Chances to CMU SCS ED

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I am EDing to Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Program.

GPA: 3.77 (UW not counting Freshmen) ~4.4 Weighted. very upward trend
ACT: 34 (35E 35M 32R 35S 26W)
SAT Subjects: 780 Physics, 790 Math 2

Ethnicity: Asian :frowning:

AP Taken before senior year: Computer Science (4), Macro (5), Micro (5), Chem (4), Calc AB(5), Physics 2 (4), Chinese (4), Bio(4)

Senior Course Load: Discrete Math, Honors C + multivariable, H Linear Alg, AP Physics C (Mag + Mech), Advanced Topics Computer Science, and some others that don’t really matter.

Extracurricular:

11th grade summer + 12th grade research at Stanford’s Neuroscience Laboratory as a Data analytic working along a post doctoral neuroscientist. Will be co-author of my post doc’s paper when it is published at the beginning of next year.

President and Founder of nonprofit to visit low income schools and perform science experiments, Gold Presidential Award

Spends 8 hours a week reading cs books and programming. Have created neural networks, expert systems, and a lot of games.

Varsity Tennis Captain. Won 1st in a team competition 2014

Vice President of Cooking

Level 10 Certificate of Merit Pianist

Right now, I am most worried about my low gpa and lack of math extracurricular. Thoughts?

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I think you have a pretty good chance-especially since you’re ed-ing. You don’t have a lot of math EC’s but you make up for that in your number of math courses (plus a lot of them are ap) and your math act score. Freshman year gpa is a little bit on the low end, but there’s and overall increase each year which shows improvement which is really good. GoodLuck! chance me back pleasee

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4 on APCS test is somewhat odd, but your internship and programming experience probably outweighs it. Math 2 score is probably fine because of your math background (I mention this only because 800 in Math 2 is 80th percentile, so I imagine 790 is slightly below what they want to see).

I fear that your GPA being a bit below the average for SCS may hurt you, however. But as with most everybody, its pretty much a crapshoot for you. As for the math extracurricular, you could’ve done the AMC or something but I doubt it really matters given your advanced math background.

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Yea, I took AP CS freshmen year and was did not know how to study for APs at that time so just went in and took it.

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Shameful self bump.

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Very shameful self bump. Sorry guys, I am just so stressed out about this decision. I would appreciate any feedback you have to offer.

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Did you get admitted?