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Originally Posted by sanddrag
SuperDanman: If you care to share - what was your class rank, gpa, AP classes, etc, etc that helped you get in?
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I don't really want to post my whole personal life online, but if you can't live without knowing, PM me or e-mail me or something. What I will tell you, though, is that I wasn't the top-top person gradewise in my school. There are people in my class with higher GPA's, and there are people who did better on AP tests. Yeah, my SATs were good, but nothing phenominal like a 14 or 1600. Point is, I don't think you should obsess yourself with being the kid with the highest GPA. It's a cliche that has been overused to death, but be yourself. I think what helped me most were my activities and essays. By activities, I don't mean sign up for every single after-school club available - rather, pick one or three and become really active or dedicated to them. I wrote all of my essays about my expieriences in robotics... they weren't written to show off how much knowledge I had learned, though. Rather, they were more about how robotics has helped me realize that engineering is what I want to do.