<p>I am a junior in high school, and I was wondering what will be my chances of getting into either MIT or CMU.</p>
<p>Intended Major: Mechanical Engineer or Electrical Engineer (or double major with robotics at CMU)
Intended Minor: Robotics</p>
<p>GPA: 4.1
SAT: 2250</p>
<p>Extracurricular activities:
- Part of a volunteer club
- Founder of a Robotics Club, which one team went to represent our school at worlds
- Founder of a InventClub, which involves MIT's InvenTeams
- Developer of an app that is used widely by our school, and maybe will go nationwide
- Part of BoyScouts (will get my eagle soon)
- Part of Civil Air Patrol</p>
<p>In my opinion, MIT is a high reach (for anyone) and CMU is a high match. </p>
<p>What’s your UW GPA?</p>
<p>MIT’s unpredictable to say the least. I’d also say Carnegie Mellon is a reach as well. Any idea on how your rec letters are and the quality of your essays?</p>
<p>also, I’d say talk about the app a lot in your apps along with the InventClub – those two activities really do look great.</p>
<p>You have a decent shot at both of them, but since admissions are so tough for engineering majors at both schools, it’s still gonna be very difficult to get in, especially at MIT</p>
<p>At the moment it is a 3.7.</p>
<p>I believe I do have teachers that are willing to write pretty good rec letters, I have worked closely with my Computer Science Teacher and he agreed to write me a letter. As for my essays, I am average, but one of my English teachers is well known on editing college essays, and he helps a lot of students make their’s unique, so I believe I will have an essay that stands out. </p>
<p>And thanks for the advice I will definitely include both.</p>