Please tell me I have a chance!!!!!!!!!!!

Applying to College
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<p>I’m a Hong Kong student so please forgive me for my poor english. I have been planning to have my university education in the States but things turn out really bad.</p>

<p>I score 1940 in SAT, 800 in MathII, 780 in physics, nothing special. My ECs are rather weak as I lack leadership posts. I believe my essays are ok, at least I did my best.</p>

<p>I have applied to the business schools of UW-madison (my safety), NYU, CMU and UC berkeley. I admit that I made a mistake by applying to both NYU and UC Berkeley as I don’t have great scores. I had always been pretty confident of getting in Madison as it has a reputation of accepting international students and both my parents are alumni, until a few days ago. I was rejected by not only NYU and UC Berkeley, but also Madison. I only made it into CMU’s waiting list.</p>

<p>Does CMU admit a number of applicants from their waiting list? Do I have a good chance? Or am I likely to have to stay in Hong Kong?</p>

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<p>Have you applied to any other school in Hong Kong? You should have applied to more schools in the US…it’s really competitive this year…with extremely high GPA and SAT…</p>

<p>wish you luck! hope you can get off the wait list…I’m also stuck on the wait list…I’m waitlisted at Emory and Rochester…but I still got 2 more offers to back me up…</p>

<p>p.s. I also applied to HKU, HKUST etc. Still didn’t hear from them though. : (</p>

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<p>"Or am I likely to have to stay in Hong Kong? "</p>

<p>Wait list holders should absolutely act/live/plan as if no offer will be forthcoming. It’s fine to hope but you frankly, have to put it out of your mind and proceed forward with plans in HK. Waitlists are completely unpredictable and therefore you just move on. Good luck to you.</p>

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