Can you stand one more pathetic plea to "chance me"?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>My Mom is the pathetic one and bugging me to do this, so please chance me and get her off my back!!!!</p>

<p>ED CALS for Biology (concentration in Marine Biology)</p>

<p>ethnicity: White/Female
school: Well regarded public school in far NW New Jersey (top 2 students last year got into Harvard and MIT)</p>

<p>GPA: 3.96/4.30
Ranking: School does not rank except for top 2. I am either #2 or #3 out of 402
SAT I: 2100 (CR 670 W 740 M 690) Got very sick night before which stunk!
SAT II: Bio 790 Chem 770 Math II 720
AP: Total of 11
Soph:Physics B(4)/U.S. History(4)
Junior: Calc ab(5)/Bio(5)/Lang and Comp(4)/World History(5)
Senior: Chem/Env. Science/Calc bc/Lit and Comp/French
All other classes honors, hardest schedule permitted.
Took College Algebra course at local college btw. 10th and 11th grade to jump ahead in math and got A.</p>

<p>EC:
IDI (Inform Defend Improve) Biology Club
President- grade 12 (9th 10th 11th 12th grade)
Science League (10th 11th 12th grade)
Math League (12th grade)
Mini-MORT (FIRST LEGO Robotics Team) Team Member then Mentor (9th 10th grade)Debate Team (9th 10th 11th 12th grade)
2007 Championships 2nd Place Negative Team
2007 Overall Season 2nd Place Negative Team
Gay-Straight Alliance (11th 12th grade)
Treasurer- grade 12</p>

<p>National Honor Society (11th 12th grade)
Mount Olive World Language Honor Society - French (10th 11th 12th grade)
Tri-M Music Honor Society For Violin and Double Bass (11th 12th grade)
Girl Scouts--Silver Award/Working on Gold Award
Mount Olive Press (9th 10th 11th grade)
Church Choir (Age 6-present)</p>

<p>Mount Olive Swim Team (9th 10th 11th 12th grade) Mt. Olive Varsity Award 05-06,
06-07, 07-08 seasons
Flanders Valley Swim Team (9th 10th 11th 12th grade)</p>

<p>150+ volunteer hours</p>

<p>Awards:
Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Award 2008
New Jersey Governor’s School on the Environment 2008
AP Scholar with Distinction Award 2008
SUMO Invitational Orchestra 2008</p>

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<p>Your chances are extremely good. Better than an 80 percent chance. Applying ED to CALS is the way to go.</p>

<p>Make certain your essays strongly identify your interest in non pre-med biology.</p>

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<p>cornell does not care about the writing section of the sat, which will hurt definetely.</p>

<p>i'd definetely retake the sat I to get those math and cr's up.</p>

<p>your chances are definetely not 80 percent, but they're decent I guess.</p>

<p>only urm legacies with 2400's have an 80 percent chance of acceptance</p>

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<p>Cool!!!!</p>

<p>I emphasized my experience at N.J. Gov. School on the Environment doing marine research and my extreme interest in Cornell's Shoals Marine Lab. in my essays. I am hoping that the fact that I am NOT pre-med. will help me.</p>

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<p>You're exactly the top of student CALS loves. You have a 1370 SAT and two 770+ SAT IIs and a very solid academic record. All those APs are basically worth another 150 SAT points.</p>

<p>I think you have a very, very good shot ED.</p>

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cornell does not care about the writing section of the sat, which will hurt definetely.</p>

<p>i'd definetely retake the sat I to get those math and cr's up.</p>

<p>your chances are definetely not 80 percent, but they're decent I guess.</p>

<p>only urm legacies with 2400's have an 80 percent chance of acceptance

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<p>Cornell does care about the writing portion of the SAT. Notice that Cornell requires SAT Reasoning OR ACT WITH WRITING.</p>

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<p>^^Unless the policy has changed since the spring...CALS does not use the SAT writing score in their review of an applicant. I don't know why the require the ACT with writing.</p>

<p>That information comes from CALS adcom members.</p>

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<p>exceptional chances, you seem CALSY</p>

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<p>bump bump bump</p>

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<p>Anyone else want to weigh in? Please?</p>

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<p>I agree with all that has been said. Solid EC's with an excellent academic foundation. </p>

<p>Please chance me back:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/586084-ed-chances-cornell-cas-weak-sat-but-decent-gpa.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/586084-ed-chances-cornell-cas-weak-sat-but-decent-gpa.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Cornell has a pretty good marine biology program. </p>

<p>Shoals</a> Marine Laboratory</p>

<p>It's probably a good idea to elaborate on your interests in marine biology in one of your essays. I think you have a good shot.</p>

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<p>bijou3owl, At Cornell you would not be concentrating in Marine Biology - you'd be majoring in Biological Sciences with a concentration (like Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) and then specializing in Marine Biology. With lots of chances to work and study at Shoals!</p>