<p>SAT: 1850
Math: 680
Writing: 600
Critical Reading: 570
Essay: 8</p>
<p>ACT: 28
English: 27
Math: 28
Reading: 30
Science: 27
Essay: 8</p>
<p>AP Comp Sci: 4</p>
<p>GPA 3.111
Rank: 373/705</p>
<p>ECs:
Robotics, Lead Programmer
Been programming C++ since I was 11. So my sixth year doing it.
JV Football League Champs
Black Belt 3rd degree in Tae Kwon Do, but quit long time ago.</p>
<p>Age: 17
Grade: Junior
Ethnicity: Korean
Height: 6’0"
Weight: 220 lb</p>
<p>Come at me bro.</p>
<p>CIT; Comp Engineering/ ECE</p>
<p>ACT 34 comp (M36 S36 E34 R29 <lol *** w/e)
GPA UW 3.91, W 4.3 Rank 14/434, competitive public</p>
<p>AP Chem, CompSci 5
IB Spanish, CompSci SL 6
Most rigorous schedule / Full IB Diploma
Predicted:
IB English, History HL 5/6 (I hate/failat these subjects.)
IB Physics, Math HL 7
AP Biology 5</p>
<p>Internship @ Intel Fulltime (Software/CompE/CompMedia) soph-jr year
Internship @ State University (EE/MechE/CompE) jr-sr year</p>
<p>Science Bowl Nationals (4yr member); 1st team in state (that’s how you qualify)
6 Gold 2 Silver medals in state Science Olympiad (2nd team in state, 3rd year before)
Model UN President (3yr member)
2nd in Category (Behavioral sciences) - district sci fair. Qualified for state, for another shot at ISEF
HM in Category (Comp Sci) - district sci fair. Won the Air Force Award w/ project
District Math competition 1st (x2)
City-wide Piano competition 1st (x2)
Key Club (3yr member; committee leader 2yr)
Programming Club; Lead programmer (3 yr member)
Purple Comet HM
Regional Ultimate Frisbee competition 1st</p>
<p>Do you guys think Master League in Starcraft 2 counts for anything? 
(Ethnicity: Korean)</p>
<p>I’m an anteater @ above poster</p>
<p>Aware of me of this “anteater”. </p>
<p>Our views on life differ, you have your goals, I have mine. Do not pleasure your self over getting better scores, grades and ect than me. That is where you and I are different, our world views are different. To me, you do not have the respect that you think I would have for you. Sorry, I see you merely as a victim to the system. But I praise you on your accomplishments. Good for you, now what matters now is what you do with it. Good luck to you sir and farewell.</p>
<p>Anteater reference <a href=“http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/im-an-anteater[/url]”>http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/im-an-anteater</a> nsfw language, (obvious once you see the img)
specifically
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<p>Wait what I didn’t mean to offend you at all, I pray I didn’t come off like that. 
I mean… It’s a communal chance thread…
/GUILT_TRIP</p>
<p>Oh, it was all a big misunderstanding? I assumed it was some CC lingo. As you directly referred to me, I felt that the whole post was directed towards me.</p>
<p>@KTK: Master League in Starcraft you say? If you really are THAT good then you shouldn’t even worry about college and just play Starcraft competitively for the rest of your life. Bronze leaguer right here. haha.</p>
<p>Unless you’re winning money and an internationally ranked competitive SCII player-- please don’t even suggest to an Adcom that you spend your time like this. To gain that ranking you’re playing instead of sleeping, eating, and living your life. Everyone who is 13 - 24 plays video games- -big whoop.</p>
<p>CMU wants tomorrow’s well educated leaders-- they aren’t going to bring you in b/c you play so many hours of SCII that you’re proud of it as some of sort of accomplishment. With all due respect to gamers-- this is a no brainer for college admissions.</p>
<p>I’m sure you’ll get that advice throughout CC in any school forum.</p>
<p>While I’m waiting for results, I figure I’ll give this a go.</p>
<p>CIT - Mechanical Engineering</p>
<p>GPA 9-12 UW: 3:78
GPA 9-12 W: 4.09
GPA 10-12 UW: 3.93
GPA 10-12 W: 4:32</p>
<p>SAT: 760 CR, 800 M, 770 W
SAT II: 790 Math II, 740 Chem, 740 Physics
APs: 5 World History, 5 Spanish Lang, 5 Bio, 5 Chem, 5 APUSH, pending Physics C Mechanics, Physics C E&M, Calc BC, Microecon, US Gov, Comp-Sci A</p>
<p>Extra-Curriculars: Science Olympiad (Member/Treasurer/VP/President) - participate in nationals yearly, Robotics (Treasurer) - participate in internationals yearly, volunteer hours 200+, work at a small engineering firm, member of Mu Alpha Theta, playing piano for 10+ years…</p>
