Chances for engineering schools (cornell/penn/carnegie mellon/michigan and Ivies)

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<p>Multiracial (indian/ caucasian spanish (not latino))</p>

<p>GPA 3.96 (1 B)
WGPA 4.6</p>

<p>SAT 1st try cr730 wr780 m720
2nd try cr790 wr790 m670 (dont know what happened here: possible issue?)</p>

<p>sat 2 physics 800 math2 800 (aiming for us history in october)</p>

<p>ap scores so far: govt-5 w.history-5 APLang-5 </p>

<p>EC's so far
honors percussion ensemble
honors Jazz band
leader of school jazz combo (paid/ free community gigs)
posse scholarship nom.
Habitat for Humanity
String theory physics club
essays published in school newspaper and possibly in community gazette.
National Honors society
part time job in community library.
Helped with 3 school-produced musicals as director of student pit band.
piano 12 years
guitar 3 years
drums 3 years
bass guitar 5 years.
I do music mastering and finishing for the school's music tech class.
marching band 3 years- pit section leader
varsity tennis team 2yrs</p>

<p>Classes for next year: AP environmental sci, ap lit, AP calc BC,- not completely sure about others yet.</p>

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<p>If you feel your score is way too low, you can order score verification from collegeboard. It takes about 5 weeks.</p>

<p>Your EC, GPA and test scores are good enough for cornell/mellon/michigan but maybe needs more for penn.</p>

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<p>Yes, I want to major in engineering.</p>

<p>Also, I forgot to mention I have a 35 act with 36 math. Do you think this would help balance out the 720 on the sat? </p>

<p>And I thought that the cornell engineering program was much harder to get into than UPENN?</p>

<p>huh…</p>

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<p>I personally think your SAT math score (1st time taken) is a little low for most of the schools you are applying to. You may want to only submit your ACT since you aced the math section. I think Penn will still be the harder school compared to Cornell to get accepted to, even though Cornell has the higher ranked Engineering program. Would love to hear what others think on that. You are a very strong candidate for the schools you have listed.</p>

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<p>Thank you. I plan on submitting both, but hopefully the physics and math2 scores will help. I was just a little confused on the penn/cornell thing because. I’m also planning on applying to maryland in-state, and the two schools (md and penn) are pretty close together in terms of size, rankings, ect. But, of course, if I dont get accepted into penn but I do get into cornell, it wont be a problem =)</p>

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<p>Ah I see the source of confusion now. Stupid mistake on my part.</p>

<p>I was talking about PENN STATE, not UPENN.</p>

<p>Any other takers?</p>