chances at cornell

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<p>YO, thanks for looking at my states</p>

<p>ACT: 30 (first try with no prep, plan to take agian)</p>

<p>SAT: results pending</p>

<p>GPA: 3.867</p>

<p>RANK: my school doesnt rank, they feel like it fosters unhealthy competition, so they put us in quintiles. I am in the 1st quintile, meaning that i am in the top 20% but i dont know where i lie in that group.</p>

<p>Junior Year:</p>

<p>AP CALC AB
PHYSICS
TEAM SCIENCE- we entered in a nationally sanctioned science competition through Nasa
AP SPANISH LANGUAGE
ENGLISH III
Concert Choir</p>

<p>Senior Year: (Intended Schedule)
AP CALC BC
AP ENGLISH LIT
AP SPANISH LIT- only non-native speaker to be approved
AP ECONOMICS
FREEDOM AND AUTHORITY</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>Senoir Class Prez
Honor Council
Proctor
Spanish Honors Society
Debate Club-President
Young Democrats of America- President
Epycs
Childrens Lit
Philosophy Club
Staff Writer for Student Newspaper
Heros
Freshman Class- Vice President
Bass- 6 year/ play with the concert choir</p>

<p>Sports:
Varsity Tennis
Varsity Lacrosse</p>

<p>Summers:
Philips Exeter Summer School: Honors Marks
Job in us senate this summer
Various seminars</p>

<p>My biggest Interest however is my T.V. show on public access tv. In the summers i produce, direct and host my own tv show. I founded the show and i fund it through my work directing other tv shows. I have interview some very famous journalists and a US senator.</p>

<p>I will get good recs and my essay will be about my show.</p>

<p>I am a white male from in colorado. i go to a competative boarding school.</p>

<p>My father went upenn undergrad and yale grad(does this make me a legacy at yale.</p>

<p>I am interested in yale, harvard, upenn, brown, g-town, princeton, middlebury, dartmouth, and amherst</p>

<p>I would apply early to yale or upenn if i thought i had a decent chance of getting in.</p>

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<p>A word of advice:</p>

<p>You should at least feign interest in Cornell, Vanderbilt, Emory, etc if you’re posting on their boards. </p>

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I am interested in yale, harvard, upenn, brown, g-town, princeton, middlebury, dartmouth, and Amherst.
I would apply early to yale or upenn if i thought i had a decent chance of getting in.

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<p>Your extra curriculars are interesting and noteworthy, but determining if you are a good match for Cornell is difficult without knowing to which Cornell College you will apply. I'm guessing your school doesn't weight the gpa, but I think your ACT score is okay for Ivy, but not going to be a plus either.</p>

<p>At Yale you should be a legacy, but check if they take that into account in RD. We were told at Cornell that if a student wants their legacy status to matter, then the student has to apply ED to Cornell, otherwise, it would have no positive bearing on the application during RD.</p>

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<p>Calm down. You're fine. You'll most likely get in and if you don't some of the other schools that you mentioned will accept you.</p>

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<p>You are a strong candidate (although the ACT is perhaps just average). The only non-native spanish speaker thing is cool too. It seems like almost every catagory that is important on the resume/transcript is strong (besides test scores, mainly because u only took 1 act and the sat scores arn't back yet).</p>

<p>...I like that Cornell wasn't on that list........</p>

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<p>I don't believe you are a legacy at Yale. You are only a legacy at Penn.</p>

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<p>U Penn makes it clear that if you want to have the benefit of the legacy preference, you must apply ED.</p>