Chance me for SHA ED Please

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Hello,

I am applying ED to the Cornell Hotel School. Please chance me.
international student studying in the US for high school, Chinese female, speak Chinese, English, and Spanish. I didn’t apply for financial aid.

Unweighted GPA: 3.93/4.0 (low GPA freshman year)
SAT: 1540 by superscore (740 E + 800M)
SAT2: Math2 800
AP: Physics 1, Calc AB, Stats, Comp Sci, all 5s and 4s
taking Econ, Calc BC, Physics 2 senior year

Selective EC:
Club President (biggest club on campus, organize dinners with more than 50 people attending)
Intern at a hotel for two summers
Some volunteer work

Award: PSAT commended student, AP Scholar with honor

Common App Essay: unique story and show character
Supplemental essay: talk about my love for traveling and intern at a hotel, might be a little cliche
Interview: super short, but okay
Resume: well done

(In the past, Cornell admits one student from my high school every other year. From what I know, no one else in my school is applying Cornell for ED. But I know a Chinese girl from my region is also applying SHA. Kinda nervous about that.)

My other top choices school are Duke, USC, University of Notre Dame, NYU, UCB, UCLA, U Michigan, UVA, CMU, UNC-Chapel Hill.

Please let me know your thoughts and good luck to everyone’s applications! Thank you!

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I think you have a good chance. Which state are you from?

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Is that other Chinese girl who is applying from your region in China, or in the USA? If she is a permanent resident or a citizen of the USA, her application will have no more effect on your chances than if she were living anywhere else in the USA. She is just one more of the thousands of applicants. You are competing against other international students, not against American applicants.

Overall, as an international student, you are at an advantage compared to other international students who went to high school abroad and are applying from their home countries, since your credentials are easier to verify, you likely know a lot more about how to set up your application, you don’t have to prove that you are proficient with the language, etc.

Even if you both are international students and you are both from the same region in China, one more student added to the few hundred who are likely applying will make little difference, especially since Cornell won’t limit the number of accepted students from that region to one.

Also, Cornell doesn’t “limit” the number of students accepted from any specific high school. It is simply that, with <10% acceptance rates, low numbers applying, most being unhooked and applying RD, the chances that any applicant will be accepted are pretty low, and the chances that two will be accepted are even lower.

Good luck

PS. my kid’s high school has no more than 30 kids ever apply to Stanford in any given year, and has had somebody accepted to Stanford every couple of years. This past year, three kids were accepted. If they were limiting the number per school, that wouldn’t happen.