Chances for Cornell RD!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>my list of schools:</p>

<p>UC Irvine
UCSB
UCLA
UC berkeley
UC San Diego
Georgetown
Columbia (ED?)
Johns Hopkins ( maybe)
Stanford (EA or RD need help deciding)
northwestern
brown
Princeton(ED)-Common APP
U of Chicago EA
Cornell-COMMON APP
Harvard-Common APP
Carnegie Mellon-Common APP (maybe)
Duke-COMMON APP (maybe)
Dartmouth-Common APP ( maybe)
Upenn-COMMON APP</p>

<p>that's a lot of schools, so how do I cut them down? what I'm looking for in a school:</p>

<p>-mediocre weather
-nice buildings
-good surrounding city with lots to do
-GRADE INFLATION ( easier to get A's than other schools... I know university of Chicago has grade deflation which is horrible)
-i need to get into a good law school, which school will help me do this?</p>

<p>My stats:
- My fully weighted g.p.a that even weights college summer courses is:
9-11 4.1 W ( Georgetown EA, or Univer of Chicago EA or Columbia ED)
9-12 4.2 W ( RD applications most of those schools) 3.7 uw
10-11 4.5 W 3.88 uw(princeton ED, uc's) uc g.p.a is 4.2 capped
10-12 4.57 W 3.91 uw ( Stanford ) RD</p>

<p>please keep in mind this is my FULLY weighted gpa means weighting colleges summer courses taken at uc berkeley as well</p>

<p>SAT 1: 2200
SAT 2: US 770, MATH 2c 790, math 1c 780</p>

<p>HUGE UPWARD TREND IN GRADES!! i have great valid reasons for this! Will schools even take pity on me and might even consider taking out freshman year? I emailed Dartmouth undergrad and they said they might and that would make my gpa about a 3.9 + uw at every school I apply to and that would make a HUGE difference in RD or ED/EA applications</p>

<p>rec's and essays should be good... i'm spending a lot of time on them even now!</p>

<p>EC's:
Dance-Volunteer-10 years ( won many awards)</p>

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<p>500 hours of comm service... i helped at numerous places for variety</p>

<p>Majoroli sci/econ... wanna do celebrity or corporate law</p>

<p>9-12 grade 30/580
10-11 grade: 4/580
10-12 grade: 5/580
9-11 grade: 40/580</p>

<p>this shows how bad I did freshman year : (</p>

<p>1st Place-School Science Fair-School
Community Service Award granted by the City
Gold Community Service Award
30 Boy Scout Merit Badges and many hiking awards
Eagle Scout and previous ranks- 10 years
Boy Scout positions- Senior leader and troop guide
2nd Place- We the People Competition - State
Undefeated Tennis Award -City and local Community</p>

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<h2>Also pertaining to my majors Poli sci and econ i did many things including starting many business and one online business hosts leagues for sports via Xbox and is estimated to make 2k -10k a month i only get 50 percent of commision though : ( maximum profit it can make 2.2 million a year... : ) i'm hoping! Business is risky</h2>

<p>I am in the youth commission which means i represent my community with 70,000 people. I also am in charge of 15,000 dollars that i grant loans to agencies around the city to help benefit the low income of my city. I work directly with the mayor, city government. : ) I might get a recommendation from the mayor</p>

<p>I founded and president of 2 clubs that involves rigorous community service</p>

<p>500 hours of comm service... i helped at numerous places for variety</p>

<p>i'm the comm service MASTER ... haha yeah i think that might be my hook</p>

<p>For my eagle project i started a blood drive and it involved 200 hrs of comm service and planning... </p>

<p>Football 400 yard sprint winner</p>

<p>honor roll, but that isn't important and also almost perfect attendance so far</p>

<p>also which schools do you think I should totally cross off my list because I won't even have a slight chance there.. please be honest thanks!</p>

<p>ED: Princeton or Columbia or Penn
EA: University of Chicago
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Ok here's how I see it, my main goal is to apply to as many places as I can early? Why? If i get accepted my senior year will be 400 % better... So i need to know my chances for these early applications above : ) I can relax, party, so virtually I need to know what school i'll have the best chance at early...</p>

<p>i'm applying to UoC for sure early now deciding between Penn, Columbia, or Princeton ED</p>

<p>Did summer programs at UC Berkeley and did quite well</p>

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<p>fairly good chance</p>

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<p>"GRADE INFLATION ( easier to get A's than other schools... I know university of Chicago has grade deflation which is horrible)"</p>

<p>You won't like cornell. They have grade deflation, too.</p>

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<p>is this a joke?</p>

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<p>WOW grade deflation is killing me! : ( </p>

<p>o well... thanks!</p>

<p>will they help me get into a good law school... its obviously myself, but is it easier to graduate and go onto a good grad school by going to an ivy ( Cornell)</p>

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<p>You want moderate weather? Cornell's whether is not moderate, and so is Dartmouth's. Both places have heavy snow storms in the winter that may be worse than Boston's (and Boston's storms are nowhere near moderate.)</p>

<p>Have you visited any of your schools? If you haven't, I advice you to do so. just applying for a name will make you regret. even all the ivies are VERY different from each other. You won't like all of them if you visit, unless... you're credulous.</p>

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<p>problem is... i visit during the summer always. I have no time to visit during the winter and I know it snows there... Ths list is a rough draft obviously... Cornell is my back up and I never wanted to apply to Dartmouth anyway. : (</p>

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<p>Mediocre weather? Grade INFLATION?</p>

<p>Just go to your state school. Jesus christ, I have never heard of a serious student looking for a place where there's grade inflation.</p>

