<p>My Stats:</p>
<p>-Asian Male (the worst combo probably for CMU)
-competitive public in MA (way too many smart asians here)</p>
<p>Sat: 2200 (Math:780, CR:720, W:700), MathII:800, Chemistry:740
UW GPA: 3.83 (our school doesn't do weighted) lowest grade is B+, god i hate english
no rank (our school is too competitive for that)
Total of 9 AP's, although I took some easy courses in freshmen year</p>
<p>EC's:
-envirothon team (our team was number 1 last year, look up "massachusetts envirothon" on google, click the first result, and then click the "results" link to find the name of my school)
-member of the honors orchestra in my school (u have to take an audition to get in)
- member of the New England Conservatory Youth Orchestra
-took part of Junior District Festival freshmen year, Senior Festival 10th-12th grade (these are other orchestras that u have to audition for also)
- private violin lessons, have to perform twice a year at a local community college hosted by my teacher
- skipped Algebra 2 for freshmen year (took AP Calc BC junior year)
-chess team(our school's team is pretty darn good, not number 1 though)
-Commended STudent for PSAT (our 99th percentile is 224 for MA, holy ****)
-Semester long research program at MIT for genetics for 10th grade</p>
<p>have applied EDI with legacy status (my dad went to carnegie mellon for computer science, he was an international student), how big of a benefit will I really get with ED and legacy? anyone know?
i'd like to get into CMU for computer science. I know it's tough as hell to get in</p>