CMU ED Results Thread 2017

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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Because it’s collegeconfidential & we need this.
(format stolen from the caltech thread)

Take out the spaces before posting please~
[ color=green][ b]Accepted (School)[ /b][ /color][ /size]

[ size=+1][ color=red][ b]Rejected (School)[ /b][ /color][ /size]

[ size=+1][ color=yellow][ b]Deferred( School)[ /b][ /color][ /size]

[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *]SAT:
[ *]SAT II:
[ *]ACT:
[ *]GPA:
[ *]Rank:
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays:
[ *]Teacher Recs:
[ *]Counselor Rec:
[ *]Supplementary Material:
[ *]Senior year courseload:
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
[ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
[ *]Location:
[ *]High School Type:
[ *]Ethnicity:
[ *]Gender
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *]Extracurriculars:
[ *]Awards:
[ *]Intended major:
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[ /list]

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I’ll start~

Accepted (SCS)

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: Nah.
[]SAT II: 790 Physics; 800 Math II
[]ACT: 36
[]GPA: 4.3 W; 4.0 UW
[]Rank: 10 of 600+
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): APs: 4’s on Physics 1 & 2. 5’s on Seminar, Chem, APUSH, Enviro, Gov, Calc BC and CSA.
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: Fricking sweet some great stuff. Really mostly tried to cover my utter lack of math skill demonstrated in my app.
[]Teacher Recs: Real good.
[]Counselor Rec: Probably fine.
[]Supplementary Material: Submitted the biomedical research paper I wrote last year (unpublished) and a summary computational biology research of the research I’m doing now (will be published).
[]Senior year courseload: APs: English Lit, CS Principles, Bio, Stats. Also Women’s Chorus & Science Research.
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Three generations of my family have gone to CMU for engineering. Also woman in CS.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: Ohioooo
[]High School Type: Ya basic public school. Not bad, not good, extremely white.
[]Ethnicity: Pale as can be.
[]Gender: Female.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: Science Olympiad (Tech officer), Speech & Debate (captain, went to States last year), NHS. Tried Mock Trial, Model UN, & Theatre freshman year.
[]Awards: 2nd place at regional science fair, Superior at different regional science fair (advanced to states), UoR Bausch & Lomb, National Merit Semifinalist, National AP Scholar.
[]Intended major: CS!
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]
If you’ll notice, I’m not taking an upper-level math even though I took Calc BC last year. Why? Because I’m dumb. I guess I covered for it well enough though.
My interview was a really weird experience where I wasn’t expecting to be interviewed and it was therefore really casual until I learned that this was actually THE interview and I had a little baby panic attack. Somehow it worked out though.
I have research & am a legacy & a woman in CS I think that’s why I got in. Anyway, got into Caltech earlier but I guess I’m not bothering with them anymore~<3

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Rejected (School)

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 1410 (660 English, 750 Math)
[]SAT II: 730 Math II, 700 Physics
[]ACT: N/A, I wish I could have taken it.
[]GPA: 3.4UW, 4.0W
[]Rank: N/A
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): APUSH (5)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: I would say a 9/10
[]Teacher Recs: 9/10
[]Counselor Rec: 9/10
[]Supplementary Material: Arduino project that uses a hardwired neural network and a BME280 sensor to predict the weather.
[]Senior year courseload: AP EngLit, AP Calculus BC, AP Chemistry, AP Econ, Theology IV-H
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Lol no
[/ul][ b]Personal**[ul]
[]Location: >implying I would say that
[]High School Type: Extremely Competitive Private High School
[]Ethnicity: White
[]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: Meals on wheels, JV Tennis, Politics Club, Computer Club (VP), and my Arduino hobby.
[]Awards: School honors (usually for all B and up, some for all A and up) and Grand Concours Honorable Mention (10th and 11th)
[]Intended major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]

It seems like everyone good got denied this year. However, as you can tell, I am nowhere near perfection. I had a solid junior year with a 3.6UW (4.2W) which allowed me to take my rigorous course schedule. This year definitely got much more competitive, obviously.

If you are submitting a project, go all in on it. There is no guarantee that if you create it in a day or two that it will get you in.

Also, IF you aren’t on good footing with your grades, do regular decision. I know it sounds contrarian to do so, but just do it. CMU cares a lot about GPA and it will kill you if you don’t have a high GPA.

