Official Class of 2011 Thread CMU (Stats Thread)

Colleges & Universities Carnegie Mellon University
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<p>[ size=+2][ color=red][ b]Decision: Rejected[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] College/Major Applied To: CIT and MCS
[ *] Fee Waiver Used?:NO
[ *] SAT I (by section):M 790 W: 620, CR: 640
[ *] SAT IIs: Math- 740, Physics, 690
[ *] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted:3.94 weighted
[ *] Rank:37 out of 390
[ *] ACT:
[ *] APs (including this year’s): AP stats, physics(mechanics), Calculus BC, English, Government, biology, world history, and chemistry
[ *] IBs (including this year’s:
[ *] Senior Yr Courseload:4 APs
[ *] Number of Apps from Your School:1 or 2
[ *] Other stats (Awards, etc.): went to state science fair for 2 years, cant remeber what else i put on the applicaton
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] ECs listed on app:debate, tennis, n some other stuff
[ *] Job/Work Experience:internship last summer in india
[ *] Essays (subject and responses):my essays were pretty good i thought but guess not for carnegie
[ *] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.):none
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: Virginia
[ *] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available):
[ *] Ethnicity:indian
[ *] Gender:M
[ *] Income Bracket:
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):none
[ *] Strengths:
[ *] Weaknesses:teacher recs… skrewed me over… my math teacher this year who said that hed give me a good rec decided not too… managed to see it after he sent it and it was HORRIBLE
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/wait listed/denied: see above
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]
[ b]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:[ /b] blehh… didnt get accepted, but i got into uva n u illinois so i guess its good</p>

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<p>that must have been an extremely horrible letter because your stats are good. wut did it say?</p>

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<p>it just said that i had been rejected from the schools i applied to. I was feeling bad for a while, but realized that its alrite. Now im probably going to UIUC or uva, so its ok</p>

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<p>[size=+2]Decision: Accepted<a href=“well%20not%20totally%20accepted”>/size</a></p>

<p>Stats:[ list]
[<em>] College/Major Applied To: hss, tepper(denied)
[</em>] Fee Waiver Used?:no
[<em>] SAT I (by section):770cr, 700m
[</em>] SAT IIs: 710w, 730 mII,
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 3.8uw
[</em>] Rank: top 10%
[<em>] ACT:
[</em>] APs (including this year’s): idk like 7
[<em>] IBs (including this year’s:
[</em>] Senior Yr Courseload:
[<em>] Number of Apps from Your School: idk maybe 3
[</em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): typical sci math sports
[/list]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: a lot of clubs i only joined to get into college that i never show up for now that it’s second semester senior year
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): fairly good. creative short answers
[</em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.):NOTHING
[/ul][ b]Location/Person:[ list]
[<em>] State or Country: USA?
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): public semicompetitive
[<em>] Ethnicity: im confused
[</em>] Gender: idk
[<em>] Income Bracket: i almost qualify for financial aid : (
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): my gender
[<em>] Strengths: im semi-literate
[</em>] Weaknesses: im an overrepresented majority
[li] Why you think you were accepted/wait listed/denied: because i suck at college admissions/ bad math score[/li][/list][ b]Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: i hate college admissions. i hate writing 10000 essays about why im totally awsome and how i saved the world and why ----university is better than god. … but um yea congrats everyone!</p>

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<p>oops (10 chars)</p>

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<p>sat2sux yes I agree your stats are good and sorry about the decision. I believe post 62 referred to the <em>letter</em> your math teacher sent, not the rejection letter lol.</p>

<p>Can’t imagine why any teacher would ever do that.</p>

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<p>[size=+2]Decision: Accepted<a href=“to%20MCS%20as%20well%20as%20SHS”>/size</a></p>

<p>Stats:
[ul][<em>] College/Major Applied To: MCS
[</em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[<em>] SAT I (by section):M 800 W: 730, CR: 760
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math II: 800; Physics: 730; Biology-M: 760
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 3.75 out of 4
[</em>] Rank: School does not rank.
[<em>] ACT: Not applicable
[</em>] APs (including this year’s): Calculus BC: 5; US History: 5; Chemistry: 4; Statistics, English Literature, World History, Physics Mechanics, Physics Electricity and Magnetism to be taken this year.
[<em>] IBs (including this year’s): Not applicable
[</em>] Senior Yr Courseload: AP Physics C (Mechanics and E&M); Multivariable Calculus; English; AP Spanish; AP Statistics; Cisco Networking
[<em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 7
[</em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): Twenty or so awards listed; most prominent being Columbia SHP, AIME participation for two years, and Model UN awards</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Ten to fifteen ECs listed; most prominent being Academic Team, Model UN, Math League, Science League, and Experimental Research Group
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Internship in medical research corporation
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Common App essay focused on my fascination with physics, Supplemental essay explained in greater detail (question asked why I chose the major in question)
[</em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): Heavy focus on physics including research project, balanced with heavy focus on international relations and history[/ul]</p>

<p>Location/Person:
[ul][<em>] State or Country: New Jersey
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Magnet school, ranked in Newsweek’s “Top 100 High Schools” listing
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian Indian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: Marginal tax rate of 28%, according to Wikipedia
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Research experience
[<em>] Strengths: Excellent recommendations, research experience
[</em>] Weaknesses: Lack of APs offered by school
[li] Why you think you were accepted/wait listed/denied: The intensity of my interest in physics (particle physics in particular- my forum name is actually a reference to a system of organizing baryons into octets that eventually resulted in the discovery of quarks) came through[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Other Factors:
None applicable to my knowledge, although only the admissions committee would know whether this is the case.</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations, etc.:
Really happy to be in CMU’s class of '11. Rejected from all of my others except for Rutgers and SUNY Stony Brook (and I mean all- Dartmouth, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Univ. of Pennsylvania, and Cornell), but got into CMU so I’m quite excited. ^_^</p>

<p>Although I took the AP US History and AP Chem tests, I didn’t take the classes themselves in school. I’m not entirely sure whether my GPA is weighted or unweighted- my school doesn’t specify.</p>

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<p>lol o right i cant remember the letter totally, i only got a peek at it on his laptop after he had already sent it… all of the colleges he didnt send the letter to i got into… so i got lucky that i didnt have him do it for the colleges i did get into</p>