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<p>Hi, I'm a soon to be senior and have been agonizing over the college admission process. I'm not sure if Cornell is my #1 choice but I am certainly considering it. One of the reasons for this is that I am a NY resident and the price is very tempting. If you could give me your thoughts/opinions about applying to Cornell, whether it be ED or regular admission it would be greatly appreciated. I am fairly confident about my grades and scores but feel like I might not have enough EC's. I also am questioning what school to apply to; I wish to be a biology major, with possibly a double major or minor in history. I want to become a surgeon. My stats are...</p>

<p>SAT I: 760-Crit, 710-Math, 710-Writing (Any thoughts on whether to take it again in the hopes of raising my math score 30 points and breaking 2200 and 1500?)
SAT II's: World History-770, U.S. History-800, Math IIC-770</p>

<p>GPA: Not sure on the 4.0 scale exactly but probably around a 3.8. It's a 93 with a 98 being the conversion for an A+ at my school. I attend a top public high school that has no grade inflation, etc. My grades are also on an upward trend. I slacked off a bit fresh and sophmore years, being happy with A-'s. Junior year I had about a 4.0. </p>

<p>Classes: AP Euro-5, AP American-probably 5, AP Chemistry-probably 4,
Will be taking AP Bio, AP Econ, AP Literature, AP Calc BC. I have taken honors courses in all of the solids, except for Spanish, (I am in regular Spanish) which I will have taken 5 years of when I graduate, ( I had a bad freshman Spanish experience).</p>

<p>Extracuriculars: Varsity ski racing, 9-12.
JV skiing - 8th grade.
Also participate in ski racing outside of the school, but I don't know how to highlight that on my applicaion or whether it would even affect it.
Varsity tennis-11th grade.
JV tennis - 8th, 9th
150 hours Comunity Service
Elected Class Secetary for the senior class
NHS, I hope to become more involved in it as I have just been inducted</p>

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<li>Oh yes, almost forgot. I did an internship with a thoracic surgeon the summer before my junior year. I am doing another this summer with an orthopedic surgeon. Anyone think this will help my chances much?</li>
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<p>No offense man (woman?) but I don't know you so I can't really gauge whether or not you'll do better on the SAT next time. I'd do it--why not? As for your chances, like basically everyone else who asks about chances on this forum you've succeeded in high school and have a decent chance.</p>

<p>if you want the cheap tuition that you mentioned you'll have to apply to the CALS biology program instead of the CAS one, since CAS isn't a contract college. however, if you want to double major or minor in history I think you need to be in CAS.</p>