Cornell's Arts and Sciences ED

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Please chance me?</p>

<p>HS Average: 89.7
Last year: 98.something (Physics, Precalc, Music Theory, Participation in Gov., Economics, Spanish- too easy a curriculum for the upswing in grades to be impressive?)
I skipped eighth grade- now I'm attending high school as a postgraduate, but I'm the age of a normal senior.
This year I have roughly a 96, all unweighted AP grades.
SAT: 750 Reading, 610 Math, 730 Writing
ACT: 32</p>

<p>I'm in Marching Band (in which I am a section leader), Jazz Band, Chamber Singers, musicals, Drama Club (of which I am president), and I play flute for the pit orchestra of a community theater group. I work on the sets a lot, too. I am band treasurer. I am a member of the Tri-M Music Honor Society. I got 96 and 97 on my flute and voice solos respectively, which were both All-State 6's.
I didn't do any of this until the end of 11th grade (which, for me, should have been 10th), when I learned to care about my own life. I wrote about this in the A&S supplemental essay, part of which asks the applicant to describe their intellectual evolution.</p>

<p>My subject tests are happening Saturday- Literature, Physics, and Biology. I will knock literature out of the ballpark. Biology will be second best- 700, maybe- but Physics will be close.</p>

<p>My band teacher thinks I'm a genius for getting a 96 on a college-level performance piece just a few months after joining band, and she is writing one of my recommendations.</p>

<p>My essays are very strong, according to people other than myself.</p>

<p>My stepfather went to Cornell's Agriculture school. I am a resident of rural New York.</p>

<p>What are my chances?</p>

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<p>Oh- and I’m sending them a recording of me playing my flute solo. Their music department allows applicants to do that. A private teacher has been helping me.</p>

3

<p>What, am I not speshul enough to be chanced by anyone?</p>

4

<p>Bump! Chance me, you silly runts! :)</p>

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<p>Your GPA and the rigor of your courses are relatively lacking. You scored a 1360 SAT (V+M), which places you on the lower end of the spectrum of admitted Cornellians. ECs are more thorough, and are a strong point of your application, but the previously mentioned points will drag you down rather significantly. Legacy (and is this technically even legacy?) should help a bit, but I think Cornell is a medium-high reach.</p>

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<p>I don’t know a whole lot about Cornell, but a friend of mine from the city (bronx school of science) is applying ED as well, and he’s got a 4.0 GPA 2100 SAT and a 34 on his ACT. He’s really smart. </p>

<p>I think you are probobly a reach, but your SAT is good, and i know colleges like to see an upward trend.</p>

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<p>legacy should help, but your sats and rigor of classes are somewhat lacking, but you should have a shot at ED</p>