<p>As you can tell from the thread title, I'm looking for some guesses as to my chances for CMU.</p>
<p>I don't have many extracurriculars; however, I'm on the school's literary magazine staff, I'm in student council, and I'm the president of the school's computer club. I have an unweighted GPA of 4.0 (4.33 weighted), and I take the most rigorous courses that my school has to offer. I'm currently 1/800 students in my grade. I scored a 2070 on my first SAT (670 CR, 690 M, 710 W), but I recently retook it (didn't receive the scores yet), and I'm taking the SAT II Physics and Math IIC in June. </p>
<p>Even being number one in the class, my idiotic school found me to be not eligible for NHS. Go figure.</p>
<p>Oh, and by the way, I'm a lower-class, economically disadvantaged African-American student who has a father in prison.</p>
<p>EDIT: As for APs, my school only offers up to 2 (between freshman, sophomore, and junior years), but I was recommended for a third. I took AP US last year, and I got a 4 on that exam; I just took AP Stat and AP Euro this year, and I'm feeling pretty solid about my performance on those.</p>
<p>Hmm…well, as I’m sure you know, SCS is extremely hard to get into. Your background will certainly be of help, as will the fact that you have clearly done very well at your school, taken full advantage of everything offered, etc. Your test scores are within range, and if they did go up, that would of course be even better. I would say you certainly have a decent chance; if I were to be more specific than that, though, I’d just be guessing…best of luck!</p>
<p>Alright, updated stats: New SAT superscore: 700 CR, 690 M, 750 W (2140), SAT II: 700/700 Math II/Physics. Should I retake anything before applying through ED I or II?</p>
<p>EDIT: I don’t know if CMU will care, but I’ve taken all of those classes without taking AP Calculus, and I’ve only ever taken an intro Physics class (Honors level).</p>
<p>I honestly don’t think that your having not taken Calc will be that surprising considering that a majority of their applicants don’t take Calc until their Senior year also. Not to mention the SAT only goes slightly into Pre-Cal as it is. It mostly focuses on Geometry/Algebra2.
Your stats seem pretty solid as it is, so I really don’t see it necessary to bring up.
I’m really curious as to how you don’t qualify for your NHS, though. What happened there?</p>
<p>I really have no idea why I didn’t get into NHS. I know for a fact that I was more qualified than 98% of the people in my district that were accepted. I appealed their decision, and the only response that they could give me was that, “there was not overwhelming evidence.”</p>
<p>Your background and your choice to apply ED will help a lot. However, SCS is difficult, so it’s really hard to predict. It could go either way, to be honest.</p>