ED Chance Please.. ?

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<p>I am a Canadian Asian Male student
I know Cornell will be really hard to get into,
but it's my first choice by far. I was wondering if I had any chance at all at
Cornell, so at least I know that I am not wasting my ED opporunity </p>

<p>Applying to Agriculture & Life Science</p>

<p>GPA/Ranking: School doesn't have GPA nor Ranking (but top 5 - 10%)
In Canadian standard, all A's. Had 94.8% average in Grade 11
Doing IB diploma, finished IB SL Bio and IB SL Math (7 in both)</p>

<p>My Predicted mark in IB out of 45 is 43</p>

<p>Grade 12 courses/predicted mark:
IB English (HL) - 6
IB Geography (HL) -7
IB Chemistry (HL) - 7
AB Japanese (Sl) -7
IB Physics (SL) (no predicted mark yet)
Senior Jazz Band
TOK -2/3 bonus mark
(skipped 1 year in math, bio... never took physics IB 11). </p>

<p>SAT I: Math 800, Reading 690, Writing 720 = 2210
I haven't really studied for SATs, I want to retake in December if I get deferred..
SAT II: Korean 800, Math IIC 800, (will take Bio & Chem in Nov.)</p>

<p>EC: I will just put what I will put in the commonapp. </p>

<p>Grade 11,12: Established and led International Group for my community ...I was in a local Korean newspaper and featured as one of the future prospective students, received grants from the city</p>

<p>Grade 8 - 12: Part of CCM band at my church, played main bass guitar and synthesizer. Also led children's Sunday programs. (I play 5 instruements...)</p>

<p>Grade 8 - 12: Varisity Senior Soccer team and Competitive Club soccer. In grade 9 - 10, I was in the most competitive regional team (metro team)</p>

<p>Grade 9-11: varsity tennis, team ranked top 10 in province...played some competitive club tennis as well.. ranked 90 in the province...</p>

<p>Duke of Edinburgh: Gold Award </p>

<p>Grade 8 - 9: Basketball...won many tournaments and 3rd in province..</p>

<p>and extra ECs like peer helping, debate, Canadian blood services, Improv. Band club, sax section leader in senior jazz band, etc...</p>

<p>Work experience:
Grade 11 Summer: Summer intern for a local church: Did office works like accounting, led Sunday programs for children, carried out projects like interviweing people and posting their stories on website, (35 hours/week).</p>

<p>Grade 8 - 11 Worked as a janitor for a maintenance company</p>

<p>Grade 11 summer: Tutoring: tennis, English, ESL (7 hrs/week)</p>

<p>Awards
Grade 8 -11: Honor roll with distinction, Certificate of distinction from Math contests (top 25%)
Grade 8: Scholar athlete, multiple sports award, English and Social subject awards, placed 12th overall in regional math contest, 36th in provincial...part of math team finishing 3rd in regionals
Grade 9: Business10 Subject Award, Math 10 subject award
Gr.11: Japanese IB highest mark subject award</p>

<p>so.. .any chance? </p>

<p>Thx in advance.</p>

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<p>....? anyone please?</p>

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<p>I say you have very good chances. Why CALS?</p>

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<p>If it's your first choice, why would you be "wasting" an ED opportunity? You can easily compare your stats to those listed on Cornell's website of the admitted applicants.</p>

<p>Anyways, I'd say you have a pretty good chance. At this point there's no use in telling you what you should improve on since the deadline is so close. Just work hard on those essays I guess, apply, and get a decision. good luck!</p>

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I was wondering if I had any chance at all at Cornell, so at least I know that I am not wasting my ED opporunity

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<p>What are you talking about? you have a great chance. the only thing is that you don't really have a hook and that you're international. But I really think that won't be any reason to reject you - -
A 43 is awesome...</p>

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<p>Your chances look really good! I'm also a Canadian Cornell ED-er, but to a different college. My only tip is to ask your guidance counselor how they convert percentages to GPA on the forms. My school just multiplied my percentage average from grades 9-11 by 0.04, which led to a pretty crappy ____/4.0. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Thanks for the comments.
To cataxxx: I am not sure what college I should apply to... I think I want to study biochemistry... I e-mailed them about which college I should apply to.
To Anemone: that's really crappy lol. my school actually doesn't do GPA and instead does predicted marks and percentile ranking (as in top 5%, 10%.. etc)</p>