<p>I made a chance me thread for Cornell already but some stats and circumstances have changed. Therefore, I would appreciate it if I got another "chance."</p>
<p>Major: History at CAS
Decile: 1st (Top 10%)
Rank: 14/234 (School does not rank so the colleges only see my decile. I just happened to find out what my rank was.)
Rigor: Challenged myself more and more each year. My counselor mentioned my maturation and my increase in challenging courses each year. Do not misunderstand, I did well all years. I just added on more honors and APs as time went by. I think this is my weakest point because I had not started as strong as many other applicants during my freshmen year.
Awards: High Honor Roll, Honor Roll, Maxima Cum Laude, Faculty Scholar for some school, Numerous music awards each year
SAT: 730 CR 710 M (1440)
Subjects: US History 740,690 Biology 700
AP: APUSH 4 WHAP 4
Bio, English, Psychology are my senior APs</p>
<p>Extra Curriculars:
Baseball 12 years
Band 4 years (ldr)
Select Concert Band 3 years (ldr)
Summer program for band 4 years (ldr)
Theatre 2 years
Christian Club 4 years
Key Club 4 years
Soccer 1 year b/c injury and scheduling conflict with music stuff (i played 8 years total)</p>
<p>Service:
Church (ldr)
Hospital-Nursing
Cancer Marathon</p>
<p>Work:
Tutor</p>
<p>Extra:
Guitar as hobby-performed at few concerts
fluent in korean</p>
<p>Essays: Both awesome IMO.
Recs: History teacher's is amazing, idk about math and guidance</p>
<p>Info: Male, Korean, HS sent few kids to Cornell in its history. Alot applied but most always rejected. I think it's mainly b/c a lot of ppl with below par stats apply thinking its the easiest ivy. Im not trying to be messed up saying this or anything, its just what happens.</p>
<p>You’ve got a pretty good chance.</p>
<p>I think you have an okay chance. Depends on how good your recs are and how much they’ll push you. I’ve had friends who had 2300+s get waitlisted, but that may be because he didn’t distinguish himself enough from all the other applicants with his essay and recs.</p>
<p>I think for Cornell that once the SATs are over a certain limit, it comes down to other factors. On the RD results thread, ppl with 2100s have gotten in and ppl with 2300s have gotten rejected. This is just my guess. </p>
<p>I know my recommendation from my history teacher is really good. I’m a bit worried about my counselor’s cause she is new to the school and doesn’t know me well. However, she did interview me so I’m hoping its okay. </p>
<p>Anyways, no need to worry now. Things are done with and there’s nothing I can do :)</p>
<p>That’s the spirit!
I think you’ve pretty well. The only subject of concern would be the fact that you’re an asian male and that’s not the best race to be when it comes to admissions.</p>
<p>I’m more paranoid my course work is not strong enough. It’s mainly due to scheduling conflicts, but I don’t know if my counselor mentioned that. I doubt she did.</p>
<p>Anyways, I’m hoping my intended major,history, will benefit me because as far as I know, it’s not much of a popular major. Correct me if I am wrong.</p>
<p>The reality is that nobody actually knows your chances. Some people respond based on personal “gut feeling”, while other people are applicants just like you who give you their views based on their own stats (people who say things like “OMG 100%” are generally inadequate themselves anyways). CC is not representative of the real world, and a lot of ppl who are chancing others give bs. In real life, admissions are extremely subjective, and there’s a lot of luck involved. I don’t know how rigorous your coursework is at your school, but if you are at the top 10% then you’re pretty much there (Since they cannot see where you lie on that top 10% anyways if you report decile). The only thing that matters now is how admissions will see you, not us. You can’t do much about it now anyways, so don’t fret.</p>
<p>Ap exam scores are not as important as to how you do within those courses. Do well in courses related to your major and take rigorous courses in respect to our major and you are fine. I doubt they even take that major choice thing seriously anyways, since they know that people change their minds a lot during college. I don’t think it makes that big of a difference in comparison to “undecided” unless you choose something overrepresented like bio, which i did. But yes, having taken those courses related with history would make you stand out more from the generic asian science and math orientated population.</p>
<p>If you really want to, check out the 2014 RD decisions thread and compare yourself with those applicants to CAS :)</p>
<p>thank you everyone :)</p>
<p>I misread part of your post as “My counselor mentioned my masturbation”.</p>
<p>I guess I’m not Cornell material. :(</p>