Chances for CMU

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<p>I'm a junior right now and my school is ranked top #3 in NJ and I have a gpa around 3.93 weighted (but that's because I did horrible freshmen year, I heard cmu doesn't really care about freshmen year? But I improved rapidly from freshmen -sophomore- to as a junior)
SAT II Bio and Math IIC are 780-800 range (I'm planning to retake for the 800)
and SAT II Chem 790
I'm planning also to take SAT II physics in October.</p>

<p>SAT 1 I got 2090 but that's because the curve was horrible and I'm planning to take it 1 or 2 more times.
I have pretty decent recommendation letters. I'm independent, mostly as an autodidact, and I have a passion for philosophy and the sciences. I only took 1 AP, AP bio this junior year but that's because I took mostly high level honor courses in physics (double science this year) and math instead of arbitrary AP courses. Next year I'm taking AP Psychology (VHS), Statistics, Physics C, Calc BC, and Lit/Composition (but I dropped my language course, which I'm taking Japanese 3 honors this year)</p>

<p>My extracurriculars are ok:
honors band/marching band
senior peer leaders
JV track 3 years
church missions (1 year volunteering in Katrina ordeal and other year interacting with natives in Canada)
2 years of volunteering at a Korean School (but I'm not sure if I'm going to mention it)
Clubs: Math, Sierra Environmental, LiNK. I'm hoping to get one or two positions at the end of the year
And I applied for 2 summer programs that I'm hoping to get in:
HSD (working with Japanese exchange students)
Vanderbuilt PAVE program (training in engineering, sciences, and medical)</p>

<p>I'm opting to be a Cognitive Science and Neural Computation major but I also may apply for CIT.</p>

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<p>bumping this</p>

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<p>bumping again…</p>

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<p>Increase that SAT score of yours a little, and you should stand a decent chance. I’m waiting for my CMU decision myself, applied for Computer Engineering. </p>

<p>Cheers.</p>

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<p>I second Zizzified’s adivce.
math SAT will be most important
most CMU science/egineering/math students get 800s (no pressure or anything)
your subject tests look good unfoutunely they dont outweight the regular SAT reasoning
build up your math/science EC’s too if you can</p>

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<p>I heard my chances are low if I don’t get an 800 on math…</p>

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<p>I’m not sure that ‘most’ CIT students have an 800 on SAT math. If you look at the published admission stats, the middle 50% range is 710-790. So, the average is 750…</p>

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<p>I would think that it would be a more balanced approach - SAT’s, subject test, GPA in math/science, AP tests, level and rigor of high school work (ie. did you take AP Calc BC or are you just starting Calc as a senior?) and extra cirr. that support a high interest in math and science.</p>

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<p>Most people aren’t allowed to take BC calc before senior year unless you skipped a year in math in middle school or something like that, so yes I’m taking it into senior year.</p>