Lastly, Demonstrated Interest must not be a factor in this year’s admission. If it was, more people would have gotten in. Yield is going to tank this year.

P.S. I was expecting my awful grades and scores to bite me back.

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My D got in ECE

Stats:
SAT: 1520 (730 r; 790 M)
SAT II: 790 (math II); 800 (physics)
ACT: —
GPA: 4.11 UW; 4.47/5 W
Rank: top 4 (don’t know exact)/99; Cum Laude Society
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): APUSH - 5; AP BC - 5; AP Physics C: mechanics - 5; AP Lang - 5; AP Euro - 4

Essays: 10/10; edited many times by college counselor to make perfect
Teacher Recs: 10/10 - one teacher has received letter from different school in the past saying that her letter was incredible
Counselor Rec: 9/10
Supplementary Material: ----
Senior year courseload: AP Lit; AP Chem; AP CS; Linear algebra; Multi var calc; engineering
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): female in stem; have worked to recruit other females in school to join stem clubs

Personal
Location: Maryland
High School Type: private, ind. college prep school
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female

Other
Extracurriculars: yoga, V tennis cap. (1 yr), JV tennis cap. (2 yrs), Girl Scout (bronze and silver award; working on gold), first of two girl members on Board of GS Council Board of Directors (1 yr), community service at local library (7 summers), volunteer for local church (7 yrs), sews costumes for school theatre, pres of school book club, pres of school literary and arts mag, one of leading members of school’s math team who are currently leading their county for the year, math tutor
Awards: Nat. Honor Society (2 yrs); Nat. French Honor Society (2 yrs); Nat. Math Honor Society (2 yrs; 1 yr VP); Cum Laude Society; RPI Medalist
Intended major: ECE

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Accepted H&SS (Dietrich)

SAT: 1510 Superscore (710R, 800M)
SAT II: 780 Math 2, 800 US History
ACT: Didn’t take
GPA: 3.61 UW all four years, 3.90 UW between 10th and 11th (the grades that they count)
Rank: School doesn’t report
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Statistics (5), AP Physics 1(4), AP US History (4), taking six others this year
Essays: Supplemental (in my opinion) was definitely my best one in my opinion 10/10. Common App:9/10
Teacher Recs: 2 teachers (one math, one Statistics) I think they gave me great ones, one from my track coach (great one)
Counselor Rec: Good
Supplementary Material: None
Senior year courseload: 5 AP classes, one normal class
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Recruited Athlete
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Guy
Extracurriculars: Solid
Awards: National AP Scholar
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Essays essays essays. I also really wanted to go to this school, and thoroughly looked at its programs and ultimately felt like this was the one. Having this connection with my desired major and the school really let my words flow more naturally in the essays.

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[ size=+1][ color=red][ b]Rejected (SCS)[ /b][ /color][ /size]

[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *]SAT: 1530 (730R, 800M)
[ *]SAT II: 800 math II and physics
[ *]ACT: 34, but did not submit
[ *]GPA: 4.58 W, idk UW
[ *]Rank: 2/320
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 120 on AMC 12, 6 on AIME, 5 on Calc Bc and AB, apcs, apush, ap stat, 4 on lang (took apes but not the test)
[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays: I not sure how good they were. The suplement was very dry and I just listed why I liked cs. The common app was how I became obsessed with things until I perfected them.
[ *]Teacher Recs: I had a really bad math teacher last year and I had to get a rec from her, my apush teacher writes really generic recs but he did nominate me for student of the month, and my apes teacher who is really energentic.
[ *]Counselor Rec: Sure it was ok
[ *]Supplementary Material: I submitted a presentation I presented to the senior members of a company I interned at over the summer
[ *]Senior year courseload: English Vi honors, AP Euro, AP Bio, AP physics c: mech, Honors Analysis at Pronceton University
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none
[ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
[ *]Location: NJ
[ *]High School Type: public, pretty bad compared to neighboring schools
[ *]Ethnicity: White
[ *]Gender Male
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *]Extracurriculars: VP of scioly, Coach of math league, eagle scout and senior patrol leader of boy scout troop, along with many other STEM clubs
[ *]Awards: AMC distugished honor role and nothing else memorable
[ *]Intended major: SC
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[ /list]

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Accepted (SCS)

