"THE" CMU 2015 CHANCE Thread-- Please STOP creating New chance Threads

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<p>Intended School: SCS</p>

<p>Public High School: One of the top 10 in the nation according to Newsweek.
Unweighted GPA: 3.7-ish/4
Weighted GPA: 4.7-ish
Rank: Probably around top 9-12%
SAT I:
730 Writing
730 Critical Reading
780 Math
2240/2400
SAT II:
Math II 770
Bio E 750
Will take physics (expecting low-mid 700s)</p>

<p>ACT:
34 Overall
35 English
35 Math
33 Reading
34 Science
32 Writing + English</p>

<p>IB Candidate:
SL Math - 5
SL Spanish
SL Comp Studies
HL English
HL History
HL Physics</p>

<p>(School forces HL English and History)</p>

<p>College courses:
10th-Ocean Engineering Intro
11th-Calc II/III
12th-Diff EQ/Matrix Theory</p>

<p>APs:
Sophomore:
Stats-5
English Lang-5
Calc AB-5
Physics B-4
US Gov’t-3</p>

<p>Junior:
Calc BC-4
Macro-4
English Lit-4
Waiting for Physics C and Bio grades (alternate alternate testing)-expecting 4’s or 5’s.</p>

<p>Senior:
Comp Sci</p>

<p>EC’s
• Varsity Bowling – (2008-present)Captain since junior year.
• Stagecraft - (2009-present) Stage Manager for senior year.
• Mu Alpha Theta - (2007-present) Interschool Test Captain since junior year.
• National Honor Society - (2009-present)
• FIRST Robotics - (2009-present)
• Invention Club - (2008-present) Founder and Chairman since junior year.
• Board Game Club (community service project to bring board games to kids in children’s hospitals) - (2009-present) Co-founder and Vice President since junior year.</p>

<p>Awards:
• Science Fair - CS Project - 2nd place at regional, 3rd place at state, 2nd place Patent Office Society special award at ISEF (international). (2010)
• National Honor Society – 11th, 12th
• “A” Honor Roll – All throughout high school
• Bowling - Attended states in 10th. 11th-3rd highest game in districts (280).194 average. Team received Academic Team Champion Award 2010.
• Best of class awards in English (9th and 10th), Research (11th), Theory of Knowledge (11th), Bio (9th and 11th)
• Acknowledgment in soon-to-be-published bioinformatics research paper.
• Excite Award/InvenTeams Finalists 2010
• Various Math Club awards (a couple of pre-calc awards 2008 at the state level, a history of math award 2010 at states, a few Interschool test trophies (team tests), 78 AMC)
• Wave Energy Contest- 1st place team.
• Will most likely have National AP Scholar before college apps.
• Bunch of little things.</p>

<p>Major Projects-
Computational Linguistics Project (natural language processing, done for science fair) (2009-2010)
Wave Energy Project (done for InvenTeams) (2009-present)
Bioinformatics Project (identifying Post Translational Modifications) (2010)
Crowdsourcing Project (not started yet, working on it for science year this year) (2010)</p>

<p>Community Service – Will be about 250 hours
Food drives - 70 hours
Board Game Club - Will be about 150 hours.
Various random NHS community service - 30 hours.</p>

<p>Work Experience
Research Institute - Bioinformatics Intern - 40 hrs/week (June and July 2010)</p>

<p>Comments: I feel like my EC’s and test scores are pretty good, but my GPA is a bit low, especially considering my GPA has slowly declined since freshman year (but class rigor has greatly increased). Most of my CS work is through ECs, but I love it and think it’d be a great major. As far as reach schools go, I’m stuck between applying ED to CMU or EA to MIT (applying to both RD, though).</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>average to decent chances. For SCS, most chances can only go to “you’re a competitive applicant” barring some extremely awesome accomplishments.</p>

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<p>This is for a friend who’s thinking of attending. He doesn’t think he has much of a chance, but I think he does.</p>

<p>WGPA: 4.30/5.4 (Vals usually get 4.9 in my school)
Rank: 25/400
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Asian </p>

<p>SAT I: 1800 (W 570, M 650, CR 580)
SAT II: Math II 680, Math I 680, Physics 650</p>

<p>APs: APUSH (3), AP English (4), AP Comp Sci A (5)
Taking upcoming year: AP Eng, AP Gov’t</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>FRC Team Robotics (9-11) - 400 hours in 3 years or so. Usually places in top 3 teams every year. Co-Head programmer of the team for this year and next. This year, our team got the Coopertition Award, Honorable Mention for Safety, 1st seeded team, and top 4 teams overall in Boston Regional.</p>

