Cornell hopefull, chances???

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<p>Hey im looking at several schools for business, and Cornell is one of the top ones. I plan on applying to Cornell CALS for Applied Economics and Management (AEM). Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>

<p>Background
Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)
Sex: Male
Residence: NJ
Graduation Year: 2009
Major interests: Business, Pharmacy (only for RU Pharmacy, everything else - Business)
School: Highly Competetive
Class Size: 620</p>

<p>GPA
100 Scale (School does 100 scale)
UW: 96.17 W: 103.5
4.0 scale
UW: 3.99-4.0 W: 4.6-5.0 (A=4, A-=3.67 system: 4.6…A=4, B=3 system: 5.0)</p>

<p>All Mid-High As on Transcript</p>

<p>SAT/SATII/AP</p>

<p>SAT: 2300
Math-770, Cr-730, Wr-800 (MC 80, Essay 12)</p>

<p>SAT IIs:
Math 2: 760
Chemistry: 750
Bio (Freshman yr): 630 =(
Bio (2nd attempt): ?
1 or 2 more SAT IIs</p>

<p>AP Scores:
Calculus AB: 5
US History: 5
Eng Lang/Comp: 4
Calculus BC (Next year)
Statistics
Chemistry
Lit
Spanish</p>

<p>Rank: School Doesn’t Rank, but top 1%</p>

<p>Course Rigor
AP, H- Honors, CP - College Prep
9th grade
English 1 H 92
Geometry H 93
Biology H 97
World History H 94
Spanish 2 CP 97
Business Presentations 96
Wood Tech 93
H/PE 9 98</p>

<p>10th grade
English 2 H 94
Algebra 2 H 95
Chemistry H 100
U.S. 1 H 96
Spanish 3 CP 99
Art 95
H/PE 10 100
Summer Course at Rutgers Preparatory School (Pre-Calculus) 95</p>

<p>11th grade
AP Language and Composition 93
AP Calculus AB 97
Physics H 96
AP U.S. History 94
Spanish 4 CP 99
Law 97
SAT Prep 100
H/PE 11 99</p>

<p>12th grade
AP Calculus BC
AP Statistics
AP Chemistry
AP Lit
AP Spanish
Economics
Business Organization and Management</p>

<p>Most Rigorous
9th-12th: 8 APs, 9 Honors</p>

<p>Extracurriculurs</p>

<li>(10-12)Future Business Leaders of America (President)</li>
<li>(11-12)Spanish Honor Society (Vice President)</li>
<li>(11-12)Red Cross Club (Red Cross Youth Council Representative)</li>
<li>(11-12)National Honor Society (Blood Drive Committee)</li>
<li>(10-11) JV Tennis Team</li>
<li>(9) JV Track Team</li>
<li>(11-12) Model Congress/Model UN</li>
<li>(9-12) NJ Science League (Scorer)</li>
<li>(10-12) Varsity Academic Team</li>
<li>(10-12) Waksman Student Scholars Club</li>
<li>(11-12) NJ Math League</li>
<li>(9-12) (Out of School) Swadhyay Religious Organization (Youth Group, Street Plays, Speech Elocution Competitions)</li>
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<p>Leadership
FBLA President
SHS Vice President
Red Cross Youth Council Representative
Member on NHS Blood Drive Committee (Advertisement, Recruitment)</p>

<p>Honors/Special Programs</p>

<p>(Honor)

  1. Finalist to NJ Governor’s School of Public Issues</p>

<p>(Special Programs Attended)
2. Johnson & Johnson Technology Awareness Program (10th)
3. Robert Wood Johnson Mini Medical School (11th)
4. REACH Senior Option Internship (Hillsboro Pharmacy) (12th)</p>

<p>(Awards)
5. 4th Place Mathematics Contest of New Jersey
6. 1st Place Geeta Speech Elocution Competition 2007
7. 7th Place (Team) - NJ Science League Physics 1 Team
8. High Honor Roll
9. National Honor Roll
10. National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS)
11. Who’s Who</p>

<p>Volunteer Experience
100 Hours in:

  1. Hillsborough Public Library Summer Teen Volunteer/Reading Buddy Program (help children learn to read well)
  2. Homework Help Center (at library)
  3. Department of Health and Social Services</p>

<p>Work Experience
Possible employment at Hillsborough Public Library (14hrs/week)</p>

<p>Other
Recommendations: 2 Outstanding recommendations, the 2 teachers I am asking love me and will write great recommendations
Counselor Recommendation: great</p>

<p>Thanks again, really appreciate it!</p>

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<p>I hear AEM is a hard school to get into.</p>

<p>You have an excellent GPA, SAT score, and class rank. Based on your classes, it looks like you’ve been trying to take harder and harder coursework which is good (full senior year of AP’s). Keep up the work and don’t slack off. You have a lot of extracurricular, so try to focus on the ones you have been doing for quite a while (more than one year). Talk about your internships as well. I’m not entirely sure about the genuineness of the last two awards you have listed…can someone else help clarify? Otherwise, you have a good looking portfolio, just work on the essay and be sure to turn in all the materials on time. Don’t forget financial aid.</p>

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<p>Sapere, thanks for the review. The last 2 awards are awards that I was nominated for by my school. I dont know whether they bear any weight but I wanted to see if anyone here knows about them and whether I should include them in my application (the NSHSS one has an essay submission scholarship of $1,000 as well).</p>

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<p>Search for some threads about them on this forum. I believe they’re offered to alot of students and you basically pay a fee to get on them…and colleges know that. You’re better off not listing them methinks.</p>

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<p>bump…</p>

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<p>looks good. Your stats are very solid. I would just write strong essays and you would stand a healthy chance of getting in. If you apply ED with strong essays, you would stand about 60% chance, I would say. If u apply RD, it would be around 30%. For RD, the acceptance rate for AEM was around 10% this past year. Nothing is guaranteed for AEM at RD. And, I would also take a look at other top business programs such as NYU Stern, Wharton, Georgetown, and UVa.</p>

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<p>ED and you’re in :slight_smile: (most likely)</p>