Stats
SAT: 1560 (800 Math, 760 Reading)
SAT II: 800 Chemistry; 800 Math II
ACT: N/A
GPA: 4.6 W; 3.91 UW
Rank: School doesn’t do class rank
AP Tests: APs: 5’s on Calc BC (and AB Subscore), World, Chemistry, and some other stuff with some 4s

Subjective
Essays: Personal essay was about how I wanted to use my advantages in life (privilege lul) to help my community.
Teacher Recs: Not sure, but I have very good relationships with my teachers.
Counselor Rec: Probably fine.
Supplementary Material: -
Senior year courseload: APs: AP Lit, AP Physics C E&M, AP Comparative Government, Dual Enroll at University of Maryland College Park with math and comp sci. Symphonic Orchestra, IB Music (online)

Personal
Location: Maryland :smiley:
High School Type: Public school in wealthy area, racially diverse
Ethnicity: Biracial White (Jewish) / Indian
Gender: Male
Other
Extracurriculars: QuarkNet, Chemistry Team, Lots of music stuff e.g. pit orchestra
Awards: some 1st place prizes from chemistry competition, National Merit not semifinalist thing (letter of commendation?), AP Scholar w/ Distinction.
Intended major: CS

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Rejected (Dietrich Statistics)

Stats:
SAT: 1530 (730 Reading, 800 Math)
SAT II: 750 Chemistry; 800 Math II
ACT: 0
GPA: 4.37 W; 3.67 UW (Come in as an ESL student and this is just my junior year grade)
TOEFL: 111(28R,28R,26S,29W)
Rank: Top 10%
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Chem 5
Essays: Don’t know bro
Teacher Recs: I think it will be good…
Counselor Rec: Good
Supplementary Material: Submitted a 15112 project, a robotic arm, one drum cover, electric guitar cover and piano song.
Senior year courseload: AP Literature, AP Physics C Mech, AP Bio, AP Music Theory, Multivariable Calculus
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): HEhe
Location: Maine (Came for school from China)
High School Type: Private School
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Other
Extracurriculars: Science Olympiad Captain, JV Soccer, Basketball, Varsity Track and Field, Drum set, Snare drum, Electric/Acoustic Guitar, Piano(all instrument played over 10 years except guitar for 5), Swimming, Studio Recording, Orchestra/ Jazz Band Percussion leader, Model Making.

Awards: 3rd in state Science Olympiad Chem and Optics, District & All state drummer. others can’t remember now…
Intended major: Statistics

Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:
Dude I don’t know why it’s a rejection… So don’t ask me… Probably others are just better or that officer is just not in the mood:(

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Accepted (SCS)[/size]

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: hated the test questions, so I didn’t take it lol
[]SAT II: Math-800 Physics-790 Chinese-800
[]ACT: 35
[]GPA: 4.68 Weighted
[]Rank: 15 / near 400?
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5’s on Chinese, Japanese, CompSci A, Calc AB, Stats, Pysch, Physics C: Mech. // 4’s on Gov, Physics 1
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: 10/10 super proud of this one. Incorporated coding with my love for food.
[]Teacher Recs: 2 teacher (Stats teacher and Computer Science teacher) I don’t know much about their writing skills, but their relationship or impression of me is decent.
[]Counselor Rec: lol I met my counselor a total of once during my senior year.
[]Supplementary Material: 9/10 Talked about my interest in languages (coding & modern lang translations)
[]Senior year courseload: Physics C: EM, Calc BC, Eng lit, Discrete Math, Band, Modern World History, and this advanced computer science course with a long af name.
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): female in stem? idk
[/ul]Other[list]
[]Extracurriculars: Badminton Captain, Math Team Captain, (Paid) work, exec position in a 501©3, ESOL translator, and a sprinkle of honor societies
[]Awards: AP national scholar? that’s it.
[]Intended major: Computer Science & minor in a language
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[ /list] This still feels like a dream. What if I wake up to find my decision letter changed? What if I withdraw all my other application, but Carnegie comes back to tell me they made a mistake? Sure, I’m really happy and all, but I need more confirmation than an electronic letter lol Gonna wait on the financial package before withdrawing though. As for advice, I would say put a heavy focus on essays! I had good stats but meh extracurricular/awards. So I thought, if I can’t shine my passion through my actions, I better bleed it through words.

Sorry, I omitted the personal section, but there wasn’t anything special about it.
Congratulations to all who got accepted! I will see you there~
And good luck to future applicants reading this thread!

