CHANCES FOR URM/HIGH SAT'S/DECENT GPA for CORNELL

<p>hey guys im a hispanic junior and im trying to see if i have the stats that could possibly lead up to an acceptance to Cornell...just evaulate thanks.</p>

<p>school is ranked 115 among all public schools in nation...wealthy suburb</p>

<p>EDIT: i have a serious upward trend in my high school transcript (low grades(B) to all A's , minimal honors --> all honors/AP)</p>

<p>Stats:
PSAT: 225
SAT IIs: ive only taken math 2- 770...gonna take chem and us history at the end of the school year- Practices give range between 770-800 on each.
GPA: 3.73 uw
Rank: don't rank(not even decile)... extremely competitive school in long island,ny</p>

<p>Currently taking 2 AP's/3 honors(most my schedule will allow and will take 5/6 AP's or so next year (calc, macro/micro,physics, english,government)</p>

<p>All honors/AP classes 11th and 12th , made honor roll all of 10th,11th</p>

<p>Going to be taking the AMC12 in january or so...im really not sure how im gonna do because i dont really know about the AMC but my school invited me to take the test ...so im expecting to do okay</p>

<p>ECS:*President of Astronomy Club( conducted astronomy night at my school, conduct observing sessions every other week)
*Captain of club soccer team(cant play varsity because of religious obligations)(3 years)[Outdoor/indoor soccer for 3 years])-hoping to explain this obligation in my app.
*Drill Seargent of Church Youth Group(3 years)
*Master Guide of Seventh Day Adventist "Pathfinders" organization, kind of like a huge youth organization for my denomination.Master guide is the highest rank you can achieve. [pretty much a religious eagle scout type thing]
*Currently working as administrative assistant/research assistant at New Age Skin Research Foundation[will be mentioned as co-researcher in study that will be published in top dermatological journal]
*4 year dedicated member of mathletes
*3 year dedicated member of Model Congress(competed 2 years Yale,1 year Harvard, 1 year UPenn)</p>

<p>*~300 hours volunteering at LIJ Medical Center
*NHS-regular and french.
*2 years Website club</p>

<p>Summer Programs
*Attended Johns Hopkins CTY[discreet math] 9th grade
*Attended Cornell University Summer College[bioethics-contemporary medicine] 10th grade
*Going to attend One of-(Caltech SSP/MIT MITES/Caltech YESS/Garcia Research program-Polymers in biology) 11th-12th grade summer</p>

<p>Awards(as of now)
*Ventures Scholar
*National Hispanic Scholar
*NMSF/Commended</p>

<p>Other Factors:dad from Egypt, Mom from Peru. im gonna say extremely humble beginnings but im not exactly sure if thats a factor in admissions.
Hook (if any): Hispanic i guess.? some research stuff as well
Location/Person:LI,NY
State or Country: USA
School Type: extremely competitive public...last year about the top 10-12% of about 400-500 kids in the graduating class went to ivy league and a couple of other went to places like Stanford, MIT,etc.
Ethnicity: Hispanic/Arabic
Gender: m</p>

<p>dude, you've started a chance thread at least 40 times already...chill out. once again, yer fine...take some real SAT's now, just because you do good on practice tests doesn't mean you'll do good on the real thing.</p>

<p>actually this was mostly aimed towards my gpa cause im kinda worried with a 3.7</p>

<p>and the practice sats were real ones from 2-3 years ago...so</p>

<p>you're innnnnnnnnnn</p>

<p>thanks for the confidence booster <3</p>

<p>lolw hy was it moved</p>

<p>don't worry bout it, yer urm status will boost it up, and 3.7 isn't bad.</p>

<p>thanks man i appreciate it ... and im sorry bout the other posts</p>

<p>i'm sooo confused...psat? wait what is ur sat score?</p>

<p>oh nvm lol...=D gl juniotr -D</p>

<p>Thanks Man</p>

<p>"im sorry bout the other posts"</p>

<p>^lol i wasn't annoyed or anything, bro, I'm just saying that you've got pretty much a comprehensive perspective of where yer at...getting more views won't help, getting those SAT's done with will</p>