Chances at Tufts and Carnegie Mellon ECE

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>junior
1460sat
Taking 5 APs between this year and next.
All As 11th/12th(predicting)
My 10th/9th gpa was a lot worse- many Bs and a D in chem (had family problems+dispute with teacher)</p>

<p>Excellant ECs- Founded 2 engineering clubs, officier of 3 clubs(tsa, scioly, mualphatheta) all 4 years
national science olympiad and national tsa awards (including a couple gold/1st place) TSA 1st place for homemade heart rate monitor that emailed records to doctor (PCB and programming done all by hand).
Will be doing a siemens westinghouse project over the summer-research at penn and princeton. And/or pre-college at CMU (will this help a lot if I do well?).</p>

<p>Connections at Tufts include mother on board of trustees, double legacy.</p>

<p>What are my chances ED1/ED2 next year at each school? Will my terrible chem grade and 9-10 grades completely screw me?
I'm hoping for a 2200-2300 on new sat(lots of study over the past year).</p>

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<p>i think you have great chance. i'd say you're def. in for tufts. and if you do ED to CMU and do everything else (rec., sati and ii, essays and so on) great, you'd get in as well. of course it's just my opinion</p>

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<p>Good chance my friend. Just show them you have improved much since then.</p>

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<p>also your chem grade wouldnt screw you.</p>

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<p>at those 2 schools your chances are excellent.</p>

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<p>Thanks guys, Princeton remains my first choice, but these are great alternatives (with ED2s).</p>

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<p>You are very, very, very likely for Tufts. CMU is a maybe. Princeton is a big reach with that D.</p>

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<p>Thanks Stain, my mother is a professor at princeton (that's the only reason I think I have a shot;)). What about my chances at Penn? I want to study electrical engineering, anyone have any suggestions?</p>

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<p>any thoughts?</p>

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<p>great ECs, nice GPA with improvments, really high scores and all that.
i think you have good shots in everywhere. (of course, including pton and penn)</p>

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<p>Interesting how your mom is on the board of Trustees at Tufts yet is a Princeton professor :)</p>

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<p>yet? They're not mutually exclusive, being on the board is not an occupation (trustees meet for trustee meetings about once a month, all trustees are alumni of the college).</p>

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<p>Why do you say that; isn't Tufts harder to get accepted to than CMU?</p>

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<p>I'm confused, CMU, what did I say that implied one school was harder to get in than the other?<br>
Anyone care to compare CMU and Tufts, specifically engineering?</p>