My high school is a popular picking ground for Cornell but still very competitive (20/90 admission).
I have a 3.4 GPA and I’ve taken and passed 3 APs throughout high school (APUSH: 4, AP Bio: 3, APES). I’m not the greatest at math. I got a 1250 on my SAT and a 710 on my US History SAT subject test.
I’ve always been very involved in my extracurricular activities. I’m president of a local 4-H club and Herdsmanship Award recipient (also applied for 4-H Youth in Action Award and have been named an a 4-H Honoree by my county’s Cornell Cooperative Extension), I’ve volunteered regularly at a local wildlife reservation and education center for the past 4 years (over 140 hours overall), and I’ve been a Girl Scout for over 10 years and my Gold Award is almost done. I’ve also been involved my my school’s clubs as a member of Cooking for a Cause and assistant club leader for our History Club. I’ve had a couple summer internships at the Bronx Zoo. I’ve been a summer camp counselor at a local natural science hiking camp for two years.
I attended a summer course at Cornell for Sustainable Animal Husbandry (3 credits), preformed very well (got a 100% on the final exam and an A in the course), and the professor wrote me a letter of recommendation.
I’m just really worried because I know classmates that have 4.0 GPAs, are in my school’s Science Research program, and have really good SAT scores (like >1500 SAT and >32 ACT) have also applied ED to Cornell (not too many to CALS though). Do my extracurricular activities mean anything in the end?
No chance to cornell with a 1250 SAT, sorry. Try retaking and scoring 1450+ and apply RD
He said he already ed’d. hopefully they see ur ecs and waitlist u so u can take the sat again. Good luck, give the act a try if u think the sat isn’t for you.
Good luck- to be frank, your stats are well below Cornell’s averages, and ECs are good although not too distinguishing. I would agree that you should definitely retake the SAT.