<p>What would be chances at getting into Cornell? I know it is a reach for everyone, but percentile wise what would be your best bet?</p>
<p>3.85 UW GPA
4.35 W GPA
33 ACT
Eagle Scout, MENSA member, Special Olympics Coordinator, 150+ Volunteer hours, Multiple Leadership positions in Scouts, UIL Academics Regional Qualifier, Mock Trial, AcaDeca.
Very rigorous course schedule. Graduating with 89 college credits.
White Male, Texas</p>
<p>I think you have under a 16% chance of getting in</p>
<p>Cornell: Reach (but on the lower end of the reach, so 15-20%)</p>
<p>Also depends on which college you plan on applying to within Cornell. What are your interests?</p>
<p>You have a better chance if you apply ED versus RD.</p>
<p>Cornell isn’t my first choice school especially for economic reasons. UT is which is why I am cautious about applying ED.</p>
<p>My interests are economics and PoliSci.</p>
<p>Low Reach at Cornell. Cornell (like all the Ivies) has a really good financial aid system though. I mean, financially it may not be right for you, but it does cover most of the cost of attending.</p>
<p>I think you like automatically get into UT. </p>
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Chance me back if you want to.</p>
<p>Wow, I didn’t know that.
I guess the only other thing would be not being able to transfer two years of college which I completed through Dual-Enrollment. It would be a bummer to lose those credits. </p>
<p>I could be wrong, but they usually don’t accept college credits from other colleges do they?</p>
<p>I should be auto at UT and I love the campus and the entire surroundings, plus I love Texas. I would just like some options at other schools as a backup. </p>
<p>Ha, Cornell a backup…</p>
<p>Depends on the school. Most state schools should except DE credits. Some don’t however, so you’d have to look into that at UT. I know Cornell wouldn’t except DE credits. I don’t know if location is an issue but you might also try Duke. I think you’d be qualified there. Brown and Dartmouth as well. Also, financially, these schools have Financial Aid calculators on their websites so if you sat down with a parent/guardian and entered the information (it’s basic stuff like annual income, taxes, assets, etc.) you could get a pretty good idea of how much it would cost you to go to an Ivy annually.</p>
<p>I know UT accepts the credits as well as most Texas schools. All my DE credits were in Texas. I would be cautious about going out of state because the credits wouldn’t transfer. I’d rather be done with school and paying for school two years sooner.
I dismissed Dartmouth because of their lack of a graduate program in Economics:/
I’ll have to check on Brown.</p>
<p>Yeah I know what you mean. I plan on having passed 11 AP classes by next year (well by pass I mean 3s 4s and 5s) but the Ivies only accept 5s. So I might just go to Bama and be done with undergrad in like 2 years lol 
But for Econ, definitely look into Duke. UChicago and Northwestern also have really good Econ programs (obviously, they are in Chicago!). UChicago is harder to get into, but I definitely think you could get into NW.</p>
<p>I just ran the Net Price Calculator for Cornell. 25k a year before student loans isn’t too bad.
But would the extra 70k be worth going to Cornell rather than going to still a great school like Texas?</p>
<p>Wow, a definite on NorthWestern. Why is that? ACT score alone?
Northwestern actually came up as more expensive at about 30k per year.</p>
<p>Bump 10char</p>
<p>hi
your academic transcript only matters to some extent I believe
since a lot of applicants are qualified, you’re going to face others who have a lot of good ECs and most of yours will have a difficult time standing out in the national pool so I’d say still in reach territory</p>
<p>gl, i hope for cornell too</p>
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<p>Personally, I myself am probably going to pay the extra money (if I get in to an Ivy) because schools like Cornell offer such an education that you can’t get anywhere else. Anyway, NW, based on admission stats that I’ve seen and personal experience (Have 2 friends going there; one had a 3.80 UW GPA and a 32 ACT (with barely any extracirriculars), the other had 3.75 UW GPA and 30 or 31 ACT (had awesome ECs though) and both got in. I think you could definitely get in because you have good GPA and (for NW) average ACT.</p>
<p>I think you have a pretty decent chance, just write killer essays : )</p>
<p>Unlike everyone else who’s commented, I disagree. It is an ivy, and it is competitive of course, but I think you have a good chance. Check out this Cornell U acceptance graph:[Cornell</a> University - GPA and Test Scores Needed for Admission](<a href=“http://collegeapps.about.com/od/GPA-SAT-ACT-Graphs/ss/cornell-admission-gpa-sat-act.htm]Cornell”>Cornell University: Acceptance Rate, SAT/ACT Scores)</p>
<p>You would need a hook, ie woman in engineering, legacy, recruited athlete, underrepresented minority and/or a very compelling story (war torn experience, etc.).</p>
<p>While I’m White male going into economics with no legacy, no athletics, and had a speech impediment until I was 5. Not the typical hook.</p>