Chance Me Pwease

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<p>Information:</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 UW</p>

<p>School: US News Top 50 public</p>

<p>Class Rank: 65/400+ (this is b/c I transferred with no honors weighting and my counselor wrote a note saying my rank is unrepresentative)</p>

<p>Courseload: 5 APs junior year & 7 APs senior year (probably most rigor possible)</p>

<p>SAT:
1st attempt: 1980 (610 CR, 690 M, 680 W)
2nd attempt: 2160 (700 CR, 710 M, 750 W)
3rd attempt: (pending scores) might get an 800 CR but didn't do so hot in Math</p>

<p>SAT Subject Tests:
Math II: 800
Physics: 690</p>

<p>AP: 5 Calc, 5 Stats, 4 Physics B, 4 APUSH</p>

<p>Half a Hook?: Spent the 9th and 10th grades in India. Got a solid 92% average in the 10th grade national examinations.</p>

<p>Intended Major: Computer Science (College of Engineering)</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Indian (US Citizen)</p>

<p>Gender: Male</p>

<p>** Extracurriculars: **</p>

<p>-(11,12) Investment Club (President 12)</p>

<p>-(11,12) Washington State Finance Association (Co-Founder and Vice-President)
A student run group that promotes the field of finance to students in the local area. We have a flashy website which I (helped) develop.</p>

<p>-(11,12) Volunteer for a non-profit called Student Research and Development (Relations Manager)
Non-profit that has a mission to inspire students to learn more about science and technology.</p>

<p>-(11,12) Math Club</p>

<p>-(11,12) Robotics (Programming & Marketing team)</p>

<p>-(11) Washington Business Week (Summer Program)</p>

<p>-(9,10) School Basketball team</p>

<p>Awards:</p>

<p>-AP Scholar with Honor</p>

<p>-community service award from school</p>

<p>Extra:</p>

<p>-I'm expecting something like 3 Bs in my 7 AP schedule for first semester senior year so my GPA will drop to 3.9 :( Do senior year grades matter a lot?</p>

<p>-I might get a job at Kumon Learning Center or something purely for my app. Is it worth it?</p>

<p>-My extracurriculars aren't really related to my intended major but I'm trying to stress the tech aspects of them such as web-site development</p>

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<p>bump. anyone?</p>

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<p>Honestly you cant count on anything but from my standpoint you look great! I was deferred ED and had really low SAT’s. Like everybody says its a crapshoot…but your sats are solid and you have had some very interesting experiences. Did you write about them in your personal statement!? That would be a very good idea…I think essays are a really big deal at Cornell atleast in my experience!</p>

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<p>thanks i will try to beast those essays.</p>

<p>UPDATED SAT SCORE:
1520 (790 CR, 730 M)</p>

<p>chance me please!!!</p>

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<p>bump. please chance me :3</p>

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<p>someone.please.chance.me</p>

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<p>lol, i chanced you over on the columbia thread a few days ago…but you’d only posted the first sat score! you look a lot better with those new sat scores, strong upward trend too. the only issue with you really is that there’s nothing in particular that makes you stand out. so work on writing some great essays.</p>

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<p>haha thanks for chancing me on both threads. i looked at your stats and they’re very impressive except for your gpa (which doesn’t matter that much imo), and your ECs show a lot of passion, so I think you’re good Cornell.</p>

<p>could anyone explain what else you think I need to be Cornell-worthy? Scores, ECs, Awards? I can probably raise my subject test scores in Jan. and I have 1-2 good ECs I haven’t listed but I don’t think I can do anything about awards…</p>