<p>it doesnt matter to me because i don't have that kind of money or those connections available to me... all i was saying was, based on the provided description of csbjs's school, that he should think about those external factors that played into the admissions decisions for his classmates and himself as well because they are relevent in a highschool environment of that sort.</p>
<p>that is all. best wishes to everyone in this warped admissions process!</p>
<p>I got accepted to Cornell (arts and sciences) and never so much as visited the school. I am here for Cornell Days after my acceptance and loving it. I will enroll!
My SAT was only 2160. But my SAT II's were in the mid-700's.
I love this place...,much better than penn!
Yep, they must have found something interesting about my app. I'm the luckiest dude on earth right now!</p>
<p>ps I don't think people are saying that a 92 is bad per say, but it's just that he came in acting super suprised so I think people (me included) were just trying to make him realize it's super competative and a 92 is not at all a gaurantee. </p>
<p>That was b4 he said he was suprised for other reasons (like the summer classes, ect...)</p>
<p>A 92 GPA translates to a 3.68 and according to the statistics I've seen, Cornell's 2010 class's average high school GPA was a 3.67. I don't want to shoot you down, but that's right at the average.</p>
<p>Fine u jerk I was just saying...ahhhhhhhhh LOUD NOISES! lol. I know I was just suprised that he came in all like "I SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN IN <em>stamps feet</em>" so I had to find something! lol. :)</p>
<p>i thought he said 92-95. somethings just happen. i know 98 avg who got waitlisted and 92 getting in. though i think a/s was much easier this year, at least for our school.</p>
<p>are you in NY? so far i only know of NY schools that use the 100-point system and unless you've gone too stuy or townsend harris or bx. science, a 92 is considered low. and even so, most people have a at least a 94 coming from those schools who want to go ivy.</p>
<p>a/s was not much easier for our school, itachi ... i know so many people with >96 averages that got rejected.... and also rejected from every ivy. the competition was insane, so don't feel too bad about it. i personally feel like a lot of the admissions stuff this year was all luck because so many people are so qualified and whatnot...
oh and btw, anbuitachi and i are both from stuy.</p>
<p>All I can say is that the college admissions process is quite random. I have a friend with a 2390 and very good leadership and ecs but waitlisted at Cornell. <em>shrugs</em></p>
<p>exeter
andover
st. pauls
groton
hotchkiss
milton
concord
lawrenceville
collegiate
brearley
chapin
riverdale
horace mann
fieldston
trinity
marin academy
harvard-westlake</p>
<p>(this is by no means an exhaustive list)</p>
<p>kids at these schools do not typically have 95+ averages and can typically be accepted to an ivy league institution with B+/A- grades. there is hardly any grade inflation at these schools, and the colleges are aware that the curricula are excellerated.</p>
<p>I really think it's random... one of my friends, a non-URM with a 2200 SAT, 3.6 UW GPA, 27%ile (rank 102) got a GT into Cornell. None of us, especially him, was expecting this. He was planning on going to UCSD or UCSB.</p>
<p>stuy is not a private school, but i believe the average SAT score of students is higher than any of the ones you mentioned. thats what im saying, if you come from a school where a person with a 97 average has an 1800 SAT score then there is definitely some grade inflation involved. at stuy (and other competitive magnet schools), its not uncommon to find a person with a 90 average and a 2100 SAT score. thats why its important to balance out your academic profile.</p>
<p>hey guys..
just wanted to reiterate... im not stamping my feet saying i should have gotten in, im just pretty surprised...
anyway, with all these attacks on the 92 GPA, i just wanted to point out that it would have been a lot higher with out freshman year, during which i had an 85 average... so i had the upward trend... also most of the courses that brought my average down were the Judaic courses which im told the adcom's look at much less seriously than the traditional math, science, history, literature, etc.. courses.... i also have a dual curriculum, meaning, twice the amount of courses the real majority of applicants have... plus the most rigorous course load....</p>
<p>my school is really not that competitive concerning applicants to the ivies...i was the only one who applied to cornell, and my school has never sent anyone there before...</p>
<p>my school is also anything but a feeder school... this year, 9 students applied to columbia A&S or Engineering and none got in...
last year, one student got into MIT and columbia engineering and that was it...</p>
<p>Ya as far as I know I can't remember hearing of anyone from my school going to an Ivy league school in recent years. I know sum1 from the past that got accepted to yale but didn't go for financial reasons tho. Not a feeder school atttt all lol. So I know wat ur saying.</p>
<p>also the fact that you said I understand why I didn't get into penn but cornell, i don't understand. Seems to me like you are downgrading cornell. Perhaps this shows in you essays or something...When I went on the interview, the alumni told me that he has seen kids who think that they deserve to get into cornell, and these kids usually don't. just my 2 cents...</p>
<p>Heh, it's all a crapshoot. I dunno how I got in last year with a class rank outside the top 10%, average SATs, average ECs, average essays, not so spectacular teacher recs, and I don't think anything really great...</p>
<p>I think people can be happy wherever they go to college, but that's just me...</p>