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<p>I disagree. I guess this is different for me because game design is my intended career field, but I put some of my ranked gaming achievements on my submitted resume. I also wrote my essays about gaming and how games are the literature of the future. So far I’m still here. :p</p>
<p>If a student is planning in doing CS or something related to games, why not put that you play them? If you’re planning to be a biologist, wouldn’t biology research be a good resume boost? If you want to be a writer, having written some fiction online is a good thing, too. It’s the same principle.</p>
<p>Not to mention - to the uneducated, sure, SCII looks like some cheesy game. However, to anyone who knows something about games (which I expect at least one adcom does,) they’d know that SCII is like digital chess on crack (with a time constraint.) It’s enormously complicated, extremely fast-paced and has a very sharp learning curve. It’s ten times more impressive IMO to be ranked in SCII than it is to be the chess master of your local high school,</p>
<p>A Georgia Tech admission officer told our tour group to most certainly put game rankings on the application. She shared a story about an applicant who had few ECs but was otherwise impressive. She called the student to get more information on why he seemed so uninvolved outside of school. She said he was reluctant to mention his gaming skills but she asked more detailed questions and was quite impressed at what he had achieved. She said because of that, he was admitted.</p>
<p>All starcraft comments aside… what are my chances at the moment?</p>
<p>Location: Pennsylvania
School: Extremely Competitive Large Public School
Class Size: 560
Class Rank: 56/560 (expected to improve after AP Tests and 3rd/4th marking periods)
Race: Caucasian
Cumulative Weighted GPA: 4.2 (School uses % Scale – 98% W)
Cumulative unweighted GPA: 3.9 (95% UW)
SATs: M 770 CR 600 WR 640 (Total: 2010) (Retaking in September – goal is 700CR)
ACT – Taking in April (32+ on practice tests so far)
Honor Roll: 9, 10, 11, 12
Classes: 6 AP (3 this year, 3 next year)
AP Chem II
AP Calc AB</p>
<h2>AP Physics B</h2>
<p>AP Calc BC
AP Bio II
AP Latin IV Vergil</p>
<p>AP Scores: Have not taken tests yet. Expecting 4’s and 5’s.</p>
<p>8 Honors
Honors English 9th, Honors Algebra II, Honors Earth and Space Science,
Honors Biology, Honors Chemistry, Honors Precalc/Trig, Honors Latin III,
Honors Biochem</p>
<p>Awards/ Honors
National Honors Society
National Language Honors Society
The National Society of High School Scholars
Selected for several National Youth Conferences</p>
<p>Extracurricular Activities
Latin Club – 9, 10, 11, 12
Key Club – 10, 11, 12
NHS – 11, 12
NLHS – 11, 12
Rugby Club – 9
School Soccer – 9</p>
<p>Volunteered with:
National Honors Society: 40 hours by graduation
Bethany Village Retirement Home: 250+ Hours by graduation
Notre Dame Club of Harrisburg: Several events such as working soup kitchens
Ronny Powley Center: Helped distribute donated foods to poor families</p>
<p>Leadership Experience:
Junior Class Vice President
(Expected) Latin Club Officer 12</p>
<p>Research (Possible hook + essay topic):
Columbia University Medical School – 11/12 (Researched new therapeutic proteins under Dr. Jonathan Barasch, M.D., Ph.D, over the summer for 8+ weeks)</p>
<p>Employment:
Wegmans Food Company – 11, 12 (15 hours per weekend stocking shelves)
Universal Protective Packaging – 11, 12 (10 hours per week unloading trucks)</p>
<p>I worked both of these jobs at the same time for a number of months during the school year.</p>
<p>Intern at Pennsylvania House of Representatives Speaker of the House’s Office (Another possible hook + essay topic.) – 10 (40 hours per week, summer of sophomore year, helped welcome foreign delegates and volunteered for National Conference of State Legislatures held in Philadelphia, PA)</p>
<p>Hobbies:
Skiing and Surfing
Guitar
Tricking, Parkour, Free running, etc
Lifting
Pickup soccer weekly at a local park + indoors
Video Games</p>
<p>Kate - not disagreeing-but cautioning.</p>
<p>As you know, I am a college admissions consultant. I can assure you in my conversations with many adcoms, Video game playing is not an extracurricular activity. Gaming is only noteworthy when accompanied by significant and widely recognized accomplishments-- tournament play and international ranking. Playing DDR at your local “raise money for our soccer team” contest and winning a $15 itunes gift card is not worthy of mention.
