<p>GPA: 99.35
Rank 12/ 850ish
Courseload: APs and Honors. (Took 4 APs so far, and taking 3 this year)
HS: Decent public HS</p>
<p>SATs
Superscore: 680 CR, 780 M, 640 W
SAT II:
Math I - 770
Math II - 740
Chem - 730</p>
<p>Ex: Decent, Volunteer at Red Cross, Arista, few leadership positions, and decent summer program.
Essays: Okay, not best writer but should be decent. </p>
<p>Chance me to Cornell, Yale, NYU, Sophie Davis, Vassar.
My view: Yale is high reach, Cornell + Sophie is maybe reach/ match, and NYU & Vassar or match.</p>
<p>Your GPA is amazing & your rank is really good. Have you taken all APs that your school offers? Schools don’t care about how many APs you took, as long as you took all/almost all of the APs offered. Your SAT Reasoning is weak at less than 2,000. You should pull this up to at least over the 2,000 mark. Your subject test scores are quite good. ECs are okay-not too bad, but nothing that shows a consistent interest in something. What college are you applying to at Cornell? What majors are you applying to for all the schools? I think you have a decent shot, though you’re going to have to pull that SAT Reasoning up. If you don’t, you’re going to have write killer essays to be accepted to Cornell.</p>
<p>At this point:
Cornell - high reach
Yale - high (unlikely) reach
NYU - reach
I don’t know about the other two schools you’ve mentioned.</p>
<p>^his SAT is a 2100. I think you have a really good shot, but yes Yale is definitely a reach but it doesn’t mean you should not try. I think you have a good shot at Cornell, but don’t get your hopes up since anything can happen… Your GPA and rank are amazing, which will definitely help. If you have a strong essay and good recs then I think you’d be in (and I think you’re in at NYU).</p>
<p>oops!! I have NO idea what I was looking at there. Sorry. In that case, you have a great shot Yale is still high reach. Cornell = reach. NYU = low reach or match</p>
<p>Thanks guys, I was lazy to type up ec and other stuff. I know my counselor rec is good, one teacher rec is okay and last one idk about. Essay I’m working on, I’m doing college of arts and science- undecided there most likely cause I want all options open. But most likely something in the sciences. </p>
<p>Idid do a program at cornell med school. Vp at fbls club, membership coordinator at red cross, and tech at arista. Have tutored, 1 summer volunteering at campaign. </p>
<p>From Afghanistan if that helps. </p>
<p>Cornell I have a shot I think, but not high hopes either. Nyu I’m good and Yale I’m just taking a try.</p>
<p>Yea your good for NYU. Cornell maybe. But Yale with your SAT not being 700+ in every section is going to be hard. However, NYU is a very good school and so is Cornell. If you get into those schools and not Yale you should be very proud of yourself.</p>
<p>Your applying to Sophie Davis? I guess your from the city. If you get accepted there you should go. Its med school with no mcats and its an automatic spot in a med school. Two of which are NYU and Dartmouth. If your not a minority then your chances are slim they even say that if your a student of color then they encourage you to apply.</p>
<p>Yes I am applying to Sophie but I want a more college experience I think.
Sophie just guarantees a spot in Med School, but after visits, I wasn’t impressed.
I just didnt get a good feeling on campus or from its curriculum.
Im not sure, your competing with the other 75 for med school spots at NYU and such and could end up at Downstate. </p>
<p>Im not sure if I want to go into primary care either.</p>
<p>I was recently rejected from Columbia but my sats were poor for ed.
I would be proud to go to NYU but not sure I like its campus either.
I think Im looking for a more traditional college experience if possible.</p>
<p>Yale is definitely a high reach, unless you’ve got some unique attribute up your sleeve (ex. underrepresented minority, first generation college kid, found the cure for cancer, etc).</p>
<p>Sophie Davis…combined med programs are generally a huge crapshoot, but it’s probably a reach because your medical background doesn’t seem too strong, and these programs are really into that.</p>
<p>Cornell…which college within Cornell did you apply to? If you applied to one of the “state” colleges within Cornell (CALS, Human Ecology, ILR), then it would be a match (it sounds like you’re a NY resident). If you applied to Arts&Sciences, Engineering, AAP (the Architecture and Art school), or Hotel, then Cornell’s a reach, but not impossible. </p>
<p>I don’t know much about Vassar, but you’re definitely a match for NYU.</p>
<p>Cornell = mid reach [not a high reach because they do not consider the Writing section, and yours is quite low (your 1600 scale SAT is solid at 1460)]
Yale = high reach [extremely unlikely]
NYU = low match, almost a safety</p>
<p>As always, these are just estimates. Good luck w/ everything.</p>
<p>I have a lot of tricks up my sleeve on Yale I think. NO, really I love doing their essay right now. Its going great.</p>
<p>For Sophie I have a Weill Medical School summer program and it convinced me to become a doctor. My act science was also 35 which I know they look at.</p>
<p>Cornell Im doing CAS. I have a good shot I think, 1460 is good for SATs, and Weill was Cornell Med School. </p>
<p>I am minority I think. Born in Afghanistan.
