<p>Hey I’ll chance you … but can you chance me too? </p>
<p>Cool … you had brain surgery!!! That’s something most applicants do have … when I went through your stats, that was the thing that popped out. In your essays, explain how the brain surgery affected you as a person … why did your grades fall? how would you have handled it better if you could at all? how did that experience make you a stronger student? Those are things you need to keep in mind. Otherwise, your grades aren’t the best at a UW 3.4, but you obviously challenged yourself in school, but people do say that C’s are not something you want on your transcript, especially when you’re aiming for the top schools … but you are a special case. Your SATs are extremely impressive at a composite score of 2340. That puts you in the Top .5% of the US. Your SAT subjects are pretty good as well. Your extracurriculars are out of the ordinary … maybe you should send a sample to admissions to demonstrate your interests in graphics. Other than that, your ECs are pretty skimpy, because you have that and the library volunteering, but at least I know that you really like the graphics stuff and that you’re focused on it … that’s a good thing, especially when graphics in games are becoming more and more detailed as time goes on. </p>
<p>Overall, you’re a good student. </p>
<p>Chances:
MIT: Reach — but your video game programming may help a bit
Cornell/Dartmouth: Reach — GPA
Boston U: Match </p>
<p>I’m not familiar with the other schools, but I wish you good luck and remember to chance me too!</p>