<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Reading: 730
[</em>] SAT Math: 800
[<em>] SAT Writing: 750 (79MC 8E)
[</em>] SAT Total: 2280
[<em>] SAT II: Math II-800, US history-750, BioE-750
[</em>] AP/IB taken/scores: Calc BC/AB (5/5), Env. Sci (4), Biology (5), US History (5), US Gov (4), Music Theory (5), Comparative Gov (5), Stats (5)
[<em>] GPA unweighted: 3.94
[</em>] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): Top 7% of 780
[li] Academic Awards: National AP Scholar, National Merit Commended, a few regional science awards, nothing prestigious…</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Important ECs: Chamber Orchestra (Concertmaster), MN Music Listening Contest (Founder and Captain), Science Olympiad (Captain), Senior Service Project (Officer), Young Democrats (Secretary of State)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Usher at Orchestra Hall, Violin teacher, Cashier/Server at Sbarro in the summer
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Um, basically I organized a few fundraisers for orchestra and about 100 hours “everywhere”
[</em>] Essays: Decent, commonapp about fixing my violin. Supplement about interest in engineering.
[<em>] Teacher Rec #1: Decent
[</em>] Teacher Rec #2: Decent
[<em>] Additional Rec: Orchestra Teacher of three years
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Knows me very well in a huge class
[li] Hook (if any): None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Minnesota
[</em>] School Type: Large public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>] Gender: Female
[li] Legacy Yes/No: Nope</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted/offered guaranteed transfer:
Took hard classes and female in engineering. </p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc:
Good luck on March 31!</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I can’t say that Arch’s attitude is rare in Cambridge. There’s a reason why Harvard and MIT alums aren’t always held in the highest regard. A little bit of modesty could go a long way in this world.</p>
<p>This caught my eye too, and I would never make such an obscene statement. I think that a lot of adcoms are pretty good at weeding out the arrogant pricks. They exist, but most people I know at big name schools (MIT, Harvard, and Cornell included) are very humble. I’ve spent a lot of time in Cambridge, and people are much more thankful to be blessed with being able to be there rather than flaunting their achievements.</p>
<p>On a side note, my friend with a 2400 SAT/800’s on 4 SAT II’s, valedictorian of his school, and hispanic URM was rejected from Cornell two years ago. I kid you not; I didn’t believe it myself, but it goes to show that stats aren’t everything. This is a rare case, but it’s a very eye-opening example that should knock Nuke off of his high horse.</p>
<p>Especially stats that are obtained on one saturday morning- tests. If there’s one thing i regret it’s procrastinating and waiting till the last test date to take them. Additionally my chem score 690 was so low because this year is my first year of chemistry, didn’t take it before (i’m in AP) so i had a lot to catch up on-this was partially my fault since my low freshman gpa barred my entrance into pre ap chemistry low gpa due to family issues. So this shows that there are circumstances surrounding test scores which aren’t reflected very well. It is common knowledge that standardized tests are not very good indicators,Moreover that girl with even lower stats might not have come from a good school or only recently learned english. In short, don’t be so quick to judge. sorry about grammar writing in style of J Joyce stream of consciousness.</p>
<p>Really?! I take it you have never been in a meeting with a bunch of MIT alums who all seem to go out of their way to show off their brass rats.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately this may be an instance of a Tufts or a WashU syndrome… I always took a bit of pride in the fact that Cornell doesn’t reject over-qualified individuals, but stories like this one seem to popping up a bit more. </p>
<p>That said, it still could have been a case of a lack of ‘fit’, depending on which school they applied to at Cornell.</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT Reading: 800
SAT Math: 720
SAT Writing: 800
SAT Total: 2320
SAT II: 790 Lit, 780 U.S., 770 World
TOEFL (if applicable): N/A
ACT (if applicable): N/A
AP/IB taken/scores: World History (5), U.S. History (5), English Lang/Comp (5), Studio Art-Drawing (5), Studio Art-2D Design (4), Psychology (5), taking Calc BC, English Lit/Comp, and Euro this year
GPA weighted (if applicable): dont know how this works
GPA unweighted: 4.0
Rank or % estimate (if applicable): 12/470
Academic Awards:
National Merit Finalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, National Honor Society, National French Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, state recognition on National French Exam</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: spent a lot of time on them and really tried to make them genuine and original. had feedback from teachers and friends. also have won several writing awards and have a true interest in writing.
teacher recs: probably pretty generic. i asked some very popular teachers at my large public school so they had a million other recs to write
Additional Rec: None
Counselor Rec: generic and written in incorrect english (yay public school!)
