Chances for Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, Univ of Michigan, Univ of Illinois urbana

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: 3.69
Weighted (using honors/AP courses...A=5, B =4, etc...): 4. 33 not including second semester
ACT: 34 Composite. 2 test dates,
First one: Eng 33, Math 33, Science 31, Reading 31, Writing 10, Coimposite 32
Second one: Eng 30, Math 35, Science 35, Reading 34, Writing 10, Composite 34
SAT II subject tests: Biology ecology I took as a test run last year: 700. Math II: 800. World History: 730. Chem I'm taking this September</p>

<p>AP courses taken:</p>

<p>AP US gov, 5
AP Micro, 4
AP Macro, 4
AP Psychology: 5
AP Environmental Science: 5
AP Calc BC: 5
AP World History: 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), Captain; 9 hours a week</li>
<li>Internship at the USDA- Foreign Agricultural Service/ 4 weeks </li>
<li>Job at a Sailing Camp as a counselor this summer for 3 weeks</li>
<li>volunteered for about 80 hours at a local summer camp</li>
<li>I basically am part of a "special program" that gives me recognition for taking a bunch of AP science classes "ACES" </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
-AP Scholar with Distinction? I guess I'll be a national scholar by senior year end...I suppose this isn't worth much. </li>
<li>Fluent in Hebrew
-Classical Guitar and Music Theory lessons since grade 9</li>
</ul>

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<p>Your GPA is a rather low. Your ACT is good and is at around 75% for UIUC and UMich engineering. The average GPA for admitting these CoE are around 3.9. So you should be a high match for these two. Note that you are oos and the acceptance rate for oos is even lower for these 2 schools. It is good that you have already a safety.</p>

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<p>One another thing- I recalculated my GPA the Georgia Tech way, and that turned out to be 3.87. I believe that is in the middle of the range- can any GA tech people give me some feedback there?</p>

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<p>Though your GPA is a tad low than average I put “match” because of your high ACT.</p>

<p>Carnegie Mellon - match
Univ. Michigan Ann Arbor - match
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign - safety
University of Maryland College Park - match</p>

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<p>Just another thing, I am really open to suggestions! If anyone has some suggestions to some other good engineering programs that I may not be aware of, I am open to hear them. A plus for me is an existent jewish community- a hillel on campus is usually indicative of that.</p>

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<p>I suppose it would be difficult considering grade deflation, so if anyone wants to know, here are my HS grades:</p>

<p>Freshman
Honors English
Honors Bio</p>

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<p>Whoops, error…</p>

<p>I suppose it would be difficult considering grade deflation, so if anyone wants to know, here are my HS grades:</p>

<p>Freshman
Honors English A, B
Honors Bio A, A
Honors US History A, A
Honors French 3 A,A
Studio Art 1 A, A
PhysEd A, A
Honors Alg 2 B, B
3.79 unweighted GPA, 4.5 weighted (+1 point for honors)</p>

<p>Sophmore
Honors English A, B
Honors Chem A, B
AP US Gov. B, A
Honors French 4 A, A
Studio Art 2 A, B
AP Micro/Macro econ A, A
Honors Precalc B, A
3.64 unweighted, 4.5 weighted</p>

<p>Junior
Honors English A, B
AP Enviro Science B, A
AP World A, A
French 5 B, A
AP Psychology A, A
Design Tech Solutions A, A
AP Calc BC B, B
3.64 unweighted, 4.5 weighted</p>

<p>If you are wondering why the weighted might be different than the one I posted earlier, its because my high school includes “High school classes” taken in middle school like language, math, eighth grade english. I suppose since colleges don’t include that most of the time, a more accurate weighted would be 4.5, right? (unless a college recalculates it).</p>

<p>Also do college see first quarter senior grades?</p>