<p>Science Olympiad (11) - Vice President and starter for the team. As a first year team, we got 21/40.</p>

<p>Academic Decathlon (10,11) - B alternate and will be a main starter this year. Our team has placed 6th at both the regional and state level.</p>

<p>MOON (10,11) - Math team. Highest in division for GBML competition (Greater Boston area). 3rd tier for the Mandelbrot Competition.</p>

<p>Also, in his free time, he take games and he looks at the base code of them, and then he builds off of their code to experiment and see how the games work and how he can change them and their properties. I suppose you could call it hacking, but he does it just for the learning of it, not making money or anything. He’s learned C++, Java, C #, and C, and currently learning javascript. </p>

<p>About 100 volunteering hours in general.</p>

<p>Hooks: First generation college student</p>

<p>Awards:</p>

<p>Honorable Mention School Science Fair/Regional Science Fair Qualifier</p>

<p>Recs: He’ll have recs from his physics teacher who he’s had for two years who is also his academic decathlon advisor, his english teacher who he’s talked to quite a bit this year who really likes him, and our programming mentor from robotics (who is an engineer at Gilette) who we’ve spent at least 200-300 hours with, as well as traveled on trips with him</p>

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<p>CIT or SCS?</p>

<p>Need to bring up his test scores but he has very good chance for CIT with the GPA, ECs and recommendations.</p>

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<p>He’s applying to SCS</p>

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<p>Yeah, those SAT I scores are pretty low. If he can get each section up by 100 points or so, I’d say he has a good shot at CIT. SCS he would have to excel more at math and comp sci classes, like his mid-semester for his ap comp sci class. Also, he has good EC’s, recommendations, etc, so in other areas he’s pretty good.</p>

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<p>@HoComm:</p>

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<p>Somewhat self-selected population?</p>

<p>Sure, just like getting a 5 on the AP exam is sorta like placing in the top 150 at USNCO, as 900 take the test, and 150 get in, so it is the top 17% and getting a 5 is in the top 18%. I mean, USNCO is only a sorta select group of people.</p>

<p>I hope you didn’t take this offensively, I’m just trying to say that 770 is a good score on the SAT II and will outshine a 720 on the SAT 1.</p>

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<p>My question is:</p>

<p>Do you even take subject tests if you’re not applying to a decent college?</p>

<p>Probably not. But everyone takes the SAT or ACT.</p>

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<p>Hi! I’ll have taken 4 AP’s by graduation. I have a solid class rigor. All of my classes are honors or advanced. I have done a massive amount of community service and will have awesome recommendation letters. I’ve interviewed at the school and it went great. I know my test scores are a little low, but I’m hoping I can make up for it. I’m applying to CIT for ECE.</p>

<p>Oh, and I’m planning to apply ED 1.</p>

<p>Public High School
Weighted GPA: 4.12
Rank: 29/351
SAT I:
680 Writing
680 Critical Reading
660 Math
-Will be taking ACTs/SAT Subjects soon</p>

<p>EC’s
• National Honor Society
• German Club President (Treasurer/member since 9th grade)
• Senior class president
• Student lighting designer for dramatic special events/productions
• Mock election director
• Educational Technology Liasion
• Math Peer Tutor</p>

<p>Awards:
• Received numerous school board commendations of excellence
• Recognized statewide for excellence for some of my work</p>

<p>Occupation:
Freelance web design
Media Specialist (paid) for local school district
Church administrative assistant</p>

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<p>Yup, shape up those SAT I scores, especially math lol. Other than that, you seem to have a solid academic background, although I don’t see much computer sci or ECE-like activity. Like some ppl do robotics club, competition, etc. It looks like your involvements doesn’t align you to engineering that much other than the tech liaison. The tech design suggests you want to go into industrial design, lol.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the advice, Ato. I just wanted to post a quick follow up. Some of my activities are a lot more ECE/eng type oriented than I probably suggested. The mock election, for example, involved me writing a software platform to let students vote, gather demographics, etc. The lighting design is extremely multidisciplinary… Funny you mention industrial design because I do love industrial design, and I’d hope to bring that interest to an engineering background.</p>

<p>Just a quick question. To apply ED I, I’m going to only have the opportunity to take the ACTs, not the SAT I, again. Does the ACT (esp the math section) have as much weight as the SAT I?</p>

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<p>Yeah, CMU accepts ACT and SAT I. And ED I deadline is November. You definitely have time to take the SAT I in October.</p>

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<p>I didn’t think you can take the Subject Tests and the SAT I on the same day, though?</p>

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<p>Although it is passed the deadline, CMU does accept November test scores. You don’t have to rush them in, usually it takes even longer if you rush them, so you might be paying money for the scores to get in later. But I’m only 99% sure, you might have to email Admissions office. They’re lenient and understanding about deadlines.</p>

