Chances at Cornell?? (:

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<p>GPA (W): 4.02/4.36 (will improve in senior year)
GPA (UW): 3.89 (ditto ^)
PSAT: 214 (commended/maybe semi-finalist…need to wait to find out)
SAT I: 2230 (total), 780 (CR) 760 (M) 690 (W); plan to take again
SAT IIs: Math II-760; Biology M: 790
ACT: 32 (total): 34 (E), 32 (M), 30 (R), 32 (S), 8 (WSub, will not submit ACT)</p>

<p>High School: Religious private school, Norfolk-VA; I am ranked 1/52 in my school, in National Honors Society and International Thespian Society</p>

<p>AP Biology-5; APUSH-5 (school only offers 8 APs)</p>

<p>--Courses Junior Year: Honors College Composition, Honors French IV, Lab assistant for AP Bio/Chem, AP Biology, AP US, Honors Pre-calculus and Honors English 11
--Senior Year courses: AP US Gov, AP Calculus AB, AP Chemistry, AP Lit, AP Psych, AP Euro and Honors Physics</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
--Drama Club (9-12); Secretary/Treasurer(11) and Vice President (12)
--NHS (11-12)
--French Club (9-12); President (11-12)
--Bio-Eco Club (9-12); President and Reviver (12)
--ARK, Animal Rescue Klub (9)
--Missions/4-10 Club (10-12); religious outreach and fundraising for projects in Africa
--Chinese Club (11-12); Helped support our Chinese exchange students
--Young Singers Project (9-12); High School version of the only professional acapella group in VA, audition required
--District Chorus (7-12); All-State Chorus Alternate (11, will try again for senior year)
--District Band (6-10)-Clarinet
--VMEA Honors Choir (12)-open only to seniors and accepts only 30 from all of VA
--Music Director of HomeschoolPlus- 2 shows (Clue and Tick Tick…BOOM)
--Rehearsal/Performance Pianist for 2 Regent University productions (Godspell and Gift of the Magi)
--Piano for 15+ years
--Paid position at my church playing the piano for the Sunday services</p>

<p>Awards:
CITA (Christians in Theatre Arts) – Best Overall Male Actor
Academic Awards throughout High School (English, Science, History, Math, Music)
Piano Accompaniment for a Choir in competition (Best Student Accompanist) </p>

<p>Summer Activities
Theatrix Inc. – Summer Theatre Shows (Performer/Intern/Assistant Musical Director)
NYLF (National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine) – Georgetown University
Harvard Secondary School Summer Program – Neurobiology (A);
Stem Cell/Regenerative Biology (A)</p>

<p>Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
--First Generation Student
--Will submit the Arts Supp</p>

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<p>Looks good to me. Don’t bother retaking the SAT, since Cornell only looks at Math and CR and a 1540 is excellent. </p>

<p>You’re taking a rigorous schedule within the scope of your school, so that definitely shows the admissions people that you are willing to go out and make use of the resources available to you. </p>

<p>Write great essays, and show them why you’d be a great fit and what you can do for Cornell, which shouldn’t be hard for you, looking at your extracurricular involvement in music/acting. </p>

<p>Good luck, and I hope to see you here next year!</p>

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<p>WongTongTong, how do you know they don’t look at the writing section?? They never mentioned that when talking about reviewing SAT scores at the information session I attended.</p>

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<p>It’s on their website. This is the link I could find by just googling:</p>

<p>[Cornell</a> Engineering: Freshman FAQs](<a href=“http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/admissions/undergraduate/apply/freshman/faqs.cfm#CP_JUMP_15504]Cornell”>http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/admissions/undergraduate/apply/freshman/faqs.cfm#CP_JUMP_15504)</p>

<p>From website:</p>

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<p>sara</p>

<p>The engineering school certainly does not look at the writing. </p>

<p>[Cornell</a> Engineering: Freshman FAQs](<a href=“http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/admissions/undergraduate/apply/freshman/faqs.cfm#CP_JUMP_15507]Cornell”>http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/admissions/undergraduate/apply/freshman/faqs.cfm#CP_JUMP_15507)</p>

<p>(You beat me to it WTT!!!)</p>

<p>The way it’s worded suggests that Cornell as a university doesn’t, but since it’s only on the Engineering site, it’s a bit ambiguousl</p>

<p>However, Cornell’s Common Data Set specifically says it doesn’t consider the essay component of either the SAT or ACT (this is a University-wide filing) (Question C-8C), though confusingly, the ACT writing component is required (Question C-8B). Most tellingly, when listing the 25th-75th percentile range – the boxes for SAT Writing and SAT Essay are marked “N/A”.</p>

<p>That’s the best I could find.</p>

<p><a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000464.pdf#pagemode=bookmarks[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000464.pdf#pagemode=bookmarks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I am only interested in A&S. But thanks anyway.</p>

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<p>What do you look to major in?</p>

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<p>im planning on majoring in chemical or biomedical engineering (:</p>