<p>Applied A&S Chemistry and Chemical Biology
SATI:720 Math/640 Verbal
SATII's:720 MathIIC, 750 Chemistry, 660 Writing
GPA is on a 9 pt scale... kinda weird. Messed up pretty bad freshman/sophomore year. Transcript shows great growth from sophomore-->now. Grades then were probably around top 30ish% and now my grades would put me in the top 5% (at a school that's ranked 34th in the nation.</p>
<p>Legacy (pops graduated 4th out of the school of engineering)</p>
<p>Very strong first sememester senior grades in AP Chem, AP physics, AP Environmental Science, and AP calculus AB. 95+, and the classes are very well regarded; physics class has the highest passing percentage in the world on the APs (westlake high school).</p>
<p>Great extracurricular: Over 400 hours logged
Eagle Scout
Led church retreats for 4 years (over 200 hours of church-oriented service)
Student Council</p>
<p>Essays:
I wrote a very strong essay on my mother becoming blind and dealing with that, describing the effects of that on my grades freshman/sophomore year.</p>
<p>I'd say your SAT Verbal might hurt you, but you make up for it, so you've got about just as much chance as anyone else.</p>
<p>Don't try to make excuses about why you got bad grades your Freshman and Sophomore year because colleges don't like to see that.</p>
<p>It wasn't an essay revolving around something as shallow as grades. I touched on it as something that was effected in one sentence with 2 other topics in it. Sorry, I was somewhat rushed in putting together that post so it's very incomplete.</p>
<p>I've never seen them reject an Eagle Scout. :D. I milked that one for all it's worth; wrote 2 or 3 essays about scouting. They ate it right up. They value that very highly, because obtaining the eagle rank measures qualities that, frankly, arent used in a lot of other activities (true leadership, integrity, teamwork, that kinda stuff). </p>
<p>Scores look good. SATI is a little low, but not too bad.</p>
<p>Legacy is big. They like that. </p>
<p>It would be nice to see some more EC's to fill it out.</p>
<p>Why didn't you apply ED? Holding out hope for some other Ivies? You know your dad would disown you if you went anywhere else....</p>
<p>Not ED for a number of reasons... planning on med school and i don't want to get my throat slit in the middle of the night at Cornell. A few schools that I'm applying too have much better premed programs than Cornell, who also pads it's med school stats by having prereq's to declaring "premed". </p>
<p>unfortunately I didn't write any essays on scouting. I have a ton more EC activities, interned with two anesthesiologist, worked 40+ hours a week during 3 summers lifeguarding (red cross certified CPR-professional rescuer/first aid-professional rescuer), mediation training (40+ hours), varsity soccer, etc. </p>
<p>No black marks that they know of. Deferred Adjudication for the win.</p>
<p>Anyone know when letters are mailed for RD?</p>