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<p>How competetive do you think is CMU’s school of design?</p>

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<p>School: CIT ED I
SAT: 1990(590M 670CR 730W)
ACT: 32
SATII: Physics and Math II(signed up for October, hoping for 650+)
Rank: top 25% - 2.8 GPA(awful freshman grades with good reason)
AP: Calc AB(4), English Language(4), Environmental Science(3), APUSH(2), World(3) Taking: Calc BC, Physics C E&M and Mech, Macro and Microeconomics, English Literature, Computer Science
I’m definitely interviewing and will definitely ace it.
Extra Curriculars:
9 years flute/ 5 years violin/4 years trumpet, clarinet/3 years alto saxophone
Marching Band Drum Major
Tri M member
summer music camps
Future Business Leaders of America, various awards associated with it
DECA, various awards associated with it
Engineering Club Vice President
VEX Robotics Team, founding member, took to World Competition
Founding Member, school TSA chapter, president
Did a summer program at Johns Hopkins, earned college credit
100+ recorded hours community service
Student Council President
Environthon Club officer
Baby sitting job, 5 years
Volunteered with local middle school promoting STEM careers
Varsity letters: Tennis, Badminton</p>

<p>I transferred schools after a pretty bad freshman year and wrote a lengthy explanation of the situation where the Common App asks for it. I think I’ve made it pretty clear that I’ve grown quite a bit from my experience and am a very much different person today. </p>

<p>I know that my SAT math is atypical for an aspiring engineering major, but my ACT Math was a 35 and I do plan to take the SAT in November focusing on Math. </p>

<p>Possible hooks: Double minority: Female and AA.</p>

<p>I dream about playing in the Kiltie band… Chance me?</p>

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<p>GREAT EC’s and very solid ACT score. however, i think that GPA is a major major killer. just be able to explain the gpa in ur interview and i think u are a competitive candidate.</p>

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<p>Chance me!
SAT I: 600 CR 690 M 670 W
SAT II: will take math 1 and english lit in october
GPA: 3.7 weighted
APs: Psych- 5 Lang- 4
will take AP Micro AP US Gov AP Bio AP Lit and AP Calc AB senior year
school doesn’t rank
ECs:
cross country, winter track, spring track
recieved all county twice, ran in madison square garden, UPenn, and in North Carolina for nationals
have already contacted the coach and filled out the recruitment form, he told me that I’d be a great fit on the team and have great kids to train with
played the flute since 4th grade, added piccolo in 8th
made all county for piccolo junior year
volunteered at an elementary school helping children with their homework
volunteered at the public library reading books to children
was a member of a community service club freshman and sophomore years of high school
was a member of SADD students against destructive decisions freshman year</p>

<p>CMU is my dream school and I plan on applying ED 1 or 2 for H&SS for the bio psych double major. Do I have a shot?</p>

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<p>Which Math Subject test should I submit for better chances?</p>

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<p>^^ i would honestly submit both? but i mean math2 is probably preferred?</p>

<p>chance me too!</p>

<p>Gpa: 3.63 uw// 3.98? 4.0? w(for UC) 4.03w</p>

<p>Shows a upward trend. from sophomore yr. 3.2->3.6->3.6->4.0</p>

<p>Freshman
honors biology
honors english
honors alg 2
symphonic band
spanish 1
PE
health//some weird computer class…</p>

<p>Sophomore
ap biology
honors english
honors precalc
honors world history
PE
honors geometry
spanish 2</p>

<p>Junior
Ap Calculus AB
AP chemistry
AP language & composition
reg us history
spanish 3
copmuter support</p>

<p>Senior class schedule
Ap physics C
AP comp sci A
AP statistics
(some elective not sure yet)
reg gov/econ
reg english 12</p>

<p>AP Scores
Biology - 4
Chemistry -5
Calculus -5
language and composition -4</p>

<p>SAT 1: 2100 (670 CR 720M (T<em>T) 710 W) <– retaking oct
SAT 2: 770 math 2 640 Chemistry (T</em>T)<– doubt i can retake… depending how i do on oct sat</p>

<p>EC:
Treasurer + VP jr/sr year of a club to help out elementary kids transition into jr high
Interned at dental offices out of country ( got over 200 hrs from it)
Cross country ( 1 yr)
Track(polevault) (2yr)
California scholarship federation (4 yrs)
Guitar (5 yrs) + played at church praise team
Trumpet 4 yrs</p>

<p>any recommendation would help me out a bit.</p>

<p>mechanical engineer major
chances ED CIT?</p>

<p>chances regular CIT?</p>