Cornell????

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Can anyone help me out?

Looking to go to Cornell ILR

High School Junior at a catholic school in New York

Hooks: I am a URM (Hispanic), a first generation college student, and I’m also adopted

SAT I (breakdown): 2220 (720 CR) (750 Math) (750 Writing)

ACT (breakdown): not taking

SAT II: chem 710, us 760 , math 2 720 Lit 740

Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7

Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesnt rank

Course Rigor: Frosh- Stage Band Honors, Integrated Geometry Advanced (took Algebra 1 in middle school).
Sophmore- Biology Honors and Global History Honors,
Junior Year: APUSH

AP: US - 5

IB (place score in parenthesis): not available at my school

Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit AP Government Honors Calculus Honors Physics

Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing aside from National Honor society and foreign language honor society

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 150-200 volunteer hours, golf team, bodybuilding, peer tutoring 4 yrs of band, National Honor Society, Foreign Language Honor Society

Job/Work Experience: 3 different jobs in three different businesses

Summer Activities: Worked 20 hrs per week summer of freshmen year
worked 30-35 hours per week summer of soph year
Summer of Junior year got 100 hours of service volunteering at a nursing home

Essays: Extremely strong have been working on it since the day I left from my visit months ago

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Does your high school offer AP courses in math, physics, biology, foreign language, etc…

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^^IB program is very rigorous, usually only the best students in a school are in it, so AP is not necessary.

I’m not sure what you need help with, building the rest of your college list?

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@BrownParent not too sure where you’re seeing the IB part here…

Anyways, apply ED and I think you have a higher chance of getting in than not.

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OH!

IB (place score in parenthesis): not available at my school

I read that he was doing IB but score not available. my bad. why even list this if you are not doing IB? Yes in that case course rigor is hard to gauge. IB implies most rigorous and that’s what OP will want to be checked for whatever his program.

Anyway thanks for pointing it out.