Please help with my chances....

<p>Hello,</p>

<p>Be completely honest. I know I am weak weak weak in some areas, but here we go.</p>

<p>ACT: 31 - composite
35 - math
27 - english
31 - reading
30 - science</p>

<p>GPA: 3.5 top 25% in class. (probably doesnt matter but 91 ppl have 4.0 or higher in my class)</p>

<p>Senior Class Schedule: AP Calc, AP Stats, Adv. Chem D, College Accounting, Business Management, Entrepreneurship Studies, AP Government and Politics, then typical grad requirements.</p>

<p>Extra Curricular: Student Vote Commissioner for Lincoln Nebraska
President of Junior Achievement 2 years running
Boys State Lt. Governor runner-up
DECA Vice President
Future CEO Stars Student Advisory Board
IIEE Entrepreneurship National Competition Winner
Mock Trials Member
FBLA Student Community Service Liaison
Featured Entrepreneur in 3 newspapers. 5 articles.
Math Club Member and UNL Math Day Competitor
A member of my school districts PTO
Software developer Intern at web 2.0 company
Junior Achievement Titan Qualifier
Entrepreneur (started web application development company with 11 clients in 4 countries)
Fluent in 8 programming languages.</p>

<p>I am interested in going into Computer Engineering or Computer Science as a major. I can handle myself like a pro in interviews and have held speeches at national conferences so I am not worried about that, I have an interview with a CMU alumn planned. I know that will go well, and wondering if that will help my chances also.</p>

<p><em>bump</em> anybody?</p>

<p>I assume you wanted to post this on the CMU thread?</p>

<p>sorry, i just copied and pasted my information from the CMU into the universities I am applying to. This is meant to be here, just not the last couple lines.</p>

<p>You seem to have accrued a pretty good list of skills. If not for that low score on the reading part of the ACT, you would have higher chances. But I think you already have very good chances. How come you are not applying to better schools?
By the way, how do I start a thread? Please enlighten me.</p>

<p>I'm an international student so I won't be that familiar with the whole GPA and ACT thing but your extracurriculars look really good..</p>

<p>You should do research on the Chicago CS department or find some folks on here who are majoring in CS. Chicago's CS department leans towards the theoretical, which, if you like that, is terrific. Chicago does NOT have engineering or business majors. The larger issue is that you should be sure you will want to go through Chicago's Core!</p>

<p>Exactly, not BAd.
HOW DO I START A THREAD?</p>

<p>encarta, go to the U of C forum and click 'new thread', assuming you want to start a new one in this forum. its somewhere at the top of the page.</p>

<p>Thank you very much, paradiso</p>

<p>encarta: what do you mean how come he's not applying to better schools? Chicago's considered one of the best in the world. sure, it's not an Ivy, but it's not exactly far behind....</p>

<p>exactly what i was thinking. Chicago is top tier, plus in all honesty my ECS may be a little above average, but my scores and gpa definitely are below for those schools.</p>