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Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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<p>-ethnic background: Brazilian (moved to TX in late 2001)
-gender: male
-SAT I: 2050/2400 (CR 650, W 710, M 690)
-SAT II: Math II 740, Physics 800, U.S. History 650
-ACT: 31 (34 math, 31 science, 29 writing, 28 reading, 10 essay)
-GPA: 3.74 UW, ~3.9 weighted
-Rank: 7 out of 144</p>

<p>(These are weighted)
9th GPA: 92.94 (sad, I know. I had senioritis that year)
10th GPA: 94.55 (recovered a little from the senioritis)
11th GPA: 99.16 (woke up and realized I was gonna get screwed)
12th GPA: So far, 105 (basically pwning my classes. I'm not a gamer but that's the best term to describe it)</p>

<p>AP's -
Physics B - 5
U.S. History - 4
Spanish Language - 4 (idk how, I don't even speak Spanish)</p>

<p>I'm taking Computer Science II and a bunch of engineering classes at my high school. I already have 12 hours of engineering credits from Rochester Institute of Technology, and will get some more this year when I ace their final exams (we have kick ass teachers, believe me)</p>

<p>I'm taking the most rigorous classes available, and I go to a highly competitive magnet school in South Texas. It's been a top 10 high school on Newsweek a few times in the past few years, as highly ranked as 4.</p>

<p>ECs/Activities/Etc:
Taught myself HTML, PHP, SQL, ActionScript, couple other languages
Worked as freelance programmer/web designer since 9th grade, received excellent reviews and ratings
Did a lot of summer research at a local Texas A&M research lab
Co-authored a scientific paper
Worked as a lab technician last summer, excellent letter of rec from a leading scientist
Designed webpage for a local ophthalmologist, excellent letter of rec from him
A lot of community service
Worked as a volunteer programmer for LifeNets (non-profit working to end genocide in Africa)
Ran a very successful campaign for LifeNets, collected over 300 letters from concerned citizens to Senators, invited to attend meeting with Senators (unfortunately I could not afford the plane ticket)</p>

<p>What are my chances like? I'm applying to CIT regular decision. Thanks.</p>

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<p>Lol, senioritis in reverse. URM + competitive scores + strong passion in programming = lock for SCS and CIT</p>

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<p>Hehe, yep. Thanks for the reply.
The thing is, I've grown sick of computer science... I've been doing it so much I can barely stand it anymore, lol. Ok, it may not be that bad but I don't want to make a career out of it. But I'm not gonna tell them that just yet... ;)
I think engineering would be the way to go, but who know maybe my interest will be revived someday. Is it easy to transfer into SCS from CIT if I keep strong grades freshman year?</p>

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<p>Why not apply to both? I think you'll have decent chances at CIT too.</p>

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<p>Really, you can do that? I thought you could only apply to one school within an university... how would I apply to both?</p>

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<p>You just check off boxes. Or at least that's how it worked last year. I kept trying to get my son to check something other than SCS, but he was adamant that was the only school he was interested in.</p>

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<p>Oh... well if it's as simple as checking out boxes, why the heck not, right?</p>