Chance at CORNELL~

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

<p>Hi, I'm planning on applying ED for Cornell. Assessment of my chance would be very helpful!</p>

<p>SAT: V 630, M 790 W 670.
English is not my first language. I will be retaking the test.</p>

<p>SATII - MathIIC 800, Japanese 800, lowest is 740.
Unweighted GPA: 3.98, weighted 4.45.</p>

<p>Not an US citizen. Lived in China and Japan, fluent in Chinese and Japanese. Planning to study more languages. Lived in the U.S. for 4 years.</p>

<p>Not many AP classes; I've only taken 3. Got 5 on all 3 of them. Also, I haven't taken as many honors classes as my school has to offer. (All my friends have taken like 15.) I've only taken 5 in fact. But I'm taking more next year, with 4 AP classes and 1 honor.</p>

<p>3 A+ in Junior year, one in AP chem, one in Hon pre-cal, and one in Lv1 French 1 (just starting French). School is public, but pretty competitive in the area. Each year, about 5 to 10 out of 400 students get into Harvard.</p>

<p>Some community service, but not much leadership. No sports, no music:</p>

<p>2 years of TA at local Chinese school (including award for good service)
hospital aid and office aid at an hospital (2 years; including award for good service)
Volunteer at Children's summer program (30 hrs)
4 years of Culture Club, going to be secretary in September
NHS - booksale, peer tutoring; Math team; Amnesty international
into arts, drawings were shown in BC, local art society, and Japanese newspaper (although all of those drawings were never given back to me and I can't make a portfolio out of them); drawing was used as cover of Student Directory</p>

<p>Awards:
Certificate of Honor on the National French Contest
National Honor Roll; PSAT high scorer; Who's who among high school students; Who's who's scholarship semi-finalist; The national society of high school scholars, Student award in English as a Second Language</p>

<p>Work experience: babysitting, tutoring (not much though)</p>

<p>Harvard summer school this summer.</p>

<p>Not very good at writing... (don't know what will happen with the essays or the recommendations)</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

2

<p>Just so you know, those "whos who among high school scholar" things are probably not worht paying for.. i think theyre scams so colleges probably wont be very impressed. i think the requirement for those is a b average or above so cornell probably wont be very impressed. i could be wrong but this is just my instinct. good luck though!</p>

3

<p>Thanks for the warning JD22!</p>

<p>Do you think I have a chance at Cornell though?</p>

4

<p>Cornell ED You will definitely get in. but be sure to ED though.
however: "Not very good at writing... (don't know what will happen with the essays or the recommendations)"
u need to have a good essay and recs to solidify your chances...Good Luck :)</p>

5

<p>Definitely leave the awards that you paid for off of your application.
What's your TOEFL score? Have you taken it? I hope your next best SAT II is good because an 800 on Japanese for a native speaker really isn't a test of what you learned in school and ADcoms might make the distinction.
Besides these reservations, your Math Is, IIs, and GPA are awesome; you have at least a 40% shot at Cornell ED.</p>

6

<p>Oops forgot that part haha. Id say you have a good chance, have you considered taking the sat again? I think cornell is a good choice fo ryou to do ED.</p>

7

<p>Thanks guys! I feel a little better now; when I posted this last time on a different forum, I got some pretty tough feedback;</p>

<p>I'll take the SAT again in October. I'm also taking the SAT II Chinese. I forgot to mention, but my first language is actually Chinese. I lived in Japan for 3 years =)</p>

<p>My TOEFL score on the new internet based test was 113 out of 120. (Full scores on writing and listening, 29 out of 30 on Reading, 24 out of 30 on speaking...)</p>

<p>For the paid awards, do you mean only Who's who? Or do you mean the other several awards as well?</p>

8

<p>Eww, you gave Nobel money.</p>

<p>Leave off Who's Who, NSHSS off your app.</p>

9

<p>A ton of Asian students apply to Cornell, but wow, fluent in Chinese and Japanese and English? That's really impressive to me.</p>

10

<p>Wow. I have studied Japanese for 3 years, and I am not even close to fluent. My first language is Chinese, and I am not even fluent in that (mostly because I don't use it). You can probably get into Cornell ED.</p>

11

<p>yeah Japanese can be hard to learn. I think it's easier if you lived in Japan. It took me almost 2 years to become moderately fluent in English though...</p>