<p>Hi, thank you for taking the time and effort : )
please chance me on the following: (applying for engineering for all)
Columbia-Fu Foundation School of Engineering
Cornell
Carnegie Mellon
Rice
U of Michigan
Georgia Tech
Below are my stats-->
State of residence: Wisconsin
Special circumstances: I am a foreign student and I just came to the United States two years ago...
SATI: CR560 WR590 MH800 TOTAL:1950
SAT IIs: Chem 750 Math I 790
GPA:4.0
TOEFL: 116/120 (Percentile Rank: 99.98)
APs: Bio, Physics C, Chem, Language, Calc AB
College course: Advanced Calculus
Major ECs:
Key Club-->Bulletin/Club Editor
Art Club-->VP
Student government-->Treasurer
Associated Student Body--> Class Representative
Student Newspaper--> Student Editor-in-Chief
Michigan Math and Science Scholars
National Society of High School Scholar Member
Math team
High School Peer Tutoring
Other volunteer services
Work Experience:
Private Tutoring--Math and Science
Cashier at a local fast food place
High School Intern at a chemical company</p>
<p>I like your list of schools. The selection seems well thought out. I think you have good stats. I can understand why your SAT reading and writing scores are below the averages for these schools since you have not been in the country that long. Hopefully your TOEFL will make up for it. You have a great score in that. I think you stand a good chance at all the schools, and I will put my kind word in about Carnegie Mellon. They have an excellent engineering department. Good luck.</p>
<p>why are you applying to all those schools when you have a great home state university such as UW-Madison. I mean that is a really good school that you COULD REALLY get into with no question!</p>
<p>Columbia, Cornell & Rice are unlikely, but, with an 800 in SAT I Math, certainly worth a try. Michigan is possible, while Georgia Tech and CMU are likely. Unfortunately, your 560 in CR on the SAT I hurts you, even though it is impressive for someone only two years in the country. Editor-in chief of the student newspaper is a great EC, the 560 CR score, however, raises questions regarding quality of the newspaper as an editor normally would be expected to be quite strong in critical reading. You are an outstanding candidate for a PG year at an elite prep, boarding school, such as Phillips Academy at Andover, to further strengthen your reading & writing skills to almost assure you a spot at a Top 15 university in the subsequent year. Either way, you are obviously a highly intelligent student.</p>
<p>to janemac: thanks a lot I did put a lot of effort making the list of schools I applied to! I really wanna study engineering! Thanks for cheering me up!</p>
<p>to thedreamusc: I really want to go out-of-state. Plus I’m paying the same tuition as international student anyways… so yep.</p>
<p>to icy9ff8: thank you so much! I know that the CR score I got WILL hurt me A LOT! [btw..I was the student editor-in-chief when I was in Taiwan, so the newspaper was in Chinese lol] Anyways…thank you so much for your advice! I’ll go research Phillips Academy right away. However, would it be too late for me to do that right now?</p>
<p>columbia - reach, this is school is mad hard
cornell - low reach, not as bad as columbia, but still hard
cmu - match. this is a great school for math/sci/engineering heavy kids like your stats indicate
rice - high match, on par with cornell
U of Michigan - match
Georgia Tech - id feel pretty solid about gtech</p>
<p>Columbia-Fu Foundation School of Engineering –>reach
Cornell –>reach
Carnegie Mellon –>match~slightly reach
Rice –>reach
U of Michigan –>match
Georgia Tech –>match
Good luck!</p>
<p>Columbia-Fu Foundation School of Engineering - reach
Cornell - reach, not as much as Columbia though
Carnegie Mellon - match
Rice - low reach
U of Michigan - match
Georgia Tech - safe match</p>
<p>You may move these chances with some great essays. I like your EC’s =)</p>
<p>Since you’re in Michigan, you have great chances at U Mich; not to mention the fact that you pay a very small tuition fee whereas many out-of-staters would willingly pay three times as much for the great education there. U Mich has an amazing engineering program, you should seriously consider it.</p>
I did put a lot of effort making the list of schools I applied to! I really wanna study engineering! Thanks for cheering me up!</p>