Chance Me for Engineering

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<p>Information:</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 UW</p>

<p>School: US News Top 100 public</p>

<p>Courseload: 5 APs junior year & 7 APs senior year</p>

<p>Class Rank: 65/400+ (my rank is completely unrepresentative since I transferred and my counselor wrote a note about this)</p>

<p>SAT:
Superscore: 2270 (790 CR, 730 M, 750 W)</p>

<p>SAT Subject Tests:
800 Math II, 690 Physics</p>

<p>AP: 5 Calc, 5 Stats, 4 Physics B, 4 APUSH</p>

<p>1/4 of a Hook?: First 2 years of high school were in India, then moved back. Got a solid 92% average in the 10th grade national examinations.</p>

<p>Intended Major: Computer Science</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Indian (US Citizen)</p>

<p>Gender: Male</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>-(11,12) Investment Club (President 12)</p>

<p>-(11,12) Washington State Finance Association (Co-Founder and Vice-President)
We have a flashy website which I (helped) develop.</p>

<p>-(11,12) Volunteer for a non-profit called Student Research and Development (Relations Manager)</p>

<p>-(10) Programming internship at random company (3 weeks & unpaid)</p>

<p>-(9,10) School Basketball team (leadership on team, mostly cause we sucked)</p>

<p>-(11,12) Tutor at School</p>

<p>-(11) Washington Business Week (Summer Program) (VP of my company)</p>

<p>-(11,12) Math Club</p>

<p>-(11,12) Robotics (Programming & Marketing teams)</p>

<p>Awards:</p>

<p>-AP Scholar with Honor</p>

<p>-community service award from school</p>

<p>Additional Information:</p>

<p>-Slacked off and got a 3.4 (7 AP classes) first semester so my overall GPA is probably down to a 3.9 :(</p>

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<p>Hrmmmm… What did you write about in your essay? Anything computer science related?</p>

<p>You seem good to me. Why? Well, I’m Indian (born in Seattle, though), got 5s on Calc BC/APUSH… Your SAT smites mine. You’re either at my level or above it. Oh, and I got in, computer science/CoE college and all.
<em>Gloats</em> Hehe.</p>

<p>Essay good - Low Reach/Match
Essay bad - Reach</p>

<p>Things that may hurt you:
-Slacking off! <em>Gasp</em> Don’t do this until you’ve been accepted! DX
How dare you! Who cares if they’re AP classes, that just shows that you blame others for your faults!
-Ranking. I know it’s unrepresentative, but hopefully the adcoms do not only see this and not the note your counselor wrote.
-Just curious, what is this: “1/4 of a Hook?: First 2 years of high school were in India, then moved back. Got a solid 92% average in the 10th grade national examinations.” I get the first two years in India, but the 92% average? Are they really hard or something? I have no clue! Just wondering cause I should know something about my culture, no?</p>

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<p>congrats on getting in!
I got the impression that my essays were good after having my friends comment on them and yeah my supplement was all about computer science. I can send my supplement to anyone if they have time to kill. Not to future applicants though…</p>

<p>Yeah the board examinations were pretty hard, especially for a whitewashed indian kid… Probably the most studying i have ever done. I think you should’ve heard of them?..</p>

<p>I really hope the slacking off senior year doesn’t screw me over :/</p>

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<p>Decent chance, although your Math SAT is a bit low. Then again, they’ll probably like the fact your Reading score is so high – fairly uncommon for Engineering applicants to have a higher Reading than Math score.</p>

<p>Also, you’ve taken a solid number of APs – a definite plus.</p>

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<p>thanks for the response. </p>

<p>btw my 3.4 GPA this semester included a C in Calc II. I’m assuming that hurts my chances since math is important… I did get A’s in AP Physics C and AP Computer Science though.</p>

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<p>3.4 the first semester of 12th grade HS will hurt you, especially since your down from a 4.0</p>

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<p>It’s nice that you have a high CR SAT score, but that’s a really trivial matter. The point of the matter is you’re applying to Cornell Engineering, and your Math/ Science simply is not up to par with Cornell’s standards (730 on Math SAT, 690 on Physics SAT II, C in Calculus). Oh, and you’re also an ORM.</p>

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<p>I’m not at the average I guess. I calculated my Math SAT1 is at the 33rd percentile for Cornell COE. But you did leave out the 800 on Math II, 5 AP Calc and 5 AP Stats.</p>

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<p>^I don’t think standardized testing will be a hindrance to your application – 730 + 790 = 1520/1600, which puts you in a good position in terms of admittance to Cornell. What it will come down to is your essays and whether they make it apparent you are a good fit for Cornell.</p>

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<p>Does anyone know when RD decisions come out?</p>

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<p>around March 31st</p>

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<p>bummmmmmmp</p>

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<p>ORM and physics sat II grade can hurt you. Fair chance.</p>

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<p>bumping this back up…</p>