CHANCES - Carnegie Mellon

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Junior - thinking about applying next year...</p>

<p>EA Carnegie Mellon- College of fine arts (architecture) and CIT (civil engineering) double major</p>

<p>RD - U MICH (arch), Notre dame (arch)(maybe?), cornell (arch/civil)</p>

<p>should i have a safety?</p>

<p>GPA - 3.7 uw, 4.124 w
rank - last time i checked 20/(234?) uw
ACT - 30 (35 math, 25 eng, 27 read, 33 science) (took it twice, this is best superscored and composite) (retake march, june, oct)
SAT - 1670 (520 read, 690 math, 460 writ) (once, and in my defence, it was two parts eng, one part math...not cool) (retake june)
SAT SUB - 630 chem, 770 math 1, 730 math 2 (retake may)
AP - US HIS, CALC AB, CHEMISTRY</p>

<p>AP next year - PHYS, CALC BC, LITERATURE, WORLD HISTORY, STATISTICS</p>

<p>ME
-asian (chinese)
-female
-michigan
-high school is a high school...</p>

<p>EC
- some say 12 because i know for sure i'm doing it and we've already voted for positions
-this is not all it... theres too many to list
- cross country, 10, 11, 12 (captain 12)
- track, 10, 11, 12
- key club, 11, 12 (vice president 12)
- latin club 9, 10, 11, 12 (officer 11, 12?)
- math club 9,10,11,12
- NHS - 11,12
- Science Olympiad 10,11,12</p>

<p>Volunteer
- well..key club various charities
- hospital - 10,11,12 (100+ hours thus far)
- library -10,11,12 (50+ hours thus far)</p>

<p>hook
-architecture - rocking portfolio 3 years of drafting ( 1 cad, 2 archiecture)
-work at a local architectural firm</p>

<p>advice??</p>

<p>i'm pretty set on EA carnegie but if i ever get a 34 on my ACTs... cornell EA here i come!</p>

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<p>Realistically, based on your SATs and ACTs, all the schools you've listed are reaches except UMich. Average SAT M+V at Carnegie, Cornell, and Notre Dame is around 1390. Your M+V of 1210 puts you below the 25th percentile for all these schools. Your ACT score of 30, comparable to an SAT M+V or around 1340 also puts you below the average for those schools.</p>

<p>Advice: If you want to have a chance of getting into Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, or Notre Dame, you really must get your ACT or SAT scores up to at least the average of those schools. These tests can be studied for. Take a course from Kaplan or Princeton Review. If you can't afford that, buy one of their study books, learn what they have to say, and practice, practice, practice.</p>

<p>If you can't get your scores up, you can still apply of course, but you'll have to consider them reaches, and also apply (as you should anyway) to other good, but less selective schools, both matches and safeties.</p>

<p>By the way, you can usually determine whether a school is a reach, match, or safety by comparing your SAT or ACT scores to the published average scores for that school. If your scores are around the average, it's a match. If your scores are significantly higher (75th percentile for that school or above), the school is a safety. If your scores are much lower, the school's a reach. The only exceptions to this rule of thumb are the Ivies and the other, say top 25 or 30 schools primarily because nearly all the kids who apply to these schools have top scores and grades, and theses schools accept such a relatively small percentage of those that apply.</p>

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<p>all are reaches for you. retake sat.</p>