<p>Oh, whoops. You said you were planning to apply, so I assumed you meant under regular decision. </p>
<p>If you’ve already submitted then you can probably email admissions and ask to submit your portfolio to your file. A student will be answering the undergrad admissions email, so he/she probably won’t have a clue and will redirect your email to someone who does. So expect a delay of a few days. They should happily include your portfolio in your consideration, though.</p>
<p>I know everyone is probably sick of this, but I’d love to go to Carnegie Mellon! I’m planning to apply to SCS and CIT through RD though I doubt I’ll get in.</p>
<p>GPA: N/A
SAT: 760M 770R 640W (2170 total, only taken them once)
Subject Tests:
Math II - 740
Physics - 720 (taken again, waiting for the results)</p>
<p>Rank: No clue, school doesn’t rank but I’d imagine in the top 40% or so.</p>
<p>IB Classes (w/ most recent assessments and my guess at predicted grades):
English A1 SL - 6 (predicted: 6)
Spanish Ab. Initio. - 4 (predicted: 4)
Math SL - 6 (predicted: 7)
Economics HL - 7 (predicted: 7)
Comp. Sci. HL - 6 (predicted: 7)
Physics HL - 6 (predicted: 7)
Took IGCSE beforehand.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Traveled to Indonesia for 2 weeks and independently created, organized, setup and maintain a computer deployment at an NGO there.
Traveled to Philippines w/ friends and taught english and whatnot for a week
Traveled to South Africa w/ school trip. Distributed $15,000 worth of aid and did teaching
Ubuntu Community Member - basically a ton of stuff with regards to open source technologies.
Over 300 hours or so of paid work experience - including technical support, web communication and such as well as light programming.
Over 400 hours of community service locally, including leadership. Raised over $10,000.
And more, but you get the idea.</p>
<p>Awards:
Some school awards, but not much else, sadly. </p>
<p>Essays:
Should be decent, but I can’t imagine anything spectacular. Uni counselor said they were strong.</p>
<p>Teacher Recs:
One great and one good. Both teachers like me and know what to write.</p>
<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian</p>
<p>Hooks:
International student at prestigious overseas high school. Dual citizenship to two different nationalities (both reasonably rare, one in the EU, another in Oceania. Nothing overly special however). High income family, first born.</p>
<p>Thanks again for looking over this - I know its a stretch but opinions are always helpful :).</p>
<p>Is it more competitive if you apply ECE than Chemical Engineering? And is there a cap on the amount of ECE or ChemE students per year?</p>
<p>Just want to know my chances for SCS</p>
<p>Weighted GPA: 3.85
Unweighted GPA: 3.65
SAT: 800M 800R 740W
Math II: 770
Chemistry: 770</p>
<p>AP Comp Sci: 5
AP BC Calc: 5
AP Chem: 5
AP Microecon: 5
AP Macroecon: 4
AP US History: 4
AP Stats: 4</p>
<p>Extracurricular:
Learned programming by myself.
I have two websites that I’m not going to mention here. Pretty in depth though.
