Chances at Cornell/Dartmouth/UPENN

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>What are my chances of admission to Cornell, Dartmouth, and UPENN?
I was a poor student in high school up until my senior year, and then straightened out and began loving school. So my cumulative high school gpa is low, but I play off that -- and how I have hitherto become the epitome of a pedant -- in my personal statement. I have now completed 1 semester (14 credits) at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and I will be taking 16 credits for the Spring 2005 semester and I expect recieving another 4.0.</p>

<p>Here are my stats:</p>

<p>Honors Program
Premedicine Studies Program
Intended Major - Psychology (or double Psych & Japanese)</p>

<p>GPA:
college: 4.0
high school (freshmen - junior year) : 1.7 <em>I am guessing here, but it was definitely below a 2.0)</em>
high school (senior year) : 3.9
high school cumulative : 2.0</p>

<p>SAT I: 1350 (650 Verbal, 700 Math)
SAT II: Math Lv1c: 700, Math Lv2c: 680, Literature: 670</p>

<p>Strong extra curricular activities and volunteer/study abroad experiences overseas.
4 Excellent letters of recommendation (although I'm not sure how many I will submit)
And a very strong personal statement explaining the complete "academic turn-around" that I have gone through since my senior year of high school as well as my current intellectual/medicine interests.</p>

<p>I'm applying to the following schools:
Harvard, Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia, UPENN, NYU
Do I stand a chance anywhere?</p>

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<p>Ummm...you have safeties, right?</p>

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<p>Yea, my 2 safties are :
UW - Madison, which is a lock because I would be transferring within the UW system.
UNC - Chapel Hill.</p>

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<p>Might want to add more safeties/match schools like Holy Cross-very strong pre-med program, or Trinty and Lafayeete.</p>

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<p>lol, what a baller! you definitely score some major originality points here ;)</p>

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<p>Expect to go to UW-madison</p>

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<p>"Epitome of a pedant"
If you use that phrase, admissions officers will think you've turned into some pompous pseudo-intellecutual.</p>

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<p>Sorry, get ready for UW madison. What ypu have gone through is incredible, the problem is that Dartmouth, penn, etc have 99% students who have been performing at that level or better all through high school. The 4.0 is great, my advice is to raise your SAT to a 1450. Your best shot is Cornell, its the easiest of the three to transfer into by far. You might have to prove it another year to have a shot though.</p>

<p>If you want a great school that is a relatively easy transfer, look to UNC-CH. Transferring there is relatively easy for some reason.</p>

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<p>thanks for all your insight</p>

<p>ahh yes, and gamingurux, no need to fear, I would never exhibit any sort of effrontery in a document reviewed by admissions officers.</p>