<p>I know a million people post these, but…any help is appreciated.
Btw, this is what I said in my applications, but not necessarily what I want to do (e.g. recently, I’ve given good thought on becoming a doctor).</p>
<p>Applied: 1) Carnegie Institute of Technology 2) Tepper School of Business</p>
<p>SAT (best): 700 CR 720 M 730 W
SAT II: Bio 690 Math I 750 Math II 800 Chem 750
AP: BC Calc 5, Statistics 5, U.S. History 4</p>
<p>GPA: 3.6 (B+) - didn’t qualify for Honor’s Society</p>
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<p>Grades: (first quarter, Senior year)
AP English B
AP Macroeconomics B+
AP Biology B
AP Chemistry A
Wind Ensemble A
Graph Theory P</p>
<p>I’m one year advanced in math, so I’m already done with my math curriculum in school and Graph Theory is an independent study course I’m taking at a local community college with 8 other students also in my position.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Math Team: 4 years (now captain)
Free the Children - volunteer organization (4 years)
Chess Club - 4 years (now president)
Church deacon (3 years)
Wind Ensemble - 4 years
Math/AP Statistics Tutor - 3 years (different kids)</p>
<p>Other Stuff: Cornell Summer College 2007
Microeconomics B
Macroeconomics B+
Engineering Seminar A-</p>
<p>I’m an American-born Taiwanese male, if that changes anything also.</p>
<p>Alright. SAT is about average. SATIIs are good. Not enough AP tests. Good course load. I want to know how all these people advance ahead in math, an opportunity I never had.</p>
<p>You should not be making B’s in English and economics. Economics was mind-numbingly easy, but with English it depends on your teacher and curriculum.</p>
<p>GPA is not stellar either.</p>
<p>Any awards? Special qualifications? Research? How good are your essays?</p>
<p>I’d put you right at the bottom of the middle 50 percent bracket, which means you might have about an equal chance of getting in as not. Sorry I can’t give you any better analysis.</p>
<p>And btw, tl339, whoever you may be, I did not appreciate your comment in my chance thread. I was merely trying to answer your questions in this thread, and so your comments were uncalled for. It was not constructive at all and quite immature. Next time, you should not be so rude to other members on this board because you never know who you will be criticizing.</p>
<p>Well, you obviously figured out my name. That’s not surprising as my username has my name in it. But, hmmmmmm. Who has the initials TL? And what significance is the 339? It’s 3*113. Hmmm… It can’t be a birthday. Maybe a time?</p>
<p>3 AP tests taken, and 4 in the works aren’t enough? I think you are wrong about that theotherguy. I think the thing that is most likely to do you in is your grades/ranking. However the college level courses you have taken may make up for that. I think a lot will depend on just what your teacher and GC recommendations have to say about you.</p>
<p>The school tl339 goes to doesnt really offer AP’s until junior year (APUSH and AP stat), unless you are accelerated in math which opens up BC Calc. You can also get around regular physics to take Physics C with a placement test, but only 1 or 2 kids do that each year.</p>
<p>for being the captain of math team i think ur SAT 1 math score isn’t that great (and the fact that u have a good SAT 2 score and AP BC score - but i guess ur sat 1 can hide behind these scores). </p>
<p>I like the graph theory class thing ur taking. Email professor mackey about that (at cmu it’s a senior level class), last semester mackey did the whole solving “unsolved problems in graph theory”. i’m sure u can find his email somewhere. </p>
<p>yes he’s in the math department, but he teaches “Concepts of mathmatics” 21-127 which is a grad req for CS and ECE. </p>
<p>and screw the other ap’s. kids come to cmu ranging from having no credit at all up to 200 units in AP’s done (give or take 15 AP’s).</p>