Chances...Carnegie Mellon/ Univ. Michigan, others

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Target: Engineering Schools of Carnegie Mellon, Univ. Michigan Ann Arbor, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, perhaps UT Austin...my state school of University of Maryland College Park I'm pretty confident about already</p>

<p>Basics: White, jewish, male, Israeli/South African Background
Unweighted GPA: 3.64
Weighted (using honors/AP courses...A=5, B =4, etc...): 4. 30
SAT II subject tests: Biology ecology I took as a test run last year: 700, I'm taking Math II, World History,this june.</p>

<p>Carnegie Mellon requires either physics or Chemistry SAT II, one of which I didn't take as a course yet, the other of which I didn't like...I'm probably taking Chem this fall or I'll reschedule (way too many SAT II's, now that i think about it...)</p>

<p>AP courses taken:</p>

<p>AP US gov, 5
AP Micro, 4
AP Macro, 4
AP Psychology, confident about a 5
AP Environmental Science, confident about a 5
AP Calc BC, confident about a 5
AP World History, confident about a 5</p>

<p>This Year I took APES, AP World, AP Psych, AP Calc BC, Tech, Honors English, French 5</p>

<p>Next Year I am taking AP Bio, AP Lit., AP Physics B, Multivariable Calculus, Guitar 2, Comparative religions</p>

<p>ECs/interesting stuff:</p>

<ul>
<li>President/Founder of Young Republicans Club/weekly lunch meetings</li>
<li>Sailing Team for 2 seasons Junior year (expect to be in senior year), I may be able to argue as captain, although my school team is small and I was sort of captain by default.../9 hours a week</li>
<li>volunteered for about 80 hours at a local summer camp</li>
<li>Cross Country/Track, Grade 9 and 10 (I may or may not add this one..I'm not exactly into it anymore)</li>
<li>National Honors Society</li>
<li>Science Honors Society</li>
<li>I have a job at a Sailing Camp as a counselor this summer/2-3 weeks, perhaps more</li>
<li>Fluent in Hebrew</li>
<li>Some personal hobbies that may or may not help me out: I've been playing classical guitar for 3 years via private lessons, I have had a pretty large vegetable garden for 5 years that I maintain, I know how to program in Java</li>
</ul>

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<p>No test score, no chance.</p>

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<p>Whoops…Forgot- ACT 32 Composite, 10/12 on the writing.</p>

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<p>For UMich, it would be high match for LSA, low reach for CoE.
Average GPA for LSA is 3.83 and 3.9 for CoE. Average ACT is 31 for LSA and 32 for CoE.
It would be a match for UIUC.</p>

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<p>Some new info- I got an Internship at the US department of Agriculture- surely that helps me stick out- helps me get some of the territory that my slightly lower GPA lost</p>

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<p>Some new score info…800 on Math II SAT, 730 on World History (is it just me, or was it harder than the AP exam?), 34 on the ACT with 10/12 writing, and a 3.71 GPA this past semester.</p>

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<p>I’m gonna rebump in the hopes that I get an actual response</p>

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<p>If anyone has some input on UC Berkeley as well, that has actually been a recent consideration of mine. </p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>Congrats! You raised the ACT score over the critical threshold. You should be a high match for UMich and UCB.</p>