Chance me: Cornell engineering

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<p>Hello all,</p>

<p>I am an upcoming high school senior and haven't done my ACT yet (I am doing it sept.)</p>

<p>My question is based on following info, what do you guys think I need to get on that ACT to be admitted to Cornell (I will be doing early decision)</p>

<p>GPA:
3.92 weighted, but we have only APs in my high school
SAT II math II : 800
SAT II chem: 780</p>

<p>Rank: 5/127</p>

<p>Got 5's on chem, calc AB and BC, phys B, And Comp Sci</p>

<p>Won honor role (number one student in class) for comp sci and calc BC</p>

<p>EC:
won 1st place two comp sci competitions in my high school. (10, 11)
president of the computer science club in my school (10, 11, 12)
Vice President of Health Heart Club (10, 11, 12) (track and stair climbing club)
Next year will be 8th years of jiujitsu
I lived in Europe until 6th grade during which I moved here.</p>

<p>to defend my GPA, I have to say that freshman year my unweighted average was an 89. In sophomore year it was 96 and in junior year it was 99.6</p>

<p>Well, that's it. Some people in my grade have already told me it was rich to hope to get into Cornell. So I am here to hear it from people that have already been in the system and lived through this process.</p>

<p>Cheers,
TypicalDude</p>

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<p>Don’t understand what your GPA is. What is the aggregate unweighted in either 1-100 or on a 4.0 scale.</p>

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<p>Why in the world have you not taken the SAT or ACT yet???</p>

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<p>Your uGPA added up together and averaged out (not calculated the right way since I don’t know credits, etc.) is roughly 94, which is about 3.7-3.8 unweighted.</p>

<p>You claim a 3.9 weighted GPA, which is low if you have taken mostly AP courses and compared to your uGPA. Somehow things don’t seem to add up?</p>

<p>You say you haven’t taken the ACT yet, so does that mean you took the SAT?</p>

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<p>In freshman year I took all non AP classes, and had an avarage of 89. in sophomore year i took 3 ap classes and had an unweighted avg of 96, and in junior year i took 5 ap classes and had an unwieghted avg of 99.6</p>

<p>In my school, AP classes are weighted as out of 110.</p>

<p>sorry for the confusion. so then, my question rises again, what act do i need to get in?</p>

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<p>I’d say aim for at least a 33 to be at the 75th percentile.</p>

<p>BTW, nice job on your junior year grades!</p>

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<p>The reason why people ask for total unweighteds is that it’s impossible to tell the # of credits you have per year just based on your yearly average. But in general I’d agree with ognopgod’s recommendation.</p>

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<p>I’m African American male with a 1700 and was wondering am I equivalent to a white male with a 2100?</p>

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<p>How could you be on top of SAT 2’s and AP’s and have missed the ACT or SAT 1? Skeptical as to the validity of this OP’s initial post.</p>

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<p>What’s so weird about that? I had 8 AP tests and both of my SAT II tests taken before I took the SAT.</p>

<p>Took math sophmore winter and chem end of junior year and then took SAT fall of senior year.</p>

<p>It actually works better to take the SAT once and last imo.</p>

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<p>^well, you’re very lucky it all fell in line for you. Most people take the SAT 1 more than once. They usually take it during their junior year. Any person who is so aware of this testing process knows that. That’s why I’m not convinced of this being a real person’s dilemma.</p>

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<p>…terrible idea for the typical student. Taking the SAT in Spring of Soph or fall of Junior year has a number of advantages: 1) It helps focus your college search to schools you have a fighting chance of being admitted to 2) It gives you ample opportunities to raise your score if need be 3) Almost every college now “super scores” so you have nothing to lose by taking multiple times 4) If you want to apply anywhere ED, you have a better idea of what school to use it on. I have seen NUMEROUS students (from rural school districts) who have very high grades, have their sights set on highly selective schools, have to change course after geting low SAT scores. Much better to find out early than late.</p>

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<p>Yeah, What I wrote in the OP is entirely true. i have a knack of leaving things for the last minute. So this is kinda why I am doing the ACT last. so 33 is recommended? well, I didn’t expect a lower score lol. Thanks for everyone’s responses, especially Ognopgod.</p>

<p>TypicalDude</p>

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<p>I’ve always been under the impression that a 2nd time 2400 is worse than a first time 2300. I think it just looks bad if you take it more than once.</p>

<p>The downside of being able to take it more than once (at least from my perspective), is that you feel like you never really have to try because you have another fallback. If you can only take it once, you’ll at least do some studying and not totally blow it off.’</p>

<p>EDIT: I did technically take it twice in 8th grade though.</p>

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<p>…if that were the case colleges would not “superscore”, again not all students score in such a high range as obviously you did.</p>

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<p>err hey guys. It’s TypicalDude here. I got into Cornell and I am attending. So I guess that kinda completes a cycle? I am really worried about the workload and the difficulty, but I guess stress is never gonna end. Anyway thank you for your advice and patience.</p>

<p>-TypicalDude</p>

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<p>What did you get on your ACT? ;-)</p>

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<p>a 33: (33,36,30,33). I think ~9 on the essay</p>

<p>cheers,
TypicalDude</p>

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<p>Hi @TypicalDude‌ welcome to the big red! Hope you love it! Feel free to inbox me with any questions (I’m a rising sophomore)!</p>

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<p>Is Cornell engineering tougher to get into than other colleges of Cornell ?</p>