Am I going in the right path?

Chance Me / Match Me
1

<p>I’m applying for Cornell (Early Decision), Caltech, Penn, MIT and Princeton in some months.</p>

<p>–Geneeral Info–
School Type: Public
Location: Mexico
Race/Gender: Hispanic Male
Prospective Major: Computer Engineering
GPA: Dunno how to translate it into GPA, but It’s 96/100 right now.
Grade: I’m on 3rd Semester out of 6, I’ll get to 4th semester after summer.</p>

<p>–Extracurricular Info–
*I developed a software for restaurants to mantain a strict control of Incomes & Outcomes, on sellings, and, well, cashing functions.
I’m planning to do promote it in a contest that is held anually on my city.</p>

<p>-Unnecessary text below–<br>
I showed it to 2 Teachers (a Computer Engineer, and a Computer Scientist) and told me it’s a very good idea. My father is using it on his small business and he says it made accounting & such easier, since he’s the only one who manages it.
-End-</p>

<p>*I’m doing my communitary service on a orphanage, and I will work for around 480 hours.</p>

<p>–Adittional Info–
*My school offers Mandatory courses so we can study it in High School along our basic education. I chose “Software Programming”, and it’s regarded
*My teachers say I’m a great Autodidact and a fast learner.
*I learned English by just browsing on the internet, I never enrolled in any courses or such.
*I Love programming and new challenges. I got some books on Java programming so I could learn more, because my class is somewhat slow.
*My parents divorced, I live with my mother, I was poor until I was 9 years old. I have been thieved 3 times in my life, and I almost got abducted once.</p>

<p>–Work Experience–
*I worked on my Father’s small Food-business (It’s not fancy enough to be called a restaurant) as a cashier in the last summer. Because of it, I got the idea of making a software.
*I’m required to do 240 hours of “Professional Practices” which consist of going having a work in which we can develop our skills.</p>

<p>Awards:
*2nd place (School Level) in English essay writing.
*2nd place (Municipal Level) in a writing constest about “How to stop Drug Cartels”. Hm, I got critisized a lot because I promoted Death Penalty, and because being in a Drug Cartel is not seen with bad eyes here. In fact, some aspire to join one.</p>

<p>Any ideas and help would be greatly appreciated.</p>

2

<p>Have you taken the ACT or SAT? You must take them to be admitted into any of the schools you mentioned, but you have to do very well also, like the 97 percentile.</p>

3

<p>Yes, I’m going to take the SAT in June or May, and the Subject tests in Math lvl.1 & Physics or Biology.
How big (or low) would be my chances if I scored 1900-2100 on the SAT?
Also, all my Teachers love me and can give me great recs.</p>

4

<p>You would have a good chance with a 2100.</p>

<p>I would try to take some Englisg classes,even if just online. It would help a lot with the SATs and colleges will want to see a stronger command of the language so you can hot the growing running when you arrive.</p>

5

<p>Yeah, I’ll take English classes soon.
And I’m volunteering to my local College, so I can learn about the type of enviroment in College, expand my knowledge, and maybe get recs from University-level teachers. </p>

<p>Will that benefit me?</p>