please help me?!?

College Search & Selection
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<p>i am a senior this year and am in the process of applying to colleges, but looking at my academics im afraid i might not get in. only last year in my junior year did i actually realize how much my grades mattered. i pulled off a 4.0 weighted that year with 2 AP's and 1 honors but as a whole my total weighted is 3.4 and my current SAT's are 1950 ( i just retook it though). i know that colleges factor in extra-curriculars, which i have plenty of (SGA, academy of information technology, boy scouts of america, school sports, various other organizations); and, so im told, race (indian); but i dont think i will gain acceptance from most of the colleges im applying too.</p>

<p>Reach Schools: UPenn, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown U</p>

<p>On the Fence: Virginia Tech, U of MD College Park, UMBC, Georgia Tech, Rochester IT</p>

<p>Safety: Towson, Mount Saint Mary's University</p>

<p>i know that colleges place alot of emphasis on how well you convey your personality and how much you wish to go there, and i have been working on that in my essays.
with that in mind, could someone give me an opinion of whether i have a shot at any of these? any suggestions for schools in the field of computer engineering/science? im trying to avoid west coast seeing as how i live in MD but any suggestions would be helpful</p>

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<p>One way to gauge your candidacy, at least statistically, is to look at the school’s common data set. Compare their middle-50% ACT/SAT scores to yours, along with the GPA. That will give you some sense of where you are among other applicants. Almost everyone will tell you that if your numbers are in the bottom 25%, you stand no chance, unless you’re a special development case. For schools like CMU or Penn, even if your stats is right in the middle, no one can tell if you can get in. It’s just way too many factors. </p>

<p>Here’s a link to the CDS: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/76444-links-common-data-sets-posted-colleges.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/76444-links-common-data-sets-posted-colleges.html&lt;/a&gt;. You can always google too ;)</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>