<p>Hey guys! i am applying RD from NY
can u please tell me my chances?</p>
<p>3.8/4.05 GPA</p>
<p>(my gpa is low because I have taken about 7 APs in junior and sophomore year alone. In senior year I am taking 5 AP classes and 1 SUPA class which is twice as hard as an AP)</p>
<p>2190(750 math, 700 reading, 740 cr) on SATs( had appendicitis attack when i took it and my guidance told that to the admissions office)</p>
<p>700 on chem and US sat 2, 710 on math 1</p>
<p>This is my complete activities list:
1) Clinical Community Service at Universal MRI(600 hrs) from 9th grade to 11th grade.
2) Religious Community Service in India over the 10th grade summer in a Temple in Delhi (170 hrs)
3) Research with Dr. Dmitri Chklovskii at Cold Sping Harbor Labs( Approx. 500 hrs)- 4 to 5 hrs during the year and 5 hrs/day during the summer
4) Summer School at Harvard (Biology) during 10th Grade summer
5) Worked as a Computer Technician in Queens, NY in 9th grade
6) Web-designer in Delhi, India in 9th grade
7) Worked as Sales Person in NYC
8) Tutored 5th and 6th grade students in math and science during 9th grade
9) Varsity Track
10) National Honor Society in 11th and 12th grade
11) Second Place in Rohm and Haas research competition</p>
<p>I didn't include all the pointless clubs i joined in which I did not have a major position...</p>
<p>I basically wanna become a computational neuroscientist (combination of computer science , neurology and physics). That is why all my research is in that field and my job experience is in computer science.</p>
<p>Whew! I just finished slugging through 25 EA applications, so I feel like I can say a useful thing or two. (Of course, beware the small sample size and note that EA applicants are a bit stronger than RD ones.)</p>
<p>The 700 chem and 710 math 1 are on the low end. Readers will wonder why you didn't take math 2--it's sort of standard to submit a score for that. I'm sure that some people get in without having taken precalculus (which is the subject of that test) until senior year (i.e., too late to take math 2), but the overwhelming majority take it earlier, and the truth is that if you come here without calculus you are likely to die. If you have a compelling reason why you didn't take level 2, you should tell the committee. Combined with the slightly low 750, the level 1 score will make us doubt whether you can get through the core math classes.</p>
<p>If 4.05 is your weighted (out of 5) GPA and you've taken tons of weighted classes, that implies you've received several B's. If the B's are not in math or science classes, that might be OK depending on the difficulty of your school. However, unless you go to an unusually competitive prep or magnet school, if you have more than one or two B's in math/science your application will probably be knocked out of running. Nearly all admits have hacked straight A's or very nearly straight A's on the hardest available courseloads.</p>
<p>If (3) was substantive, submit a write-up of your work and a letter from your mentor. During my own reads, I always put more weight on the mentors' letters than the teachers' as research mentors are in a better position to describe you as a scientist and potential Techer. Your description of your research and your awesomeness as a person (reflected in essays, ECs, recs) are probably the most important variables in your application. The scores and grades might not convince us that you can hack it here, so we will look at the mentor rec and your own description of your research. And of course, if you're overwhelmingly the coolest guy we've ever read about and would definitely be an asset to the student community, then that's a reasonable plus.</p>
<p>Flickitty flick flickeroo! Here I go back to sets -- Hamik</p>
<p>I really appreciate ur response.
I actually only got 2 B+s(in AP classes) throughout highschool and the waited gpa is not out of a 5.Its out of 4.3. I am in calc BC right now and I have an A in that class. I also took the 2c in december and I am hoping for atleast a 760 on that test.
I ll def. submit a rec from my mentor and the abstract from the research paper I wrote for Intel.
Thanx again for the suggestions</p>
<p>Admissions at Tech boils down to academics, interest, and interestingness. I.e., we want students who have the ability and background to graduate, the interest in math/science to stay happy and sane while here, and the personal qualities that will keep the student body interesting. If sports make a particular application look cooler, all the better! It won't help an application which doesn't meet the first two criteria, though.</p>