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Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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<p>am from WV if that matters. Male - Asian</p>

<p>Scores - 1st Date - 560 cr, 780 math, 600 writing (8 E)
2nd date - 630 cr, 760 math, 690 writing (9 E)
3rd date - 710 cr, 770 m, 670 W (11 E)
4th date - 700 cr, 770 m, 680 W (9 E)</p>

<p>composite - 2150 (2 sit-ins got this), highest from each section - 2180</p>

<p>SAT II's MathIIC - 750
Chemistry - 770</p>

<p>Taking USH in january</p>

<p>Now for academic stuff
Rank 2/360, salutatorian
i think about a 4.0 gpa uw (it may be 3.96 or 3.98. Got 1 B and like 45 or 49 A's)
took most rigorous course in my school which isnt saying much, 6 APS, 10 honors.</p>

<p>Um now for the essays
MOst of them will be good. Some may be a bit iffy but overall pretty ok / good</p>

<p>EC's
This one club called ACE team. Pretty fun club. Like jeapordy. Won many awards for it. its a regional thing
Math Field day - (we have no math / science club) went to regionals twice
NHS - not much to say here. TUtor in this club also
HIspanic NHS - treasurer for this club. Do other things >.>
Big Brothers Big Sisters - a club in which I tutor 2 hours a week to another kid
Varsity tennis - 10-12. 3rd doubles team
Varsity CC - 9-10. Now really worth mentioning. Wasnt very good at it though.
SPIRIT program - My school is very diverse. With minorities making up about 40% (about 25% african american, 10% hispanic, 5% asian and other races). In this it was a 2 day workshop. We talked about many things our school had problems with. Pretty interesting. Was nominated the speaker and leader for the asian group whenever we have meetings during the year to talk about this thing.</p>

<p>Some out of school things
9th grade summer - summer school / volunteer at hospital for 50 or so hours
10th grade fall - volunteered at a theatre for about 70 hours
11th grade summer - summer school / volunteered at hospital for 50 hours or so
12th grade - traveled to india. Got to see some cool things. Some surgery's too :0</p>

<p>Anyhow summer was pretty filled for me, believe it or not.</p>

<p>Ok finally awards.
9th Grade - Golden Horseshoe Award (involved both 8th and 9th) (State award)
10th - Math Field Day - advanced to regionals
9th, 10th - Social Studies Fair - Advanced to regionals both times
9th, 10th - Science Fair - Advanced to regionals both times
11th - Highest Point Award (ACE Team)
11th - ACE Team - 1st place
9th - 11th - Success Through Academic Recognition (STAR)
Volunteer Awards - From two separate hospitals for volunteering</p>

<p>I have more awards and probably more EC's but some of them are not worth mentioning. Anyhow thanks for the feedback in advance!</p>

<p>Also I am doing an optional essay.</p>

<p>Oops sorry if other college stuff is in here. I accidentailly copied / pasted from the chances thread.</p>

<p>Applying to engineering.</p>

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<p>bump 10 char</p>

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<p>hey how did you get your cr score up from a 560 to a 700! i think that's amazing. what study aids did you use?</p>

<p>I'm not an admissions expert or anything but i had an Indian friend who got into CMU with lower stats, your ec's look really really good.</p>

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<p>I did this
for january to may i did no special prep but i learned to calm my mind during the test. Just destroy everything irrelevant in your mind when taking the CR passage questions. I did this and just simply did good. However my vocab was still abysmal.</p>

<p>For oct - Same strat as may except I studied barrons 3500 word list. Other than that I practiced more "calm my mind" strategy's.</p>

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<p>I rose my CR score the same amount, I studied from Kaplan's SAT guide. I'm a slow reader and so I think the thing that helped me out the most was ONE thing: for the long passages, read the first third of the passage very closely and then only read the first sentence of each paragraph after that, and the last 2 sentences of the passage. You should be able to get like 80% of the questions from that, and anything you don't know you can probably guess which paragraph its under because you read the first sentence of each.</p>