Chance Please [Cornell ILR Spring Transfer]

Transfer Students
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<p>standing: international student
Currently attending a decent 4 yr institution
College Cumulative GPA: 3.97/4.0 (28.5 credits) I had one A- in an Art class. ( 1st semester 3.92 and 2nd sem: 4.0/4.0)
Courses were-Calc, Eng Compos, Statistics, Macro-, Micro-Economics, Physics, Art, Speech, etc</p>

<p>Midterm Report; 4.0</p>

<p>attended a Canadian HS, no ranking
HS GPA: barely 3.0 ( 3.6 in 12th grade )
NO SAT2's nor AP's as I attended a small Canadian HS.</p>

<p>Specific and strong ILR essay</p>

<p>Pretty decent recs, from Engl, Calc, Macro, Micro econ prof's.
(In Macro, got the highest grade, micro-2nd highest, Calc-top 3, Eng-98%) </p>

<p>Extra curricular Acts: </p>

<p>-Church band leader for 3 yrs
-Sunday school teacher (for kids) for 2 yrs
-School band & Jazz band since 9th grade (but not in college)
-Worked as an English teacher at an institute in Korea
-had private lessons with students</p>

<p>Honors: </p>

<p>-honor roll in 9th and 12th grade.
-I'm a member of the NSCS (National Society of Collegiate Scholars)
-I got the highest grade in Macro Econ and 2nd highest in Micro
-Received "Korea Chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association Endowed Scholarship"
-I got offered to be a supplemental tutor for Econ and Calc in my current college. </p>

<p>Please chance me for ILR Spring transfer.</p>

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<p>What do your test scores look like? How is your writing (see: essays)? Good recs?</p>

<p>I like your GPA and that you're coming from a solid school in Penn St. (I'm assuming that's where you're currently attending). I may be saying this prematurely given the fact that I don't know your test scores, but it looks like you have a good chance. I would also emphasize that you taught English in Korea; that would seem like a really great essay topic. Your other ECs are relatively unimpressive, though. And your "honors" section is actually going to hurt you if you put it on there. Honor roll only in 9th and 12th grade? That shows academic inconsistency to the admissions committee. Also, "I got offered to be a supplemental tutor for Econ and Calc in my current college" means nothing unless you actually DID tutor. See my point? All of the other awards are trivial.</p>

<p>But, again, all of that means very little relative to your SAT/ACT scores.</p>

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<p>I hope we both get in!</p>