General Options?

<p>White Male Junior in a highly regarded public school. I hope to major in math, engineering, or comp sci related major.</p>

<p>GPA (assumption for the end of the year):
Unweighted: 3.95
Weighted: 4.65+
A's in every class for Sophomore and Junior Years; Freshman- B in Comp Sci I and French II H
Freshman: Earth/Space Sci GT, Comp Sci I(Honors Class), US History GT, English 9 Honors, Geometry GT, Required PE/Health classes, French II Honors
Sophomore: AP Govt, Bio GT, Comp Sci III AP, French III Honors (GT not offered), Algebra II GT, Advanced Object Oriented Design GT, English 10 GT (AP non existent at sophomore level)
During Summer school, I took Precalc to get ahead (showing initiative?)
Junior: World History AP, Guitar I (fine arts requirement), Calc AB AP, French IV Honors (GT not offered), Chem GT, Computer Sci IV (AP no longer offered by College Board), English 11 AP (Language and Comp Test)
Senior planned schedule: Physics A/B and C AP(two sections, both courses), English 12 AP (Literature Test), Calc C AP, Psych AP, Sports for Life, Math/Tech/Science Research G/T Period</p>

<p>Scores (here's where the problems start):
1990 SAT (1880 previous)
700 Math (610 previous exactly)
650 Writing (600 something previous)
640 Verbal (600 something previous)
5 on Comp Sci and Govt Exams
770 on Math II
790 on World History
Planning on taking the Math II (with more prep) and Chemistry Exam in October or November
Took the ACT in June with a fever of 101, so I'm not even going to post the scores I got, but I'm probably going to take it again in September
Took WHAP, Calc and English, waiting for scores
Planning on physics tests, calc, literature and maybe Psych tests senior year</p>

<p>EC's:
Big one (Sophomore and Junior)- Web Admin for past 2 years...developed and maintain my school site constantly, leader in development and stuff (is this a leadership position?)
Math Team- Participated in the ARML test and the UMD test...got my ranks back (not very good at all)
FBLA (Sophomore and Junior)- Reached state level for word processing and database design and applications
Table Tennis Club (Last 3 years)
School Tech Team Member (Last 3 years) - participated in American Computer Science League AllStars for two years, and several regional programming competitions. I was captain of the 5-Man Intermediate Team this year (leadership?).
Judo - progressed through orange belt, skipped a total of two belts
National Honor Society (this year and senior)
SGA member (this year) - fluff, nothing really there
Track Team (this year) - spring track, sprinter (I was really bad, but I stayed throughout the entire regular season)
Doing Cross-Country now during Summer in prep for regular season</p>

<p>Skills:
I have several skills including fluency in 5-10 programming/scripting/markup languages (depending on what you consider is in those categories)
Extensive work with databases online and offline</p>

<p>Community Service:
I have at least 30 hours, and I'll try to get more over the summer.</p>

<p>This summer mostly consisted of me relaxing and doing cross-country along with studying for SAT II's and learning some stuff in coding, but I'm going to look for an internship or something during July and August. </p>

<p>Awards:
School AP Scholar
Regional Awards for FBLA
Scholar Athlete </p>

<p>I'm looking to apply to a bunch of different schools. I'm planning on early application for CMU and MIT. What are my chances for CMU:SCS and CTI, UMichigan Engineering, Illinois Urbana (if that's the Engineering School?), UPenn Engineering, MIT (not to hopeful on that front), RPI, and Rose-Hullman? I'm pretty sure UMD is going to be a good backup school. Also, can people tell me any other good options?</p>

<p>I'm planning to prep a little harder for the SAT so that I can get a 750+ on math. I'm also going to do a bit of studying for the ACT before I get my early apps submitted.</p>

<p>Thanks for any help.</p>

<p>Penn state engineering is ranked about the same as UPENN, though UPENN is obviously harder to get into. That is always an option (similar to UMD), though priority changes based on which engineering major.</p>

<p>(eg for aerospace UMD is better, for hvac penn state is better(</p>

<p>Ah sorry, I meant for it to be Penn State. Thanks for the info about the engineering options between MD and Penn. Would you say Penn has a better or worse Comp Sci department?</p>

<p>I was also wondering what are my possible chances for Cornell, and would College Park be a pretty safe choice for a safety school?</p>