ED CALS Chances

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>I Posted this on the chances section and didn't get too many responses. Thanks for looking.</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA- 96, don't know weighted.
will have taken 11 AP's upon graduation.
senior year-
AP: bio, Environmental science, spanish, calc ab, us gov, Lit
Junior year-
US History (5), Physics B (4), Lang (5), Psych (5)
sophomore year-
World history (3, lol)</p>

<p>SAT: 2270 superscore (800 M, 770 W (10E), 700 CR). Didn't take ACT.
SAT2s: 770 chem, 750 us history, 690 Bio e (9th grade)
School doesn't rank or put in percentiles, so I am not sure. Probably in top 5%.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>over 700 hours total volunteer, including hospital work, working with kids with disabilities, tutoring, etc. Have letter of approval for each activity</p>

<p>Astronomy club: president for second year
Technology club: vice president second year
Math club: all four years (no office position)
National Honors Society</p>

<p>Research:
Have had three successful science research projects throughout high school. Tenth grade won various county and state wide first place awards. currently doing research with various scientists, hopefully will be published by application time, applying to Siemens and Intel. Hoping for semifinalists in both.</p>

<p>Ap scholar with distinction.</p>

<p>Have over 50 hours of shadowing doctors.</p>

<p>Those are the major EC's, I have other minor ones with some awards though not as important to me as these.</p>

<p>Summers:</p>

<p>9th grade- volunteering
10th grade- highly prestigious science program, research
11th grade- Research through research program (highly prestigious, accepts about 30 out of hundreds of applicants).
12th grade- Probably will continue to research</p>

<p>Essays:
Counselor loved them, really different compard to others I have seen.</p>

<p>Letter Rec's
Formal: 11th grade AP US teacher, 11th grade AP lang teacher, both should be incredible.
My mentor is going to send one in as well, which should be interesting.</p>

<p>Sending in my research abstract as well.</p>

<p>Thanks again.</p>

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<p>I think…
If you’re an URM, it is most likely even under regular decision.
If not, still very good chance under ED.</p>

<p>This is taking into account that your essays are truly different, although I don’t see anything unique. But I like your lopsided tech-y impression. High potential for interesting essays.</p>

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<p>Thanks, bump.</p>

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<p>One last bump never hurts. I am not a URM unfortunately.</p>

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<p>From what I understand, one of the most important factors for CALs is the supplemental essay in which you explain why you want to take the major that you indicate on your application. If your intended major is one that fits well with your course work and extracurricular activities, that will definitely aid your application.</p>

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<p>To help everyone else out…</p>

<p>I ended up getting in ED. Good luck!!!</p>