<p>What would be my chances at Cornell Engineering ED?? Please be honest. Thank you so much!</p>
<p>I think my Test Scores, Extracurriculars, and Courseload are pretty solid but my GPA is really lacking</p>
<p>Note: I am one year ahead in math for my school and also took an AP in sophomore year which our school does not usually allow. I also moved to the school in my freshman year and I took AB Calculus because of scheduling conflicts and self studied for the BC Test.</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Asian-American (Korean Male)
Income: was ~60k but my father has been unemployed since beginning of junior year and my mother doesn’t work
School: Northern Valley Demarest in NJ (competitive public high school in competitive region)</p>
<p>SAT I: 2370 <a href=“Took%20Once”>CR: 800, W: 800, M: 770</a></p>
<p>PSAT: 233 [CR: 78, W: 75, M: 80]</p>
<p>SAT II: 750 Biology(M) (710 on first try)
800 Math IIC (first try)
800 Chemistry (first try)
800 Physics (first try)</p>
<p>AP: 5 Statistics
5 BC Calculus (self studied)
5 Chemistry
5 World History</p>
<p>IB: Not Available at School</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA (after junior year): 3.69/4.0 [1 B, 1 B+ frosh year, 3 B+'s junior year]</p>
<p>Weighted GPA (after junior year): 4.42</p>
<p>Rank after Junior Year: 15/250</p>
<p>Senior Year Courses: Online Multivariable Calculus, AP Physics, AP Biology, Ap Literature, AP Art History, Spanish 4 Honors, Health/PE</p>
<p>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.):
-Siemens Regional Semifinalist
-AP Scholar with Honor
-National Merit Semifinalist</p>
<p>Other Awards:
-JV Debate County Champion
-Varsity Debate County Second Place
-2nd Team All League Swimming
-3rd Team All County Swimming</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Varsity Swimming (4 yrs)
-captain
-state sectional champions
-county champions
-2nd team all league
-3rd team all county</p>
<p>Science League (4 yrs)
-school representative</p>
<p>Math Team (4 yrs)
-county team
-part of a better out of school math team</p>
<p>Debate Team (3 yrs)
-President
-JV County Champion
-Varsity County 2nd place</p>
<p>Quiz Bowl Team (2yrs), Stock Investment Club (1 yr)</p>
<p>Out of School Activities:
NJ Governor’s School of Engineering (selective: ~80 kids from NJ)
-Expanded on research paper with a profesor and submitted to Siemens (semifinalist)</p>
<p>Columbia Science Honors Program:
-Computer Programming in Java
-Modern Cosmology
-Nanoscience</p>
<p>Community Service:
Total Hours: 150-200 (Basically my community service/volunteering is centered around helping disadvantaged children)
-Counselor at Camp for mentally disabled kids
-Counselor at Camp for kids with cancer
-Teaches 2 mentally disabled twins how to swim (weekly)</p>
<p>Work Experience:
-Lifeguard (1 summer)</p>
<p>Recommendations:
-Counselor Rec: we are closer than most students-counselors. She probably talked about how I am very proactive because I did all this stuff to take classes and stuff that our school usually did not permit</p>
<p>-Teacher Rec: Junior Math Teacher/Swim Coach wrote a very good personal rec about how I lead the swim team, perform in class, and transitioned from my move (California to NJ) </p>
<p>-Teacher Rec: Sophomore Math Teacher: Probably wrote about how I did pretty well in her class. Really nothing special; pretty weak rec tbh.</p>
<p>-Additional Rec: engineering professor at Rutger: was our project adviser at governor’s school and mentored me for Siemens: pretty good rec i guess but not too personal</p>
<p>I did badly my freshman and junior year and did well my sophomore and am doing well in senior year. I got 1 B, 1 B+ freshman year and 3 B+‘s junior year :’(</p>