<p>Hi I'm a Canadian going to enter his senior year in September, my SAT is 2320 my SAT II are Physics 800 Chem 800 and World History 800. Here's the thing my GPA for the past few years are pretty low they were 85% for every year. I took all AP in grade 11 and I was crushed I didn't know how to study the sciences(bio, chem, physics) cause I found the science classes I had in grade 10 and 9 not very helpful for preparing us for the workload. You see at my school we have this "enriched" program and I took it every since grade 9 for all my classes. It's hard to get high grades at my school compared to other schools, the highest grade in my school is probably a 95 and only 1 person has that in my grade while at other schools the highest is like 99 and 98. I go to a tough and good public high school and by 2nd semester I started to get a hang of my science and AP classes. I decided to take my SATs in May and my subjects in June to the end of the year when I just started to pull my marks up. I started my junior year with a 77 avg but I pulled it up to an 86. Seeing my SAT scores I know I can do alot better in my senior year. My extra curriculars are.pretty simple, I created a history club for people to enjoy the subject and share that passion with each other. Originally I started with 3 members but by the end of the year I had over 20 members that would come on a consistent weekly basis. I didn't win any history awards but I do have this passion for history and I share/express it through the club I have at school. I also found out this year that physics was also a subject I enjoyed(during the previous years I thought science was just a class where we'd just memorize and regurgitate facts I never took the class seriously) as I result I spent my summer(this summer) working in a university applied physics lab studying how to implement ultra sound into spot welding(depending on the scans and nature of the metals we can use this information to tell whether the weld is good or bad) and how to use computer programs to detect a good or a bad weld. I also joined a bunch of clubs in grade 11 and I was an executive for the world affairs club for my junior year where we'd do fundraisers and talk about world issues and discuss what we could do to help solve some of out world's problems(e.g. we talked about helping give kids in Africa clean water through our own actions like donations and such: we had a baked sale for a week and we raised a few hundred dollars to build a well in a village in Africa). I didn't win any superb awards but I just did things that I enjoyed.</p>
<p>I'm asking do I have a chance to be accepted by Cornell for Physics and History:</p>
<p>Thanks 10 points to anyone who gives the best answer</p>
<p>I forgot to add that I also was in the debate club for the last 3 years and I enjoy debating because it allows me to construct arguments and train my own ability to explain, express and prove my ideas through the use of words. Before I joined debate I was a right brained person, I always thought about things from a mathematical standpoint (I always thought that life was like a math problem: there was only a right or a wrong answer. I always thought that there was only one answer and one solution to a problem; I had never conceived that there could be multiple answers and multiple methods of proving and verifying your answer. Debating also helped me learn how to express my ideas and my thoughts more convincingly and clearly). I was also a "senior" in the debate club who helped organize lessons and meetings.</p>