<p>Junior now
SAT: CR:800 M:770 W:800
ACT: 35 Don't know if I'd send it
SAT II (Predicted): Math 2, US History, Physics all very close to or 800
AP (Predicted): 5's on US History, Psychology, Physics B, Bio, US Government, and Calc AB
College Courses: a couple SUNY Albany Spanish classes, Pre-calc and College Freshman Comp. from SUNY New Paltz, Intro to Engineering and Digital Circuitry from RIT
(I am not worried about academics, I am probably taking the most rigorous course schedule of anyone at my school)</p>
<p>EC's: Outdoor Track, Indoor Track, and Cross-Country (6 years), NHS (hopefully President, I have elections this week), Science Olympiad, approx. 120 hours of community service between library children's programs and youth mentoring at track and field clinic (Also did Nordic Skiing, Wind Ensemble, and Jazz Ensemble for freshman and sophmore years)
Summer Activities: Volunteer Work
Major Awards: I will likely get National Merit (had 224 PSAT), local awards</p>
<p>I could likely get excellent reccomendations from teachers, coaches, advisors, etc. and write good essays (for the cornell supplement i would likely write a specific essay about the work done on ornithopic flight at cornell). What I am really worried about is my extra-curriculars and my lack of awards/hooks to speak of. If anyone could chance me or give me advice on how to improve my application, it would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>I read on one of the boards that if you are an “unhooked” applicant, you should shoot for test scores in the top quartile of accepted students. Your scores certainly are there. You did not mention GPA or class rank which are also considered.</p>
<p>Your ECs sound fine and you have some leadership and some independent research. </p>
<p>All ivies are reaches but I think your odds are very good, and as PP said, if you apply ED I thinhk you would have an excellent chance.</p>
<p>you’re saying you’re going to write your supplemental essay about Cornell? Cornell knows about itself, I imagine what you need to do is write about you…unless there’s something weird going on in COE.</p>
<p>unweighted average (out of 100): ~98/100
class rank: 1/~300 (public high school in New York)</p>
<p>@faustarp: I went to an Info session for the CoE and they said that the supplement essay you are supposed to express any specific engineering interests you have and that the best essays for this cite examples of why Cornell fulfills this interest (i.e. research being done on it at the CoE)</p>
<p>OK, that’s reasonable. I still recommend that the essay is primarily the way your interests will be fulfilled by Cornell, because it’s really easy to focus on writing about something else besides you (since that’s what you do throughout most of high school). whatever you end up doing, good luck!</p>