<p>Major: English
Location: NJ
Age: 20 years old
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Hispanic (Of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent)
Race: White? Native American? Give me a DNA test
Work Experience: 3 months in retail </p>
<p>HS Stats: 3.4 GPA UW, 1180/1900 SATs (CR-600/MTH-580/Writing- 720)
ECs: Solid, 1 Year Varsity Track</p>
<p>College Stats:
Wagner College (2008-2009)
Fall GPA: 3.4, Spring GPA- 3.8, Cumulative GPA- 3.6</p>
<p>NJ Community College (2009-2010) Transferred because my family is extremely poor and I didn't get the necessary amount of financial aid to return to my previous school and hadn't anticipated having to transfer so I was forced to enroll at my local CC.
Fall GPA: 3.7 (B- in a tough general chemistry class)
Spring GPA: 4.0 with just over a month to go. </p>
<p>In-Major GPA: 3.9 (World Literature- A- (Fall 2008), Shakespearean Survey- A (Fall 2009), World Literature II- A (Spring 2010), Topics in Literature: Comedy- A (Spring 2010)</p>
<p>Do I have any shot at Cornell CAS? I hear they have a 9% transfer acceptance rate? My teacher evaluations were excellent, the professors checked all the boxes labeled "top 1% I've ever encountered" and wrote outstanding comments. Also, on my mid-term report, all of the professors wrote incredible comments for me, even the ones who had just met me.</p>
<p>Also for my essays I wrote about how I strive for academic excellence despite my mother's addiction to prescription drugs and not working for the past 6 years and my younger sister's endeavors into the world of drugs, theft (from her own brother! she once stole $300 from me and used it to have a party in the basement with alcohol and pot), alcohol and unprotected sex and how I've used that broken home element to motivate myself. </p>
<p>One huge dilemma though. I filled out my FAFSA and CSS Profile back in Mid-February but I still haven't submitted the Cornell Financial Aid forms. Will get EVERYTHING mailed out tommorow (W-2 Forms, Non-Filing Statement Forms, etc) </p>
<p>And if anyone needs financial aid, I DEFINITELY DO!
Do you think I have any shot at Cornell?</p>