are you NERVOUS?

<p>Hi everyone
I never thought I would be doing this here lol but oh well.. it happens..</p>

<p>YES. I'm about to ask you guys to CHANCE ME. if you hate this kind of
threads, feel free to press the ugly back icon up there in the window:(</p>

<p>hokay. I'm planning to apply to SEAS.. I kind of suddenly/randomly decided
to apply here and I am quite baffled that there's 51% increase in the number
of applicant..:( but watever, i guess SEAS's really hot lol</p>

<p>and here's my stats so far
Personal info:
sex: FEMALE (I think this might be plus for me)
nationality: South korean (AHHH this will cancel out my female-ness:( )</p>

<p>highschool info:
location: toronto, Canada
type: private (prestigious girls' school)</p>

<p>GPA/courses:
rank:1/121 in gr 11 (so I don't really worry about my gpa)
gpa: canada doesn't use gpa XD
courses: this year i'm taking 5 ap courses, and so far i've taken 2.
-senior: Eng, CalcAP, physics, chemAP, BioAP, Micro/MacroAP
-junior: Eng, math12, physics11,chem11,bio11, CompAPab, Mandarin,music
-sopho: eng(esl), math11, science10, compAPa, music, mandarin, phy.ed, canadian history lol
SAT1/2s:
-SAT1: V 630, M 800, W 580 (my writing sucks.. but columbia doesn't count it right?)
-SAT2: Math2C 800, Chem 770, Physics&Biology 750+ expected</p>

<p>EC:
Music(violin):I've done lots of violin stuff including many years of being concertmistress for my school orchestra and some canadian independ schools orchestra thing and I've recorded some pieces for application and I'm sure it's quite good.
Math: i've got a number of math contest awards in Canada so u guys won't really know so i won't bother. and I've participated in Stanford Univ math camp which is quite hard to get into and i was invited to u of waterloo for invitational math camp.</p>

<p>I guess that's pretty much it. i'm real afraid of that enormous increase :(
so what are my chances you guys think? Also, i've got an additional question.
my sister goes to cornell and she's doing engineering and i've also been there
and i quite liked it.. can anyone give me some pros/cons of cornell and SEAS?</p>

<p>Thank you so muchXD</p>

<p>Con of Cornell: Ithaca.
Pro of Columbia SEAS: Manhattan.</p>

<p>You present yourself as a one-dimensional applicant. Absent truly extraordinary achievement in math (i.e., USAMO, or research, or something) or your violin (solo concerts, teaching underprivileged kids, a virtuoso tape that knocks the socks off the music professor they forward it to, etc), you present yourself as competitive but not 'shiny'.</p>

<p>Meaning, Cornell will probably like you :)</p>