Chance my pal

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>This is my friend who i applying for Cornell ED He is a rising senior</p>

<p>My friend doesn't have a CC, so I am doing this for him. He is probably thinking of architecture or International Relations as a major since he is good at math and a beast at language.
Academics:
GPA UW: 3.64/4.6
Our school has a gpa out of 4.6 because an A+ is a 4.6, and no classes are weighted.</p>

<p>Class Rank: School doesn't rank</p>

<p>Advanced/Honors classes he has taken
He is in accelerated math (geometry- 9th, trig/alegbra2 - 10th, precalc -11, calc - 12)
He took spanish 4 which counts as an honors class in my school</p>

<p>APs Taken/Will take:
9th: AP Italian (he is from Italy)
10th: nothing
11th: nothing
12th: AP Stat, AP Spanish, (he is considering taking AP Euro)</p>

<p>Test Scores:
SAT: 2060 Math: 760 Writing: 670 CR: 600
ACT: 30 Composite Math 30 Science 30 English 32(10 on essay) Reading 25
SAT II: Bio: 660 Spanish: 780, Math2: 740 World History: 590 ( he plans on taking the italian sat2 in october for an easy 800)
AP Italian: 5 (like I said he is italian)</p>

<p>His Senior Schedule:
AP Stat
Normal Calculus (yes there is AP Calc AB/BC but he isn’t taking either, (fool))
Normal Physics
AP Euro or French 4
Psychology/Economics
English 12
AP Spanish
ECs.
Spanish merit award
He has 300+ hours of community service/volunteering</p>

<p>Others: He will finish high school taking all 3 languages(spanish, french, and italian), and he knows a bit of German, you could say he is a language buff</p>

<p>Info:
Italian, Male</p>

<p>Financial aid is needed for him</p>

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<p>Every thing else looks good accept his SAT Reading and Writing scores are low. He needs to retake it or try the ACT. I wouldnt send in SAT Bio and World History scores, since there low. If you says he is really good at math, than he should be taking AP Calculus, because it is foolish. Other than that, he sounds like a decent canidate</p>

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<p>Thanks for replying! I’ll tell him right away!</p>

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<p>I’m kinda confused by the whole gpa scale, but I think that’s a bit low. The college admissions people will probably know why he took the SAT II in Italian- b/c it was easy for him. Since he’ll be applying with ED, he has a good shot otherwise.</p>

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<p>I also think his Critical Reading on SAT or Reading on ACT is too low… other than that he seems to know many languages well (Spanish, Italian, English, etc.) so he should be okay.</p>

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<p>As it stands, very low chances - his SAT scores are low, extracurriculars are subpar for Cornell, and the GPA does seem far too low. To better approximate GPA however, I must ask - what WOULD his rank be, roughly, if your school ranked students? In a grade-deflating school that GPA might be fine, but in a place that does not deflate grades it would probably be a dealbreaker.</p>

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<p>His rank wouldn’t even be top 20. You see in our school we have honor roll and high honor roll. To make high honor roll, you need to have a 3.8 at least. He has a 3.64. He would probably be in the 50-60% (probably 90/225 at best or 113/225 at worst)
Also our school’s GPA system works like this:
A+ = 4.6, A = 4.0, B+ = 3.6, B=3, C+ = 2.6, C= 2, D = 1, F = 0</p>