Chance me for MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and CalTech

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Gender: Male
Major: Computer Science
Ethnicity: White
Residence: Austin, TX</p>

<p>GPA: 3.75 unweighted, 4.50 weighted
Rank: 5 out of 673</p>

<p>SAT: 2300 (760 math 760 reading 780 writing)
SAT Subject Tests: 760 Math Level 2, 730 Biology E
AP: 5 in Chemistry, English Language, Statistics, United States History, World History; 4 in Biology</p>

<p>Extracurricular / work experience:
-Developed an educational grade-checking app for my district which has achieved 150 sales in a week (and rising), (<a href="http://www.gradebuzz.com"&gt;www.gradebuzz.com&lt;/a&gt;)
-Started an organization that crowdfunds for local nonprofits in Austin (<a href="http://www.sendsomelove.org"&gt;www.sendsomelove.org&lt;/a&gt;)
-Placed 5th in computer science at state science fair (as well as 2nd twice at regionals)
-Started a phone repair company
-Member of high school Class Officers, in charge of website (<a href="http://www.bowie15.org"&gt;www.bowie15.org&lt;/a&gt;)
-Worked for Revely Microsystems (<a href="http://www.revely.com"&gt;www.revely.com&lt;/a&gt;) on website development and app design (for controlling a robot)
-Lots of smaller projects, some of which I listed in a Maker Portfolio for MIT</p>

<p>Accolades:
-National Merit Semifinalist
-AP Scholar with Distinction
-Member of NHS</p>

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<p>CMU: Match
Caltech and MIT: reach, but very worth shots. Those are REALLY hard to get into.
Do you have safeties?</p>

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<p>Yeah, I’m applying for UT honors computer science which is something like #6 after CMU’s #3 and MIT’s #1 (depending on who you ask). Thanks for the feedback. I’m hoping the time I spent on my portfolio pays off.</p>

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<p>MIT is super competitive-particularly in your field-but I m very sure that your portfolio works will give you good results in somewhere</p>