<p>I go to a small school in Michigan where nobody goes, or even applies to a school like Cornell. My ACT is a 28, and my GPA is a 3.9 unweighted. My rank is 15/180. I go to a public school. I play soccer, track, cross country, and was cross country team captain. I'm in NHS and active in my church. Is there anything I can do to help my admission? What are my chances? Thank you.</p>
<p>I don’t know enough to be sure, but I will post a few hypotheticals (for things you did not include) that will effect your odds. Though first off I recommend re-taking the ACT, your GPA is obviously high enough, but your ACT is on the low end which currently will hurt your odds.
- If you have a lot of hours committed to your EC’s (like 15 hours of more a week of a couple main EC’s) that will help
- If you took the hardest classes offered that will help
- I have no idea how you define active in your church. If you are in a youth group and have a leadership position (a regional position or higher would be ideal). If you just help out an event once every six months or something like that it is not really going to help you.
- If you have a lot of leadership it will help. From my understanding the only thing you have is captain for one year, so in that case it won’t help much.
- NHS is semi pointless, at many schools everybody with high enough grades gets in.
- If you have community service that will help (though more then 10 hours here and there) that will help.</p>
<p>So it is a lot of “ifs” but I hope this helps. Focus on your ACT now</p>