Chances for Cornell

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi.</p>

<p>I have already applied to several schools and am adding Cornell as an option. While I am applying most places for nursing, I am applying to Cornell for biomedical engineering on a whim after my biology teacher encouraged me to apply.</p>

<p>Senior this year at a Newsweek top 20 school, USNWR top 10 school.
GPA: 4.0 Unweighted (our school does not assign weight)
ACT: 34
SAT IIs: Math II - 750 (this is what I'm worried about), Biology M - 780
I won't be retesting anything.
State of Residency (if it helps): Michigan</p>

<p>Class difficulty:
9th and 10th: All honors courses, all considered "pre-IB". I took AP Calc AB in 10th grade, received a 5.</p>

<p>11th: Full IB course load. 3 sciences: IB Bio, Chem and Physics. IB SL Math, IB Lit, IB History, IB Spanish, and TOK. Dual enrolled for a statistics class at a local university first semester.</p>

<p>12th: Same courses as 11th</p>

<p>Academic Awards:
Top Science Award
Summa Cum Laude</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>MUN club president, many awards in MUN</p>

<p>Spanish Honors Society (Officer)</p>

<p>NHS </p>

<p>Science Olympiad Officer (Experimental Design is so much fun!)</p>

<p>Youth Symphony (next year is my 5th year, I'm the principle horn player)</p>

<p>Volunteer Work</p>

<p>Student gov (secretary for three years)</p>

<p>100ish hours of volunteering at nursing home</p>

<p>Youth Leadership Project: Investigated problems related to poverty, hunger, and
homelessness on a local and international level for the course of the year. It was thought inspiring.</p>

<p>Attended TASP at Cornell this summer, and I am applying to the Telluride House at Cornell.</p>

<p>Thank you in advance!</p>

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<p>Bump 10char</p>

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<p>SAT 1 scores? You look like you have good EC but I read that you much want to have somethign that reflects your intended major? I’m not sure myself, I also want to go to cornell but my stats are nothing compared to yours :/</p>

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<p>You have wonderful stats and with a little luck, you’re in at Cornell.</p>

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<p>Cornell is not even a reach for you, its a solid match/safety. Excellent ACT, GPA, and TASP looks amazing, although im wondering how you got TASP based on your ECs…usually TASPers have done something pretty amazing (no offense, but without TASP your ECs are average)</p>

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<p>^With Youth Leadership Project I went to Mexico to investigate the exploitation of workers under NAFTA and the causes of the border crisis. I wrote most of my essays about that, and I think that is why Telluride was interested in me. But I definitely agree with you, I wonder every day why TASP wanted me. Thankfully they did.</p>

<p>Also, my ECs are not entirely average. I have 5 years of performance in Metropolitan Youth Symphony and have pretty extensive involvement in MUN (including awards and leadership, etc).</p>

<p>More chances?</p>

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<p>bump10char</p>

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<p>It’s not a safety like one of the posters said, but it’s very attainable.
Don’t worry about your 750 SAT II Math II, I got a 740 and I’m still applying.
You have excellent chances, good luck my friend.</p>

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<p>Final bump</p>