chances at Cornell RD

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
1

<p>Hey I was wondering what my chances at Cornell RD are:</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<p>cumulative GPA: 98.77
Rank: 1 out of 18 at a pretty competitive public magnet school
SAT: 2140 (740V, 740M, 660W) retaking in october
SAT II: Chem 800, Math II 770</p>

<p>Classes:</p>

<p>Junior Year:
Calc AP BC (5)
Chemistry 2 AP (5)
US History AP (5)
English Lit AP
French 3A
Biology A
Business Stategies</p>

<p>Senior Year:
Macroeconomics A
Public Speaking
European History AP
Biotechnlogy A
Biology 2AP
World Literature A
Calculus II and III at county college of Morris</p>

<p>ECs/Voluteering:</p>

<p>Internship at Dental Office (1 Year)
Voluteer at Red Cross (2 years)
Peer Tutoring (1 Year)
Delegate in American Legion Jersey Boys State
Math Honors Society Treasurer
School Tennis and Fencing Team (3 years)
FBLA (4 Years) Won several regional and state awards and was a campaign manager for current state FBLA president
Academic Decathlon (2 Years) Bronze honors in biology
National Honors Society, French Honors Society (1 Year)
New Jersey Chemistry League (40 out of 400)</p>

<p>Awards:</p>

<p>Bausch and Lomb Honorary Science Award, University of Rochester
Renssaselaer Honorary Science Medal, Renssaselaer Polytechnic Institute</p>

<p>Other stuff:
Trilingual: English, French, and Urdu (native language of Pakistan)</p>

<p>Essays: Decent
Recs: Pretty good</p>

<p>any input will be greatly appreciated</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

2

<p>i say cornell is a good reach. no ap scholar award? make sure ur truly passionate about one or two of your extracurriculars! btw ur fluent in french, or just taking it in school. i can understand if you were brought up speaking french at home.</p>

3

<p>Your qualifications look great. Make your essay memorable so you stand out!</p>

4

<p>Good reach? Snowgirl's having problems with terminology again.....</p>

<p>I'd say you're pretty much set. I mean people like to split hairs and make predictions and read way too deep into this kind of thing, but the fact of the matter is that the good, old-fashioned way to get into an elite school is to take hard classes, do well in them, and get high test scores. Which it seems you have done. Just make sure the essays are better than decent.</p>

5

<p>thanks guys i really appreciate the input</p>

<p>-zain</p>

6

<p>bump bump bump</p>

7

<p>Cornell is not a good reach..as perro said, you're basically set to go for Cornell.</p>

8

<p>so if you take a lot of really hard classes, what's your definition of doing "well"?</p>

9

<p>O.K. I've looked at the name of every college and can't figure it out....</p>

<p>What's RD?</p>

10

<p>Aha! I got it: Regular Decision, right? Duh.</p>