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Accepted (SCS)[/size]

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: took old SAT in 10th grade, got 2110, sent score but I don’t think they looked at it.
[]SAT II: Math II, Physics, Chemistry, Chinese all 800. US History 760
[]ACT: 35
[]GPA: 3.97 UW
[]Rank: school doesn’t rank
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5’s on CS, Physics C mech, Physics 2, Chemistry, Micro/Macro Econ, US History, Chinese, Calc AB and BC. Got a 3 on World History. Also got 8 on AIME, and I think that helped a lot.
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: Why CMU essay was very powerful imo. Really showed my interest in CS and passion for CMU and the reasons.
[]Teacher Recs: Math, Physics, and Econ teachers. Also got rec from swim coach. Nothing exceptional, but not bad either.
[]Counselor Rec: New counselor this year and met her a few times.
[]Supplementary Material: nothing much, did some research and wrote in essay
[]Senior year courseload: AP Lit, AP Environmental Science, AP Comp Gov, Spanish 4, AP Psychology, AP Stats, and AP Bio. Also taking linear algebra online
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): went to APEA and got two A’s I guess.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: Washington
[]High School Type: Huge public school
[]Ethnicity: Asian
[]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[list]
[]Extracurriculars: Swimmer but wasn’t fast enough to be recruited. Math Club treasurer. Honor society, Swim team captain
[]Awards: AP Scholar, school award for outstanding volunteer work
[*]Intended major: definitely CS, not sure about minor prob something related to math

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Rejected (SCS)

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 1500 (800M, 700R)
[]SAT II: 800 Math 2, 780 Physics
[]ACT: -
[]GPA: 4.0 UW, not sure about W
[]Rank: school doesn’t rank
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5’s on Calc AB and BC, Physics 2, both Physics C, Stats, Literature, and Seminar; 4’s on Latin, Language, European History, Computer Science A, Physics 1, and APWH; 3’s on APUSH and US Gov.
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: felt super good about these. Had my college counselor and English teacher read them many times until they were satisfied.
[]Teacher Recs: AP Physics C teacher and AP Lang/AP Seminar teacher. I have really good relations with them so I feel like they’re strong.
[]Counselor Rec: Fortunate for my counselor to also be my Latin teacher for the past six years so I have really good relations with her too. Probably a strong rec as well.
[]Supplementary Material: Research. Did some planetary science research for the Mars rover Curiosity involving neural networks and wrote a paper about it.
[]Senior year courseload: AP CompSci Principles, AP Research, Astronomy, History of Crime, Foreign Language Linguistics, and Game Theory. (I’ve taken pretty much all the AP’s my school offers so I loaded up on a bunch of Capstone courses.)
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): nothing except that I’m female
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: Arizona
[]High School Type: very small charter school
[]Ethnicity: Asian
[]Gender: Female
[/ul]Other[list]
[]Extracurriculars: President/Founder of MIT Launch Entrepreneurship Club, programmer in FTC Robotics team, head editor of my school’s literary journal, and National Honor Society
[]Awards: National AP Scholar, some National Latin Exam awards, National Merit Commended Student (or whatever the stage before semifinalist is called), and AP Capstone Candidate
[]Intended major: CompSci
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[list]

I’m… not completely sure how I got rejected, honestly. I know SCS is crazy competitive but I felt so good about everything in my application. If I had to guess why I got rejected, it’s probably because of my low-ish reading score on my SAT (though I feel like AP Lit made up for this?), my interview wasn’t special, or the topic I chose for my Common App essay (I wrote about being an immigrant and struggling to learn English, which made me insecure about myself, and how I got over that insecurity). Any feedback from you guys would be super helpful as I send apps for regular decision!

