Chances for admission @ Cornell

Cornell is one my dream schools. I was rejected from MIT and will most likely be rejected from Stanford. Here are my stats:

[ b]Objective:**
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[ *] SAT I (breakdown): N/A
[ *] ACT (breakdown): 35 (34 M 36 R 36 E 34 S)
[ *] SAT II: 770 Math II, 800 Spanish, 800 Chemistry
[ *] Unweighted GPA: 3.90
[ *] Weighted GPA: 4.36
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank, but definitely in top 12.5%.
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): Physics B (4), Spanish Language (5), Calc AB (4) Chemistry (5)
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: AP Psych, AP English Lang, AP Calc BC, AP Spanish Lit, AP Comp Sci
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): IDK. I’ve won hundreds of awards for my app in the computer science and economic fields. Nothing academic.
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[ b]Subjective:**
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[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): CEO of my own app company.
developer of one the most successful apps in the world (top 10 in over 80 countries),
CFO of a huge app corporation here in NY (several of the board members are famous and published engineers and economists)
varsity Volleyball,
varsity basketball,
president of app club,
president of the Medicine Club.
board member on school’s wall street and investing committee
Taekwondo black belt,
working with venture capitalists in the app field
multicultural officer
chief of finance for robotics club, helped secure funding through app connections
research articles on apps working with programmers and economists
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Over 500 hours interning for various physicians. working with experts in the App market to create apps. interviewing and examining app proposals for several big Silicon Valley companies.
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Almost 340 hours teaching English abroad in 3rd world countries, cancer research, thousands of hours teaching underprivileged kids how to program and market apps
[ *] Summer Activities: Volunteering abroad, app developing, app conferences, computer science lectures, interning, research, etc. Did a case study on curing pediatric cancer one summer, the next I traveled around the world for my app, this summer I will do so more volunteer work and more app stuff.
[ *] Essays: Very good. 9/10 for both. One about my apps, other about the experience that changed my life
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: 10/10 from Spanish teacher, 9/10 from History teacher
[ *] Counselor Rec: 10/10?
[ *] Additional Rec: N/A
[ *] Interview: Went well!
[ *] Supplementary Material (portfolio, etc.): N/A
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[ b]Other**
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INTENDED MAJOR: Economics
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[ *] Country (if international applicant): USA
[ *] School Type: Extremely competitive private school
[ *] Ethnicity: Chinese
[ *] Gender: M
[ *] Income Bracket: 250,000+
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/A
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You definitely have an extremely high chance. I don’t really think Cornell is like MIT and other Ivies in that they’re almost unpredictable in who they accept. I recently got accepted into Engineering and my resume does not contain the sheer amount of impressive scores and accomplishments; although I am an URM and I’m sure that helped out my application quite a bit. Additionally, I think the fact that you will be able to pay the full tuition without an issue (I’m assuming since you did not apply for aid) will likely help you.

Overall, I’d say you’re very qualified for Cornell and although you can never guarantee a decision, especially with Ivy Leagues, I’d say you’re as close to a guarantee in as possible.

PS Really sorry about MIT, not sure what you lacked that they decided to deny you, a classmate of mine got in and he is not as qualified as you are.

GPA, most likely. Not perfect (36) test scores to make up for it. @prubaby123

Anyone else

what app did u make

not saying because my real name is on it sorry.

@thegrant

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Very impressive, I’d definitely send you through. Good luck!

Great stats. Varied EC’s.Very good work and volunteer experiences.You have a solid chance.No one knows what MIT is looking for but on PI day their admissions site crashed.How ironic is that?

@arctoarcturas‌ Yeah, not sure what message they are trying to send. The best technology university can’t even support their own website?

Got into Stanford, hooray!

gratz!

Sweet! Do you think that’s where you are headed?