Swimming Team Captain
Tech manager at one of the school clubs</p>
<p>Note: I’ve got some pretty terrible grades in language classes.</p>
<p>just want to know my chances for tepper</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.90
Weighted GPA: 4.00
SAT Critical Reading: 790
SAT Math: 770
SAT Writing: 800
SAT II Chemistry: 770
SAT II Korean w/ Listening: 800
SAT II Math II: 800
SAT II US History: 790</p>
<p>AP Calculus AB: 5
AP Macroeconomics: 5
AP Microeconomics: 5
AP US History: 5</p>
<p>ECs:
FBLA board member, multiple awards at regional and state level competitions
Run and operate a trading firm for the past three years
Internship at Accenture
Audited courses at Wharton
Hapkido 7 years</p>
<p>This is one of my few match/safety schools, in my opinion. Anyone willing to voice their opinions?</p>
<p>I’m a Junior this year, but I want to see how I’m doing so far.</p>
<p>I’m planning to attend the EA Pre-College program at CMU this summer, and I’m going to apply to Tepper</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 1990 (630 CR , 710 M, 650 WR) Retaking January
[</em>] SAT II: Chemistry(740) . Biology-M(690). Will take Math II and U.S. History this June
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
[</em>] Weighted GPA: 4.44
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School does not rank
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Taking Micro, Macro, and U.S. History this year
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: (Hopefully) AP Comp. Sci, APES, AP Calc BC, AP Spanish, AP Chem, Gym, Lunch, Art elective
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Congressional Award (Bronze) . Various FBLA regional awards for competitions. FBLA National Finance Challenge- Outstanding Performance. 7-year piano award. PSAT Commended Scholar. 4th Place American Tennis League Tournament. Part of Honor Roll at my school. </p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
FBLA (President[11]). (90+ members)
Eco Club( secretary[10], VP[11]). (60+ members)
JV Basketball (10,11) .
Varsity Golf (9,10,11 . Qualified for counties[9,10,11] Qualified for Shore Conference [10] Qualified for States [10])
Will be FBLA president next year hopefully, Eco Club co-president next year, and will most likely make varsity golf again this spring.
Played piano for 8 years.
Attended Chinese school for 8 years.
Certified Life Guard.
National Honor Society for 2 years.
Spanish Honor Society for 2 years.
Wrote articles for school newspaper.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Golf Counselor over the summer
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 110 hours
[</em>] Summer Activities:
Georgetown Leadership & Ethics 1 week camp .
Brown University Alternative Energy Engineering 2 week camp.
Cornell Golf 1 week camp .
Penn State stock market 1 week camp.
Attending CMU pre-college this summer</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Not going to
[</em>] Intended Major: Finance
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): New Jersey
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: $150,000+
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None</p>
<p>[/ul]</p>
<p>Noobie </p>
<p>Bring up your test scores. GPA is great, ECs are excellent. Don’t worr too much, you are only a junior.</p>
<p>Look at your school Naviance system, maybe it will give you more pictures of where you are. And, from now to end of March, there will be a lots of posts here about accept, defer and deny. It will also help.</p>
<p>thank you! Yeah the test scores are killing me. Gotta study a lot this Christmas break =/ I’m going to maintain my 4.4 hopefully this year.
And my sister goes to CMU. She says going to the pre-college program really helps your chances. I hope shes right!</p>
<p>Noobie - It’s holiday, don’t work too hard. You still have time. Pre-college program costs around US$8,000, kind of expensive. The course load is pretty heavy. If you do the most challenge courses like ECE or computer science, it’s hard to get good grade. But it really helps a lot for admission (if you get A or B). It’s up to you. Actually, if you bring up your test scores, I think you are very qualify for CMU.</p>
<p>I’m a senior applying to the CSC. Also, should I apply to MCS, to increase my chances of being accepted?</p>
<p>Objective:</p>
<p>SAT I (breakdown): 2320 (800CR , 800M, 720WR)
SAT II: Math II 800, Chemistry 800, Physics 800
ACT: 35 (36 Math & Reading, 35 English, 33 Science)
Unweighted GPA: 4
Weighted GPA: 5.304, SC UGP (complicated and stupid)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1