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<p>dude your paying 50,000 dollars a year... thats about the family salary of most homes in America... weather I can deal with, but if professors give you horrible grades because they want to or the fact that only 20 % of kids get A' in a class... then that's ridiculous... 50,000 a year ....think</p>

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<p>You're saying you don't want to pay 50k if you won't get straight A's? What happened to EARNING grades based on the quality of your work? Or is that just a thing of the past...</p>

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<p>I've never seen someone as superficial as you skymall. If Cornell is your backup, don't come to this forum. You're insulting everyone. If you never wanted to apply for Dartmouth, you should have told the admissions office "I don't care about your school" when you e-mailed them. If you want to use your 50k well, save it in the bank and never go to college. That will serve you good. Cuz people who deserve to go to these first-tier colleges are people who are willing to work and who deserve what they get. And guess what, 20% people getting As aren't bad at all. If you go to Harvard, the grade is curved so NEVER will someone like YOU get an A.</p>

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<p>dude who the hell looks for a place that they will give you grades, somewhere where you wont earn them. Is that the difference between freshman year and your other years, you found out ways to inflate grades. Thats just horrible. Yes Cornell might be the "easiest" school to get into, but you will work your behind off earning that 3.7 and when you graduate you will be amongst a network of Cornell graduates pretty much guaranteeing you a job anywhere. Sorry dude: not a backup school.</p>

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<p>um... maybe if you were brilliant you could analyze back-up as not a safty based on my stats, but a back-up just because of grade deflation and FREEZING STORMY WINTERS... hm... and a 3.7 gpa won't cut it for some of the top law schools... WOW I work hard for my A's... but curves these days allow only 10 % of a class to earn an A. Bell curves I guess are the new stupid thing , right? No matter how hard you work, your grade is based on how well your peers do... this introduces cut throat competition... are you paying 50K a year for that? That's why I'm on this website to avoid schools like that... and if Cornell fits that, as I seem it does, then i might as well cross it off my list</p>

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<p>You don't think law schools are going to be aware of grading at schools, especially a top university like Cornell? I don't know of the grade deflation, but it only makes sense that any law school will have an idea of how grades worked wherever you went. And if you aren't going to be top 10% in a class and at least try to compete, what kind of lawyer will you really be? Not saying you have to be top 10%, but at least have a goal instead of looking for the easiest way to get the highest GPA so you can get into the best law school possible. I don't think it works like that. And if you are a generally hard worker for your grades, but you don't get the ones you want and don't get the law school you want, will that make you any worse of a lawyer? I doubt it. What will make you a worse lawyer is always trying to find the easiest way out of tough situtations.</p>

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<p>this isn't a tough situation.. this is a deadly situation.. people not lending help to others, people stealing books, calculators, and sometimes to the point of physically and verbally abusing other students... you don't think it happens because you've never seen it. Competition can be healthy, but to this point, it's muder and paying 50K for it, is well you do the thinking...</p>

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<p>Just stop talking. Please. You have no idea what you are talking about. No one is going to set your notes on fire. No one is going to sabatoge your experiments. Outside of a few weeder science classes, most of the classes at Cornell are curved more than fairly (10% receive A's, where'd u hear that?). 3.7 GPA from Cornell is competitive for any law school provided you have the LSAT and EC's to back it up. </p>

<p>Of course, you'll never have to deal with competition and hardwork when you're trying to make partner in a law firm ;) hahaha</p>

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<p>Cornell will reject people with perfect sat scores and amazing gpas if they think you're using it as a back-up.</p>

<p>Apply to Harvard, because you aren't going to go to Cornell.</p>

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people not lending help to others, people stealing books, calculators, and sometimes to the point of physically and verbally abusing other students... you don't think it happens because you've never seen it. Competition can be healthy, but to this point, it's muder and paying 50K for it, is well you do the thinking...

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<p>HAHAHAHAHHAAHHA!!! You gave such a hearty laugh, I think I can go into my Math 192 class in 10mins with big smile on my face.
Anyways, No! Such things DO NOT happen here. Guys have been really helpful. I haven't yet got my Thomas Calculus, and use the book of my floormate's. Ppl will help you out, unless u come with an attitude like urs.</p>

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<p>Ohh bapu ji! namaste shanku! bohat khoobsurat hai!</p>

<p>I don't even go to college yet and I pretty much know what goes on. I did summer school at Berkeley and its based a bell curve. I do hope you know what that means. 10-20 % of kids get A's... aand the average gpa is around 3.2 or 3.3 for undergrads. It means your grade isn't based on how hard you try and your ability level ( of course to an extent it does matter), but more so on how well your peers do... thus, if their grade goes down, your goes up... many of my friends asked each other for help, yet there wasn't that same sense of help given... Pretty much i'll admit that if others have to fail for my grade to go up, so be it... and i'm pretty sure that's how it goes in Cornell and most other colleges...So pretty much the ivies arn't perfect and neither is any school in America. Pretty much the perfect school would combine Stanfords grade inflation, UCLA's weather,beaches and girls, and princeton's academic quality. So pretty much if there was an ivy in so cal it would probably be the most popular in America.</p>

<p>Why spend 50,000 if your going to get a good education , but a ****ty grade?</p>

<p>When was the last time you used quadratic functions in your everyday life? How about physics? Chemistry? It really isn't needed all that matters is the grade you get out of it. Most of the subjects you learn in school you won't ever use them in your later life, it only depends on your major and your field of study.</p>

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<p>err If you do well than all of your peers, then you shouldn't have to worry about the curve at all.</p>

<p>If you aren't that good to be the best, why should you deserve that perfect GPA? oO</p>