Chance me for Carnegie Mellon, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, and Cornell?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Applying to A&S for physics
GPA UW: 3.3; GPA W: 3.7 (strong upward trend, 4.7 W senior year + all AP classes in my senior year)
APs: AP English Lit, AP English Lang, AP Calc BC, AP Physics C, AP Stats, AP US Gov
SAT: 1560 (770 English, 790 Math)
SAT2: Math2 800, Physics 800
ECs: Violin - sent in a video recording to CMU and Cornell
Writing Club
Debate Club
Math Team (our team made the all-state competition)
AMC 12A: 90, highest in the school

Letters:
AP Lang teacher and freshman English teacher: 9.5-10 (out of 10) [estimate]
Honors PreCalc teacher: 8 [estimate]

I go to a competitive, nationally ranked, school full of upper-class, with a majority of white kids (I’m Asian).
I know my GPA is really bad but is it possible I could sneak into one of those schools?

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Its really unfortunate but I’d say reject for all. It breaks my heart to say this but there are truly many more Asians who play the violin and debate and have better scores than you-- and that’s what top tier colleges are going to see you as. With those SATs though, I’m guessing you can get into any college beneath ~30 on USNews

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edgy name m8, but your GPA is extremely low…

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Sorry gonna have to say reject at all 3, prove me wrong though :slight_smile:

Chance back:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/20379491#Comment_20379491

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Well, I got waitlisted at Carnegie Mellon. So not quite a reject, @Jack1212, but basically a reject.