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<p>I'm a sophomore at a school in PA</p>

<p><em>Notes before hand</em>
- My school does not allow sophomores to take AP courses.
- My school only offers 4 AP courses, in which 1 is music.
- National Honors Society is only for Juniors and Seniors.</p>

<p><strong>I know there is not much information here test wise and that it is too early to tell but please use your best discretion.</strong></p>

<p>GPA:
As of freshman year - 4.47</p>

<p>Class Rank:
As of freshman year - 3/386</p>

<p>Courses:
Freshman year
H. A studies - A+
H. English - A+
H. Earth and Space - A
Geometry - A+
Spanish (required) - A+
and a few electives...all A+ (required freshman year)</p>

<p>This year
H English - A+
H A Studies II - A
H Bio - A
H Trig - A-
Spanish - A-
and a few electives - all A+</p>

<p>Next year:
AP Calc
AP U.S. History
H. English
H. Physics
H. Chemistry
Gym/health (required)
World studies (required)
Spanish 3</p>

<p>SAT's
(no clue and don't want to guess inaccurately)</p>

<p>SAT II's
Unfortunately found out today at I got only a 550 on Bio and 560 on Math ( was sick on day of tests)</p>

<p>EC's
Captain of Varsity Track (2 years)
Captain of Varsity Cross Country(2 years)
Key club member (2 years)
Ski Club (2 years)
Class Officer - Secretary (2 years)
Student Council member - (1 year)
Student Council officer - VP (1 year)
Founder of FBLA at school/ member (this year)</p>

<ul>
<li>Raised well over $2K so far for the American cancer society.</li>
<li>Active in Church.</li>
<li><p>Single handedly set up a 5K for cross country team and raised over $2K</p></li>
<li><p>Am the founder/President of a charity for Parkinson's Disease. Plan to raise over $20K in next year or so.</p></li>
</ul>

<p>Plans for EC's:
President NHS
VP for SNHS
President FBLA
President Student Council
VP for Key Club
Class Secretary</p>

<p>Questions for you:
1) Do I have a shot at Cornell as of right now?</p>

<p>2) What range do you believe I should bring my SAT's and SAT II's into for decent shot at Cornell? ACT's?</p>

<p>3) Will I be penalized because of my school's lack of challenging courses?</p>

<p>4) Would it be wise to enroll in an online AP program?</p>

<p>5) Would it be wise to enroll in an online program for HS kids learning university level courses through Cornell?</p>

<p>6) How much does being a great athlete help a applicant? Does it make up for lower academics? How much does it help?</p>

<p>7) I want to get into management. Will the CALs program be the best fit at Cornell? Will the Economics major also work?</p>

<p>Please be honest and sorry for all the questions?</p>

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<p>You took your SAT IIs too soon. You should have waited. </p>

<p>1) No one can be sure of that, but whether you do or don't matters little since you're not applying yet.</p>

<p>2) SAT has to be 2100+. SAT IIs all have to be 650+. (Your rank is great.)</p>

<p>3) No.</p>

<p>4) It's not necessary, but it would give you an edge, especially if you scored 4's and up.</p>

<p>5) Elaborate on this. It sounds pretty good so far though...</p>

<p>6) It helps if you've done it for 2/3+ years but only inasmuch as it shows dedication to an activity. Unless you're recruitable, aside from that, it doesn't help.</p>

<p>7) Both would prepare you wonderfully for a job in management/finance. Economics at CAS might prepare you for more fields better than AEM at CALS would. You should base this decision on the differences between the two colleges, CAS and CALS, rather than the structures of the two majors.</p>

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<p>For my question about the athletics, how much will it help if I was recuited athleticly but my grades were slightly lower than everyone elses?</p>

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<p>ok: i don't do "chances" threads</p>

<p>answers:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>N/A</p></li>
<li><p>all other factors aside, they should be in cornell's middle 50th percentile for SAT, duh</p></li>
<li><p>no, but if you run out of avenues consider taking community college courses. looks very good</p></li>
<li><p>not necessary, but once again, doing it shows initiative, passion, and can get you some extra AP credit.</p></li>
<li><p>never heard of it...what is it? website?</p></li>
<li><p>being a great athlete trumps academics. if you're capable of doing the work at cornell, and are one of the best wrestlers or hockey players in the country, for example, you could get in with a low B average and low 600s SATs no problem. it only works if you're actively recruited by the team. you get your app pre-read by admissions and they say "yeah, we'll let this student in" etc.</p></li>
<li><p>AEM in CALS is super competitive these days. either major would work, and in fact, you could major in history or english or writing or anything and you'd be fine. some of the top business recruitment is actually of engineers these days.</p></li>
</ol>

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<p>You def need to retake SAT 2's. </p>

<p>But ya I know someone ranked in the top 16 for wrestling who got into an Ivy league over people with MUCH better applications then him. ...but he's an awesome person so I don't have anything but good wishes for him.</p>

<p>My school doesn't offer many AP courses either...none freshman year, one sophomore year, then various ones the rest of the years.</p>

<p>Those fund raising things are VERY VERY good, so keep that up! It will definitely pull u away from the arbitrary group of people.</p>

<p>Good luck!!</p>

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<p>Keep up the rank and you should be fine.</p>

<p>You really should have waited for the SAT II's. To get a decent score, it's usually wise to have taken an AP course in the subject beforehand.</p>