Current Upperclassman at Carnegie Mellon: ASK ME ANYTHING!

plundergraduate
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 21:56:49 +0000

I’m interested in potentially double majoring, with one of the majors being robotics. HS rising junior at the moment.

I’ve been competing in VEX robotics since middle school (7th grade to be specific). Robotics is definitely my strongest EC; my team and I had a strong hand in rebuilding our school’s program and made it to Worlds twice. However, my freshman and sophomore seasons were not so successful due to funding/teacher issues, so we hardly competed, despite my peers and I doing our best to facilitate the program’s growth. We were set to come back this year with strong prospects in terms of fundraising/recruiting and generally, but COVID has vanished most of those into thin air, as my state will likely be remote learning and we don’t know what will happen to ECs yet. In all likelihood, they’ll be cancelled. I’ve had leadership roles throughout my years in VEX (team captain, club president in HS, etc) and am president of my school’s TSA, but aside from trying to get VEX certifications on V5, trying to build our TSA/robotics team, and continuing to learn as much as possible in preparation, I’m not sure what to do, since snagging a state title at minimum was how I was planning to dispel any doubts that the aforementioned two-year slump could cast on my ability. What do you think I should do?

Do you have any recommendations when it comes to knocking out Gen Ed requirements in high school for the robotics major? Just curious as to whether I should do dual enrollment and get some out of the way.

Do you know anyone double majoring in music and robotics/another STEM major? What are the odds of getting in if you do that? Was there anything in particular you emphasized in your app because you wanted to double major?

Thanks for your time,
An unsure student.