<p>Hello CC Community,
I posted here before but I am going to try again.</p>
<p>Major: Chemical or Biomedical Engineering
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Female
GPA: 4.00
SAT: 1590/2400 (Highest scores together)
Salutatorian at average public school in NY.
If you want to know my ECs, they are on my older thread. It's a lot to write.
I have recommendations by my math teacher and other teachers who know me personally and could attest to my motivation and leadership roles. </p>
<p>Results so far:
University of Pittsburgh (Wait-listed)
Drexel (Accepted with Scholarship)
SUNY Binghamton (Accepted)
All 6 CUNYs (Accepted)
WPI (Accepted with Scholarship)</p>
<p>Could you please chance me on:
Cornell
Columbia
Duke
Johns Hopkins
MIT
RPI
Syracuse
Northeastern
SUNY Buffalo
SUNY Stony Brook</p>
<p>I applied to a couple more schools but those are the ones I am seriously considering because they have my major. I know my test scores are below average for most of my schools so please try your best when you chance me.</p>
<p>Cornell - No
Columbia - No
Duke - No
Johns Hopkins - No
MIT - No
RPI - Maybe
Syracuse - Yes
Northeastern - Yes
SUNY Buffalo - Yes
SUNY Stony Brook - Yes</p>
<ul>
<li>Your ethnicity helps. (even if colleges want to deny it!)</li>
<li>A female going into engineering also helps a lot!</li>
<li>Salutatorian looks great.</li>
<li>Nice GPA.</li>
<li>SAT sucks and might cause some suspicion of your high GPA</li>
</ul>
<p>Thank you Universityy that was very helpful!
I feel that what you said was very accurate.
I kinda didn’t know what I was thinking applying to MIT but I wanted to try for fun. XD</p>
<p>Cornell: No
Columbia: No
Duke: No
Johns Hopkins: No
MIT: No
RPI: Reach
Syracuse: Low Reach/High Match
Northeastern: Reach
SUNY Buffalo: Match
SUNY Stony Brook: Low Reach/High Match</p>
<p>Cornell: reach
Columbia: high reach
Duke: reach
Johns Hopkins: reach
MIT: high reach
RPI: low reach
Syracuse: high match
Northeastern: match
SUNY Buffalo: match
SUNY Stony Brook: match</p>
<p>your GPA is strong and a black salutatorian female going into engineering is very strong, but the SAT will make stuff tough.
When I interviewed with Syracuse, I got the feeling that they were willing to overlook one major problem with an application as long as they like the whole package.</p>
<p>Thank you for the comments. I am hoping I could get into RPI because every time I go to a college fair I spoke to the representative and he recognized me after a while.</p>
<p>Update: Now so far I got accepted to RPI, WPI, Drexel, and SUNY Binghamton’s engineering programs. Does anyone think that I could get into Cornell at all?</p>
<p>If Pitt denied you, there’s practically no way a top tier would accept you. I originally thought by your SAT score you meant 1590 on CR/M and 2400 total. So I was like “That’s impressive, why on earth would Pittsburgh reject her?”</p>
<p>Your SAT is your major downfall, although everything else helps you and looks great. </p>
<p>Cornell: High Reach
Columbia: High Reach
MIT: High Reach
Duke: Reach
John Hopkins: Reach
RPI: High Match/Low Reach
Syracuse: High Match/Low Reach
Northeastern: High Match
SUNY Buffalo: Match
SUNY Stony Brook: Match</p>
<p>And generally, it’s common sense that a top tier school accepts more qualified students than low tier schools. There are still other factors such as your personal statement. So I can’t just tell you “No, you’ll be rejected by everything and you’re a failure at life,” because well, that’s not true at all. But your chances are looking slim, and from a regular adcom’s perspective, you wouldn’t be accepted.</p>
<p>Thanks. I know it’s not easy to get accepted to any of those schools but I hope they overlook my SAT’s because I tried my best to make up for it in other areas.</p>
