Chance Me, Please

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<p>I wanted to know if I had a good chance for Cornell Regular Decision. Here's my info:</p>

<p>Ethnicity: White
Sex: Male
Age: 17</p>

<p>ACADEMICS
-I have taken all Honors and AP courses during High School. I attend a Magnet School and apparently all the classes are Honors.
-My upcoming courses for this year are AP French, AP Chemsitry, AP Calculus BC, AP US Government and Politics, and English 4.
-Last year I took two AP's, US History and Calculus AB (the only two offered).
-My weighted GPA is 4.05 and my class rank is 7/104, although this is from tenth grade because my school district sucks. They are "revamping" the system and so they are still calculating our ranks in the new method. We won't find out until this upcomng year our new ranks, but I have reason to believe mine will get better for reasons it would take too long to mention since this is the second time I'm typing this thread.</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS
-NHS 11, 12, President
-Blood Drive Committee 11, 12, Chairman
- Stage Crew 10, 11, 12
-Piano 9, 10, 11, 12 (although I started in 2nd grade)
-Students Against Destructive Decisions 11, 12 (Group started in 11th)
-Young Scholars Program (Take a College Course at UPenn each semester) 11, 12
- Tutoring 9, 10, 11, 12
-School Newspaper 11, 12, Section Editor
-Math League 10, 11, 12</p>

<p>AWARDS/HONORS
-Yale Book Award 11
-Medal for Geometry 9
-Medal for PreCalculus 10
-Medal for French IV 11 -----(these are all school awards, dont know if they count)
- Second Place in Carver Science Fair in Mathematics Field 10
-Honorable Mention (10) and National Winner (11) in Le Concours National French Competition
- Took American Invitational Mathematics Examination, note "Invitational" 11</p>

<p>TESTS
SATI: M800 CR750 W720 Composite2270
SATII's: French600 MathematicsLevel2-800 USHistory730 Chemistry750
AP's: US History-5 Calculus AB- 5</p>

<p>COMMUNITY SERVICE
-A lot of things through my church.
- Play piano at nursing home a couple of times a year, don't know if this counts but I feel like it would.
-I never found out if NHS and Blood Drive and tutoring stuff like that counts twice.</p>

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<p>You sound like a competitive, well-rounded applicant...unless you left anything out. Which school are you applying to and for what possible major? Good luck!</p>

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<p>Well-roundedness is great but all the admissions data and stats suggest that it is not something that Cornell (or any top college) is looking for. Your SATs are very good but, for Cornell, they will take a back seat to demonstrating a distinguished passion for your intended field of study. I would also suggest applying ED.</p>

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<p>I would be applying to College of Arts and Sciences, for Mathematics probably. I don't know what you mean by left out, something bad?</p>

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<p>What do you want to major in ?
and what do you want to do after college ( job wise) </p>

<p>YOU would get into ED if you apply there</p>

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<p>I'd probably be majoring in Math and I'm not sure what I want to do aftert college. But how can that help decide whether I'll get in???? Aren't you allowed to take time to choose a major, and what career you go into doesn't affect your college experience, your college experience affects your career. So I don't understand.</p>

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<p>Cornell wants to know what you have done to signify a passion fror the field you apply to, whether or not you stay with that major or not. This is very important to admissions.</p>

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<p>Well I have mostly 99's in each quarter of Math (all my finals were 99's) so does that help me? I'm in math league, got the AIME, and got those two school math awards (not to brag but i didnt get it the third year because they like to share the awards and seniors don't get the medals so all the maths would have gone to me and it would look bad. kind of disappointing). Does that make a difference or same chances?</p>

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<p>For regular decision, your chances are just ok. I think you'd be a strong applicant for ED, but for RD it's a toss up. I don't like giving percentages, but I'd say 50/50? Perhaps a bit better with a creative applciation.</p>

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<p>Can you tell me what makes my chances just ok or just average (by the way I can't apply ED and anyway I don't like ED for any college), cause I know that not every kid who got in had their major and career picked out already so that can't be my only problem. Anything I can put in my essays to balance something that is missing?</p>

<p>Also to add to my original list, I go to a small school so teachers are closer to their students, and I expect my recommendations to be great because of that and because I have really good relationships with the two teachers I'm getting them from (one is a math and one is a humanity teacher so i figured it's balanced, too).</p>