Any Chances for Cornell Engineering and Arts and Science?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>I applied Engineering as primary and Arts and Science as alternate.</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2010 (790M / 610R / 610W)
ACT: None
SAT II: 790 Chem, 800 Math 2C
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.87
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): No rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): Euro (5), Chem (5), English Lang (2), U.S. History (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: English, AP Calc BC, AP Physics B, AP Bio, Facing History, Economics
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Toshiba Exploravision Honorable Mention, National Merit Scholarship Commended Student, AP Scholar</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Cross Country (captain), Winter Track (captain), Spring Track (captain), Christian Club (founder), Art Honor Society (secretary), National Honor Society (member), Asian American Awareness (member), Peer Tutoring (member), and TBM (member)
Job/Work Experience: None
Volunteer/Community service: National Honor Society, Peer Tutoring, Asian American Awareness
Summer Activities: None. just reading books that I couldn't read during the school years and studying for the SAT.
Essays: decent.
Teacher Recommendation: Hopefully pretty good; one from AP Chem teacher and one from AP Composition teacher. In AP Chem class, I was a top rank student who had the highest average among his students (almost 100). My AP Composition teacher has known me for two years thus knows me very well since I came to America.
Counselor Rec: No clue
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: Not yet</p>

<p>Other:
State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian American
Gender: Male
Legacy: None</p>

<p>Reflection:
Strengths: recommendation, passion in chemistry, interest in a variety of disciplines (even though i tend to have lower grade in english and social studies than math and science because of language barrier), grades (depending on the standard), SAT II
Weaknesses: SAT I (especially reading and writing), essays, work/intern experience, extracurricular activities (such as community service)</p>

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<p>Just a question, why did you choose Engineering over CAS?
Also, why didn't you do something interesting in on one of your summers.
Also, you wouldn't need to worry about writing, I'm pretty sure they don't care about it.
Also, why would the essay be a weakness, the essay is like 33-50% your application.</p>

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<p>actually essay's can do A LOT for you if they are good</p>

<p>they are the only thing that individualizes the student from another one and shows the students creativity</p>

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<p>a decent shot I would say</p>

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<p>Yeah, I would say you would stand an okay chance as long as your essays weren't TOO bad... but do note that with your 2 in Lang, if your essays were horrible, then they might have to re-evaluate your app...</p>

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<p>mmm... not very good. Asian male is BAD for eng. In addition, I don't see any ECs related to science in your app, and the only significant ECs you have are related to track/running.</p>