<p>Hey guys! I'm a junior right now and it has always been my dream to go to Cornell. If you guys could check out my stats and see if I'm on track that'd be amazing! If not, what should I do? Thanks!</p>
<p>Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Half black/Half white
School: One of the best public ones in Massachusetts
SAT: 2260 (720 CR 800 W 740 M) First time taking it, will take again
GPA: 3.93 out of 4.00 (unweighted) 8.78/9 weighted
Current classes and grades: APUSH (A-), AP Bio (A), AP French (A), Honors Math (A), Honors English (A) Regular Spanish (A)
PSAT: 218 (99th percentile), Outstanding National Achievement Finalist
ECs: Varsity swimming 3 years (1 out of maybe 5 blacks in league), Environmental Club, Water-Polo Club, Peer Mentoring Program, Guidance Aide for Freshmen, Special Needs Aquatics, French exchange next year
Work: Lifeguard and head swim lesson instructor all year
Awards: Outstanding National Achievement for PSAT, 4th Place in National French Contest, Honorary Mention in City-wide MLK Essay
Others: Speak Russian fluently, Family income ~60,000, Neither of my parents went to college in the USA, going to Africa this summer to my dad's home country to do charity work</p>
<p>GPA: 3.61 weighted
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Asian
SAT: 2080 - Math & Reading alone = 1350
APs: AP Bio: 92 AP US: 85 AP World: 85 AP Chem: 85 AP Economics 85
EC: Varsity swimming (4 years), Key Club (2) , Food Club (1), Student LEadership Club (1), Research Intern at St. Johns (Summer 2011)
Awards: Key Clubber of the Month, Swimming Champions (Division) 2010 to 2011</p>
<p>TBH, Very very low chances for RD though, unless your school has a established reputation for getting many kids into cornell. Here’s why:
RD is tougher than RD and this year RD is expected to be quite tough given the high number of applicants,
Low SAT scores, low grades, meh ecs. Death for an ORM.</p>
<p>vandrew – If you are a NYS kid from a small school that doesn’t send a lot of graduates to Cornell and you are applying to CALS I’d say you have a reasonable shot. Your test scores are actually higher than many of the students who have been admitted to Cornell CALS in our Upstate county over the past 5 years. On the other hand, it appears that your GPA might be a bit lower than what I’ve seen in our local kids who’ve been accepted at Cornell (although you can’t really compare GPAs from one school to another). You also don’t seem to have been involved in many ECs aside from swimming for more than a year or 2. I wouldn’t count on an acceptance but depending upon the school at Cornell you are interested in it is probably worth your effort to apply.</p>