<p>I will be applying to CALS early decision in fall of 2010.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.5 UW.
SATS: 2090- Math 730, CR 690, Writing 690
SAT 2: Bio (M) 650 taking math 1 or 2 in october.
APS: Biology, English (junior and senior yr), AB Calc, Spanish, Macro.</p>
<p>EC:
SADD (Student Against Destructive Decisions) - Public Representative last year, VP this year. Youth Court. Local Community Service CLub. Co- president of MUlticultural Society at school. Manager of Boys Varsity Tennis Team 2 years.
Tennis (6 or 7 years) Varsity Team for 3 years. possibility of being team captain.
Indian Classical Dance (10 years)
Work at McDonalds.
Work teaching tennis.
Volunteered teaching dance and tennis.</p>
<p>More APs, higher SATs, and classes and ECs that back up your prospective major/main interest would improve your chances. If you could hit 2150 or 2200 on the SATs, it’d be good - 2090 isn’t a bad score by any means, but improving it would definitely help you.</p>
<p>I’ve taken the SATS twice already…i don’t want to take them again, i don’t think t looks good.
are my bio sat scores alright? i know they aren’t the best, and i should have done better, but that’s what i got…
and i will have taken 6 APS by the end of senior year. and ALL other classes i have ever taken in high school were accelerated or honors classes. not one regents/regular class.
thank you!</p>
<p>If you took the Molecular Bio SAT, then your 650 is in the 51st percentile, which is decent for most schools but probably should be higher for Cornell. If you took the Ecological Bio SAT, then your 650 is in the 67th percencile, which is better but not spectacular. I’d retake it if I were you, but that SAT Subject test score isn’t going to make or break your app in all probability.</p>
<p>The gpa could hold you back; it is on the lower end of what cornell usually accepts. EC"s seem ok to me but its really your gpa and test scores that could be the problem. 650 is a pretty decent score but, compared to the average scores of the other applicants, it is slightly lower.</p>