<p>My son is very interested in Cornell's premed program. Here is his profile:
Academics: ACT 33 (M:36/35, E: 34/29, S: 35/34, R: 28/35) super score 35
GPA: 4.31
SAT II Math 800 Bio 790
Junior courses: AP Bio, AP EnvSci, AP Psych, AP Lit.
Hon. Math and Hon. Spanish. All As
Senior courses: AP Stats, AP CalcBC, AP Chem, AP Spanish
and another AP( but forgot the name)
Other than some school tutoring on math and Spanish plus some weekend volunteering work at the local food pantry. Most of his spare time is spent on club and varsity swimming. Made the state final as junior. likely will make junior national next season but it might be too late for consideration. Nor sure whether he can be recruited by Cornell as a swimmer given his current best times. Does he stand a chance for regular decision or the only way is to go for ED? Thanks.</p>
<p>As far as swimming, here are the time standards: <a href=“http://www.cornellbigred.com/documents/2010/8/19/Tryout_standards_converted.pdf[/url]”>http://www.cornellbigred.com/documents/2010/8/19/Tryout_standards_converted.pdf</a>
Majors that students use as a foundation to Med. school can be found in 3 different colleges at Cornell. Colleges of Arts & Science, Ag & Life Sciences, & Human Ecology. My D is a Human Development major in the College of Human Ecology. they have a track within that major that is geared for med. school. College of Human Ecology does have a relatively high (over 30%) admit rate for ED. I would encourage you to take a hard look at it.</p>
<p>ACT is not superscored</p>
<p>I am not sure what you mean by premed program since Cornell does not have a specific premed program. Unless you mean the major biological sciences since it contains all the necessary prerequisite courses that fulfill medical school requirements? </p>
<p>You can technically be a ‘premed’ in any major as long as you take all necessary courses.<br>
Your son looks like he is a competitive applicant for Cornell. However, not sure about swimming though. It would probably be more useful if you do some research on the Cornell website or through the link csdad provided.</p>
<p>@renyun, you are right. I use the term loosely not to indicate major. He was looking at both CAS and ALS. now that @csdad mentioned that College of Human Ecology maybe that is another alternative. Does Cornell allow kids to apply individual school/colleges separately? </p>
<p>As for his swimming, I was under the assumption that D1 recruiting for class of 2018 is done already(i.e. “slots” are filled). Frankly, My best hope is that swimming would help his application a bit. Actual swimming for D1 school is an entire different matter. Swimming being the arguably most hard/time consuming sport to train for. I am not sure how it will impact his academics.</p>
<p>When I applied to Cornell, Cornell allowed me to apply to two colleges. The first of course being my first choice and a second choice college. I’m not sure if they still do this on Common app but if they do, you can look into CAS, ALS and HumanEc. Also, each college have different graduation requirements, like CAS have the most strict requirements out of the three including a language requirement. You should look into each and see which college fits your son the best and apply. </p>
<p>If your son is premed, any kind of athletics like swimming will be difficult to manage. I have a bio friend who is on the swim team and he always have something related to swimming every weekend. That being said, it will be difficult but not unmanageable. Just depends on how well your son can manage his time.</p>
<p>I am not sure how much swimming will improve his application but it is better than nothing. Perhaps he can even write a personal statement or a supplemental essay out of his swimming experiences which will definitely be unique and may potentially improve his chances with adcoms.</p>