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Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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<p>Grade: Junior (rising senior)
Sex: M
Eth: Asian (neither citizen nor permanent)
State: Texas
School: Private small school
Applying to SCS</p>

<p>SAT: 2040 (CR 580, M 800, W 660) -> 1st time at March -> expected superscore upto 2250+ (June)
SATII: Math2c 780, going to take Chem, Physics, USH at May
AP: Macroeco, Microeco both 5 (last year)
currently taking Cal BC, Physics C mec and elec, chem, ush at school.
studying stat, computer science (self-studying and test at may)
For next year: comparative government, english literature, Multiplevariable at UT houston(got approved)
GPA:
freshman : 4.0 (all regular)
Sopho : 3.5 (B+) (all honors , including Honors bio, got C- .....) w/o bio, accelerates upto 3.8
Junior : 4.3/4.0 (A+) (all APs except for Regular English) 5 APs + one regular course</p>

<p>ECs:
Certifications :MOS,SCJP, CCNA,CCNP, CCIE R&S -> youngest in the world
Award : Cisco systems College competition 2nd place.
Sports: Tennis for three years( JV for two years, V for this year)
Club: Key club, chess, Math(president), International club
Internship: Samsung HQ at upcoming summer, Network development project for a minor farm last yr
Project: Clouding development project at Neaby Uni with a Professor and some grad students
Service hours: throughout past years, more than 1200 hours (need to sum all) -> government certified</p>

<p>Recommendtion:
For CMU, from USH teacher, and Eng teacher
+ SPecial researcher at IBM HQ (most of CPUs of IBM servers were developed by him)</p>

<p>wel......
I'm considering to apply CMU SCS nxt year.
I am beware of that my SAT score is lower than the others
Considering that I came to states about three years ago, and non-native English speaker, I am going to appeal to them with TOEFL.</p>

<p>Well... could you possibly recommend any things.... ?
My head is about to blow up :( thinking of college even at Prom ... :<</p>

<p>THANK YOU :)</p>

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<p>The fact that you are an international student will be taken into account when they see your low Critical Reading and Writing SAT scores. Nevertheless, I am afraid CMU remains a reach for you at this point. Besides, as an international student, you won’t be eligible for financial aid.</p>

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<p>CR and WR, what you mean they take an account for international student ?
For financial aid, my dad’s income is 350k+ in US dollar.
Anyhow, I neither am eglible nor need financial aid.</p>

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<p>What I mean is that international students who are not native speakers of English are known to perform worse in the reading and writing sections of the SAT than native Anglophones. Adcoms know that and, accordingly, will give less weight for example to your SAT CR score and look at your TOEFL score instead. As long as you do extremely well in the TOEFL, you should be fine.</p>

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<p>now, I get it :slight_smile: For WR in SAT, I got 4 wrong total on multiple, and got 8 for essay. I only wrote a page and two lines lol… So I will expect to get over 750 for next time…
For TOEFL, I have 112 in IBT, and took a year ago. Is that okay to apply or should I take it again?
BTW… got 23 on speaking…</p>