Chances at Cornell!!! + Duke, Northwestern, Berkeley

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>CORNELL, DUKE, NORTHWESTERN, BERKELEY. edit: throw in MIT</p>

<p>i'm going for cornell Early Decision</p>

<p>***General:
Asian American
Senior
California Resident
Middle Class
Applying for engineering school (if applicable)</p>

<p>***Stats:
unweighted GPA: 3.8/4.0
weighted GPA: 4.3/5.0</p>

<p>SATI: 2250</p>

<p>Chem 800,
Math2c 800
Physics (haven't taken yet. expecting 780+, may be too late for ED though)</p>

<p>AP calc 5, AP Chem 5, AP compsci 4</p>

<p>Junior year (gpa 4.83 both semesters):
AP Chem, AP calc AB, AP English, AP Compsci, Physics Honors, Chamber Orchestra</p>

<p>Senior year (gpa 4.62 predicted):
AP Stats, AP English, AP Gov/Econ, AP Physics, Chamber Orchestra</p>

<p>***ExtraCurriculars</p>

<p>***Internship
Worked at an environmental testing laboratory over summer
several hours spent learning to use GC/MAS testing Volatile Organic Compounds, Toxic Air Contaminents.
letter of Recommendation if necessary</p>

<p>*** Community Service
- 200+ service hours at various community projects for Key Club
- Publicity Chair and Tech Chair
- Designed school's Key Club website
- Heal The Bay: Water Chemistry (All day, Once a month)
Testing water samples at Malibu Creek (pH, salinity, etc...)</p>

<p>*** Varsity Wrestling (1 year)
- I severely injured my left forearm in a school match. My radius and ulna were both fractured. I had to have surgery; Two metal plates were placed in my arm. Most unfortunately, my doctor recomended me to not attend wrestling the following year. </p>

<p>***JV/Varsity Tennis (3 years)</p>

<p>*** Piano (5 years)
- MTAC Piano Theory level 8</p>

<p>*** Viola - (6 years)
- MTAC Viola Theory level 8
- School Chamber Orchestra
- Glendale Youth Orchestra (Principal Violist) </p>

<p>*** Business Workshop (once a week for 3 months)
- Designed a business plan under instruction of a professional from University of Pennsylvannia Wharton School of Business.
- Won 2nd place in design project</p>

<p>*** Banking and Financing Institute (once a week for 3 months)
- Instruction from a manager at a Bank of America office. </p>

<p>*** Young Musicians Club (2 years)
- Viola Chair</p>

<p>*** National Student Leadership Conference: Engineering Camp
*** National Honor Society (all semesters)
*** California Scholarship Federation (all semesters)
*** Math Club (4 years)
*** Science Club (4 years)</p>

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<p>90% Chance you'll be accepted ED, 70% RD.</p>

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<p>If you apply ED to Cornell, I think you have an excellent chance</p>

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<p>I don't know where u guys come off saying a kid has 90% chance at Cornell, there is never that kind of certainty with any of the ivies, and plenty of studnets this year were rejected with those kinds of scores. Granted, he is a very competitive candidate, but not a certainty</p>

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<p>I think you have a good shot ED at cornell. By good shot I mean better than 50%. So I think more likely than not. But not 90%</p>

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<p>What is your rank? I think the GPA & SAT may not be high enough to be able to count on Cornell for admission, but you certainly have a great chance. You are an above average candidate, meaning over 40% chance ED & over 30% chance RD. How much above that is hard to guage.</p>

<p>Duke will be slightly harder than Cornell; Northwestern & Berkeley are comparable. MIT is essentially a crapshoot, but your high math/science scores will give you a reasonable shot.</p>

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<p>I think his SAT is certainly high enough, and his GPA is within the range</p>

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<p>I'd put him at about a 60% chance, maybe 70%. The thing is these things are so unpredictable I don't think maybe people have a higher chance than that. :p</p>

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<p>I say 80%+</p>

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<p>Yeah from what I have seen you will get in pretty easily. Unlike some of the 17yr olds who have never actually applied to schools that are on CC giving advice, I have actually spent a lot of time working with admissions. They are looking for strong ECs and good AI, which you have. For Cornell, that is strong enough.</p>

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<p>slipper, your a moron, no one will get into Cornell pretty easily, it is a crap shoot school, maybe not to the degree Harvard is, but it is certainly just as much of a crap shoot as Brown and Dartmouth and Northwestern - im youve worked on an admissions board</p>

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<p>i mean im sure youve worked on an admissions board</p>

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<p>Cornell ED is a pretty solid formula, which this kid has surpassed easily with SAT and I am assuming a top 5% class rank. He has a very very solid shot and I would think ED it would be unlikely for him to not be accepted. Cornell is easier than Dartmouth and Brown ED, harder than Northwestern.</p>

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<p>I think there are instances where a person could apply Cornell ED with a 90+% chance (Intel finalist, RSI participant, etc. with perfect grades and perfect SAT), but this isn't one of them. While I'd say your chances are probably above the acceptance rate, you seem a lot like many Cornell applicants being Asian and applying to Engineering. You don't seem to have a solid hook but I'm not sure how important that is when everything is solid overall. Write a good essay and get good recommendations.</p>