<p>CAS APPLICANT [Also, I have not had a chance to check my mail yet since Saturday because my mother took the keys with her on vacation by accident. (In our neighborhood you have to go unlock the box at a little kiosk where everyone goes to)]
I'm a (half-URM) on my mother's side (hispanic)
Best Single-Sitting: 2210 [Best Composite I'll keep to myself for the time being]
SAT II: 800, 800, 750 [Cornell only uses top 2, right?]
GPA: 3.7UW (highest in class is 3.98), 4.2 W (Highest in class is ~4.35)
Class Rank: 12/670 (puts me in top ~2%)</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Varsity Soccer (All 4 yrs)
Var Tennis (All 4)
Student Government (3 years)
Senior Class Rep (1 yr but was also a Junior Class Rep for 1 yr)
National Honor Society (2 years)
Academic Team (1 year, selected for county competition team)</p>
<p>Summers:
Spent past 5 summers volunteering at a clinic in a third-world country.
I spend the rest of the time when I get back home volunteering at an assisted living facility.</p>
<p>Tell me my chances of getting, and why I haven't gotten a letter for CAS?</p>
<p>Colleges look at your composite SAT I score. Until you give us your full stats, I don't see why we have to give you our full opinion.
(I'm just one of those people who hates no knowing!)</p>
<p>Anyways, most people who are accepted, I'm assuming including URM's, don't get any form of likely letters. Just wait until March 29, and quit stressing out.</p>
<p>I would really rather not, because it's not like it's helping anyway? Just use that...and tell me what this could mean?</p>
<p>Also, I'm not sure that they got my last SAT test, which would have given me the good superscore.</p>
<p>SO ppplllllease just evaluate this. :P</p>
<p>Btw: SAT is 1510/2210 for best single-sitting</p>
<p>I didn't bother listing my awards, I have a bunch for math and science. I've won regional math competitions, but that's about it. Nothing National or State.</p>
<p>Yeah, but people are saying that EVERYONE who is an URM that is going to get into Cornell got a likely letter, and everyone who didn't, will be rejected. :</p>
<p>Calculus..I'm also part URM and didn't get a likely letter. I think that means I'll be waitlisted or rejected, but I'm not stressing. Right now I'm in Chapel Hill visiting UNC where I have been accepted. It was 75 degrees earlier and the weather and campus are to die for. Who cares about Cornell. I like this place even better than UMich. I may have to ditch that UMich scholarship because I like it here so much. That hurts...OUCH!
Anyway, since I'm part HIspanic and my surname is not Hispanic, maybe that's why I didn't get the likely. Also, I'm not poor.</p>
<p>Someone really needs to disprove this entire, "must get a likely letter if URM to get accepted or else rejected" business. Surely there's got to be someone on here who got in last year without a likely letter as a URM.
March 29 is so close anyway, and this entire likely letter business is so elusive, that it's best to just wait it out and find out the good ol' fashioned way.</p>
<p>Princeton may have the best financial aid program ON AVERAGE. And anyone who has taken statistics class should know that an average of data is not the same as each individual point, as each individual point is liable to stray away from the mean.</p>
<p>I assume you are aware that by not rescinding your other applications, you are putting your admission to all schools at risk. Also, just imagine if every applicant decided to apply ED to schools and RD to others not caring about complying with the rules.</p>
<p>I think I'm going to wiggle out of Princeton ED (my uncle just got a job as a Harvard Professor and can get me in there). And Harvard was my first choice.</p>
<p>I don't really like the way Princeton does business. I'll go to Harvard where an A is an A and they realize that everyone there is brilliant and are all capable of As. I don't like that grade deflation bs at Princeton, even though I was accepted.
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<p>Princeton ED (accepted, trying to wiggle out by citing not enough financial aid support)
Harvard (I have an uncle that is a professor, I should be able to get in)