Chance me please! Cornell Engineering ED

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College of Engineering ED

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)

Thank you so much for looking and please be honest!

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hmm, average, and the essay about service is very very very generic. you must have done a CRAZY or very UNIQUE thing for the essay. I’d say you are unlikely to get in because everything seems generic. no real hooks or specialties.

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Oh ok, thank you. That essay and my chem subject test were actually the things I was most worried about.

4

I think you have a decent chance.

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You are a qualified student. Beyond that no one can predict what the admissions committee is going to think about your essays, letters of rec., & ECs… Some of the variables, such as the demographics of the other applicants, you have no control over. Hope for the best, but plan for the worst.