Hi! Could someone chance me for CALS (applied to food science) based on scores/gpa?
2150 SAT 680 CR 780 M 690 W
SAT 2 Chem: 800, SAT 2 Math 2: 800
AP World: 5, AP Lit: 5, AP Chem: 4, AP US Hist.: 4
All together 9 AP classes by end of senior year (took all I could)
Oh, and I have a 4/4 GPA at a really rigorous charter school (one of the best)
I’d say that you have a good shot. While your GPA is great, your SAT scores have some room for improvement. What are your ECs?
For CALS I should think that since you’re applying for specific major, you’d need to make the case for “why me for this major at CALS” in your application.
@KaleSeed Based on scores alone you are right there with the middle 50% and you have an average chance. Without knowing your essays and ECs it’s impossible to chance you with any degree of helpfulness. Are you what they are looking for? Scores alone don’t tell them that. Scores just keep you from being rejected immediately.
I am a wellness writer for a local magazine (health related articles, critique restaurants etc…). I publish articles monthly. I am an intern at the Pure Food Kids Foundation, a nonprofit to teach kids about healthy eating. I was a member of the marketing team and volunteer for my local farmers market last two summers. I started my own vegan dessert company. I am an intern as a healthy lifestyle and food blogger for a local juice bar. I started a yoga group for my community last year, and I taught classes five days a week for free. I am the president and founder of the writing club (4 yrs. I actually started our blog and our published writing column). I am the treasurer of the Science National Honor Society. I was a student at Girls Who Code for 7 weeks during the summer (selective program). I am also a spoken word artist (been invited to perform for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, at a popular pub, and have been a leader in a couple poetry intensives. Lastly, i’m in every honor society: science, math, national, french.
I am also paid for writing for the published print magazine as a wellness journalist.
@cotopaxi I mentioned my extra curriculars above
If you’re in state I would say accept 
out of state is a little more on the edge.
I’m out of state… Thanks though! I hope I get in (: Everything I do is related to food and nutrition. LOL right now i’m procrastinating on my business plan through college confidential hahahaha. Did you apply to Cornell too?
@KaleSeed After reading your ECs and your last post, you wrote something very important. You said “everything I do is related to food and nutrition.” If you used those exact words or something similar in your supplemental essay I think it will resonate really well with the admissions committee. I’m no expert, just a student like you, but I obsessively studied every tip and trick to applying, and having a good GPA and SAT just gets you in the door. Us applicants have to demonstrate beyond a doubt that our background and passion is a perfect fit for what they have to offer. I wrote about my own personal joint disease issues and how I would take advantage of their top biomedical engineering program to someday find a cure. I got very specific, all the way down to the type of tissue I want to regenerate in their labs. I have a feeling they said, “this girl knows what she wants and will be a great fit.”
Based on your clear understanding of food and nutrition topics, your mid-level SAT will probably be forgiven. What I don’t understand is why you didn’t apply ED? Did you have another choice you like more? Because applying ED is the same as having a 150 point boost on your SAT - according to a bunch of articles I read. Anyway, what’s done is done. You are looking for reassurance that you will get in, but none of us can give that to you with any accuracy. However, after reading your impressive ECs, I think they will take notice and give you a good chance of admittance. It all depends on how you wrote your essays. I hope you get in. Good luck.
hi @cotopaxi thanks for the thoughtful post (: I wrote about how my interests relate to what I want to do at CALS and Cornell and about how my interest in food developed and how I explored it through multiple mediums like internships, coding projects, entrepreneurship, blogging, and writing. I hope you get in too (: Best of luck!!!