It’s all relative–and should only be noted if in a recognized noteworthy venue.</p>
<p>golden: looks like a good applicant but I don’t know what division you’re applying for; some are more competitive than others. Leadership slightly lacking but leadership is pretty overrated in most instances, you gotta like what you do - that’s key. The EC department is slightly lacking, I would say, but I don’t know where your interests lie.</p>
<p>And SC2’s “Master League” represents the top 2% of all players of SC II in North America, and this isn’t a small userbase either. I’d say it’s as good as you’re gonna get asides from Top200 or joining a pro team (most of whose members make up the top200)</p>
<p>I would generally agree with mom2012 on talking about video games. But if the accomplishments really merit it, and you’ve spent a decent amount of time… Go for it. I ended up not. Maybe if I were Top 200, sure. :P</p>
<p>this is semi ‘hypotheticccal’ stats(only posting academics)</p>
<p>SAT- 2320
AP- 11 AP’S( 5 as a junior, 6 as a senior)
Subject Testing- 800 Bio, 780 Math 2, Physics 800, Chem 800, Lit 760
UW GPA: 3.3(should go up to a 3.6 by the end of junior year) solid
5 hnrs and 11 AP’s in total by the end of senior year( and various other regular classes…)</p>
<p>i wish to pursue a physics major type of thing with premed(wish to become a nuero)</p>
<p>regardlesss i feel like there are alot of old school people on CC.</p>
<p>being ranked in sc2 that high is very impressive.</p>
<p>i myself have reached the mleaaagueeee recently as a 4v4 and it is something to be very proud of. There like 1/1000 of sc2 population in my legueeee alone.</p>
<p>Don’t mess.</p>
<p>For those of you who have no idea how difficult sc2 is and how popular are, i suggest looking at some links:
[SC2</a> Sales Great, But Not as Good as Expected | GamePolitics](<a href=“GamePolitics News | GamePolitics”>GamePolitics News | GamePolitics)</p>
<p>basically better sales than black ops (yeah…NO)
a famous commentator on sc2:</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - HUSKY VS INSANE AI STARCRAFT 2 - Part 1](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>Applying to Tepper, Probably Early Decision.</p>
<p>GPA UW: 4.0
Rank: School does not rank.
SAT: 700 CR, 700 Writing, 800 Math
SAT II: 720 Literature, 760 Spanish w/o listeing, Math II 800
AP: School does not supply any APs. Self study: Macro: 4, Micro: 4
Calc BC: 4, Spanish Language: 5
Ethnicity: Asian (Korean)
Fluent in Spanish, Korean, English</p>
<p>Extra Curriculars:</p>
<p>2 years Soccer Club
2 years Badminton Club
3 years Business Club
3 years Magazine Club (Co-leader of the “World” section)
2 years Enviroment Club
4 years Spanish Club (Leader all 4 years)
3 years Newspaper Club (Assistant Editor)</p>
<p>Awards:
Couple of awards in business competitions such as GEC, SAGE</p>
<p>Please tell me if I have things to improve on!</p>
<p>Volunteer:
<p>Recommendations/Essay:
Counselor Recommendation: Very Good,
Teacher’s Recommendation: Very Good,
Essay: Good</p>
<p>lol, im extremely nervous about my decision, so can anyone crunch these numbers?</p>
<p>Applying: SCS
Rank: School doesn’t rank. However, im guessing top 10%
UGPA: 3.85
WGPA: 4.57
SAT I: 2280 (800 Math, 740 other two)
SAT II: 710 MII, 700 Bio M, 680 Literature (I kno these are kinda low)
Taken a total of 6 AP classes, Euro Hist AP, US Hist AP, English Lit AP, English Lang AP, Physics C AP, Calc BC AP
All honors classes besides Spanish 1-3</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Eagle scout, over 300 service hours, California Scholastic Federation Gold Sealbearer (A California honor society thing, just means i have good grades), Co-Project Manager of school robotics team, active in our school’s enginering and robotics department for 4 years, AP Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth program for 4 years, 2 while in high school.</p>
<p>Thx! i know these kind of posts are annoying, but im driving myself crazy thinking about it…</p>
<p>I’m not sure if this was already asked (and I’m sorry if it was), but what time do the decisions come out on Monday online? Would it be at 12:01 AM or some random time like 5 in the afternoon?</p>
<p>12:01am est</p>
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