<p>does being from calfornia affect admission process to cornell?</p>
<p>better worse? please explain.</p>
<p>any help clarification would be great</p>
<p>love the cold lol</p>
<p>funny you mentioned school districts…</p>
<p>my high school (only one in town and district) has (in 110 years) gotten a whopping total of 7 ivy acceptances (5 were from 2 really smart people)</p>
<p>though there are some smart people, of a class of 350 theres about 20 max that give a s***</p>
<p>dont mean to bag on my school but for what my school offers i have decent grades and challenging classes. im ranked 11 or 12 where theres a total possible of 10 ap including studio art, span, and 2 calcs.</p>
<p>i want the challenge and the scenery … and the weather (you dont hear that often) of cornell but dont know if i have the stats for it. </p>
<p>3.7/4.08 GPA and 2000 SAT and a little ex curric here and there</p>
<p>thanks standardrepo</p>
<p>Your school’s low numbers might also have to do with being on the west coast. Ivy schools are all in the Northeast and regions tend to be culturally insular. Most people out there probably don’t know much about the Ivies beyond maybe Harvard and Yale. I doubt many even consider applying to Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, Penn, or Cornell. Maybe Columbia’s gotten some more visibility because of Obama and the resurgence of NYC. I’ve found certain areas of California just assume schools like USC are superior because that’s all they know. </p>
<p>It would be more telling how many have been accepted to the likes of Stanford and Cal Tech.</p>
<p>To answer your question - the only states where you might get some bump just by being from there are ones like Wyoming or an Indian reservation. Tons of kids apply to Cornell from California so they have no need to bump you up to fill out the class with geographic diversity.</p>
<p>Applejack: We, on the West Coast actually have heard of the schools in the Northeast. WE do have the internet! But cost is an issue for a lot of our students. Our school district in California is very good. My eldest daughter attends a SUNY. </p>
<p>My other daughter’s peers (class of 2012) are attending Cornell (swimmer), Columbia (NMF, swimmer), Harvard(published author), Princeton (NMF), Brown (medicine), BU, St. Johns, Yeshiva, Syracuse, UConn, Northeastern, Rutgers and other schools. Our school’s newspaper publishes where each student is going. We had one girl receive a full ride to Penn. </p>
<p>SCI MAN-our student who attends Cornell, Christine, was water polo and swim team captain. Stats were good. I think she may have also done Crew. We heard that crew was a big draw. The issue her parents were having was paying $60K per year. Apply and see what happens.</p>
<p>13.5% of the Cornell Class of 2016 is from the West Coast, a percentage which seems to grow every year. If you attend Cornell, you’ll find many students from California.</p>