Chances at Cornell Please...

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<p>Hey Guys!
Cornell has intrigued me since freshman year, but my bad bout of slacking led me to believe that the chances were nil. However, this year, I picked up my GPA tremendously, and am taking an extremely rigorous courseload. Hopefully they will see this... but anyways, can you guys give me a rough prediction?</p>

<p>Freshman Year:
slacked... ended with a 3.4 GPA avg
H. Bio
H. Alg II
Geography
Spanish I
P.E.
H. English</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:
slacked again.. ended with 3.5
AP Chem
Drama
H. Pre-Cal
H. World History
H. English
Spanish II</p>

<p>Junior Year (this year)
stopped slacking and picked up my pace with a 3.83 (hopefully a 4.0 second semester)
AP. Calc BC
AP. Physics
ROP Virtual Enterprise
Spanish III
APUSH
AP English</p>

<p>Senior year (next year)
AP. Statistics
AP. Bio
AP. Spanish
AP. English
AP. Government/Econ</p>

<p>(I'm taking the most rigorous courseload to make up for my slacking in the beginning of the year)</p>

<p>I'm planning on taking 11 APs total, with the most rigorous course load that my school offers. I got a 2060 on the SAT, but I can guarantee that that score will be above a 2250; I had a bad test day. I'm a varsity swimmer and I have 300 hours of community service (couldn't get a summer job at 15 so I decided to volunteer fulltime at the nearest hospital). I think I have enough extracurriculars (planning on being president of a community service club among others...) recommendations should be decent and the essay should turn out fairly well. I'm quite outspoken; many teachers know me well. </p>

<p>my academic GPA is a 3.61 and my weighed GPA is about a 4.3</p>

<p>thanks for everything :) :)</p>

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<p>Your chances are good. Your improving grade trend makes up for your "slacking." my cumulative GPA was slightly lower than your frosh GPA so relax heheh. yes, I did slack lol</p>

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<p>your chances are reeeally good...and you live in so cal too....that's also a big boost...like it's hard for the nj/ny kids cuz there's so many of them...i'd say that if you applied early you'd probably get in...they even tell you honestly that applying early gives you an advantage...i would have never gotten in regular decision....so yeah...i think your chances are pretty good i usually hate these threads but you seem like you got it going</p>

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<p>ps a 2060 is really good</p>

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<p>hey thanks guys!
oh, by the way, my family can't contribute that much toward my college fund, we're pretty poor, and although not destitute we're barely making it and I doubt my family can contribute more than a few k's a year. I hear that Cornell supposedly doesn't have the best fin-aid packages... please tell me that this is untrue...</p>

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<p>my fin. aid was pretty good, considering I expected no grants and got $7,000 worth</p>