Chance me plz: Cornell/CMU/NYU/Pratt

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Major: art, theater design, or architecture (overall: something artsy related)
Applying to: Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, New York, Pratt</p>

<p>SAT: 2350
SAT Math IIC: 800
SAT Physics: 800
SAT Japanese: 750
SAT Spanish: 800
GPA [UW: 3.4<--who cares, i tried.] [W: 4.5]
<strong>btw, AP Physics class screwed me over, but I did well on the SAT phy</strong>
IB candidate</p>

<p>Essay: art related</p>

<p>Senior Classes:
-IB Math HL / Calc BC
-IB English HL
-IB Psychology HL
-IB Contemp Hist HL
-IB Spanish SL
-AP Art
-Orchestra (well-known in the state)</p>

<p>Art Related:
-Drawing I / II
-Ceramic I / II
-AP Art</p>

<p>Extracurricular / other activities:
-Drama theater design (sets and lights)
-Hospital: Art & Music Therapy
-Nursing home: Art Therapy
-Art Underground Society
-Spanish State Team: set design, oral, play, poem, music
-IB Newspaper Illustrator (lol)
-Orchestra: All-County / Solo & Ensemble
-BETA club: State convention representative (art), service projects
-Key club: President, Student Adviser
-Youth Advisory Board
-National Honor Society
-Spanish Honor Society
-Journalism Honor Society
-Music Honor Society
-Model UN: state conference (irrelevant so not gonna mention this)
-Designing shirts for clubs / organization
-Private Kendo lessons</p>

<p>Jobs (though I don't have an official weekly basis job):
-freelance artist/designer (will work for any money lol)
<code>Shirts
</code>Blink design
<code>SFX makeup
</code>Any retouches
-string ensemble for small musicals</p>

<p>What I do for fun/leisure time:
-paint / draw
-constructing with recyclable materials
-violin / cello / guitar
-browsing through DeviantArt
-practice devil-stick juggling
-taking pictures of trees (sounds creepy, maybe I shouldn't mention this)
-kendo
-attending fests</p>

<p>(favorite writers/artist)<---relevant:
Artists
-Gottfried Helnwein
-Robert Carter
-Edward Hopper
-Dale Chihuly
-Ron Mueck
Authors
-Thomas Pynchon
-Douglas Preston
-Daniel Boorstin
-Ray Bradbury
-Agatha Christie
-Chuck Palahniuk</p>

<p>Portfolio: got great comments at the review session.</p>

<p>I think my activities are primarily focused on my possible majors.</p>

<p>do I have a "chance" ? i know my UW gpa isn't fabulous, but i'm going into an art related field, do you really think 3.4 is going to affect my chance?</p>

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<p>Wow you have a great SAT, but a 3.4 UW isn't going to get you very far. It is most likely going to be on the bottom of each of the admission pools for every school. You still have a chance though. Try not to make a laundry list maybe. </p>

<p>Cornell: Reach
Carnegie Mellon: Match
Pratt- Match
NYU- Match/maybe reach</p>

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<p>your UW gpa is not the high, but you are taking IB classes, so the colleges should keep that in mind. besides that, great scores and ECs, so I think everything but cornell is a match. cornell is a very very high reach (i think your gpa would be the only thing stopping you).</p>

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<p>I'm in the same boat. My standardized testing is good, and my UW GPA sucks. Basically, what I've been getting told is that I have to stand out, and make my EC and Standardized overshadow my GPA. So with great essays that show our passion in specific areas, yours in art, mine in writing, we have a good chance at those schools. </p>

<p>Does Carnegie Mellon have a good design program? I always thought of it as an engineering/math school.</p>