<p>Hi guys please offer me honest advice about my chances! im planning on applying umich and cornell this year, both to school of engineering</p>
<p>SAT1 (one sitting): CR 680 M 800 W 650 (Total 2130) [retaking in december]
SAT2: not taking yet</p>
<p>UM unweighted GPA: Scored AAABE for GCE A levels</p>
<p>Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):
- Competitive badminton for 9 years with leadership posts for 3 years with national team gold for 2 years and gold in individual doubles tournament
- Competitive ultimate frisbee for 2 years (both years team silver)</p>
<p>State or Country: Singapore</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Chinese
Gender: Male</p>
<p>Major strength/weakness: Afraid my SAT1 might not be competitive enough for international standards.
Other Factors/questions: Would A level results be taken into consideration and would my results then help or harm me?</p>
<p>Hey again. I think it is best I reply your earlier query here. </p>
<p>In my case, I graduated 2 yrs ago, but am trying to transfer this year to other colleges if possible. And, heard you’re applying to cornell. Haha. I’m there now and I really can’t stand the cold weather and loneliness!! So, I’m looking at California colleges to transfer.</p>
<p>So, from my experience, with the undergrads admissions I can say that your EC with the national badminton team and frisbee is good, but would be better if you had a greater variety. </p>
<p>And, for your A’Level grades I think they are ok. I tried calculating your Ranking points and I think it is about 72.5/80 (without PW). I think it is quite respectable. </p>
<p>And yes, I believe you should retake your SATs to boost your A’Level grades. Also, just take SAT 2’s to supplement your admission. For sporeans I doubt it is that hard to get 800 in all tests esp. if you take that subject at H2. And, competition for Cornell is quite great from S’poreans. A lot come here every year as compared to other Ivies!</p>
<p>thanks for replying again with all the advice! it helps a lot (:</p>
<p>to be clear, i wasnt really in the national badminton team haha. but my team just won the national level competition thats all. so its not that great! and i know im limiting myself in terms of only have sports on my side. but im hoping that will help me as much as possible i guess! hmm yea my rank points are around there (even with my PW A i believe) so not much changes there.</p>
<p>but now im sort of deciding between retaking SAT1 and taking SAT2. because of deferment and deadline issues, if i retake my SAT1, i leave myself with only michigan and possibly purdue(a new addition) to apply to. so i am considering taking SAT2 instead to include schools like cornell and carnegie mellon. however, not exactly sure how that would turn out with my current 2130.</p>
<p>haha you’re thinking of transferring to Cali? one of my sisters studied there and said the weather there is the best! she also told me to reconsider if i want to apply to places like michigan because apparently it just freezes over there. anyway you went over right after graduating right? how has it been at cornell!</p>