<p>Senior Editor of the Yearbook, Director of a One-Act Play at our one act festival, worked at a globally recognized game developer this summer. Member of the International Studies Emphasis.</p>
<p>Took two college courses (Chemistry and Computer Programming) at Carnegie Mellon this summer and got A's in both classes. Also got recommendation letter from the computer science professor (was at the top of his class).</p>
<p>Anyone have any idea what it might look like for me in terms of chances?</p>
<p>if by taking the two college courses you meant you managed to pay Carnegie Mellon the 7,000 bucks to take classes there, thus guaranteeing yourself a spot in the admissions pool then yes, you'd have to be a convict not to get in.</p>
<p>It says to the admissions counselor: "I have taken classes at your university and excelled. I also was willing to pay a large sum of money to take them. Therefore if I were accepted I would excel in CMU classes, and would be willing to pay for them,"</p>
<p>Which is exactly what the admissions counselor is looking for. Your scores are there, your GPA is pretty close, and the CMU classes simply seal the deal. Just write a good essay and your chances will be extremely high.</p>
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It says to the admissions counselor: "I have taken classes at your university and excelled. I also was willing to pay a large sum of money to take them. Therefore if I were accepted I would excel in CMU classes, and would be willing to pay for them,"</p>
<p>Which is exactly what the admissions counselor is looking for. Your scores are there, your GPA is pretty close, and the CMU classes simply seal the deal. Just write a good essay and your chances will be extremely high.
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<p>SCS is the most difficult to get into at CMU. There is no guarantee of acceptance simply because you attended APEA and got A's in the 2 courses. I would advise you to re-take your MATH IIC and even the SAT because CMU's standards for male applicants and applicants in general for SCS are pretty high.
Do you have any activities which indicate an interest in CS?</p>
<p>I'm taking the Math2c again in October and the SAT1 in November. I don't have any at-school activities related to CS, but I've run a computer consulting business and worked at a game developer. I also build PC's.</p>
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I'm taking the Math2c again in October and the SAT1 in November. I don't have any at-school activities related to CS, but I've run a computer consulting business and worked at a game developer. I also build PC.
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<p>The middle 50 % SAT Math range for admitted SCS students in the class of 2011 was 740-800 and the average GPA was 3.78. I don't know about Math IIC scores, but I'm pretty sure they must be above 700 for most successful SCS applicants.</p>
<p>In other words, looking at stats alone, your application doesn't look very competitive for a white male. I suggest you try to raise your GPA and SAT scores to improve your odds.</p>
<p>So... That would mean that approximately >3.8 GPA is needed, since the number given is an average [which may have been skewed by a variety of factors].
You can make up for your 3.6 GPA with much higher SAT scores. That would mean that you would need ATLEAST a 770 in Math and 730 in CR. Writing doesn't mean that much to CMU, so don't worry about your score in that section for now.</p>
<p>I don't get it. How can a school like this have such low CR scores when their middle 50 percent of students is making 740-800 on the Math section? Almost everyone I've spoken to at my school exhibits a similar pattern, "oh I got an 800 on the math section, but a 580 on the CR." Jesus. Christ.</p>
<p>It always seemed to me that doing a long, daunting section of math on a test was far more difficult than reading a simple story and coughing up a few facts about it, or reading a couple of words, finding their Latin roots, and then picking out synonyms that sound like them.</p>
<p>I wish I could rewire myself to remove the useless vocabulary, creativity and language skills that clog my brain and fill them instead with equations, math rules, and trig identities.</p>
<p>Okay, so I'm taking the SAT Chemistry test next Saturday and based on my practice tests I don't think I am going to do terribly well on it (in the mid-500's). How big of a blow will this be? Could it screw me over?</p>