Chance Me for Georgia Tech Mechanical Engineering EA

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Intended Major: Mechanical Engineering (Early Action)

Grade: 12
Race: Asian (Indian)
Gender: Male
State: NY
GPA (this is an average grade out of 100): 93.5ish - equals about UW 3.92 GPA or 4.45 W
Rank: school does not rank
SAT: 1520 (730 RW 790 M) superscored + 8/8/8 Essay
SAT II: Will take Math 2 and Physics in October
ACT: Did not take
AP’s:
Calculus BC (5), AB Subscore (4), Computer Science Principles (5), Chemistry (4), Environmental Science (3) - self study lol, US History (4)
Senior Year: AP Physics C: Mechanics, AP English Lit, Gym, AP Comp Sci A, Aerospace Eng / Eng. Tech (semester classes), School Tech Department Internship (takes 2 classes during day), Math Stat and Data Science (very high level math course)

ECS:
Jazz Band (3 years) - Lead Alto Sax, extremely high level band that competes/wins at state level, won many awards for it
NHS - Vice President
Coding Club (4 years) - officer, organizing and planning upcoming Hackathon
Math League (4 years) - Treasurer
FRC Robotics - senior coder for the team - 3 years
PTA Liaison - 2 years
Worked in School IT Department over the summer and continuing during the year
I have some role in FBLA and Yearbook Club as well, although not as much. Also I am a 2 degree black belt in Taekwondo but received it in middle school.

Work Experience: Camp Counselor 1 year and Tech Intern other year

Volunteering: Tutoring kids for jazz and math, Student Ambassador for school info sessions, I get hours for attending PTA meetings and communicating about class to council

Please let me know my chances for Ga tech, and also for CMU ED SCS and MIT Meche EA (lol very little).

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You’re an OOS applicant, so your chances are low. You are competitive and check most of the boxes admissions is looking for. If you have a weakness, it’s that you didn’t take the most rigorous curriculum offered to you, since you skipped AP English Language, AP Bio, and only took one social science AP class. Considering that you’re taking two classes out of senior year for an internship and also taking another advanced math class, having 9 APs may be reasonable, but most recent applicants have had 11+ AP/college level courses, so you could look comparatively weaker and you also made a few Bs. All that said, your ECs are strong. You are a competitive applicant and you should apply, but no one here can tell you that you are likely to get in. It’s just too competitive to say that.

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@hummerrocket
MIT is probably going to defer you. They do NOT admit per major, so why would you study mech e at MIT
and CS at other schools? I would just state what you like, MIT is crowded in both ME and EECS departments, but they accept a lot of kids with those interests, sometimes up to 30% of the freshman class majors in EECS.

For CMU, mechanical engineering is a LOT easier for admissions than the CS college., I mean a lOT easier,
so thats the one to try for mech E , not MIT, who will not care so much, although they maybe do not
want 100% of the freshman class in EECS. Also did you look at the machine learning/stats at CMU in Dietrich?
Its a statistics type major at CMU with a lot of CS content, and much much easier to get in compared to SCS.

See this new bachelors degree program at CMU!
http://coursecatalog.web.cmu.edu/dietrichcollegeofhumanitiesandsocialsciences/departmentofstatistics/#statsmltext

CMU , did you take the AMC 10 and 12 math exams, as they are expecting those scores to get into SCS?

GaTech, I think you will get in, but I hope you applied by Oct 15. If you wait until January 1st, then GaTech
admits about 8% for OOS boys, and CS really can fill up with early applicants!
. Your chances go way way down if you do not apply by Oct 15.

Since you look like you want to do binding early decision at CMU, I don’t know what to say.
I think there are too few seats at CMU, but it may depend on your high school’s relationship with CMU.

Also, did you skip some AP classes? , MIT will not care, I am not sure if GaTech cares, either, but In Pursuit believes
they care. I think they care most about math and science, and you are taking the very hardest math and good math scores, so I think you may get into GaTech.

MIT actually has more room for you than CMU, if you want CS. If you want mechanical engineering, Carnegie Mellon
is much easier, as they quota out their ECE majors and CS majors only, and the mech e is less popular, as is the Mellon School of Science, if any of those majors intent you. Its a terrible admissions system at Carnegie Mellon, that strictly limits CS numbers, but they are a bit bigger in the last three years, they added about 100 seats to the SCS.

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@Coloradomama I will answer your questions one by one:

The reason why I would do different majors at different colleges does not have to do with the acceptance rates or admitting to certain colleges. It is out of pure interest. I want to do mechatronics, and in order to get the mechanical-computer mix I saw it was best under certain majors. For CMU, I find their CS program to be an excellent supplement to the Robotics Institute. I am fully committed to their CS, and hopefully AI, program.

I did not take the AMC. I did already apply Early (October 15) for Ga Tech.

I did skip one AP Class For instance, I placed out of AP Calculus AB and proceeded to the next class, AP Calc BC, as a sophomore. Both are different classes completely. My school doesn’t offer AP Lang, AP Physics 1 & 2, and AP history classes for sophomores - I had to self study for it.

I took an extremely rigorous curriculum in my school which may not translate to APs. My school is a very high level magnet school which emphasizes on business/ CS classes. I also took a very advanced sequence of math courses which is basically a college class.

My school has a good standing with CMU. Quite a few kids have gotten into CMU, and even SCS. I have been told that I am in the overall range for SCS accepts in my school.

Of course, I recognize that the competition in these schools is so intense that it is virtually impossible to easily determine if one will get in. However, the chance always exists.

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OK, I now see that you want robotics, and believe that robotics is best over in the College of Computing at one
school, and in mechanical engineering at another. That may be accurate, but I would say at GaTech you can do robotics, and major in either subject, CS or mechanical eng. It really depends on whether you want to take
mechanical design classes,and strength of materials classes and fluid dynamics classes (mech E) or algorithms classes and database classes and programming classes. (CS).

I would compare the mechanical engineering curriculum and the CS curriculum at all three schools, MIT, CMU
and GaTech. Then you will know more about what you are getting into, and can potentially change.

Did you put Mechanical as your second choice at CMU? They will give you a separate decision for choice 1,
SCS, and say engineering, if you apply to both. You may be able to ADD a second choice now, even though
its a day after the deadline at CMU, ask if it is of interest. It could get you into CMU, in fact, if you
explain your second choice major. CMU is often short of students who want to study materials science or civil
engineering these days. Mechanical is popular, but less difficult than CS for admissions. It depends
on how badly you want to go to Pittsburgh over Atlanta.

If you feel you want to go to GaTech, sign up and take AP exams based on your knowledge and self study
using Khan Academy. You do not have to have AP classes to sit for AP exams, you simply need to study and
pay for them. That could save time and money at GaTech.