Chance for Cornell?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Objective:

Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.97
Weighted GPA: 4.4
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): ~14/463 or top 3%

SAT I (breakdown): a bit low, 2040 (680 all) retaking Nov
SAT II: – Not taking
ACT: (based on ONE practice test) 31C 27E 32M 36R 27S Taking Oct

AP (place score in parenthesis): Will have taken 11 APs by end of senior year. Freshman: Biology (3, def not sending) Sophomore: World (4) Physics B (2 oops) Junior: US History (5), Eng. Lang (4), Chinese (5), Calc AB (5)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Com Sci, AP Gov, AP Comparative, AP Calc BC, AP Lit, Chamber Orchestra, PE.

Subjective:

Extracurriculars: Violin 10+ years, 4 years of Chamber Orchestra (principal player), Orchestra leadership team, District honor orchestra 3x, Solo & Ensemble (1st violin), Tennis 2 years, Piano 7 years, aced 2 classes in local cc, played violin for retirement homes, summer swim, HOSA, Key Club 2 years, Red Cross 2 years
Fluent in Chinese and English. Came over half way through 5th grade with barely just the ABCs. Though I guess many people are the same.

Job/Work Experience: Interned at a high-tech chemical wafer manufacturing company this spring, committed over 90 hours. Learned a variety of work management techniques and ethics.

Volunteer/Community service: 100+hrs. from Key Club. Red Cross. NHS. Chinese Mandarin Camp. I have been put on hold for hospital volunteering until my schedule opens up in late Oct.
Also starting volunteering at hospital (my application was put on hold due to tennis)

Essays: Not done, but going to talk about my experience of moving from a rural, isolated area to the US.
Teacher Recommendation: From AP US and Lang teachers. All had really good things to say (top student in US, and lang teacher exaggerated a lot)

Counselor Rec: Talked to her a few times, not super close, but should be decent.

Additional Rec: From intern mentor. A bit generic.

Other
Applying for Financial Aid?: Yes! This is very important. Low income
Intended Major: Biology related, depending on school.
State (if domestic applicant): WA

How are my chances at Cornell? I know my SAT isn’t that high… Hoping for a 2200 on retake (around what I got on my practice).

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You should be at least competitive if you get your SAT scores up to at least a 2250+.

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Actually 2200+ is usually considered the standard for most Ivies. Cornell sometimes dips a bit lower.

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From what it sounds like, he or she is Asian like me, and probably needs higher than average SAT scores.

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Well, not to get into a big debate about the Asian ceiling and all, but even assuming it I don’t think it is SAT scores that will get one student in over another after they hit the 2200 level. JMHO.