Chances at Rice Cornell, carnegie mellon, UC's

<p>White male from Northern Cal, interested in Engineering
SATs
CR:740
Math:800
Writing:710
Comp:2250</p>

<p>GPA (upward trend) recieved C in spanish:(
Fresh 3.1
Soft 3.5
Junior 3.9
UC Gpa 4.14
Top 7% however was ranked 2/225 based on just junior year
Lots AP's, taking Linear Algebra next semester</p>

<p>ECs
1st chair in All state, All county, school orchestras in cello
Work as programmer for US Asia Internet
Humboldt State Univeristy symphony
Humboldt State University string quartet
Young Persons concerto competition winner
State History Day
Volunteer to University music compositition majors
Teen Court
NHS
CSF
Will send in tape of cello
Will have great Recs from math teacher and boss at company whose also proffesor</p>

<p>Had bad freshmen year, decent softmore year, amazing junior year
Do you think my upward trend and good SAT scores could offset my bad start. By the way all my bad grades were in spanish if that makes a difference since im majoring in Engineering</p>

<p>did you take any sat IIs?</p>

<p>I will be taking physics and math in dec. I did take a US history and got 670, but will probably be using physics and math since its prefered for engineering</p>

<p>tivesrx:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Match (Engineering)
UCSD: Safe Match (Engineering)
UCI/UCSB/UCD: Safety
UCSC/UCR/UCM: Super Safety</p>

<p>bump...................</p>

<p>what about the private schools</p>

<p>Looks good for CMU..your interests (music & engineering) match their strengths. Good luck =D</p>