I am the second kid in family planning to make US college.</p>
<p>I also have College Now, took Psychology 101, got A, Will take Environmental Science.</p>
<p>If my calculations are correct you should be higher than rank 12th in your school with that high of a GPA (double check that). Since your high school is only “decent” and is public maybe you should now go to private school for the last semester of high school so that colleges will see your effort. Could improve SATs. What the heck is Sophie Davis is that your name?</p>
<p>Sophie Davis is a medical program that gets you into a med school without MCATs. Its a big minority school, they really favor blacks and Hispanics over whites and Asians. To get in you have to be a resident of NYC or NY state, don’t really know which one but out of state students can’t apply. Their also very ancient with their application. You have to mail it and you can’t send your sats by computer; you actually have to print out the scores on college board and mail them. I think the average GPA they accept is 95 and their average SAT is like 1290 out of 1600. If you go there you have to be a general doctor and work at a public clinic in an underprivileged area like Harlem. That or you have to pay them 100,000 or something. The students who go there say that the med students change their fields all the time. They have 7 affiliated med schools on their list Dartmouth, Stony Brook, NYU, and 4 others I don’t know. Everyone who graduates after 5 years goes to one of these schools and spend 2 years there before getting their M.D.</p>
<p>Sophie Davis is a a special 7 year BS. MD. program in NYC at City College.</p>
<p>My ranking is correct as my GPA is weighted, and we have a really competitive year. We have about 8 people with over 100 averages.</p>
<p>My 1460 on Math + Reading looks strong to me.
And it is no way I am changing to a private school, is that even possible and I doubt it shows anything, other then fact Im getting rich which I am not.</p>
<p>BIGBAJO: good luck
Cornell has become extremely difficult in terms of admissions.
this year alone my H.S. had 9 apply ed, 1 made it, 3 defers and the rest denied.
of the denied, one got Caltech and one got MIT EA - which are at least, if not harder to get into than Cornell. but cornell is up there with the hardest to get in for sure
You never know with the top schools. Its a crap shoot.
While Cornell ed had a few less applicants this year, over the last 3 years, the # of apps have drastically increased, especially from New Yorkers looking at the state contract schools, which are a bit easier to get into and cost less, even if they are not held out in as high a regard as the private colleges
just have a few solid backups.<br>
and keep the SUNY schools in mind also.
know this, there is no sure thing at the ivys, even with 1600, 4.0 and amazing leadership ecs. the same is true at Stanford and all the top schools like Georgetown, Duke, Caltech etc…
I know unhooked non-minority kids from my school this year and last year who got Columbia ED with way lower stats than you and some with near perfect stats and ecs get outright rejected. its hard to know what happens at the top schools, but a 1600 and 4.0 definitely don’t do it alone, not even at NYU, a lot more comes into play in admissions with the big schools. Cornell, even with your good stats and ecs is a reach. it’s a reach even if you had perfect numbers. that is the way it is at Cornell when they get almost 40 thousand applications a year.
there is no one that is really a match at the ivys. about the only thing that makes you a definite match is having a strong legacy hook, and strong meaning that your family has been very generous with alum contributions over the years. that is alway for sure the best hook by far. no one can ever deny that. without that kind of hook, it is always a crapshoot for anyone at the ivys.
a ba-md is a great idea if you are sure about medical school, but they are usually as hard as anything to get in because of the md school lock.</p>
<p>About scores, they don’t mean much after you reach a certain criteria. I had to ED with a mid 1500s / 1600 because i don’t think i set myself apart very well. Some of my friends, even though they had great ECs and scores did not get in ED either, I do not know why. There’s a lot of chance involved, especially at reg since cas overall acceptance is 15% (including ed, which is balanced out by reg).</p>
Yale is still high reach. Cornell = reach. NYU = low reach or match</p>