Chance Me? (Carnegie Mellon School of CS)

Applying to Carnegie Mellon, JHU, UMichigan, University of Florida, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
IVYs/first tier: uPenn, MIT, Harvard

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): 1530
(800 Math) (730 Reading) (Single score)
ACT (breakdown): N/A
SAT II:
780 Math II (It was not a good day lol), 780 Biology M
Unweighted GPA: 3.97
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2%
AP (place score in parenthesis):

AP Calculus BC (5, AB subscore 5), AP European History (5), AP U.S History (5), AP Lang (5), AP Psych (5), AP World History (4 lol)

IB (place score in parenthesis): YES!

Senior Year Course Load:
HL Math (Calc, etc)
HL Biology
HL English
SL Chemistry (I’m double sciencing)
SL History
SL Spanish

Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)

  • 1st Place in Networking Concepts at State Leadership Conference
  • 1st Place Networking Concepts at Regional Leadership Conference
    Went to NLC didnt place but it was first year I did nationals

Science Competitors & Robotics

  • As an active captain, helped Science Olympiad team advance from regionals to state (11th grade), didnt really win much individually (yet but wont matter for college apps lol)
  • Third Place in Problem Solving in Regional Science Bowl competition

Some Mu Alpha Theta regional competitions over the years, placed individually and team

Science Competitors & Robotics
• As an active captain, helped Science Olympiad team advance from regionals to state (11th grade)
• Third Place in Problem Solving in Regional Science Bowl competition

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Varsity tennis

Director of Public Relations and State Coordinator for a Nonprofit Organization aiming to spread Comp Sci to minorities and women: Contacted schools and helped organize educational coding workshops, Hosted coding workshops a local museum guiding kids in creating games with Scratch

Organized/initiated a local Hackathon at a Children’s Museum for National Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek)

Leadership (Aside from my Role in the Comp Sci nonprofit above as PR Director and Coordinator):
Vice President for FBLA

Mu Alpha Theta
Secretary (2014-2015)
Vice President (2015-2016)
President (2016-2017)

Secretary of Science Competitors/Robotics
-Sci olympiad and quizbowl captains, etc

Job/Work Experience: None

Volunteer/Community service:
Volunteered at a Venial Laser Procedures Private Practice (basically clinical assistance like a hospital)
Helped raise over $20k as a dancer for an event for Children’s Miracle Network
Relay for Life - 3 years
The organization for Comp Sci in hosting coding workshops and hackathons
overall will be probs 100-200hours

Summer Activities:
Nationals leadership conference FBLA, again the organization and the clinical practice but nothing much besides that; proficient in python as a hobby and strongly strongly interested in machine learning/AI

Essays: Hook is about the development of my passion for cybersecurity and comp sci from when I was a child and my discovery of helping others in programming through the organization, specifically on like how as a kid I started a youtube channel making videos totalling over 150k views in removing antiviruses and computer problem solving and tech reviews for fun- just my passion for tech

Teacher Recommendation:
Math 7-8/10
History 10/10 - she’s known me for a while and I have a great relationship with her

Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: Comp Sci

School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Pakistani
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 100k+

Also, National Merit Commended, AP Scholar with Distinction, NHS, Spanish National Honor Society…

Bump

CMU SCS should be considered a reach by all applicants (other than perhaps development candidates and the like).