UChicago, JHU, Cornell, CMU, and USC Chances? Will chance back.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>PROFILE
Race/Ethnicity: African American
General Income Bracket: lower middle class
Intended Major: Comp Sci with a minor or double major in Material Sciences/Engineering (I want to do 3D printing stuff)</p>

<p>STATS
GPA (UW) : 3.52
Rank: Top 16%
SAT: 2100 -- (730 CW, 640 M, 730 W, 12 Essay)
ACT: 31 C (33 M, 34 E, 32 R, 25 S, 10 W)
Subject Tests inbound.
AP Scores: Mostly 4s (Total APs taken from freshman to junior year is 8; 6-7 will be taken this year)</p>

<p>SENIOR SCHEDULE (all AP excluding debate which is honors)
Calc AB
Bio
Lit
Government
Stats
Enviro
Debate</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS
A bullet point and a star means it's also community service.
:
•<em>Co-President and Co-Foudner of Microfinancing Club (10, 11, 12). Acquired money through primarily donation; $5,000 donated to the Grameen Foundation to revitalize Indian economies through microloans
• Debate (10, 11, 12). I did Congressional Debate, and our squad had the most national success this year of any debate team in the nation. I was a prominent member of Executive Board and functioned as my debate team's webmaster. Coached novices. One of top 5 debate teams in nation.
• Junior State of America (10, 11, 12). Co-Webmaster of the head JSA website (national organization with thousands of members across the US). Chief Technology Specialist of the Southeast Region (elected).
• *Mentoring Tomorrow's Leaders (11, 12). Founding member. We gathered kids in our school with GPAs below 2.0s, tutored them daily, and assumed the roles as counselors for them.
•</em> Key Club (10, 11, 12). Director of Social Media. Participated in program called "Horses for Handicapped" where we helped children with cerebral palsy and ALS ride horses for fun.
• National English Honor Society (12). Secretary and head of our school’s NEHS Tutoring Committee.
• National Science Honor Society (12). Webmaster.
• Study Group Founder (won't give you the name since it'll give away my school) (9, 10, 11, 12). Founder. Study group for Class of 2014 with over 180 members.</p>

<p>WORK EXPERIENCE
• Founder of Online SEO pseudo-firm (9, 10, 11, 12). I started up my own online business which revolved around freelance Search Engine Optimization and general Website Optimization. Essentially, I helped a myriad of businesses and companies move up in search engine ranking to facilitate sales for their businesses. I did so buy utilizing reputable web resources (in the eyes of search engine crawlers) to manipulate search engine algorithms into thinking that businesses were becoming more popular, which made the bots give more value to my clients' websites. I also worked directly with affiliate marketers on CPA and PPC campaigns by writing sales copies to help maximize their profits. I've worked with over 50 different business owners with a 100% approval rating on various internet marketing forums such as WF and DP.
• Server administrator for [Don'tWantToGiveClanNameHere]'s Counter Strike: Global Offensive servers (12) (more of a summer volunteer job for my gaming clan).
• Content Contributor for MyGamer (11, 12) Content writing about games and gaming news - provided articles for one of the oldest gaming domains on the web</p>

<p>HONORS/AWARDS
•AP Scholar with Distinction (June 2013)
•Junior State of America: Best Speaker Award at the Spring State convention for the (April 2013)
•National Forensic League -- Special Distinction
•Harvard National Debate Tournament Congress Sweepstakes (my event’s squad cumulatively got 1st place overall) (2013)
•lots of other local/regional/state debate awards that i didn't feel like listing lel
•National English Honor Society
•National Science Honor Society
•Mu Alpha Theta</p>

<p>COMMUNITY SERVICE (In addition to Key Club and Microfinance) AND VOLUNTEER WORK: In conjunction with one of my friend's Boy Scout Troops we organized a program in which we were donated refurbished computers and computer parts from a local computer parts provider, assembled the computers (and taught the younger kids in the troop how to do so), and donated them to local businesses and people
--Teacher assistant for my old AP Chem teacher
--Math tutoring done in conjunction with Mu Alpha Theta</p>

<p>ESSAYS -- most are really genuine and pretty funny. </p>

<p>Rec Letters -- I'd guess they're great. My AP Chem teacher loves me and my Math teacher referred to me as one of his brightest students. My Lang teacher liked me too.</p>

<p>Other Activities:
Guitar
Music (dubstep/house) production
Programming
Eating food
Weaving baskets whilst underwater</p>

<p>*<strong><em>Important: I failed first semester algebra 2 my sophomore year and retook it the same year and got a B. I mentioned this in my "additional information" section of my Common App (mostly due to me having to worry and care for my grandfather who got bone cancer, and my teacher's incompetence. She was so bad the entire class got switched to a new teacher for second semester. But I didn't mention the teacher incompetence part so I wouldn't sound like I'm blaming her for failing.)</em></strong>*****</p>

