ED to Cornell (CALS AEM), Emory or RD to which schools?

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<p>Well I'd rather not post seperate threads with my stats on each unique board for each college.</p>

<p>So here are my stats:</p>

<p>Cornell ED CALS, nutritional sciences major</p>

<p>GPA: 3.7 Weighted
SAT scores:</p>

<p>Jan 06 - Round 1: 1440/1600 (top 3% of NY)</p>

<p>SAT IIs:</p>

<p>Physics - 690
US history - 690
Math 1 - Nov.2 - projected range is 750 - 800
Math II - Nov.2 - projected range is 700 - 750</p>

<p>top 25% or possibly top 10%, my school still hasn't put out the stats.</p>

<p>my grades have been Bs and As, but I have done really well on my standardized tests through out the years. Maybe a C here and there, but nothing I can't really explain. And my teachers were TOUGH graders, our HS has a reputation for that.</p>

<p>course load has been hard, all honors and AP except for regents english junior year.</p>

<p>Senior Year schedule:</p>

<p>AP Biology
AP Calculus AB
AP Statistics
College English
Advanced Pro Tools recording tech</p>

<p>ECs/Hobbies/Interests:</p>

<p>150 hours + volunteering in the hospital/ ER shift</p>

<p>Written articles about whey protein isolate use for teenage bodybuilders @ bodybuilding.com's newsletter</p>

<p>Treasurer of the movie club, which I also helped found</p>

<p>Invited & Attended summer programs at Johns Hopkins 2x 10th, 11th grades</p>

<p>Summer of senior year, spend time working in a hospital in the Bombay, India slums helping out, and watching neurosurgeries in my spare time.</p>

<p>Co-Captain of Math Team</p>

<p>1.5 years job experience tutoring children</p>

<p>Have a band with whom I have done a lot of recording work with, our first CD sold/downloaded 4,000 copies.</p>

<p>Built my own in home recording studio, which really was crazy. Awesome learning experience. </p>

<p>So yea there you go,</p>

<p>I am contemplating between ED to Cornell CALS Applied Economics and Management OR Nutritional Sciences</p>

<p>or ED to Emory with an economics major</p>

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<p>lol. reach for both. i would ed for sure.</p>

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<p>Well, you can't ED for both schools, so I would ED for Emory where you chances are slightly better.</p>

<p>If you are only 3.7 W, then since you've been taking a really tough courseload that means you are only like a 3.1 or 3.2 UW--meaning both of these schools are probably out of your reach. You need to get a little more realistic with your choices, since even with your excellent ECs and test scores, they will still be checking out your grades very closely.</p>

<p>Look for schools that will give you credit for taking a tough courseload and good test scores, while still realizing that the grades aren't exactly stellar. A school like Purdue fits this category, as well as WPI and RPI. Maybe Ohio State or Minnesota would be good fits since they both have excellent biology programs.</p>

<p>Best of luck to you.</p>

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<p>well my GPA is apparently a 3.4 unweighted. I was looking at this one thread at the Cornell board where people posted their stats to Cornell ED, and whether they got in or not, and I was alarmed. Cornell rejected people with a 2390 SAT score, and good GPA but with no ECs and accepted people with 1810 3.8 W GPA and many ECs. I was at the CALS open house the other day, and they said that the primary category is whether or not the applicant has a "fit" in with the Cornell college they are applying to.</p>

<p>As per Emory, at their open house they said that the primary catagory they look at is how hard my course work was. And then they weigh GPA and SAT scores, and ECs equally. If this is true I was hoping that ED @ Emory would be simple.</p>

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<p>you can do ED II to Emory if you get rejected from Cornell ED</p>