Hook (if any): i am an artist and sent in slides. also have won lots of writing awards and had leadership positions in multiple activities</p>
<p>Location:
State or Country: TN
School Type: large, competitive public
Ethnicity:white
Gender: female
Legacy Yes/No: Nope
Recruited Yes/No: Nope
Important ECs: co-captain of cross country team, vice president of youth group, officer in model united nations, officer in another student group, lots of other stuff
Other Factors: i planned a program for my youth group that dealt with the abuses at abu ghraib. i described this program in detail and sent it in to the admissions office</p>
<p>Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted/offered guaranteed transfer:
it’s all about being out of the ordinary! distinguish yourself from the other qualified yet stereotypical candidates! i think the fact that i’m an artist/writer, plus my well-roundedness as far as extracurriculars really helped, as did the amount of time i spent on my essays</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Congrats to those who got in, good luck to those who are still waiting!</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT Reading: 680
[ *] SAT Math: 700
[ *] SAT Writing: 680
[ *] SAT Total:2060
[ *] SAT II: math: 740, physics: 670, German: 700 (that’s low considering I’m fluent…)
[ *] TOEFL (if applicable):
[ *] ACT (if applicable): 32
[ *] AP/IB taken/scores: too many, but full IB
[ *] GPA weighted (if applicable): 4.77 or 4.8 (somewhere there)
[ *] GPA unweighted: 3.9
[ *] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): 5 (medium sized public school)
[ *] Academic Awards:</p>
<p>[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays: coming to America and the second one was crap
[ *] Teacher Rec #1: physics teacher
[ *] Teacher Rec #2: English Teacher (amazing probably)
[ *] Additional Rec:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Hook (if any): not American citizen, German and Serbian citizen. speak three languages and learning 4th. left because of the wars in the 90’s in the Balkans</p>
<p>[ /list][ b]Location:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: CA
[ *] School Type: public
[ *] Ethnicity: white
[ *] Gender: Female
[ *] Legacy Yes/No: no
[ *] Recruited Yes/No: nope
[ *] Important ECs:Extra Hands for ALS, bridges Task Force (leader)</p>
<p>[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]</p>
<p>[ b]Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted/offered guaranteed transfer:[ /b] I’m a chick that digs math…guess that is rare</p>
<p>[ b]General Comments/Congratulations/etc:[ /b] Don’t know what to do!?! I wasn’t expecting anything from the east coast schools</p>
<p>if u think about it TONS of people have gotten into cornell/cornell like schools without deserving it at all pretty much JUST because theyre a minority/female.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Reading: 680
[</em>] SAT Math: 710
[<em>] SAT Writing: 700
[</em>] SAT Total:2090
[<em>] SAT II: 700, 750, 800
[</em>] ACT (if applicable): 34, 45 superscore
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: 3 of em all 5s
[</em>] GPA weighted (if applicable): 99.7
[<em>] GPA unweighted: 94.5
[</em>] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): top 10% is all i kno
[li] Academic Awards: mad science research awards </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays:
[</em>] Teacher Rec #1: superb
[<em>] Teacher Rec #2: good
[</em>] Additional Rec:
[<em>] Counselor Rec: crap
[</em>] Hook (if any): none</p>
<p>[/ul]Location:[list]
[<em>] State or Country: New York
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White as hell
[</em>] Gender: male
[*] Legacy Yes/No: nope</p>
<p>I agree. If anyone got accepted to Cornell, its because they deserve it. They worked hard in high school and Cornell felt like they would be a worthy contribution to the school. If it was all about filling quotas, I would lose faith completely in the admissions process. </p>
<p>If someone had particularly low stats according to you, they could have had spectacular essays and/or incandescent teacher recommendations that got them in. I’m sure it isn’t just about racial status.</p>
<p>but wut if someone got accepted and they never worked hard at all, didnt get good grades, didnt win any awards, had low test scores cause they fell asleep while taking it, and didnt bother to write any decent essays</p>
<p>but they were one of 20 people of their race/gender and got in cause of that?</p>