Chance me: Carnegie Mellon SCS

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Could anyone give me my chances of admission to Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science? Applied ED.

GPA (discounting classes taken during and before freshman year): 3.91 UW, 4.41 W
APs: 4 so far, 4 this year (note: my school limits the number of APs you can take, so the maximum I could have had was 5)

ACT Composite: 35

Extracurriculars, Awards, Honors (in no particular order):
Created cyber security club
Cyber Security team placed top 5 in state, top 40 in US
CTF team placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th in US in various competitions in last year
1st place in county science fair (computer science category), 3rd place in state science fair (computer science category)
Monetary award from a local college for my science fair project
Worked at a tech startup over the summer
Taken numerous online classes in machine learning, graph theory, discrete math, etc
Eagle Scout
National Merit Semifinalist
RIT Computing Medal
Harvard Book Prize
4th Gup in Hapkido
National Honor Society

Essays: 9/10
Recs (x4, 3 teacher and 1 employer): 8.5/10 (actual content would be very positive, but I have doubts as to how well 2 of the teachers can write)

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Forgot to mention: currently dual-enrolled at local college which gave me the monetary award to take multivariable calculus and linear algebra

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what is your ACT math?

Also, just out of curiousity (since I do CTFs), what are the CTF competitions?

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I got a 35 on math. The CTFs my team did well on include Angstrom, CAMS, and EasyCTF. Nice to run into another competitor :slight_smile:

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Your ACT is pretty good, I think you have a good shot at CMU SCS.

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What are your SAT 2s?

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SAT 2 Math II: 790
SAT 2 Chem: 770
SAT 2 Physics: 770

Not super fantastic, I know. Also, AP Scores are all 5’s except Lang (a 4).

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I would say you have good chance.

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Woah! Are you on CatsInBags? That’s awesome! CTFer here too!! (How’d it go?)

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@barbaricclown, did you get in with ED?

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@kirinaide lol, I was. CatsInBags is retired now, though, since one of our members graduated in June and we wanted to keep our record looking good. I now compete under another team name when I have time. Unfortunately I didn’t get in, @catchme326.

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@barbaricclown sorry to hear that you did not get in. I thought you would. I have similar weighted GPA but worse unweighted, cuz all my courses are AP/IP except fitness, orchestra etc. My ACT is 36 and high SAT too. I have some significant math awards , which I think might be the difference.