<p>Junior in TX
I'm not in the top ten, but I'm the top quarter (22%):
I got a 3.8 GPA (out of 4)
SAT: I got a pretty bad grade on my first attempt (1800), but I'm retaking it and hoping to get a 2020+ (I took a practice one few days ago and I got a 2080)</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
- Varsity Ice Hockey all 4 years (assistant captain this year, maybe captain next year)
- National Honors Society (Volunteering and Leadership)
- Interact Club (Volunteering) (4 years)
- Clements Earth (Promoting Recycling / Recycling in school) (2 years)
- French Club (3 years) I'm Treasurer this year, President next year.
- YES program (Volunteer Program)
- I've completed 100+ community service hours
- This summer, I'll be volunteering at a hospital for 3 months. (I want to major in pre-Med)</p>
<p>Curriculum:
At my competitive high school, there are only advanced and honors/AP courses. Advanced are "easier".
I took 1 honors freshmen year, 2 sophomore, 3 junior, and I'll be taking 4.5 senior year.</p>
<p>AP Exams: This year I'll be taking US History AP, and French AP. Next year, I'll be taking Bio, Gov't, Human Geo and Calc AB.</p>
<p>Other:
I'm a minority, I have lived in 5 different countries throughout my life (I'll definitely stress that in my essay and talk about being open-minded and cultural), and I won the State Prize for French Poetry during my sophomore year. (If that counts in any way)</p>
<p>What are my chances?
Thanks for your input.
What else should I do?
(I'm taking SAT II senior year: Bio and Math)</p>
<p>you cannot major in pre-med, you are pre-med while majoring in something else.
if you don’t already know, you should figure out which school within Cornell you’d like to apply to, so you can look at what their admissions requirements/expectations are.</p>
<p>It’s always worth applying if you have the money, but don’t get your hopes up. Admissions is really volatile imo and any opinion we might give is pretty much worthless since we aren’t sure what they are looking for exactly. In regards to your stats, if you get your SAT’s up to around 2100+ and subject tests around 700+ then you should be fine in that sense. Concentrate on your essays and Recs. Good luck.</p>
<p>you might as well apply. I don’t see anything really bad. also figure out if you want to do biology in CALS or CAS. </p>
<p>btw…it’s kind of funny that the normal courses at your school are called advanced when there are no other courses for them to be advanced relative to.</p>
<p>if your 1800 holds up, i don’t think you have a good shot. you have to be in one of the AA minority groups to get in with that score-- try desperately to find a native american ancestor. sadly, that’s what it boils down to these days.</p>
<p>AirForcePilot, as a Biology major you can apply to either CALS, CAS or Human Ecology. If you get a 2080 again, I think if you can prove you “fit” at that school with some amazing essays and let your passions really shine through you have a very good chance. CALS (and maybe Human Ecology too) especially is known for high acceptances for people who “fit” and low for people who don’t. It’s more holistic and less of a numbers game.</p>
<p>just a short addition to the most recent post, which is mostly quite accurate: if you’re in Human Ecology, you can do Human Biology, Health and Society or Biology and Society, but you’re not actually in the Biological Sciences major. still, it would be fine to be pre-med in HumEc.</p>
<p>Bring up ur SAT scores a bit and see what happens, you never know. I just got in a with a 1900, which goes to show that “fit” is sometimes more important than test scores.</p>
<p>I think you have under a 10% chance of getting in. Scores are too low, and in order to get into any Ivy/very pestigious school, you need to be in the top 10%.</p>