<p>3.8gpa/4.0 2 aps last yr, chem4+cs5, 3 this yr
720math 630reading 670writing 11 essay
720 math 2, 760 chem, 680 math 1 or 620 bio freshman yr
2 varsity sports, school activities, 2 leadership positions
work experience + internship
No community service.</p>
<p>Will the lack of Community Service kill me. I applied to the school of Community service and one other one as a computer engineer.</p>
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<p>Well if you applied to the school of ‘Community Service’ without Community service, I would think that would kill you… but… CMU doesnt have a school of Community Service. They instead have a school of Computer Science, which without the community service would hurt mate…</p>
<p>hahah what a great typo.</p>
<p>I know several people that are Computer Science (not Community Service) majors and have very little actual community service. Some of them were in fake NHS’s where no one actually did hours (I did about 75 for mine) and others were busier doing research/math team/theatre that counted for community service <em>cough</em> . As long as CMU thinks that your varisty sports are time consuming enough to make up for it, I think you’ll be alright. However, you really should try the community service thing some time. There’s lots of interesting and helpful things to be done. :)</p>
<p>I take care of my neighbors for cost, yard maintenance. This is not community service I was told, because I still get paid.</p>
<p>Yea… thats called working in my books 
Don’t stress it though, just make sure you do something outside of school (like clubs or sports), so that the college can get a good idea for what you do in your spare time. Otherwise, all CMU could guess is that you are a stoner that listens to punk rock right after school to about 4 at night.</p>
<p>Give em’ an idea of who YOU are.</p>
<p>… and if you ARE a stoner who listens to punk rock right after school to about 4 at night, try and convince them otherwise.</p>
<p>yeah… i don’t really see the big buzz on community service. from what i can understand, it’s simply another type of extracurricular activity. just like not doing “theatre” (another type of EC) isn’t necessarily going to hurt u, not doing community service is also fine</p>
<p>leadership on the other hand… but let’s not go there</p>