chance me for Cornell RD (Dyson or other)

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Hey everyone! I am a rising senior who applied to Duke ED as an Econ major. please let me know what you think my odds would be for Cornell Dyson RD as it is my second choice in the event I don’t get into duke and if I have a better shot if I applied to a different school besides Dyson…

UW GPA: 3.95/4.0
Weighted GPA: 5.2/6.0
Class Rank: 7 out of 575

ACT- 35 C (R 36, E 35, M 33, S 36)

Subject Tests: N/A (I know for duke if your an ACT kid no subject tests dont hurt you…is Cornell the same way or do they look for sub tests regardless of sat or act submission)

AP’s: im 8/9 on passing AP exams.
calc AB - 2
bio - 3
capstone research - 3
capstone seminar - 3
enviro - 4
us history - 4
world - 4
lang - 4
human geo - 4
Do I submit all of them??? or only 4 + ???

Senior Course Load:
AP Macro
AP Micro
AP Stats
AP Lit
AP Econ/gov
AICE thinking skills
DECA
Debate

ECs/Awards:
MAO all 4 years (math team)
NHS sophomore-senior year
Peer Pals all 4 years (club for kids with disabilities)
DECA all 4 years - won state awards all 4 years, international qualifier all 4 years, top 20 international finalist junior year
Debate all 4 years
Co-founded Launchx program at my school
Founded “Fostering the Future of Finance” - organization that teaches kids aging out of the foster care system financial literacy
QuickBooks Certified

Work:
Worked from 2016-2018 at math franchise Mathnasium
Summer of junior year held paid internship with Bright Star Credit Union working in the operations department (worked on fraudulent checks, subpoenas, loan applications, etc)

Volunteer:
Buddy sports 6 years (local organization that helps disabled kids learn how to play sports)
Coached Recreational Basketball Team of 7th graders for the city of Coral Springs
Head Sports Specialist at Camp Jenny (organization that sends inner-city Atlanta kids to sleep away camp over Labor Day weekend)

Leadership:
Debate co prez junior year, co prez senior year
DECA VP of activities senior year
LAUNCH X VP and cofounder

Essays:
personal statement: 9/10
cornell supps: haven’t started…any tips/recommendations

Letters of Rec:
Guidance: super weak they dont even know my name bc they deal with 800 kids
Teachers: One from my ap lit teacher who also taught my ap research class, she loved me so Id say an 8-9/10, one from my 10th grade English teacher and now my AICE thinking skills teacher who is also my launchx advisor, she adores me so 10/10 (also she has a connection to duke and knows my desire to go there) and the optional letter I chose my deca advisor and he read it to me…10/10 for sure.

thanks all let me know!

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Some majors/schools require Subject tests, but it doesn’t look like Cornell does for Dyson. Here’s the profile for the Class of 2022 which may help you decide if you want to apply to Dyson or another program there.

Your ACT is fantastic but relative to your other scores, your Math looks weak and your AP Calc score is low, so you may not want to submit that, however, the problem there is that they will know you took the AP Calc AB and wonder why you didn’t submit it. We were told submit all scores as it doesn’t really matter, but who really knows? Not sure Calc is required for that major anyway.

Just like Duke, the Ivies are reach for everyone, so if you can afford to apply, and are ok doing the extra essays, then there is probably no harm in it.

As for chancing you, I have no clue in that regard, but for someone who has a better sense of that, you also probably want to state whether you’re male or female and your race since that will also play a factor.

Good luck!

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I apologize for what I am sure is a stupid, question, but what does “bump” mean?

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You have very strong credentials, and I wish you luck at Duke, Cornell and elsewhere…but I assume you are aware that Dyson is the hardest business school to get into in US. Less than a 3% admission rate, lower than Penn’s Wharton or Stanford generally. So, yeah, a very tough one…so not possible to “chance” anyone really. Last year, Dyson admitted 122 out of 4164 Dyson applicants (that includes both ED and RD). If you like Cornell and would consider options other than Dyson, your chances would likely increase…but, of course, choose the course of study you are most interested in pursuing.

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@Hopper2019 It means he wants to move this thread to the top of the Cornell posts so by hitting bump, it looks like someone “commented” hence it moves it up as if there was a recent post and it stays up there at the top. Does that make sense?

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@stparent - Thank you!!!