2.8 GPA someone please help

Johnmatis
Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:24:33 +0000

If you chance me i’ll chance back

Hello everyone,
I go to a highly competitive public school, around 3,000 apply, 200 are accepted. The last 4 years of my life were spent living under the delusion that no matter what grades I got i could still do well (i should also note i spent an average of 3 hours playing video games per day, total computer time would be 6+ hours per day. Might make an interesting paper). I believe my distraction was caused by the constant computer usage and it got so bad that I failed my 10th grade math final after answering 1/5 questions on the long answer as opposed to omitting one (I still got a B+… not exactly great). Anyways so over the summer i stopped playing for a bit after going away, and voila everything was clear, at which point i became miserable. Here are my stats i guess:

GPA: 2.8 or something whatever an unweighted 83 is… the point is it’s pretty bad.
School does not rank
Haven’t taken the SATs but you can count on a score 2200~

ECs:
Hobby robotics for 3 years, last year i founded my schools first robotics club, this year i went on to found our schools first robotics team raising $9,000+ in order for us to enter (FIRST) if anyone was wondering. I was noted in an article if that matter.
Varsity tennis since 9th grade, this year will be my 3rd year.
Those are really only my two serious ECs
also part of the tea club and photography club at my school
math team

Now i bet everyone is wondering how i can even think of such schools like carnegie mellon and johns hopkins. I am happy to say that since i’ve cleaned up my act my GPA is now floating around a 3.3, and my second semester grades will be all “A”'s. I do believe colleges will notice this sudden increase in my grades, and combined with a good essay they will hopefully overlook 3 years of nothing but B’s and C’s. i’m not a stupid kid, i know i’ve screwed up. It’s not like my friends know I have GPA of an 83, in fact i’m pretty sure they would be greatly surprised. If anyone has that life changing insight or advice, now is probably the time to share it.

I’m looking at my realistic chances of getting into the following schools (please don’t cushion it, if i’m not getting in just say: “you won’t get in”

MIT (i’ve wanted to go there since 4th grade. There’s always grad school, right?)
Caltech (same reason)
Carnegie mellon (either computer sci or engineering)
Johns hopkins (math)
georgia tech
Harvey mudd
Stanford

Please help, and remember everyone deserves a second chance.
edit: i forgot to add i’m male, half japanese, half irish, from NY if that matters.