<p>I can't decide where I want to apply ED. I would be happy at CMU or Cornell, but I want to use my only ED where I have the best chance of getting accepted.</p>
<p>I will be graduating from an extremely competitive private Catholic high school (in Cincinnati), who sends many kids off to Ivy League schools and other top universities, at the end of this school year. Currently, I have an SAT (CR + Math) of 1520 and an ACT of 34. I have decent ECs including many service projects, internships (at a powerful law firm in the Willis Tower), baseball (on a state championship team), and leadership positions with the American Cancer Society. I also have glowing letters of recommendation from my AP Physics teacher and my AP Spanish teacher. Also, if necessary I could get a letter of recommendation from the speaker of the house (family friend and I worked as a page). Additionally, I am considered fluent in Spanish, but I provide no diversity. However, my gpa is only a 3.1 (unweighted). I'm unsure what it is weighted (my counselor said between the 4.1 and 4.6 range), but I have taken 12 honors classes and 4 AP (as of junior year) this year I have two more AP's, a dual enrollment (dual enrolled in Ohio State's college of engineering) and a handful of honors. </p>
<p>Edit:My class rank is about in the middle for my school. My freshman year grades were low because my dad left during the summer before that year and then my mom was out of the picture for a while that year as well. So I made sure to write about that in my essay in order to give an explanation for why my gpa doesn't match up with my letters and test scores.</p>