Will I be defered or rejected ED?

mikesown
Sun, 08 Jul 2007 07:08:19 +0000

I love CMU, and I really want to major in CS. However, my scores/grades aren’t that great. I plan to get my SAT hopefully up to 2200+, and get straight As senior year(I haven’t really applied myself fully in the past). With that in mind, with these stats, would you expect an outright rejection from SCS/CIT or a deferment? I’m realistic in knowing that I probably will not get in, but I don’t want to be outright rejected; at least if I’m deferred I have some time to increase my GPA/SAT score. So what do you think? What would be the most likely outcome applying ED?

My tests:
SAT1: 660W/670CR/700M
SAT2: 640 chem / 710 math iic

My grades:
GPA: 3.68W(honors/AP are weighted up a point :/)
Frosh year
Hon Bio - B-
English(honors not offered, but higher level) - B-
Hon Geometry - C-
Social studies(honors not offered, but higher level) - B-
Hon Spanish - B+
Orchestra - A
Intro comp programming - A+

Soph year:
Hon Alg 2 - B-
Hon English - C+
Hon American History - B-
Hon Spanish - B-
Orchestra - A
Independent CS study - A(no A+ is allotted for this)

Junior Year:
AP Calc AB - B expecting 3 or 4 on AP exam
AP Chemistry - B expecting 3 or 4 on AP exam
Honors Physics - B-
Honors English 1st semester - B+
Honors English 2nd semester - A-
Honors Social studies 1st semester - A
Honors Social studies 2nd semester - A-
Orchestra - A
Chinese(no honors offered) - B

Senior year courses:
3rd semester college calc.
AP Physics C
Honors English 1st and 2nd semester
AP Psychology
Chinese 2(again, no honors offered)

ECs:
900+hrs of community service(at one place, concentrated doing audio engineering and a lot of other stuff there)
Computer Club(lotta time)
Robotics Club(lotta time)
NHS member(senior year, when my school offers it)
Orchestra member(all 4 years, going back to 3rd grade, not that I’m any good)
HOPING to get a CS research paper published or at least submitted to a journal. Not sure how this will play out, but I’m working with a prof from a prestigious (maybe not for CS, but overall) university to hopefully get this done.