Chance me for Cornell

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<p>Race: Hispanic
Sex: Male
State: Texas
School type: Small Private Catholic
Income Bracket: 45k</p>

<h2>Applied for financial aid: Yes</h2>

<p>GPA: 3.58 Weighted, school doesn't rank</p>

<p>Intended Major: economics + finance.</p>

<p>ACT: 30 with an 11 essay</p>

<h2>31 (superscored)</h2>

<p>My school only offers 10 AP Classes. Classes : APs include AP gov, AP chem, AB Calc, AP Lit, AP Lang, AP French, APUSH
Other classes: College class on economic inequality
Everything Freshman and Sophomore year was honors</p>

<p>AP Scores: AP USH- 5</p>

<h2>AP Lang- 5</h2>

<p>ECs:
Volunteering:
I work as a college level intern at a firm that specializes in helping under privileged hispanic families obtain the healthcare they need for their kids through education and informational communication (400 hours)</p>

<p>Clubs:
Debate (top 30 in the country since Junior year). Have attended and placed at tournaments like TOC, TFA, Nats, Harvard Invitational, Yale Invitational. Have gotten numerous awards at the regional and national level. (9th-12th) 20+ hours weekly + VP since Sophomore year.
French Club VP (10-12th)
Model United Nations participant (9th-12th)
Business Club VP: Member of the FBLA
Rocketry (10-12th)</p>

<p>Work:
Investment advisor for an Investment fund (10 hours a week) 11-12th
Started my own business that is selling debate evidence that has been gathered by me to top debate brief companies. </p>

<p>Programs:
Attended prestigious debate intensive summer camps and Michigan, Stanford and UNT.</p>

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<p>Awards:
School's Community History and English Award (highest average in these two classes) (10th)</p>

<p>Numerous and almost countless debate-related awards. </p>

<p>Essays: Really good. I talked about how I wasn't born in the country, and I had to overcome adversity in order to have a successful career in debate and in the business world. I talked about obvious language barriers and how it was hard learning english, but I've taken those skills acquired to learn a third language, French. I also talk about specific Cornell programs and professors whose research im interested in.</p>

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<p>I think your chance will depend on what major or school you’re applying to at Cornell. You have amazing ECs and a pretty good ACT score. the only thing that seems low is your gpa. GOOD LUCK</p>

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<p>Econ major and then probably transfer into Dyson for finance</p>

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<p>And thank you for the chance by the way!</p>

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<p>3.58 Weighted GPA is quite low.</p>

<p>If you get in, it’ll most likely be due to affirmative action.</p>

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<p>0.00%</p>

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<p>@Dishonored‌ doubtfully, I’m Hispanic and I have a 3.99UW/4.38 Cumulative W. I think they receive enough qualified URMs where they don’t have to lower the standards that much. </p>

<p>Back to original post: I’m not sure if you have been reading our ED post but the recent discussion has been on “fit,” so don’t make it to obvious you just plan on transferring to a school you would have 0% chance getting in to if you took the normal route. Anyways with an awesome essay, your background, and if your GPA has been showing upward trend, you have a chance (low however).</p>

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<p>@ToolBoy‌ joined 5 minutes before posting that and only has 3 posts, two of which have been “0.00% chance.” Ignore him</p>

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<p>Are you applying to Cornell’s CAS or AEM? Because the latter is much more difficult to get acceptance to.</p>

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<p>You definitely have the ECs going for you. ACT seems on par, but again, I would focus on your GPA in an essay and explain the reason why it’s relatively low. Make them feel for you. Then again, I could be wrong, as I don’t know what to expect either. I am applying for ILR Transfer for Fall of 2015.</p>

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<p>And if you’re looking into Econ and Finance, from what I understand ILR offers something similar. While it’s not the same degree, it incorporates both with labor law and public policy.</p>

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<p>Even a 3.58 unweighted is almost garnteed a rejection or weight list. Apply to a place like NYU or Brandeis, those same ivy colleges. In my opinion, rutgers university and all the top state universities are the best to go to. You can become anything you want to become ( and easier to become them in comparison to an ivy). </p>