Last Chance! CMU ED!!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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<p>asian, out of state student
top 50 ranked in nation high school
GPA:
I am a year ahead in math and science
9th Grade:3.57 (did badly) *2 honors classes
10th Grade: 3.925, 3 AP classes, 2 honors classes
11th Grade: 3.78, 4 AP classes
12 Grade: 5 AP classes </p>

<p>Class rank really low cuz of freshmen year....down at 80/450
without freshmen year my gpa is a 3.85</p>

<p>AP classes:
stats, econ, environmental science, calc, world history, physics B, computer science, comp gov, chinese, physics C, psych, chem</p>

<p>Tests:
SAT score: 2100 superscore 2200
Math 2: 760
Physics:700</p>

<p>AP Scores are total crap...people told me that ap scores dont matter for college admissions so i didnt give a s***.
Soph Year:
Physics B: 3
World:3
Comp Sci:3</p>

<p>Junior: *i studied for everything cept psych after i found out they did matter....
Micro Econ:5
Macro Econ:5
Calc:5
Environmental Science:4
Psych:4</p>

<p>ExtraCurriculars and awards: </p>

<p>Volunteer:
Girls Swim Team manager (20 hours or 2 months)
Program in which i teach younger kids how to swim for free (2 summers)
Mentor and helper in a chinese leadership community program in which i teach kids about random stuffs (2 summers)
Computer lessons teacher in senior home *Trying to make it my essay topic talking about the lack of technologies that are usable for seniors and how i have been developing workarounds to make these usable.
peer tutor (2 years)</p>

<p>Awards/Honors:</p>

<p>AP scholar with distinction
National honor society (2 years)
9 years of swimming *high school swimming i got top 6 in county and districts. Won 6th, 8th, 12th, 7th place awards in districts, 6th and 8th place in state and made state team(10,11,12).varsity swimming(9-12). Regionals Championship Swim Team (9,10),
6th Place in State Mu Alpha Theta Math
6th Regionals Robotics Team
20th place regionals swimming. covers 5 states
3rd Regular Season Water Polo County Championship
Coaches Award
9th & 12th place Midlakes Swimming State Championship 2010</p>

<p>Jobs:
lifeguarding
Swim Instructor
Internship under medical university in Oregon, computational biology. I program applications that help look into treatments for malaria.
iOS Programmer </p>

<p>Clubs:
4 years of key club *Treasurer, project head of multiple events
2 years of Robotics, Ranked top 3 nationwide.
1 year of high school water polo
4 years of math club *varsity math club
2 Years of Computer Club *Founder/President...compete in ACSL, President of Hardware Division, head of board of directors. Partnerships with Microsoft, volunteer organizations, and small venture capital firms.
2 Years of Business Club /Vice President...compete in FBLA</p>

<p>over 100 hours of community service</p>

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<p>First, I’ll warn you that I’m not at all an expert on what it takes to get in to CMU. However, it seems to me that you have a reasonably good application for SCS. Your test scores are fine, and while your GPA is a little low, I think they’ll take the fact that your high school was competitive into account. I don’t think your AP scores matter that much, although it does look a little odd to have done badly on some of them.</p>

<p>You have a nice amount of volunteer work, and your medical internship looks very very good on an application. Are you a girl? I know that only about 25% of SCS is girls, so if you are, this would help you too.</p>

<p>Overall, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if you were accepted. It’s a very selective program, and thus hard to guess at whether they’ll accept you, but I think you have what they’re looking for. (Keep in mind though, that the acceptance rate <em>is</em> just over 10%, so even amazing applicants will be turned down. Don’t be discouraged if you aren’t accepted.)</p>

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<p>thanks haha but uhm i applied to CIT ECE. i already got rejected. I’m pretty chill with it i guess. three years ago i thought i couldn’t even get into a lot of middle tier public schools.</p>

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<p>Your ECs are very impressive, in my opinion. Do you plan on swimming for CMU because they are DIII and judging on your accolades you’d probably be good enough. Regardless, I do think there’s an excellent chance of acceptance— (idk 70% lol)</p>

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<p>Guys, the thread was posted on 11/30/2011…</p>

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<p>haha my b… a little new to cc like four days new.</p>

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<p>yea…i didn’t fill out an athletic supplement though. prob should have done that…oh well. can’t do anything haha</p>