Chance Me: Engineering Colleges

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I've been getting so many answers saying that my GPA and SATs II are HORRIBLE!!! So I don't know where I am. I'm a kid with good SAT score but terrible GPA.</p>

<p>I'm looking at: [THIS IS MY ASSESSMENT AFTER DOING RESEARCH.] </p>

<p>Do you agree?</p>

<p>Penn State- Safety
Drexel - Safety
Union College - Safety
Northeastern - Safety
Villanova - Match
Syracuse - Match
Georgia Institute of Technology - Match
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Match
Carnegie Mellon - Reach</p>

<p>Stanford - ???
Columbia - ???
Cornell - ???
U Penn - ???</p>

<p>** Oh before you say something, ** the last few were colleges my dad just picked. He wants me to aim so damn high. I told him I am incredibly under qualified for ANY of those. He just doesn't fuc*ing believe me. I'm not showing him this thread. What do you think? WASTE OF MONEY just to apply right? I don't mean to be a pessimist but...</p>

<p>** Why is it that people are commenting on my low GPA? I checked Collegeboard and 13% of the students at Carnegie Mellon had a GPA in my range. So not everyone who gets accepted always has a perfect SAT score or a perfect GPA. **</p>

<p>I don't know man. I still do have a chance though, even if its a slimmer and much smaller chance.</p>

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<p>Major: Engineering
Race: Asian American Male</p>

<p>GPA: All Honors/AP [except for CP english] Unweighted?
Freshman year: 3.2
Sophomore Year: 3.4
Junior Year: 3.5 [Took both Physics and Chemistry Honors]
Senior Year: 3.45
Weighted: 5.77</p>

<p>Classes I'm taking in Senior Year
Stat. AP
Calc AP
Physics 2 AP
CP Gov [was AP.]
CP English
Honors Spanish 5</p>

<p>Extra Curricular Activities:
Math Team! =] 4 years
Chess Club 1 year
Spanish Club 1 year
National Honor Spanish Society 3 years
Accel [English Enrichment Program.] 3 years</p>

<p>Work Experience
Summer Intern at the NAVSEA program. <-Really nice program. 400 hours
Work as a Waiter.</p>

<p>SAT Score: 2170
Math 770
Writing 750
Reading 650</p>

<p>SAT Subject Test Scores I know these aren't the best scores but I tried my best
Math II: 750 [was 670]
Physics: 620 [was 470]
US History: 610 [was 580]</p>

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<p>Anyone…?</p>

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<p>Yeah your GPA brings all of those schools to reaches (the Ivy schools and Carnegie Mellon). I agree with you on all others. It’s also that there are better Asian applicants to those schools.</p>

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<p>Bump. Any other opinions?</p>

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<p>The reason everyone is pointing out the fact that your GPA is low is that it is. It’s in the bottom 25% and for an ORM. I’m also really worried by the fact that you got a 470 on Physics the first time around but you want to be an engineer…</p>

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<p>^ Completely understandable that you fear my score. I should have a reason written down.</p>

<p>There should be two reasons for my low score.

  1. I’m stupid
  2. I didn’t know the stuff on the test.</p>

<p>Its 2. My school curriculum did not cover any thing from equilibrium or electrical fields, etc. I do well if I know the stuff. Thats pretty much human. I did fairly averagely on the US History because I took a full course. History isn’t my forte though. In physics, I only went over motion and forces. I’m about to start momentum. Also, what does an ORM stand for?</p>

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<p>Over-represented minority.</p>

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<p>It still reflects poorly if you wanted to go into engineering and your physics score is so dismal, why didn’t you study for it?</p>

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<p>Okay. The first time I took the test. I was overly cocky and thought I was prepared. Plus I took it in a super stressful week. I took it June, like a week or two before finals. Not my best idea. I failed as you can see.</p>

<p>The second time I took the test was bad. I was wrong here. I was going to start studying 2 months earlier. I studied off Sparknotes. I found that my understanding of Forces and Motion improved IMMENSELY and I understood momentum, centripetal force and potential and kinetic energy. I stopped understanding when I hit energy transfer and after that I couldn’t understand electric currents and other stuff. I was super worried that I would fail this physics exam because of my previous experience and I studied a week or 2 before the test. [Yeah not my best idea] I didn’t get to study my US History and I failed that too. I took this test earlier this month. </p>

<p>People learn differently. I learn best from having some tell me it rather than reading about it. My physics teacher right now isn’t the best teacher. I learned much more about forces and motion because of the ** somewhat weak ** foundation my physics teacher set up. As a result, I was able to reinforce my knowledge. I didn’t have a foundation when I hit energy transfer or electrical currents.</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t worry too much about Rennsalaer, Georgia tech, a little bit. Carnegie and up are reaches, agreed.</p>

<p>On the matter of your GPA, perhaps if you got A’s in sciences and maths, and your GPA was brought down by the other courses (lit, lang, history, art, etc.) it would be more sensible, but if there are B’s and below on the sciences and math it would really hurt, regardless of what the stats say. </p>

<p>For any standardized test I would wholeheartedly recommend a study guide… It’s virtually suicide going in without one based on school curriculum alone.</p>

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<p>^Its good to hear about Georgia Tech. I’m not applying Upenn or Columbia. I’m just paying for rejection. Stanford and Cornell just to satisfy my dad.</p>

<p>Wow. Sometimes, I wish I weren’t asian.</p>

<p>Its usually my Math and Sciences that are As. I got Bs and Cs in English and History. The only class that I thought was hard was US History. And I had plenty of ******* as teachers. My english teacher said “You’ve worked quite hard but I’m sorry to say that your “89.47” just doesn’t count as an 90.” Some guy stood up for me and said “Oh come on. Just give it to him.” And I got the A. But there were other times when I usually get a B. Usually when I get a B, its usually a A-. Well thats my story and thats the past.</p>

<p>Would it make a difference if I apply for Art? I’m an incredible artist.</p>