AP (place score in parenthesis): Comp Sci A, Calc AB, Physics C E&M, Physics C Mechanics, Chemistry, Physics B, Statistics, Calculus BC, US History, English Language - 5’s on all except a 4 on English; Going to take Biology, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Comparative gov’t, English Literature
Senior Year Course Load: AP Biology, AP English Language, AP Micro/Macro, Multivariable Calc at a local college and PE first semester, Comparative Gov’t and Honors Orchestra second semester
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National AP Scholar, Siemens Award for Advanced Placement, National Merit Semifinalist, Eagle Scout (w/ Bronze Palm), CC Varisty letter</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Cross Country for 5 years, Varsity 11th and 12th grade
Double Bass for 8 years, Region orchestera 7th-11th grade, school concerto concert 11th and 12th grade
Academic Team, 3 years
Envirothon, State winning team 10th and 11th grade
Job/Work Experience: none
Volunteer/Community service: Boy Scout stuff
Summer Activities:
National Envirothon
Washington Workship
Cross Country when I’m home</p>
<p>Other</p>
<p>Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: CS
State (if domestic applicant): South Carolina
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: <100000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Not sure if this counts, but I self studied for AP Stat and Physics B, and I have a fair amount of CS experience on my own, and I did a summer research program at my school.</p>
<p>flying- haha yeah it is a holiday. I won’t overwork, but I def. will get some sort of work in! Hopefully >.>
The program is quite expensive, that is true. I’m not taking the extremely rigorous courses there. I think I looked at the list… AP stat and history? My sis. recommended taking history b/c the credits transfer =D
My friend who is a senior this year also went to precollege… and he got a C and a B … and still got into MCS! Comparing myself to him, I think I am a good candidate for CMU. But admin. officers may see some things I don’t see =O</p>
<p>Thanks for your input!</p>
<p>Stats:SAT: Math : 700 Writing:800 Reading: 750
SAT II: Math Level II : 790 Physics: 800
ACT: not taken
GPA: 4.00 UW
Rank: 5/111 ish (the top 20% of my school gets into ivies each year)
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):[IBH Math 7; IBH Physics 7+;IBH Chemistry 7+; IBS Economics 7; IBS English (A1) 7-; IBS French B 6- (these are my junior/senior year semester grades, not actual IB marks); In addition I have huge upward trend of grades between 9th and 10th grades. My average was a 5/7 (C) and it became an average of 7+/7 (higher than A+) pretty much overnight.
Subjective:
Essays: First one is about how my close relationship with my blind and severely epileptic mother has influenced my outlook on life. I talk about how family circumstances mean I basically never see my dad and have to singlehandedly take care of my mother and how this affected my values and aspirations.
Why CMU Essay: I got really in depth as to course selections etc. and why the things that make CMU unique mean that I ‘fit in’. </p>
<p>Recs: First is from Chem teacher who believes I am an otherworldly genius (which as you can tell I am not…)</p>
<p>The second is from my econ teacher who also likes to exaggerate and use SAT words probably raving but seeing where I am applying it is basically a requirement.</p>
<p>Supplementary Material: Research abstract for research in Physical Chemistry with an interesting result.
Summer Activities:
<p>Hook:you tell me
Also, does being Italian make any difference? Ive been getting a mixed reaction about this; tell me what you think + justifications
Personal
Location: NYC
High School Type: Small–Private
Ethnicity: White (Italian citizen; US Permanent Resident)
Gender:male
Other:-my mother never went to college; my dad did. I am middle class in terms of wealth.
Extracurriculars: All my summer activities minus American Cancer Society and School Volunteer work with little kids.
In addition:
-President of Math Club for 2 years (my school is not a STEM magnet school…)
I tripled membership and was able to break the School records for AMC participation (the Club advisor , the head of the math department, wrote a raving rec for me about how I revolutionized the club)
-I have been playing Go (ancient Chinese board game) for approx. 15 hrs/week for the past 4 years and have won some local tournaments.
Awards: Nothing big like Siemens or Intel STS unfortunately just very generic stuff.
-Principals award for academic excellence years 10,11,12.
