College of Engineering
SAT
730 Critical Reading 770 Math
760 Math 2 670 Chem (Weak I know)
Have had a single B+ in whole career in a semester of BC Calculus
AP’s include:
APUSH, Gov, Comp, Lit, Stats, BC, Chem, and Bio. Rest of schedule filled with honors. Also have taken an engineering course through OSU for 3 years
Top 10% in a Catholic prep school in Toledo OH
EC:
300+ hours of service in inner city and abroad
Crew (rowing) Captain, 5th in nation in event and 1st in highschool division at Head of the Charles.
NHS, Frisbee Club organizer, peer tutor, ambassador (school tour guide), and integrity counselor
Recs: Good to excellent
App essay: Common app: Based around my passion for service and my trip to El Salvador for service (very good)
Supplemental: Based around my passion for enviromental engineering and wanting to use this passion (with Cornell’s help of course) to fix the water crisis in my local area. (Excellent)
I think you should stand a good chance, especially if you apply ED. The info I can find says that they take in about 36% of ED applicants, and I think that is quite a lot. Obviously, they will make an assessment to see if they think you would truly fit in at Cornell and there are no guarantees that you’ll get in but I think you have a good chance.
^ I highly doubt that number is right, and it’s higher than what I’ve found. That’s more likely the percentage of the class filled in ED. I think you have as good a chance as any competitive applicant, but they’ll have those in spades, so hopefully you’ve presented yourself well. I will caution you that your essay topic, however well written, is very cliche.
Oh ok, thank you. That essay and my chem subject test were actually the things I was most worried about. I guess I I just have to hope for the best then!