Engineering Schools. LOW GPA. UNREALISTIC?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My Profile. DO I LOOK LIKE A BAD CANDIDATE? I just got rejected from Carnegie Mellon.</p>

<p>I'm thinking about adding more Safeties. </p>

<p>Now that I got my rejection letter from Carnegie Mellon Early Decision. I feel like I'm going to get rejected from everyone of my schools. I really though I could get into Carnegie Mellon. MY GPA IS KILLING ME.</p>

<p>-----Colleges I'm looking at.--------
Penn State
Drexel
Villanova
Georgia Institute of Technology
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Carnegie Mellon - Early Decision II -REJECTED.
University of Michigan</p>

<p>[NOT looking too good with these colleges]
Stanford
Columbia
Cornell
John Hopkins</p>

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Major: Engineering
Race: Asian American Male
Rank: Top 20% out of 300 [Not very accurate]</p>

<p>GPA: All Honors/AP [except for CP english]
Freshman year: 3.2
Sophomore Year: 3.4
Junior Year: 3.5 [Took both Physics and Chemistry Honors]
Senior Year: 3.45 [First Semester.]
Senior Year: 3.7 [Second Semester.]</p>

<p>Classes I'm taking in Senior Year
Stat AP
Calc AP
Physics 2 AP
CP Gov [was AP.]
CP English
Honors Spanish 5</p>

<p>Essay: Art and the insight on character. Lots of psychological aspects.</p>

<p>Recommendations: [The best teachers according to my college counselor who once worked as a college admission officer]
Pre-Calc/Statistics Teacher
Chemistry Teacher
Professor/Employer/Ex-Engineer from the University of Missouri.</p>

<p>Extra Curricular Activities:
Math Team! =] 4 years
Chess Club 1 year / 2 hrs 10 wks
Spanish Club 1 year
National Honor Spanish Society 3 years
Accel [English Enrichment Program.] 3 years / 8 hrs 36 wks</p>

<p>Work Experience
Summer Engineer Intern at the NAVSEA program. 10-12 hours 10 wks / Summer
Work as a Waiter. Summers</p>

<p>SAT Score: 2170
Math 770
Writing 750
Reading 650</p>

<p>SAT Subject Test Scores I know these aren't the best scores but I tried my best
Math II: 750 [was 670]
Physics: 620 [was 470]
US History: 610 [was 580]</p>

<p>[] Grade 9:
English Honors: C
Humanities Hons: B
Basic Web Design: A
Algebra II Hon: A
Science & Tech Hon: B
Spanish II CP: A
Teenage Issues: B</p>

<p>[] Grade 10:
English 10 CP: B
Western CIV CP: A
Geometry Hon: A
Biology: B
Spanish III CP: A</p>

<p>[] Grade 11:
English CP: A
US History AP: C
Pre-Calculus Hon: A
Chemistry I Hon: B
Physics I Hon: A
Spanish IV Hon: A</p>

<p>[] Grade 12: [Second Semester]
Stat AP: A
Calc AP: B
Physics 2 AP: A
CP Gov: A
CP English: A
Honors Spanish 5: A
Health: B</p>

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<p>Just got my report card for my second marking period. I have 4 marking periods in total. I got my highest GPA. 3.73. It would be a 4.0 but my teachers HAD to give me Bs for really stupid reasons. UGH. NOT HAPPY BOUT THAT.</p>

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<p>Anybody. Chance me.</p>

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<p>Wow. Nobody?</p>

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<p>Just because you got rejected from Carnegie Mellon doesn’t mean you will be rejected from all the other schools. Carnegie Mellon is a very difficult school to get into as well as U of Michigan. I’m pretty sure you will get into Penn State easily with a scholarship. Why didn’t you apply to Purdue University they have a pretty prestigious engineering school.</p>

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<p>Haha, a rejection letter from Carnegie doesn’t mean that you won’t get into any good colleges. And your GPA really isn’t too terrible at all, it’s better than mine. Rensellaer is right up there near Carnegie in terms of engineering and it’s very, very accessible to you, especially because of the summer internship experience.</p>

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<p>Its good to hear these things. I’m so worried because most of my schools are pretty hard schools to get into and with my record, it doesn’t look too good.</p>

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<p>Should I add a few more safeties? I mean. Looking at my list. I’m pretty sure I have only two safeties and I’m not even sure about those Safeties.</p>