Columbia, Cornell, and Brown : Yay or Nay

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Here are my stats:</p>

<p>Standarized Tests:</p>

<p>SAT I: Verbal: 720 Math: 720 Writing: 690
SAT II: US History 750 Math IC 780 Math IIC 740 World History 750 </p>

<p>Academics/GPA:</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.9889 out of 4.33
Weighted GPA: 5.7025 out of 6.33
Class Rank: 6 out of 560 students.</p>

<p>EC/Volunteer Work/Sports:</p>

<p>Student Council - Homeroom Representative
Math League Member
Mock Trial - Expert Witness
Interactive Tutoring - Member
Future Buisness Leaders of America - Member
World Language Literary Magazine - Fundraiser Supervisor
EHS Eagles Newspaper - Editor
EIS - Treasurer
JFK Hartwick - Volunteer - 200 Hours
National Honor Society - Member
Spanish National Honor Society - Member
Boy's Spring Tennis - Member</p>

<p>Accolades:</p>

<p>Perfect Attendance Award
Participation - National Spanish Exam</p>

<p>Race: Bengali (Bangladesh)
Sex: Male
Income: Mom - $15,000 a year
Dad - Unemployed
Legacy: None (Both my parents didn't graduate from college in America)
******** Would my family's income/lack of legacy be a hook?**********</p>

<p>Thanks in advance for the answers.</p>

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<p>Low income will help you in some areas.</p>

<p>It wouldn't hurt to have a better writing score. Your SAT II's are tight. Ranks and GPA where they need to be. </p>

<p>Cornell: High Match/Low Reach
Columbia: Reach
Brown: Reach</p>

<p>You still have some great stats, don't be discouraged. Also, get leadership positions. Improve your SATs, especially writing.</p>

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<p>I think your extra-curriculars are too overwhelming....it looks like you're trying to pack in as many as possible, which is always a bad thing....I won't tell you to do anything cause you may regret listening to me, but, if I were you, I'd stick with the clubs I've been in for all of high school and that I have leadership positions in and am INTERESTED in.</p>

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<p>Cornell MAYBE, unfortunately they had a big rise in apps. The others are reaches, you are a "member" of things without being a leader so the ECs are not helping and the stats are only okay. The Ivies are tough, I'd say you'd be successful in the slightly lower (Emory, etc) range of schools.</p>

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<p>None of this is to say that you don't have great stats.</p>

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<p>Sorry, but Asian with below average SAT scores will not be made up for with low income. Columbia and Brown I can't see. Cornell seems possible.</p>

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<p>I think it's a little harsh to say 'below average'. Maybe for schools like Brown, but the scores are still great. I think a school will look at more than SATs anyway, but they still could use improvement for the schools you're looking at.</p>

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<p>Schools do not overlook below average (their average) stats unless you have a major hook (say recruited athlete). If they did their ranking would go down and so would the number of apps creating quite the crisis.</p>

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<p>Theres no such thing as an SAT score that will get you in. Only an SAT score that will keep you out.</p>

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<p>rbcello speaks the truth. In theory, actually, no score can keep you out of any school. In reality, that ain't the way it goes down.</p>