<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2220; 800 CR, 740 W, 680 M
[</em>] ACT: 32 (too lazy to check on each section, but I got a 36 in reading)
[<em>] SAT II: 780 Lit, 690 Math I
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 20%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Euro History (4), US History (3), Language (5), taking Lit, Stat, Government & Politics, and Comp. Sci as a senior
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Stat, AP Government, AP Comp. Sci, Yearbook
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): County-wide poetry contest winner and winner of my state’s literary guild scholarship. National Latin Exam (awarded summa cum laude/gold.)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): I write. A lot. I’m the head of design for our Columbia-award winning yearbook, member of water polo and swim, competitional pianist for 8-9 years, appointee to the city youth board council (secretary). I also dabble in web design and manage the school website.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Lifeguard for one summer, Legal Assistant/Clerk in a high-profile client firm for another. (I basically just had to proof legal documents for spelling and grammar and do secretarial work. :p)
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Pro-bono web design for various businesspeople within my home city.
[<em>] Summer Activities: When I wasn’t working, I was hanging out. Nothin’ special there.
[</em>] Essays: Extremely good. I wrote about my desire to transform the video game industry and work to create games that women would enjoy playing as well as men; my thesis was “games are the literature of our future.”
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Stellar. One teacher had west nile virus and still insisted on writing my letter while bedridden.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Not good. My class has 800 kids; she hardly knew me.
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>] Interview: N/A
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yep!
[</em>] CMU college/s applied to: H&SS
[<em>] Intended Major: Creative Writing/Design (or Human-Computer Interaction if I can get in)
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White as snow
[</em>] Gender: Tentacle monster, female on the weekends
[<em>] Income Bracket: upper middle class
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Test scores, essay
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: No idea, but I’m glad I was![/li][/ul]General Comments: Best of luck, guys! I hope every single one of you gets in. :D</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Math: 620, Reading: 640, Writing: 590 (1850?)
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: MathI: 590, MathII: 520, Physics: 550, Literature: 530
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7 (?)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 9/189~
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Not Reported.
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: College Art Appreciation, College Fundamentals of Speech, College American Government, College American History to 1865, College World War II, College Abnormal Psychology, College Principals of Economics, College Life, Death and Dying (Philosophy), AP Calculus AB, Economics (High School), Photography, Food Preparation, Novels, Environment and Ecology.
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): hell no.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Chess Club (President), Math Club (President), Chemistry Club (Vice President), Computer Club, Art Club, National Honor Society. Most of my application consisted of out of school stuff though- such as me sewing my own clothing and applying my knowledge to sewing at a church for needy people.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Amusement Park Games Operator, Freelance
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: That goes with extra curricular. Nothing completely amazing, just basically me applying my interest. I did some stuff for National Honor Society
[<em>] Summer Activities: ----------------Usual. Why should I change because its summer time?
[</em>] Essays: One was about the Challenges of Operating a Parapsychology Community, and the other one (the supplement), I used a lot of metaphors. It took me about a month to do these.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: One good, one not so good.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: I know the counselor personally.
[<em>] Additional Rec: College prof- good for the most part.
[</em>] Interview: Yes. I think it went sort of well. I had an interview with an actual adcom. The whole staff was very polite and nice. They left a wonderful impression. I asked her a few questions that surprised her. I had a decent answer for what i was looking for in a college, but i struggled on what i could add to their community. I also didnt bs/give excuses about my low test scores.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes. High Need.
[</em>] CMU college/s applied to: CIT
[<em>] Intended Major: ECE
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): PA
[<em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[</em>] School Type: Title 1, Considered Inner City, Not a Good College Rate.
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: Low Income/Working Class
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Not First Generation, Not an Athlete.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Well I liked my essays. I thought they were quite nice, but thats subjective.
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT Scores. 80% in AP Biology.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Essays, Interview.[/li][/ul]General Comments: Be yourself. I cannot stress this. My application was no where near what they tell you to do. My mother, if she saw what i wrote, would have disowned me. Im not joking.</p>
<p>ED in and of itself adds some weight to the application because you’re making it perfectly clear that the school is your first choice. Plus, RD isn’t out yet. You can be proud in your own threads (there’s 2 EDs for CMU iirc).</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon should have sent you a packet in the mail with admissions ID information. I got one of these along with a “how did we do” form. This admissions id is what you use to login, along with your last name and your birthdate.</p>
<p>Since tomorrow marks the 3rd day since letters were sent out, they might be posting decisions online tomorrow, whereas letters wont start coming in until Tuesday. Im not sure if they are going to skip Sunday in that count though.</p>
<p>This isn’t a thread about being proud guys, it’s for future years to look at to compare themselves and see if they’re in the ballpark. Kids with the extra ED weight will give kids applying RD in the future false hope. Which is why there are segregated threads.</p>
<p>But there wasnt a separate thread. Geez… chill. Im sure anyone that gets in ED is just as qualified as those accepted in RD. Aka, no false hopes about it.</p>