<p>I've been dreaming to go to Cornell for awhile now and I'll be applying this fall and wanted to know if my stats are good enough and if not, what I could do to shape a better resume. thanks so much!</p>
<p>SAT I</p>
<p>Math: 770
Reading: 710
Writing: 790</p>
<p>SAT I = 2270</p>
<p>SAT II</p>
<p>Math 2C: 750
US History: 780
Biology (Molecular) :760</p>
<p>PSAT (99 percentile)</p>
<p>223</p>
<p>Class Rank: 1 of 334</p>
<p>Managing Editor of school newspaper this year and will be Editor-n-Chief next year.
2 years on Swimming Team
3 years on Tennis Team (Varsity 1 year)
Biology and Information Science Olympiad.
Secretary of Key Club this year and elected as President for next year.
210 hours volunteer at Local Shelter
Write for teen section of Local Newspaper
Working as a Research intern for 2 years at the local university and could get a rec from the professor I've been working with.
15 credits from local university</p>
<p>AP:</p>
<p>Biology: 5
Calc BC:5
European History: 4
Psych: 5</p>
<p>AP tests coming up:
US History
Physics B
Chem
Computer Science</p>
<p>although your numbers are, well, um, decent, what really kills me is how boring you are</p>
<p>Probably not, but I think those might get you waitlisted at Devry or ITT Tech.</p>
<p>jk</p>
<p>These are great scores!</p>
<p>Make note that Cornell doesn’t put as much emphasis on stats as other schools of its caliber (though your stats are certainly very good). They look for fit more than anything, so make sure your EC’s and essay match the school you’ll be applying to.</p>
<p>To be honest, it just looks like you did a lot of things to look good for college.</p>
<p>No, Cornell doesn’t accept people who got below a 5 on an AP exam. Maybe you should apply to a college like Appalachian State, or like warrior 47 said, Devry or ITT tech. I mean seriously, you should have known that.</p>
<p>Also, you don’t have enough extracurricular activities. You only have 9…you need at least 15.</p>
<p>Hey guys, let’s not be demeaning here. Maybe the OP sincerely doesn’t know if her stats are good enough.</p>
<p>Your stats look great for Cornell!</p>
<p>@juliet capulet:</p>
<p>If you’re applying to a school like Cornell, wouldn’t you know if your stats are good enough? Are you trying to tell me someone with this OP’s profile hasn’t looked at college board or another service with that kind of information? Get a sense of humor and go find Romeo.</p>
<p>i genuinely don’t believe her stats are good enough so whatever</p>
<p>i love the high degree of sarcasm in the cornell boards</p>
<p>i love how nobody in this thread is being sarcastic</p>
<p>thanks everyone! i was asking because i know a senior this year who had a 2240 on the SAT I and in the 700’s on all their SAT II’s who got rejected from Cornell and I just didn’t want that to happen to me. Hopefully I’ll be part of the Big Red!</p>
<p>thanks again!</p>
<p>that probably happened because they were BORING </p>
<p>it’s not all about #s yo</p>
<p>I hope you know that many people on this board are being very sarcastic.</p>
<p>There is no doubt that you have great numbers.</p>
<p>For sure, you have a chance, but to be honest admissions are becoming more and more of a crapshoot and you can’t really know where you’re going to get in. I do wish you the best of luck though.</p>
<p>@roneald
Your response about “being very sarcastic” is humorous when you admit that getting into colleges is becoming “more and more of a crapshoot”. I agree, which is why I think OP’s who post their scores are just showing off or in need of comforting. The OP even suggested this in a later post in this thread that she didn’t want to be rejected by Cornell like her friend. Who on this board could possibly guarantee this OP that she will get in? Zero. A thread earlier this morning about students getting into Harvard also suggested that they could not identify how they were chosen over all the other qualified students. </p>
<p>It is a crapshoot. So the message to this poster should be apply to Cornell, if that’s where you want to go, don’t worry about what anonymous posters on CC think.</p>
<p>To pretend that a serious comment about chances of being admitted to any particular college is anymore relevant than a humorous response is a fallacy of logic. This OP is uptight; she needs to relax and enjoy the process. Her world will not end if she doesn’t get accepted to Cornell.</p>
<p>I’m allowed to say people are being sarcastic when you make statements like Cornell won’t accept anyone who got anything less than a 5 on an AP test. </p>
<p>I’ll be the first to admit you can’t guarantee anything, but there’s a difference between that and “You have no chance go to community college”.</p>
<p>I never mentioned the name of a community college. What is the difference in the advice, I “can’t guarantee” acceptance and saying Cornell doesn’t accept students with AP scores lower than a 5. Both statements are meaningless. The fact is that unless one of us works at the Cornell admission office, we are just guessing.</p>
<p>Obviously someone is a little bitter or something, because there’s no reason to be rude or disrespectful. Of course college admissions is a crapshoot, and of course we can’t tell the OP she’ll definitely get in. Even with her stats, she might not get in. What’s the point of saying she’s “uptight”? If Cornell is her dream school, she obviously wants to get in and she would like other people’s opinions. What’s the point of dissing her (and me) in the process? Her stats are good - so what? Just because they’re good enough doesn’t mean she’ll get in. I have personal experience that stats aren’t everything to Cornell, and that she could gain that knowledge from my experience. People have chance threads all over the place on CC; that’s what these boards are for: insight from other people with personal experiences or knowledge. Granted, I think they’re pointless, but still, there’s not reason to be rude.</p>