Chance a Cornell hopeful?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Standardized Testing:</p>

<p>SAT (took it once): 2090
ACT: 33</p>

<p>SAT II Exams: Biology 710 (Freshman year), taking English, US History, Spanish, and Math I in the coming months.</p>

<p>AP: </p>

<p>European History: 3
US History: Taking soon
Psychology: Taking Soon
World Government: Taking next year
Environmental Science: Taking Next Year
Spanish Lit: Taking Next Year
Lit and Comp: Taking Next Year</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): JV Tennis (two years) and Varsity Track and Field (3 years, ), English Honor Society, School Newspaper (editor of photography), Class of 2013 Club (Secretary), Spirit Week Committee (Junior Chair), Homecoming Planning Committee, National Honor Society.</p>

<p>Job/Work Experience: Secretarial work at my mom's office, Babysitting for local families, Counselor at a day camp (this summer), Internship at a local elementary school working with Special Education fourth graders.</p>

<p>Volunteer/Community service: Book drives with National English Honor Society, Relay for Life Participant, Volunteering at a local hospital.</p>

<p>Awards/Recognition: Principal's Honor Roll, 4 Track and Field Medals (shot-put x 3, race walk x 1), Empire State Scholastic Association Photography Award (Bronze), Archery Award</p>

<p>Other: Summer Institute for the Gifted Participant 2009, 2010, 2011</p>

<p>Essays: I'm an excellent writer and have a plethora of ideas (and CommonApp doesn't come out for months)!
Teacher Recs: Math and Spanish teachers. One has had me for two years, the other I have had consistent grades, and although they're B+'s, I work extremely hard and he knows me very well.
Counselor Rec: She adores me. No problems here.</p>

<p>Location: New York (Long Island)
High School Type: Extremely Competitive Public School
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female</p>

<p>Other schools I'm applying to (as of now, if you care to chance for these too): GWU, UMich, URochester, Johns Hopkins, Tufts, Northwestern, Emory, Stony Brook.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance :)</p>

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<p>Bumpppppp!</p>

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<p>What’s your GPA? Weighted/unweighted.</p>

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<p>SAT is a little low, try retaking if you can</p>

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<p>Bumping again because of reasons</p>

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<p>No one can chance you without rank/GPA and knowing what school at Cornell.</p>

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<p>I’d be applying to arts and sciences. My school does not rank, and my GPA is a 4.4. I don’t know how i forgot to write that!!</p>

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<p>Do math II instead. It’s pretty easy and looks better</p>

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<p>I think your GPA is outstanding, just try to get 5s on your AP exams and 700 or more on SAT IIs. Your SAT is a bit low though. Cornell is a mid-reach!</p>

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<p>GPA is great. I would say get your ACT score to a 34 or 35. And make sure that you have something outstnding about you that is different from everyone else. Like write a book or something</p>

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<p>@IvyProdigy – I’ll take a look at the review book and see if I think I can do well :)</p>

<p>@aeisrael – Thanks so much! I’m definitely trying. I took the SAT again today.</p>

<p>@SoupSong – Well… I’m the NYC Bid Leader for the Quidditch World Cup 2013. If NYC gets the bid, I’ll be planning an event that will host thousands of people. Is that sufficient? :D</p>

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<p>Eh. Maybe a 10-15% chance.</p>

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<p>My school also has a consistent rate of at least 10 kids accepted per grade per year.</p>

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<p>Do you have an estimated percentile of your rank? Schools that don’t rank usually provide the class percentile (top 5, 10, 20% etc)</p>

<p>But looking at what you have, chances look decent, higher if applying early decision but your test scores (including the 33 ) can be better and what you think of your essays don’t matter (you may love it but the person reading it may not).</p>

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<p>good luck to you on ap exams next week. make sure you get 4s or 5s and maybe get your test scores a little higher. are you applying to cornell ed?</p>

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<p>I’m definitely top 7-10% of mu grade. I’d be applying ED, so I may take one more ACT in the fall to push for that 34.</p>

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<p>I got my ACT up three points from december to april. push for a 36!</p>

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<p>Bump, just because.</p>

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<p>gg</p>

<p>make sure u do not position yourself in sports since Cornell probably doesn’t care about that, UNLESS, u took state or it reaaaally showcases your dedication. </p>

<p>write good essays or u are doomed.</p>

<p>remember to stay BBbbbrisky and Kool.</p>