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ACCEPTED- MSE/ MechE
**Stats:

[ul][]SAT: 1460 (690 reading, 770 math) (side note: wow my sat is the lowest here, even out of rejected peeps)
[]SAT II: 730 Math 2 720 Chem
[]ACT: lol nope
[]GPA: 3.9 UW, none weighted
[]Rank: none, but Cum Laude
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Ap AB Calc: 5 AP CHem: 4 AP French: 4 AP Comp sci: 4
[/ul]
Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: about starting my own all girls robotics team- I think this may have compensated for my low testing
[]Teacher Recs: From my Calc teacher, Chem teacher, and French Teacher (had great relationships with all, calc teacher went to CMU)
[]Counselor Rec: idk but I think it was good cause I have strong bond with my counselor
[]Supplementary Material: research on photoelectric effect
[]Senior year courseload: AP BC calc, APPhys Mech, mat sci independant study, french independent study
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): woman in eng
[/ul]
**Personal[ /b]

  • []Location: St. Louis, MO
    [    ]High School Type: private, hella rich and white
    []Ethnicity: white but hella jewish
    [    ]Gender: female

Other

[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: FIRST Tech Challenge robotics (founder/captain), Science Olympiad, Thespians, Jewish Student Union, BBYO
[]Awards: Science dept award, FIRST deans list semifinialist, NCWIT aspirations in computing affiliate, some other minor ones
[]Intended major: MSE/MechE
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]

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Accepted (SCS)

Stats:
SAT: Nah.
SAT II: 760 Bio (self-taught), 790 Math II
ACT: 35
GPA: 4.3 W; 4.0 UW
Rank: school doesn’t
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): APs: 5’s on Calc AB, English Lang, Envi Sci, Computer Science, 4 on French
Subjective
Essays: True to me, got help from English teacher, pretty proud of. Why CMU? was really specific with information from my recruiting trip and discussion with professor.
Teacher Recs: Hopefully good!
Counselor Rec: Hopefully good! Good relationships with teachers and counselor.
Supplementary Material: Described how I self-taught AP Biology to take the subject test with no biology background, recommendation letter from influential alum
Senior year courseload: APs: English Lit, Stats. Calc BC, Physics 2, USH, Non APs: Religion, Post-AP Computer Science
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): recruited swim athlete
Personal
Location: Seattle
High School Type: All girls Catholic school junior/senior year, frosh/soph basic small public school
Ethnicity: white
Gender: Female.
Other
Extracurriculars: Swim and dive captain, JSA, National Representative of bullying prevention program, Social Justice Committee, ASB rep, lifeguard, teach lessons
Awards: Grand Concours French silver award, Student of the Year, Tough as Nails 2x, Coaches’ Award, MVP, National Merit Commended Student, National AP Scholar.
Intended major: CS!
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I definitely feel like portraying my experience on my recruiting trip and shadowing a student and how much I loved it helped. I know my SAT subject tests are low but I explained that in the supplemental because I had to teach myself everything. Being a girl in CS probably helped too with ED commitment.

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Rejected (SCS)

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 1510 (800 M, 710 RW)
[]SAT II: 800 Math II, 700 Physics
[]GPA: 3.675/5 (W)
[]Rank: School does not rank
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 4 on AP Computer Science A, 5 on AP Calculus AB, 4 on AP Psychology
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: 7.5/10
[]Teacher Recs: 8.5-9/10
[]Counselor Rec: 7/10
[]Supplementary Material: Research paper on spreading robotics to underprivileged communities around the nation, research paper (soon to be published) on data science/bioinformatics internship at Children’s hospital, and school science fair project that won first place
[]Senior year courseload: 4 APs (Calculus BC, English Language, Macro/Micro, US Government), Earth Science, and Computer Science Research
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Sibling Legacy
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: Out Of State
[]High School Type: Extremely competitive magnet public high school
[]Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)
[]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: FIRST Robotics, Hackathons, Teaching kids with autism, Data Science Internship at Children’s Hospital, Travel Soccer (since 1st grade)
[]Awards: 20+ Robotics Awards, 5 Hackathon Awards, and 1st Place at School Science Fair
[]Intended major: Computer Science[/ul]

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Rejected SCS SAT 1550 - 800M 750R; SATII 800M 800P. GPA W 4.96
Lot of advanced Maths. Very good recs from Math teachers 10/10
Ethnicity (you might have guessed based on rejection) - Indian.

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Meant to put 3.675/4 (W) for my GPA. Sorry.