<p>Intended major : Computer Science</p>
<p>Yes, and I am aware of how crappy my ECs are.</p>
<p>tasinari-
Your grades and test scores seem good, and you have a good chance at making it in to SCS (though SCS is still extremely competitive, so don’t get your heart too set)</p>
<p>A few comments:
Your post lists five different people as having written you letters. Five recs is a lot, you might come across as trying too hard</p>
<p>your EC’s are fine (CMU actually has a competitive Go club)
being Italian American isn’t an Under-represented minority, so it isn’t a “hook” per se, but it is not as though it will hurt you.</p>
<p>Can anyone tell me my chances of getting into CSC. My stats are in post 230. Also, would it be beneficial for my chances to apply to another program (MCS)?</p>
<p>tyralis, are you sure that I have a shot at SCS w/ 700 in SAT I math?</p>
<p>Also, yes, I know I have way too many recs to send all of them. I intend to just send my two teacher recs + the columbia chem prof’s rec on my app. The community service and EC ones are not going to add anything that adcoms couldn’t find out by reading the EC section.</p>
<p>Hi, I’m an international applicant (Korean) from Hong Kong applying to the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, majoring in International Relations.</p>
<p>My SAT I breakdown is 740 CR, 740 M, 670 W in one sitting.</p>
<p>SAT IIs: 750 Chemistry, 730 Math I, 710 Literature</p>
<p>International Baccalaureate (IB): Biology HL (7), Chemistry HL (6), English HL (6), Psychology SL (6), Chinese B SL (6), Maths SL (7), Theory of Knowledge (A), English Extended Essay (B). TOTAL SCORE: 42/45</p>
<p>My teacher recommendations aren’t amazing, mostly got written as a top 10% student with several 5% ticks. The letters were quite good though, so my counselors and teachers don’t really drag my application down.</p>
<p>Activities: Hong Kong Model United Nations for 2 years (Head Delegate), Beijing Model United Nations for 1 year (Administrator and Head Delegate), Self-funded and organized service and cultural trips to Nepal, Cambodia, Laos and Korea (at least one foreign service trip per year), Junior varsity rugby for 3 years for both the school and the Hong Kong Rugby Football Club, Mountain running club for a year and a few other small community service projects for a year each.</p>
<p>Honors: GCSE Design Technology Honors, Most Honorable Delegate in MUN, Best Delegation in MUN, Gold Honor of the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust, Administrator of MUN.</p>
<p>My Common Application essay was on the topic of diversity, and I wrote about my experiences in foreign service.</p>
<p>My short essay on an activity was written about my experiences in MUN.</p>
<p>My supplement essay wasn’t amazingly creative, but peer and teacher input tells me that it was well written and expressive.</p>
<p>I would appreciate it if you could give me an idea of my chances, quite worried over two rejections from Columbia and Georgetown already! :S</p>
<p>CIT
Major - Computer Engineering
UW - 3.55
W - 4.35
Ethnicity - Turkish
Most Rigorous Course load (including Senior year)
SAT 1
2220 (800-720-700) 12 Essay
SAT II: 800 Math, 800 Physics</p>
<p>AP Tests
Comp Sci - 5
Physics B - 5
USH -4
Eng Lang -3</p>
<p>Educational Prep Programs:
UC Cosmos
Attended 1 month summer residential program at UC Irvine, took course on Computer Solutions for Puzzles and Games. Created an AI to play Risk the board game.</p>
<p>Awards:
AP Scholar with Honors
CSF(California Scholarship Federation) Membership
National Honor Society Membership
National Merit Commended
Scholar Athlete - 3.5 GPA and Varsity Letter on the Wrestling Team</p>
<p>Volunteer: ~150 hours
Direct Relief International
Tutor (4 times a week, shift leader on Fridays)
Wrestling Team ( I hosted a website for them and help tournament setup)</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Wrestling - 4 year membership, varsity 2 years, CIF Qualifier, 3rd in League
Programming - MySQL management, network handling, C++ programming and debugging</p>
