<p>I live in Fairfax County, Northern Virginia.</p>
<p>8th Grade:
Alebra 1 - A</p>
<p>Freshman:
Algebra 2 Honors - A
English 9 Honors - B
Latin 1 - A
Biology Honors - A
World History 1 Honors- B+
Information Systems - A
Health & PE 9 - A</p>
<p>Sophmore:
Geometry Honors - A
English 10 Honors - A
Programming - A
Latin 2 - A - Magna Cum Laude on National Latin Exam
AP World History - A - Received an achievement award
Chemistry Honors - A
Health & PE 10 - A</p>
<p>Junior:
Precalculus Honors - A
AP English Lang - B+
Latin 4 - A - Magna Cum Laude on National Latin Exam
Intro to Computer Science - A
AP US History - B+
AP Chemistry - A - Received an achievement award</p>
<p>Senior:
AP Calculus BC
AP Government
AP English Lit
Honors Physics
AP Psychology
AP Computer Science AB
AP Latin Cat/Ovid</p>
<p>AP Exams:
AP World History - 5
AP Chemistry - 5
AP US History - 5
AP Lang - 3</p>
<p>Extra:
National Honor Society, Math HS, Science HS, Latin HS, been in It's Academic since Junior year, Philosophy club, been a Referee for Soccer since 9th grade, played intramural soccer most of my life, some other rewards/things that I can't remember right now</p>
<p>GPA: 3.977 weighted 3.89 Unweighted</p>
<p>SAT:
1420/1600 1970/2400
630 V, 790 M, 550 W</p>
<p>SAT 2:
Math 2 - 800
Chemistry - 800</p>
<p>I predict I will get all As senior year except in AP Lit</p>
<p>I would be applying to the Institue of Technology and perhaps the Mellon school of Science or the School of Computer Science.</p>
<p>It's hard to predict how your discrepancy in scores will be viewed. For SCS right away I'd say it is a reach. Your grades are good and I'm guessing Fairfax County doesn't rank but your SAT scores are a bit low for SCS. Even for CIT and MCS the 1970 (550 in writing) will hurt you. You are definitely math/science oriented as one can tell from your scores but CMU requires and looks for good writing/verbal skills. I'd retake the SATs if possible and focus only on your V/W. Like I said though it's difficult to predict what they'll think of that 550 and 630 so you might get in without retaking the SATs but I wouldn't risk it especially when you could probably find a tutor and get higher english scores. Good luck!</p>
<p>I think your chances are pretty strong. Your math/science scores are superb and your grades are impressive. Ideally you want to get mid 600s on your writing and your critical reading, so if you could raise those scores a little bit that would certainly help. Because the writing is new, I don't think CMU uses that as much as the math and verbal scores, so the writing score won't singlehandedly kill you. Definitely retake them, try to improve them, and if you can't (some people just aren't good at timed writing), put a lot of time into your essays to prove that you are a good writer and have other skills besides math/science. As long as you do that I think your chances are strong, at least for CIT. SCS will be a little more of a reach.</p>
<p>Hope that helps. Best of luck in the college process and feel free to ask any more questions you might have.</p>
<p>You should be guaranteed to get into CIT or any other schools except Tepper.</p>
<p>SCS - I would say 50/50. My stats were like yours and I got in ED. </p>
<p>What have you done during the last summer? If you have done some sort of internship, your chances will be greater.</p>
<p>And CMU doesn't care about Writing so don't worry too much about it. And by the way, my SAT Verbal was 590 =P</p>
<p>you are a badass for doing alg 1 ---> alg 2 --> geometry</p>
<p>that's what I did :D</p>
<p>good luck</p>