Concerned about being rescinded from Carnegie Mellon [4.0 -> 3.71 (12th fall) -> 2.86 (12th spring)]

[amnesiac2004]

Concerned about my UC decisions

Korean male, Bay Area, Biochem major 4.0 UC UW (3.97 UW inc snr year) 10 AP courses taken: AP Calc BC (5), APUSH (5), AP Lang (5), AP Chemistry (5), AP Stats (5), AP US Gov, AP Physics C, AP CS A, AP Spanish Lang, AP Literature 2 extra AP tests: AP Physics 1 (5), AP Music Theory (4) USNCO High Honors (Top 47/16000-ish?) MathWorks M3 Challenge final 10% GMTK Game Jam Finalist 4x AIME/Distinction Qualifier Officer of Artificial Intelligence Club and co-founder of Chemistry Club Various solo piano, piano trio, and volunteering awards (from regional to national) Internship at a small biotech startup in SF, full-time and paid Research with a JHU adjunct prof into BNNs and their applications in bioinformatics Research at a big Stanford lab (didn’t go very well though) Rejected UCLA, UCI, waitlisted UCD, UCSD. Only thing I can think of is a D in my multivar dual enrollment class which happened during a difficult time in my life (working full time 1h30 min away + family death) when I forgot …

here’s my resume, if that helps—hopefully I didn’t just barely get admitted or anything like that