Chances for CAS please

<p>Thanks for looking. If you view this, if you can spare a minute, a simple sentence would be appreciated.</p>

<p>Gender: Male
Residency: Long Island, NY
School: Public (REALLY competitive class, not so competitive school)
Prospective Major: Government or History</p>

<p>Avg: 96.5 W (~95.56 UW)
Rank: 15/361 (The part I'm worried about, see school description)
SAT I: 770 V, 720 M, 740 W
SAT II: 770 US, 760 M II
APs: 5 World History, 4 US History, 4 Eng Language
5 APs senior year (Euro, Chem, Calc BC, English Lit, Government)
Awards: Nothing major, a Long Island math fair award is probably the most notable</p>

<p>ECs:
Viola (Like my life. All County, North Shore Symphony Teen Orchestra, USDAN Center for Performing Arts)
Model Congress (Head Speaker/Vice-President)
School Newspaper (World Issues Editorialist)
Quiz Bowl/Long Island Challenge
Amnesty International (Event Coordinator, have raised over $5,000 for Darfur and Katrina)
Drama (Yeah. Not much to explain. Another major part of my life)
Club Illuminate (Discussion group with different religious/nonreligious points of view - really interesting)</p>

<p>Essays: I've been told they're amazing from my uncle who's a philosophy professor at NYU
Common app is about my small encounter/debate with a Jehovah Witness<br>
(importance of diversity to you)</p>

<p>Recs:
One from my AP World History teacher/Amnesty International Advisor (she said she
called me one of her fav students in her 30 years of teaching)
Second from my Precalc Teacher, stressing my work ethic in mathematics, even though it is my weakest subject. Its more glowing, but that's the jist of it. </p>

<p><strong>P.S. my average is lower because my school stupidly counts 8th grade courses, two of which are in the 80s, my HS UW average is actually around 96.8. Without counting these courses my W average would be like 97.8, and would probably help my ranking by like at least 8 people. </strong>es me off lol.*</p>

<p>I suppose that's it. To those who post, THANK YOU! Please be harsh if need be.</p>

<p>What's your uncle's name?</p>

<p>Michael Devitt
He teaches at CUNY right now, but he has taught at NYU and like everywhere else around the world haha. its on his wikipedia page if you'd like...</p>

<p>oh ok nvm, I just wanted to know because it would be cool if he was my philosophy teacher, which he's not lol.</p>

<p>anyway I don't really want to chance you because I don't know what's good by cornell standards. but you do have a high gpa and SAT, so that can't be bad.</p>

<p>good chance.</p>