Chances for an Incoming Senior, learning Computer Science

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Heyy, I was wondering if you guys could help me with some suggestions for safties, good matches, and reaches for me. I'm planning to major in Computer Science and maybe double-major/minor in Buisness</p>

<p>I'm not too sure where i'd fit in but here are my guesses for a few so far, please correct me if I'm wrong.</p>

<h2>Reach</h2>

<p>Stanford</p>

<h2>Good Match</h2>

<p>Carnegie-Mellon</p>

<h2>Saftey</h2>

<p>Rutgers
Stevens Institute of Technology
New York University</p>

<p>===Begin Stats=========================================
Gender: Male
School: Public Magnet
State: New Jersey
Freshman GPA: 3.4
Sophomore GPA: 3.6
Junior GPA: 3.8
Class Rank: The school says they don't rank, but it may show up on my application as top 20%</p>

<p>Honors: All Non AP/IB courses are honors(for everyone.)
----APs-------------
I've taken no APs so far, and Will Probably not take one this year, because I do not qualify for the following AP classes available to juniors:
AP Chemistry(B+ in chem)
AP Calculus AB, BC(i'm in a lower level math class, will be taking it next year)
AP Microeconomics(need completion of the math class I am in now, to qualify)</p>

<p>However, I did do Independent Study...
AP Micro
AP Stats</p>

<p>I am currently taking IB English,
I did not try for IB Spanish(un-interested)
I did not try for IB History(would require an extra class next year for history, and I need that time to take AP classes)</p>

<p>My school only offers a few AP classes:
AP Chemistry
AP Physics [Senior only, I'm taking it this year]
AP Biology [Senior only]
AP Calculus AB, BC [I'm taking AB this year]
AP Computer Science [Senior only, I'm taking it this year]
AP Music Theory
AP Microeconomics[Self-Studied]
AP Statistics [Senior only,Self-Studied]</p>

<p>----SATs-------------
April 2006:
Critical Reading 680[Considerable lower than in October, I might get it hand-checked]
Math 740
Writing 670</p>

<p>October 2005:
Critical Reading 760
Math 710
Writing 610</p>

<p>June 2006:
Physics 660
Math IIc 710</p>

<p>----ECs-------------
1)200+ Community Service at Summer Recreation
2)Web Club: (Helped to redisign our school's website, and the county's special services district website <a href="http://www.bergen.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.bergen.org&lt;/a&gt;)
3)Model UN: member for 3 years, starting from Sophomore year, competing at 3 Conferences per year, we also hold our own school conference in which I delegated during my sophomore year, staffed during junior year and will be on the secretariat during Senior Year.
4)Choir for three years, I know its not much, but i'm unsure whether I should try for county/regional/allstate, for now lets say no.
5)Fresh Angles, a school-run magazine, where I worked as the technical staff in charge of their website <a href="http://www.freshangles.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.freshangles.com&lt;/a>
6)Manager of School Fundraising. Since there are countless organizations and clubs etc in our school who all want money from the students pockets and always want bakesales and whatnot, I am in charge of organizing the fundraisers and making sure only one organization has a sale at a time and that all of it runs smoothly.</p>

<p>----Other-------------
Cisco Networking Academy Courses[<a href="http://cisco.netacad.net%5D%5B/url"&gt;http://cisco.netacad.net][/url&lt;/a&gt;]
CCNA Semesters 1,2 and 3
Cisco IT Essentials 1 and 2
Panduit Voice and Data Cabling</p>

<p>Microsoft E-Learning[<a href="http://itacademy.microsoftelearning.com/%5D%5B/url"&gt;http://itacademy.microsoftelearning.com/][/url&lt;/a&gt;]
Microsoft Windows XP Administration
Microsoft A+ Classes 1-8
Microsoft Network+ 1-8
===End Stats=========================================</p>

<p>Also, I have a question about my SATs..</p>

<p>the second time I took SAT 1, my reading score fell 80 points, i think that was most likely because I skipped a question but messed up on the answersheet cuz I got 9 wrong in one section, which was highly unusual.</p>

<p>if it was hand-scored, would the readers pick that up? or they just pick up smudges and stuff the machine messed up on</p>

<p>would it even matter if the second taking scored that much lower if the first one was that high? couldn't colleges realize there was some flaw in the taking?</p>

<p>Second, I scored sorta low on bot my SATIIs, I'm somewhat okay with my math score, but want my physics to go atleast above 700, should I take SATII in october, or SAT 1? and should I take the other in November?</p>

<p>Wow, that was a lot to ask, sorry =[
.. but thanks to those who reply!!</p>

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<h2>My First Question about the SAT was</h2>

<h2>the second time I took SAT 1, my reading score fell 80 points, i think that was most likely because I skipped a question but messed up on the answersheet cuz I got 9 wrong in one section, which was highly unusual.</h2>

<p>I called up collegeboard and they said that they would see if I got questions wrong simply because I forgot to skip a number on the answersheet, so that's answered(if thats not true, can anyone tell me of their experience?)</p>

<p>..anyways, sry I know this thread is really about chances, but I figured I may as well ask it where I posted my stats.</p>

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<p>meh you go to one of those bergen county schools...</p>

<p>no offense but your GPA sucks</p>

<p>how is NYU a safety, it's more of a match</p>