Hello,
I am considering ED To Cornell Hotel School. Please chance me.
Unweighted GPA: 94.45
Weighted GPA: 98.75
Act: 34
Freshman year
Honors English Honors
Soc Studies Honors
Spanish Honors
Geometry regular
Earth Science
Band
Independent Study
Soph Year:
Ap Comp Sci
Bio Honors
English Honors
Soc Honors
Spanish Honors
Alg 2 Regular
Band
Indep. Study
Junior Year:
AP Lang Apush
Ap Stat Ap
Art history
Chem regular
pre calc regular
spanish honors
senior year I will be taking
Ap Gov
AP MAcroecon
Ap Lit Ap pysch
Ap environmental science
Spanish 5 Honors
Calc regular
band
Extra circulars: Marching Band-Trumpet Captain
Stock Market Club-President
Community Service Club- Vice President
Quiz Bowl Team -Varsity Captain
Peer Drug Educator
Freshman Orientation Committee
Sports: Varsity Tennis Captain 4years captain 1 year
Jv Basketball Captain 2 years
Writing Competitions: I have won about 5 writing competitions throughout High School. Most of them are travel based while one is history based.
Publications: I have six publications.
Topics
-travel
-economics
-Pres. Zachary Taylor
Photography publications in National Geographic and Travel and Leisure
Work Experience: I interned at my local hotel for 3 months.
I also did a marketing internship this past summer.
I worked at a local political campaign freshman year.
I also do freelance photography and have made a small company out of it. I thought my experience in the hotel experience and my travel photography and writing make me a good “fit” for the program. Please let me know your thoughts! Thank you!
(Another tip-be yourself in the essay-of course it must be well written but you do not need to try to sound smarter by using crazy big words for example). They see through this. Also, good advice that I have heard was that when they are reading the essay they should be excited for the chance to meet you the following year. Also you have taken a lot of clubs which is great, but you should talk about the meaning of doing all those clubs-even better would be to have a couple themes with why you chose certain clubs eg. to show leadership. What you don’t want is for it to seem like you took those clubs to just fill up your resume. You have great scores and gpa, I think you just need to showcase your application in a smart way like I mentioned above! Good luck, let me know if you get in!-from a Cornell reject (who made these mistakes) to accepted transfer student 