<p>I know my GPA hurts big time. I hope my test scores and extracurriculars can make up for it though!</p>

<p>Chance me for:
UChicago (EA)
JHU
Cornell
CMU
Georgia Tech
Stanford
Northwestern
USC</p>

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<p>UChicago: Low reach
JHU: Low reach
Cornell: Low reach
CMU: High match
Georgia Tech: Safety/low match
Stanford: Reach
Northwestern: High match
USC: Match</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1590503-chance-me-uchicago.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1590503-chance-me-uchicago.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>UChicago: Low reach
Johns Hopkins: Low reach – you really never know with JHU tho
Cornell: Low reach
Carnegie Mellon: Match – my cousin went there, and you’re a much more competitive applicant
Stanford: Reach
Northwestern: High Match
USC: Match</p>

<p>I’m applying to some of the same schools as you. Chance me back please: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1589633-chance-me-low-act-superb-unique-ecs-will-chance-back-2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1589633-chance-me-low-act-superb-unique-ecs-will-chance-back-2.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Stanford: reach
the rest are matches</p>

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<p>Thanks. Chanced everyone back.</p>

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<p>I think reach for all m8 nice</p>

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<p>UChicago: low reach
Johns Hopkins: reach
Cornell: reach
Carnegie Mellon:High Match
Stanford: Reach
Northwestern: High Match
USC: Match
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1591121-will-chance-back-if-you-chance.html#post16709316[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1591121-will-chance-back-if-you-chance.html#post16709316&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^ I don’t agree with Cornell and JHU being less likely than UChicago.</p>

<p>UChicago - Low Reach
JHU - High Match
Cornell - High Match-Low Reach
CMU - Match
Stanford - Reach
Northwestern - Low Reach
USC - Match</p>

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<p>Thanks. bump.</p>

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<p>UChicago (EA)-low reach
JHU-low reach/high match
Cornell-ditto
CMU-match
Georgia Tech-match/safety
Stanford-high reach (for everyone…)
Northwestern-reach/low reach
USC-high match/match</p>

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<p>UChicago: reach
Johns Hopkins: Low reach
Cornell: reach
Carnegie Mellon: CMU has one of the most competitive CS programs in the nation. It’s also ranked no.1 in US news. It’s a reach.
Stanford: Reach
Northwestern: High Match/match
USC: low match/match
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<p>If your GPA wasn’t so low I think you would have a very good chance almost everywhere. If you get all As this semester you will improve your chances.</p>

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<p>I believe I ended up with 4-5 A’s and 2-3 B+'s – does this help at all (6 APs and 1 honors)? I also got 5 A’s, 1 B+, and a B on my midterm exams (which appear on my midyear report I believe). </p>

<p>Can anyone chance me for UMich and UNCCH please?</p>

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<p>I like your Courseload, your sat and GPA might be a bit low though. However, your EC’s make up for it. Chance me please
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<p>Every thing is outstanding except GPA, but colleges don’t care about grades anymore there prefer academic rigor instead. It seems you took the hardest classes available. so no worries and good luck. and congrats!</p>

<p>Chance me back? </p>

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<p>UChicago (EA) - Reach
JHU - Low Reach/Reach
Cornell - Low Reach/Reach
CMU - High Reach (One of the most competitive CS schools.)
Georgia Tech - Match
Stanford - High Reach (Another very competitive school.)
Northwestern - Low Reach/Reach
USC - Match</p>

<p>GPA is pretty bad, 3.5 is half A’s half B’s, which just won’t cut it for some of these schools. Test scores are pretty good but not outstanding (25th percentile for schools like Stanford). I think your ECs are good but some of them are pretty hard to see the weight of (two times you said you were part of a really good debate TEAM). You’re African American, which will help, but not that much. Good luck, it’s good that you already know what you’d like to do (3-d printing).</p>

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<p>hahaha true. I place/final at almost all national tournaments I go to for my events and have won lots of regional/district level tourneys (I wrote I have a lot of awards individually i don’t want to list). Thanks man! Would you mind chancing me for CMU’s CIT and IS (I applied to those two as well)?</p>

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<p>LOL. Yeah, go with that. Tell us how that works out for you.</p>

<p>To the OP:</p>

<p>With the possible exception of Georgia Tech, your test scores are average and your GPA is below average. Most of your schools - Chicago, Stanford, USC, Northwestern, Cornell & JHU - have admit rates below 20%. That combination makes them reaches in my book, not impossible but difficult.</p>

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<p>@Decimation</p>

<p>For CMU:</p>

<p>SCS: Reach
CIT: High match/low reach
IS: Match</p>

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<p>Also I applied to CMU as a materials science major early decision and got in, so if you have any questions let me know! :)</p>