist)
- Participated in Good Knights (Event/Fundraising organization group in Middle School)
- Grade leap (Mostly Cs Ds Es in elementary school, Only As Bs few Cs in middle school, Mostly As Bs one C in all of high school)
- 3rd place in NYUPoly Cyber Forensics 2009
- In Computer Programming class (10th grade), I tutored/helped around 10 students daily for about two whole semesters (during class time, teacher was fine with it)
- Doing programming research internship at UMD:CP during summer 2010
- I made a few small notable programming projects on my own as a hobby (is this influential?)</p>

<p>What are my chances at:
University of Maryland, College Park
University of California, Berkeley
California Institute of Technology (planning to take SAT II math, SAT II biology ecological)
Carnegie Mellon University</p>

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<p>I think yes to umcp (you are in-state, right?), no to Cal Tech and Berkeley. IDK about CM.</p>

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<p>yeah, i agree with schomohawlk, the grades and test scores will not cut it for Berkeley or Caltech, and if you apply to EECS at Berkeley, that makes it even harder (i know some top applicants that were rejected from Berkeley EECS)
CMU needs high scores as well, i would highly recommend taking the SATs again.</p>

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<p>If your standardized tests are so low, I doubt at Caltech and Berkeley.
Other ones seem like a match&reach.</p>