Chance me please

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>African American, living in Texas.
Freshman Unweighted GPA: 3.6
Sophmore Unweighted GPA: 3.81</p>

<p>SAT I:
Math: 800, Critical Reading: 740, Writing: 730</p>

<p>PSAT:
80M,73CR,70W(Sophmore)</p>

<p>Awards and Honors:
National Honor Society
probably National Merit
First at lots of local Comp Sci. tournaments</p>

<p>EC:
Varsity Tennis
Comp Sci. Club
Science Olympiad
Mu Alpha Theta
Habitat for Humanity with my church
USACO Gold Division(I know it's a long shot, but if i got into the summer camp would it help me a lot)</p>

<p>AP Exams:
Comp Sci AB: 5
WHAP: 3
Chem: 5</p>

<p>Can anyone recommend other schools with good Computer Science programs
Schools:
MIT
UT Austin
Rice
Carnegie Mellon
UC Berkeley
Harvard
Stanford
Duke
Cal Tech
Cornell
UW Madison</p>

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<p>youll get in anywehre u want</p>

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<p>^ basically.</p>

<p>are you a rising junior?</p>

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<p>In everywhere due to being African American and having a >2100 SAT.</p>

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<p>Yes i'm a rising junior, and I didn't know being African American helped you that much. I thought it would be hard to get in with my GPA to some of those schools. My brother was the first person in our family to get into a good college, and I thought I would just go to a state school, but then he go into HYPM and MIT so I thought I might try to get my GPA up for the other top tier schools.</p>

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<p>i hate affirmative action</p>

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<p>No! I hate this misconception. A given Ivy League class will have anywhere from 70-100 black students. There are 800 National Achievement Finalists every year, more than enough to fill out the Ivy League.</p>

<p>These top schools do not need to accept a lower caliber of student just to round out their minority numbers. And unless a student comes from a very low income family (we're talking less than $30k for a family of four here) they WILL NOT make allowances for URM status.</p>

<p>Obviously the OP is a qualified applicant and has a good shot, but it is in no way a guarantee or even a great shot. URM or not.</p>

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USACO Gold Division(I know it's a long shot, but if i got into the summer camp would it help me a lot)

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<p>If you got in the Gold Division as a sophomore, you actually have a really good chance at getting into the camp, which is really good. Actually, I'd think making the Gold division itself is really good, since it's kind of like qualifying for the USAMO - both make you like semi-finalists. But you'd probably have to explain what it means a little more (like say top 40 in the US or something) for admissions officers to understand it.</p>