Chance me please

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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<p>Asian Male in a California Public high school
one of the top high school, recognized national blue merit award <- dunno if that helps</p>

<p>GPA:
UW: 3.57 UC: 3.92 W: 4.14
Total semesters taken 9-12: 54
Total honor semesters taken: 25
Total ap classes
AP Computer Science AB 5
Chem 4
AP Music Theory 4
AP Gov - ?
AP Physics - ?
AP Calc BC - ?</p>

<p>Senior classes:
Physics AP
Clac BC
AP gov/econ
Brit Lit
Taking to classes at local community college( intro to C#, intro to bio)</p>

<p>SAT scores:
2000 (R 680 M 710 W 610) <- retook it in october. hoping to get 2200
ACT <- taking in october. should get 33 or higher
Math 800
Chem 780</p>

<p>Extra curricular:
over 150 hours volunteer
1 week working in a camp with kids
selling tickets for a chinese charity concert
teaching seniors how to use a computer in a local apartment
helping out with a local election</p>

<p>total of 4 years on the badminton team
3 years on the waterpolo team, i had a back accident this summer and was unable to play for a 4th year</p>

<p>chinese school - im in the 12th grade chinese level, will receive a diploma and what not
piano classes - had some recitals, passed some tests both playing and theory with distinction
swimming competitively - got some trophies and awards in meets</p>

<p>Work experience:
currently working 4-6ish hours/week at a tutoring place
sometimes work for my dad's business ( he has his own business) technical support mostly
help friends build computers/ fix computers</p>

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<p>which college?</p>

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<p>carnegie mellon</p>

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<p>for computer engineering or computer science</p>

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<p>Bit of a reach for SCS with current GPA and SATs. Raising SATs will help a lot, especially 800s in math.</p>

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<p>will they supercede my score?
that was my second time taking it and the first time i had a 780 in math
will that help?</p>

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<p>I'm pretty sure they superscore. 780 is just one wrong - so you should be fine there.</p>

<p>I think you are a reasonable match if your GPA puts you in the top 5% of your class. However the acceptance rate for SCS makes it one of the hardest schools at CMU to get into: Admission</a> Statistics</p>

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<p>our school does not actually weight gpa's
my unweighted gpa rank is in the 50th percentile
very sad :[</p>

<p>also, I will be applying for computer engineering as my first choice which is CIT not SCS</p>

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<p>ECE is harder to get into than regular CIT, though not as hard as SCS. Still a reach imo, but not undoable.</p>

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<p>Ok Thanks</p>

<p>and also, which gpa does carnegie mellon use?
is it 9-11?
or 9-12(first semester)?
or 10-11?
or 10-12(first semester)?</p>

<p>and for college community classes, those are weighted right? and do those classes count as 2 semesters or just 1 semester?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>basically my gpa is
9-12 3.67/3.70 UW 4.17/4.20 W
10-11 3.57 UW 4.14 W
10-12 3.64/3.67 UW 4.28/4.31 W
depending on what grade i get in my gov class
will that help somewhat?</p>