Chance me for CSE

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<p>I am an Indian male from Plymouth, Minnesota.
Stats:</p>

<p>ACT: C:33 (E:33, M:34, R:30, S:33) I have gotten a 34 on English but I don't think it matters that much</p>

<p>UW GPA: 3.74
W GPA: 3.87</p>

<p>AP Scores: AP Bio(4), APUSH(4) and I am taking Calc AB and BC in my senior year</p>

<p>EC's: I have about 300 volunteer hours and will have about 350 volunteer hours by the end of my senior year. I volunteer every Saturday at a hospital for 3 hours. I was on the debate team in 9th and 10th grade. I started working at Kumon at the beginning of Junior year and work about 6-7 hours a week. I was in Math club in 9th grade. I am also in a volunteer club at my school.</p>

<p>I plan on majoring in Biomedical Engineering or Environmental Engineering</p>

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<p>I would say admission is likely. Try to get your grades up to top 10% if not already there, they like to see that. </p>

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<p>Thanks for the reply. My school doesn’t do class rank so I don’t really know where I stand but I think i would be in the top 10%.</p>

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<p>Scores and EC’s excellent, grades are pretty good. I think you’ll be fine, but CSE is very competitive. Had a 11% admission rate this year.</p>

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<p>This is always an interesting chart to look at: <a href=“Academic Profile of Fall 2022 Admitted Freshman Applicants by College | Office of Admissions”>http://admissions.tc.umn.edu/academics/profile.html&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>Students who are admitted to CSE as freshman still have to apply separately for a specific major around soph year. I believe those meeting the course requirements and with a 3.2 GPA are guaranteed a spot in their major.</p>

<p>As an unrelated side note: I just read that last year for the whole university there were 44,000 application for admission, up from 20 some thousand in 2009. Impressive! I think it was 35,000 when my son applied in 2011.</p>

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<p>Gman333 cse had an 11% acceptance rate last year? That seems a little low. Could you share where you got this information. I’m also in state and the acceptance rate for in state is way higher than oos. Thanks for the reply!</p>

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<p>Orientation for incoming freshman. Approx. 11,000 apps for CSE I think around 1,400 accepted, is what the slide show said. I’m pretty sure that’s what the numbers are.</p>

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<p>I think gman may be correct because last year they finally upped it from a cap of around 1000 per academic year. </p>

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<p>Would 1,400 be the number of students attending or number of students who got accepted?</p>

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<p>I think they said accepted. I could be wrong and that is the enrolled number which sounds more likely to be honest.</p>

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<p>The acceptance rate for CSE is certainly not 11%. It’s among the lowest here but nowhere near that. </p>

<p>Your UW and W GPA only have a 0.1 difference…did you take a lot of other challenging classes? They should view that higher than ACT</p>

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<p>quirky294</p>

<p>APs I have taken are: </p>

<p>Junior year: AP Bio and APUSH and I got 4s on both
Senior year: AP Calc AB, AP Calc BC, AP Physics B</p>

<p>Honors classes:
Freshman year: Honors Physical Science (a class which you had to have scored a 25 on the explore science in 8th grade to get into), Honors Communications 9 (Language Arts), Integrated Math 2X (Honors Algebra)</p>

<p>Sophomore year: Honors Communications 10, Integrated Math 3X (Honors Geometry), Bio X (Honors Bio), Chemistry X (Honors Chemistry)</p>

<p>Junior year: Integrated Math 4X (Honors Pre-Calc), AP Bio and APUSH</p>

<p>Senior year: AP Calc AB, AP Calc BC, AP Physics B</p>

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<p>Yeah I think you should get into CSE with all of those. I think you probably know the deal with admission to your major. Also, since you’re Indian, it should be some incentive, as the U makes quite a big deal over diversity. </p>

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<p>Update: I just got into CSE on November 10 and all of my materials were received by the University of Minnesota on September 23</p>

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<p>I also saw the slideshow displaying the “applied” and “accepted” figures and I concur with the 11% acceptance rate. Congrats to those who make it in! I’m one of the lucky ones.</p>

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@Kitten23 wow that seems really low. Many top engineering colleges don’t even have an acceptance rate that low, (Michigan, UT, Purdue etc.)