<p>Credentials:
S. Asian Male/Rising Senior/NY
UWGPA: 3.7369
WGPA: 3.8043
Rank: N/A
Graduation: Summer '08</p>
<p>11th Grade:
AP Biology
AP English Language
AP US History
Physics
Pre-Calc</p>
<p>12th Grade:
AP Psychology
AP Calculus BC
AP Chemistry
AP Physics B
AP Macroeconomics
AP Literature</p>
<p>Standardized Tests:
PSAT: 1910 (10th Gr); 1960 (11th Gr)
SAT: 2200 / CR:670, MATH:760, WRITING 770 (Maybe Re-Taking)
SAT IIs: US History-730, Biology E-710, Math IC-660 (Hopefully Math IIC soon)</p>
<p>Extra-Curricular Activities:
North Shore University Hospital Junior Volunteer: 150 Hours+
Shelter Rock Public Library: Teen tutor for senior citizens
DECA 10-12
Freshman Focus Peer Connectors 11-12
Chuch: Youth Leader/Director for 3 Years
India: Helped build a church in Kerala (Koothattukulam)
Family and Children's Association Volunteer
New York Blood Center Volunteer
School Newspaper Editor (Maybe)
Young Epidemiology Scholars Competition Participant (Maybe)</p>
<p>Recommendations:
AP US Teacher (Columbia Univ.)
Physics Teacher (Hofstra)
Family and Children's Association Director (Maybe)</p>
<p>Interested in biological engineering at CALS. Not sure if I'm doing RD or ED. Can you chance me on both?</p>
<p>I'd work on raising your math SAT II since you're going for engineering. Your SAT I is competitive, but it wouldn't hurt to re-take the test and try to raise your CR score (if you have time). I would say that you have an average shot RD and a good shot ED, providing that your essays and recommendations are solid.</p>
<p>ED chances might be good, RD might be harder.</p>
<p>If you're feeling strongly about Cornell, go ED. Also, I think doing a good job with the epidemiology project might help you out. The YES competition is my favorite science competition. If you make it to the finalist level, you get to go on a great trip to DC. I had a great time doing my project and goin on the trip. You will get to know the most interesting people.</p>
<p>So ye, I say do YES to improve your science side, and do ED, and I think you'll be in!</p>
<p>How would Cornell find out how we do in the YES competition? Would they? Because the deadline is way after the ED deadline. Is it good to participate in regardless?</p>
<p>Thanks for all your words of advice. I'll definitely consider re-taking the SAT Is and possibly Math IIC SAT IIs.</p>
<p>Also, I don't think I'm going to apply ED, because I don't know if Cornell will be my #1 choice, solely because of its costs. Will my RD chances be lowered significantly? Or do I have CALS-worthy stats?</p>
<p>You might make it...CALS looks at lots of other factors besides test scores, though, which is why I think the EC of YES will help.
I thought the experience was very rewarding in itself...so I would suggest doing it regardless of how it affects admissions.
If you do well enough in YES, or any of the other big competitions (many of which notify after college deadlines), you can still do what many ppl do: send a brief letter to the admissions office and tell them about your progress.
You might see, when you're at that level of competition, that you might not even need to send that letter as recruiters from top schools will be there.</p>
<p>BTW, as for costs, you might wanna know that CALS and a few other colleges at cornell receive some state dollars that allow them to lower the tuition...the total annual cost of CALS for me (upper middle class kid on long island) totals to a tad over 30,000, food, room, tuition and all included.</p>
<p>I'm definitely gonna try and compete in the YES Competition. </p>
<p>I heard about the reduced tuition costs. I'm just not sure if my parents are willing to pay that amount yet. I highly doubt that Cornell gives financial aid or scholarships too, right?</p>
<p>besides the EC and scores.....
i think try to write a reallly goood essay on the YES competition i think...
like what i did last year..... i had a really good EC list...and among those i think the summer tutoring is the meaningfulll
and therefore i wrote about the tutoring thing for my personnal essay..and to be honest i think Cornell would like to see how did you grow from something you experienced...basicaly your EC list could be full, but if youwrote about it on the essay, it gave them a chnace to lean who you are!
i will strongly reccomend ppl to write about their most meaningful EC activities</p>
<p>Cornell will provide financial aid if your family's income is below approximately $150,000. Of course, it will be greater if your family income is lower, and other factors such as liquid assets will also come into play.</p>
<p>Which essay is more important? The CommonApp or Cornell's Supplement? Are they equally important? What are the differences between the two? Are there any differences?</p>
<p>The common app is more important simply because you send it to multiple schools, but for Cornell specifically, I would say that both essays are equally important (I put the same amount of effort into them, anyways).</p>
<p>i know a ton of completely unremarkable students from my school, all of them applied to that school and all got the guaranteed transfer. so yes i think thats likely</p>