<p>I started a online business when I was 15, made 60,000 dollars in revenue since then. Wrote about it in depth in my essays about how it required indepth knowledge of C++, MySQL management (I dealt with MySQL tables with 25 million rows, including huge structural conversions), computer security.</p>
<p>I am applying to the college of science, physics and maybe the computer science college
APs
-AB/BC calc - got a 5 on the BC test and a 5 on the AB subscore (11th grade)
-AP Psychology - 5 (10th grade)
-AP US history - 5 (11th grade)
-AP Physics C Mechanics and E&M - 5, 5 (11th grade)</p>
<p>currently taking (senior year)
-AP Stats
-AP government
-AP micro/macro economics
-AP computer science (taking it online)
-AP European history
-english 4 honors (2nd semester only)
-basketball (1st semester only)</p>
<p>Sat
-math - 740
-reading - 650
-writing - 670</p>
<p>Sat IIs
-physics - 760
-math 2 - 770</p>
<p>clubs
-math club
-science club
just a peon in both, no positions of rank like president</p>
<p>extracurriculars
-math and science tutor for AP physics and honors chem
-camp counselor/swimming instructor
-i competed in math competitions
-swimmer for ten years for a private club, went to a few state competitions. however i stopped 2 years ago due to health complications </p>
<p>weighted gpa (6.0 scale)
-4.72</p>
<p>unweighted gpa
-3.63</p>
<p>class rank
-110 out of 950</p>
<p>Awards
-some thing from collegeboard for taking a bunch of APs (forgot the name)
-award from d.u.k.e. tip (got it in 7th grade so i guess it doesnt matter)
nothing major</p>
<p>hours - 500 from tutoring and teaching swimming
i really f’ed up my freshman and early sophomore year due to some family problems, however i picked up grades later on in the sophomore year and on. i also have done really well in my math and science classes, however not so great in english and humanities. also how important are SATs for CMU? i have never really done well on those tests for some reason. also i have a question about the supplement. how if i apply to two different colleges do i have to go into great detail about why i chose both, because it seems like the more colleges you apply to the harder it is to actually write a good essay.</p>
<p>Here are my stats. Unfortunately, I haven’t had the chance to interview or show much interest. I am applying to Carnegie Mellon’s school of engineering. What are my chances even if my essays are below average. Recommendations from my teachers and counselor are excellent.</p>
<p>Gender: M
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Location: Arizona
College Class Year: 2011
High School: Private, sends few grads to top schools</p>
<p>Academics: hardest possible schedule</p>
<p>GPA - Unweighted: 4.00
GPA - Weighted: 4.58
Class Rank: Valedictorian
Class Size: 62</p>
<p>Scores:
ACT - C:32, E:35, M:34, R:27, S:31</p>
<p>SAT I - Math: 700, Critical Reading: 640, Writing: 680
SAT II - Math Level 2: 700, Physics: 710</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>Piano - 8 years, college classes, pianist for choir, volunteer pianist for church
Varsity Track - 3 years, Team Captain, All Region, All State, Region Champ, State RunnerUp
Varsity Football - 3 years, Team Captain, All Region, All State Honorable Mention,
National Honor Society - 3 years, Active Member and Committee Chair for service project
Church Acolyte (Altar Server) - 12 years, Head Altar server for the past 4 years
Varsity Cross Country - 1 year</p>
<p>Volunteer Work: 300+ Hours doing various community service projects, mission trips and altar serving</p>
<p>Honors and Awards:
AHETEMS Academic Excellence and Leadership Award(12)
Heart of Service Award(9)
Acolyte of the Year Award(9,10)
Academic Letter(9,10,11,12)
A Team(9,10,11,12)
AIA Scholar Athlete Award - (9,10,11,12)
Presidential Award for Educational Excellence - (9,10,11,12)
Math: Academic Excellence and Achievement Award - (11)</p>
<p>Summer Experiences:
New Mexico Tech Engineering Camp
Online Calculus Course
College piano courses</p>
<p>I also don’t know if this helps much since Carnegie Mellon is DIII, but I am recruited for Track there.</p>
<p>You’re a Hispanic recruited athlete valedictorian. Don’t waste your time on chance threads. If I were you, I’d apply to Harvard or something. :P</p>