Chance me at Carnegie Mellon University Class of 2022 ED

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi all,
I am currently a junior at a private high school in san francisco, and am looking to ED to CMU next november. I am in the IB and take HL Chem, HL Bio, and HL Lang and Lit. I have outstanding ECs and a good SAT, with a GPA on the lower end. Chance me:
Grades/Curriculum:
GPA: 3.55/4.00 UW
SAT: 1500
Bilingual IB Diploma: HL Chem, HL Bio, HL Lang and Lit, SL Math, SL French lang and lit, TOK, SL French Geo.
3.8/4.0 for all STEM courses
3.75/4.0 at Cornell Summer undergrad course

  • Can speak chinese, french, english (obviously), farsi (persian).
  • Major: undecided

ECs:
Global Issues Network Conference (GIN Conference) 10, 11

  • Presented to 200 students on Infectious diseases and volunteered for organization of the event.
  • Conducted a Q&A workshop on the presentation along with interactive activities.

Songs for Senegal Fund Raising Event (Sister School in Africa – Senegal) 9, 10, 11

  • Helped raised funds for sister school in Africa - Senegal

Model United Nations (BMUN) Conference - Berkeley 10, 11

  • Participated as a delegate, and was assigned a country to represent during the simulation.
  • Conducted research prior to the event and formulated positions before debating with fellow delegates.
  • Served for Sudan for Legal Rights committee (10th)
  • Served for Bahrain in the Legal Rights committee (11th)
  • Won research award for my country, first time in my high school’s history and in a committee of over 300 students, only 10 were awarded.

One Act Festival, Actor – International High school 10, 11

  • Performed leading and support role in one student-written and produced one-act play:
    The Green Hill, Along for the ride
  • Rehearsed weekly, assist with lighting and technical production, help with promotion

Athletics:

Varsity Tennis, 9, 10, 11

  • Placed 2nd in league and advanced to regionals
  • Recipient of Regional Athletic Director Award of Excellence (9th.)
  • Recipient of Most Improved Player Award (9th.)
    Bay Club, Tennis
  • USTA Junior Tennis Summer League -2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
  • Fresno Team Tennis League Champion winner – 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016
  • Gar Glenney Cup State Champion winner – 2012, 2013, 2014
  • Featured in Tennis Magazine and local Newspaper- 2012, 2013, 2014
  • USTA Ranked top 270 in Norcal – Boys 16 and under

Community Service and Involvement:

Type One Advocates (TOA) Nov, 2016
www.typeoneadvocates.org

  • Founded Type One Advocates, a non-profit organization, raising awareness for Type One Diabetes in the Bay Area. By working with other non-profit organizations such as JDRF and CarbDM, Type One Advocates is able to educate, create awareness, mentor newly diagnosed children, educate their families, and raise money help build a striving community.
  • Facebook Followers: 571
  • Raised $1,200+ for diabetes research.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) 9, 10, 11

  • Youth Advocacy Leader for Children's Congress (JDRF), raised awareness about Type 1 Diabetes, mentoring program volunteer , “One Walk” Team leader and walker, raised over $1,000 for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (10th)

Retirement Homes (7, 8, 9,10)

  • Played the Piano for Retirement Homes on Sundays and special occasions

High school Admission Team, Admission Host

  • Serve as a student host for visiting students, give tours of the school for prospective students

Music:

  • National Guild Music Diploma candidate – Expected Graduation Date from Music
    School – June 2017)
  • National Guild Piano Certificate – 2008 through 2016
  • US Open Piano Competition 2nd place winner - 2013

Application Development:

  • Developing an application for Type 1 Diabetes management, blood sugar tracking, insulin dosing, carb counting, foot steps, and other important supplementary features.

In addition, I am a type one diabetic myself and had medical issues my first semester of junior year, resulting in my GPA to drop, but my principal assured me that a professional letter would be written to explain the drop. Besides that, I had a respectable sophomore and freshman year. I will also visit the school this summer and am applying for a summer program there this year.

Thanks!

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Your GPA is lower than average, so that might hold you back. The SAT is average for Carnegie Mellon (as expected) of Carnegie Mellon). From reading your resume, you seem to be highly involved in music and tennis, which contributes highly to your application.

Some things that might hold you back is a lack of subject tests. For a school like Carnegie Mellon, assuming you are doing something related to engineering or computer science, then try doing SAT II Math II and a SAT II related to science.

Another thing that might hold you back is that your application doesn’t seem to be highly engineered (pardon the pun) towards engineering or computer science (this is assuming you want to apply to one of those majors since the school you are applying to is heavily based upon those majors).

Try applying the knowledge you gained in those STEM courses and apply it to a research project if you are engineering based (a paper based on an idea that could contribute to the field). If you are computer science based, you have way more options. I saw that you developed an application for tracking diabetes. Keep building on that. Make sure to relate your diabetes in to your application. Try developing something else programming related to make yourself stand out further (build a website, application, game, or learn advanced computer science algorithms).

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I am doing my subject tests (math 2, chem, french) in may/june. I am going to apply as a biology major and I have already developed a website for my non profit organization without any help over the course of a couple months. Do you think I have a good shot? In addition, I have hired an outside college counselor who has gotten numerous students into prestigious colleges so I am sure my essays will be outstanding as well.