<p>I applied to Cornel Engineering and this is my "profile":</p>
<p>GPA(weighted) 4.36</p>
<p>Rank: 6 of 694 top 1%</p>
<p>SAT R: 620 SAT M: 590 SAT W: 560 superscore: 1770</p>
<p>AP TEST: Biology 4</p>
<p>AP's taken/taking:
AP Biology
AP Chemistry
AP Spanish Language
AP United States History
AP English Literature & Composition</p>
<p>Conducted Scientific Research at St. Peter's College in Biochemistry
Conducted scientific research at Princeton University in Chemical Engineering</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
National Honors Society-Vice president
Science League: Bio I and Bio II. Also Chem II
Science Club: all four year and Senior officer
Science, English, History, French honors societies</p>
<p>Recommendation letter:
1 from Head of Science Department at my school
1 from my Honors US II history and APUSH teacher
additional letters: letters from mentors from St. Peter's and Princeton</p>
<p>Male acceptance rates for COE are some of the lowest at Cornell. With a 1210 SAT score your chances are exremely low. I think you’d put yourself in a very frustrating & stressful position being an engineering major with an SAT M score 150-175 pts. below the average score of your classmates, even if admitted.</p>
<p>Would this greatly affect my chances of getting in even if I have other things (research experience at Princeton,etc) that make me a competitive applicant?</p>
<p>Cornell’s most recent common data set indicates that as a university, 11% of admitted students had an SAT M below 600. 22% had an SAT CR below 600. </p>
<p>On the positive side, they do accept some students with these statistics. Also, your being a URM would help significantly.</p>
<p>On the negative side – I’m pretty sure that the SAT-M for COE is even higher than the university average.</p>
<p>Your class rank is also high. How strong will the recommendation from the Princeton Mentor be? Was it a professor?</p>
<p>Overall – I’m not sure that you can overcome the SAT scores, but as Cornell does accept some students with stats such as yours – why not give it a shot?</p>
<p>If my essays and everything are strong is there a chance it can outweigh my SAT scores? Also, I’m taking the SAT II for Math I, Bio, and Spanish.</p>
<p>I will be taking them in November (Math I, Biology, and Spanish) Is it possible to redeem myself from my low math SAT score with a high Math I score?</p>
<p>I just don’t know if you can overcome the SAT I Math score…or if you would really want to. Sitting in engineering classes where the class average M SAT score is 150-175 higher than yours could be setting you up for failure, or at least a very stressful college experience. I’ve seen this before with math / science / engineering students, getting into high reach schools…they almost invariably either end up staying & changing their majors or transferring. I just don’t know if the adcoms at Cornell want to chance putting you through this…for your own sake.</p>
<p>What weighting does a recommendation from a Princeton professor hold in the eyes of a Cornell admissions officer? Obviously it shows you have connections. A person from my school went to Princeton for “scientific research” as well, and his scores were worse than yours.</p>
<p>A recommendation based solely on who wrote it is definitely not going to outweigh the SAT score.</p>
<p>male acceptence rates for COE was 17% for class of 2014. CAS was 16% . Architecture, Art, & Planning 16%. CALS 22%, CHE 27%, ILR 19%, Hotel Admin. 29%</p>
<p>I agree with csdad’s assessment. While I don’t have hard data, my experience is that CoE will ignore mediocrity (relatively speaking of course) in other areas, as long as math/science are really strong. Normally GPA>SAT, but your SAT is bad and really indicates weak math skills. Further, realize that majoring in Engineering, pretty much all your classes are graded on a curve, so your grade is pitting you against your classmates. Don’t count on “working hard” either. Most of your peers will be working pretty hard as well. Unless you give admissions some definitive reason as to why your SAT score grossly misrepresents your math abilities, I don’t see you getting in. Further, based on your scores, I’m skeptical you’d cut it at Engineering.</p>
<p>As others have noted, your chances are not looking so good. Engineering cares a lot about your mathematical abilities, and you fail to show your promise in that field. Even if you get lucky and get in, I suspect you will be going through a very rough 4 years of college at Cornell.</p>
<p>Low SAT math scores and no AP Calculus or Physics imply that you may not be suited for the rigor of engineering curriculum at Cornell, or even at many other schools that are ranked lower. Most kids I knew at Cornell engineering had near 800 on SAT I, 800 on SAT II math, and had taken AP Calc and AP Physics in high school with top grades. With anything below 750 on SAT math, engineering is a big reach.</p>
<p>If I were you, I would reconsider majoring in engineering in the first place and consider pursuing other majors. Engineering is probably the toughest major at Cornell and many other schools, both in terms of content and work load. It would take a very strong math background and hard work ethic for someone to be successful in engineering major. Also, I would apply to many other schools that may be easier to get in.</p>
<p>… On the other hand, as OP has already applied and is not asking our advice as to whether he should apply, so this conversation is largely academic.</p>
<p>Please let us know how things turn out, ok?</p>