Chances for CMU

<p>Hey - this is my first post at college confidential, but I would really appreciate it if you could chance me for **Carnegie Mellon University<a href="at%20the%20%5Bb%5DSchool%20of%20Computer%20Science%20and%20the%20Mellon%20College%20of%20Science%5B/b%5D">/b</a>.</p>

<p>Profile
Race: Asian
Gender: Male
State: Massachusetts</p>

<p>Objective
SAT: 2340 (740 Reading, 800 Math, 800 Writing)
SATII:
[ul]
[<em>]Math I: 800
[</em>]Math II: 800
[<em>]Chemistry: 800
[</em>]Biology M: 800
[/ul]
AP Exams:
[ul]
[<em>]AP Biology: 5
[</em>]AP Chemistry (self-study): 5
[<em>]AP Computer Science (self-study): 5 (I've been programming since I was 8 yrs old)
[</em>]AP Statistics: 5
[/ul]
GPA (Weighted of 5): 4.1
GPA (Unweighted of 4): 3.25-3.3
First Term Senior Year GPA: 4.4
Rank: In top 10% of 500 people</p>

<p>ECs
[ul]
[<em>]Speech and Debate
[</em>]Science Olympiad Team
[<em>]Piano - Have played for 10 years
[</em>]Robotics (FTC) Team - co-founder
[<em>]10K Business Plan Competition - Winner: a cloud-computing solution
[</em>]Intern Software Engineer at Cloudswitch, Inc. - cloud-computing startup in MA
and another internship at another local IT startup after freshman year
[li]Cofounder of an LLC (company) that is building a "social integration" website[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>I have excellent recs - one is from my English teacher, who is part of the organization whose website I manage and who used to be a Harvard admissions officer. The other is from my AP Bio teacher, who is pretty involved in the robotics team that I started.</p>

<p>My essays are, imo, very good.</p>

<p>Thanks so much for your help!</p>

<p>wow, it appears we have the same problem (low GPA, good everything else). Anyway, as long there was an upward trend, you’re fine. You should get into CMU, and with some scholarship as well.</p>

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