<p>Hi guys, I am a new to this website and would like you to tell me my chances of getting into Cornell's ILR program for ED. I submitted my application a couple of weaks ago.</p>
<p>Ethnicity: White, Male (European)
Citizenship: Canada
School: Large Public School in Florida</p>
<p>Class Rank: 10 out of 650 (top 1.5%)
regular GPA: 3.81/4.0
Core GPA: 4.46
Unweighted GPA: 5.2 </p>
<p>SAT Scores (they suck)
Math: 710
Writing: 750 Essay: 12
Critical Reading: 600 (.. first time i took it i got a 500) </p>
<p>SAT IIS: German with Listening: expecting a 750+ (scores come back on Nov. 20th)
Math Level 1: expecting 700+</p>
<p>I am in the International Baccaleaurate Program. Taking all IB classes this year: IB English, IB Calculus, IB Psychology, IB European History, IB French, IB Biology, AP English Lit. and Composition</p>
<p>Although i have a 3.8 GPA, I had straight As in all my core classes and in all my IB classes junior year. Currently, in first quarter of my senior year i had straight As also. During, my freshmen and sophmore years I had a B+ in PE both semesters, so thats like 4 B+s (i know lol, who gets a B in PE), and my freshman year I had a C+ in computer technology, another elective. If they recalculated my GPA and disregarded those two electives, I would have a 4.0. Also, all my classes since freshmen year have been AP and Pre-IB, hence the 5.1 unweighted GPA. </p>
<p>My freshmen and sophmore years I attended a private school in Canada and was the valedictorian, when I moved to Miami during my junior year my class rank went from 1 to 10/650 at the new school. In one of my recommendations, my guidance counselor has written that if my equivalent Canadian grades were taken I probably would have been valedictorian or saludatorian at my current school. </p>
<p>My ECs now:
-President and Founder of the German club at my new school
-President of the Debate Club
-Several other leadership positions at clubs (i.e. French Club, Doctors Without Borders, and Model UN)
-Tennis Team (have been playing tennis for last seven years)
- a lot of volunteer work (at local hospital, community center etc.)
-volunteered at summer camp for autistic children over the summer
- teach Sunday School at my church for past four years
-coordinated relief efforts for Kosovo humanitarian crisis with my church</p>
<p>The two biggies:
-traveled to Zambia during my sophomore year to build a school house in effort with Habitat for Humanity
- this past summer (08') traveled to Croatia (Eastern Europe) where I worked as an intern at a manufacturing plant, obtained an amazing reccomendation letter</p>
<p>Personal: speak 5 languages fluently, two more i understand well</p>
<p>My essay for ILR dealt with my childhood in war-torn Bosnia, my parents and mine status as refugees and how we obtained asylum for Canada when I was seven years old. I talked about the impact of various cultures on my upbringing (born in Bosnia, lived in Canada from age 6 to 12, lived in Germany from ages 12 to 15, moved back to Canada for beginning of high school, and now live in Miami). My guidance couselor said that my essay was one of the best she had read, and that had I not been white, I would probably get the Bill Gates scholarship. I also stated that I want to attend ILR to broaden my perspective on the world, gain an education in a program that could serve as a pre-law program and pre-international relations, because my ultimate goal is to return back to Bosnia and reform the traditionalist and politically unstable society that has witnessed so much bloodshed throughut the past centuries.</p>
<p>My recommendation letters were amazing particularly those from my English teacher and the guidance recommendation. My English teacher wrote something along the lines that every college should be fighting over me. </p>
<p>I am an emotional wreck at the moment and probably will be until mid-December, when my decision comes back. Please evalutate my chances on a scale of 1-10. (10 being the highest)</p>
<p>Thank You,</p>
<p>I appreciate it.</p>