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[ color=green][ b]Accepted (SCS)[ /b][ /color][ /size]

[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *]SAT: 1550 (800 M) (750R)
[ *]SAT II: M2-800, Chem-800, Spanish-770
[ *]ACT: nah
[ *]GPA: 4.0 UW, My school doesn’t do weighted GPA
[ *]Rank: 1/693
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5s on Calc BC, World History, APUSH, Chemistry, Lang, and Spanish
[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays: Common App about my multidisciplinary approach to problem solving - 7/10
Supplement had hook about self-driving cars - 9.5/10
[ *]Teacher Recs: Computer Science/Stats Teacher - 10/10
Chemistry Teacher - 9/10
Internship Mentor - 8/10
[ *]Counselor Rec: 9/10
[ *]Supplementary Material: Submitted research poster from a summer internship and a video of me presenting it.
[ *]Senior year courseload: AP Gov, AP Micro/Macro Econ, AP Physics 1, AP Bio, AP CS, AP Stats, AP Lit
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Female, Had an interview on campus
[ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
[ *]Location: Chandler, AZ
[ *]High School Type: Large public school
[ *]Ethnicity: Indian
[ *]Gender: Female
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *]Extracurriculars: Tennis (JV 2 years, Varsity 2 years), Classical Indian Dance (11 years), Key Club (4 years, Fundraising Chair 1 year), NHS (Tutor in math, science, and Spanish), Two internships, Assistant Teacher for two middle school coding clubs
[ *]Awards: National Merit Semifinalist, AP Scholar w/ Distinction, Arangetram (Graduation from dance school)
[ *]Intended major: Computational Biology
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[ /list]

Idk how I got in, my extracurriculars weren’t great

Also have a twin sister who was accepted. Her stats are below

[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *]SAT: 1540 (780 M) (760R)
[ *]SAT II: M2-790, Chem-770, Spanish-780
[ *]ACT: nah
[ *]GPA: 4.0 UW, My school doesn’t do weighted GPA
[ *]Rank: 1/693
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5s on Calc BC, Comp Sci, Lang
4s on Spanish, APUSH, World History
3 on Chem
[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays: Common App about why computer science kind of - 6/10
Supplement pretty straightforward why CMU essay - 8/10
[ *]Teacher Recs: Computer Science/Stats Teacher - 10/10
Chemistry Teacher - 10/10
Internship Mentor - 10/10
[ *]Counselor Rec: 9/10
[ *]Supplementary Material: Submitted research poster from a summer internship (did some really high level programming and will possibly be a second author on a scientific paper), pictures of artwork,
[ *]Senior year courseload: AP Gov, AP Micro/Macro Econ, AP Physics 1, AP Bio, Honors Biotech, AP Stats, AP Lit
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Female, Had an interview on campus
[ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
[ *]Location: Chandler, AZ
[ *]High School Type: Large public school
[ *]Ethnicity: Indian
[ *]Gender: Female
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *]Extracurriculars: Tennis (Varsity 4 years), Classical Indian Dance (11 years), Key Club (4 years, Webmaster 1 year), NHS (Tutor in math, science, and Spanish), Two internships, Assistant Teacher for two middle school coding clubs
[ *]Awards: National Merit Semifinalist, AP Scholar w/ Distinction, Arangetram (Graduation from dance school)
[ *]Intended major: Computer Science
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[ /list]

Again, not really sure how she got in either

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Accepted (CFA)

Stats:
SAT: not confident enough, yet still descent score
SAT II: –
ACT: –
GPA: 3.8 W; 3.5 UW
Rank: my school doesn’t do that
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): got 3 on AP Lang, currently taking AP Art, AP Computer Science, AP Calculus, AP Psychology.

Subjective
Essays: Pretty good. Very personal, super humourous.
Teacher Recs: Very good.
Counselor Rec: pretty good i think.
Supplementary Material: I don’t know what to say for this section, but I can speak French, German, Japanese, Korean, and English fluently. ( not just like saying few phrases. I can write essays and speak fluently in these languages.)
Senior year courseload: AP Art, AP Computer Science, AP Calculus, AP Psychology, Biology 11, English 12.

Personal
Location: British Columbia, Canada.
High School Type: Super Competitive Sports based private boarding school.
Ethnicity: Asian.
Gender: Female.

Other
Extracurriculars: Varsity squash team, went to several tournaments for squash, rowing, and field hockey. I am not as good as those champs at my school but just descent. Not good enough tho to go to schools as athletic advantages. Currently a fine art captain at school. I have three diplomas for French.
Awards: Academic award, a fine art award, 2nd place for three private schools/ region wide squash tournaments, 3rd place for private schools/ region wide rowing race, 3rd for private schools wide field hockey tournament.

Intended major: Fine Art :slight_smile:
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I’m happy that I got in!!!