<p>Hello fellow college hopefuls. I was deferred from the early decision round at Penn and was wondering what my chances were on being admitted during the regular phase at my second top choice--Cornell and would LOVE to go here. I really wanted to apply ED but was swayed by my parents and my GC to Penn b/c of the prestige, ivy league, and etc...Also, my sister currently attends. I go to an extremely competitive school on Long Island (you can imagine), which has tons of penn applicants every year. I would appreciate if anyone knew that was the percentage of students that were deferred are admitted to the college for regular decision.</p>
<p>My stats:
96 GPA (UNWEIGHTED), we do not weight averages and we use a 100 point scale. For example, we are given averages out of 100 and then they are all averaged at the end of the year. A 90-100, B 80-89, etc
9 Honors courses taken, 10 AP courses (4 junior year courses) </p>
<p>Mid Year Senior Grades
We have 2 semesters (each semester has 2 quarters), and colleges will see my first 2 quarters of my senior year</p>
<p>Senior year courses
AP Physics A B
AP Calculus BC A A
AP Eng Language A A
AP Economics A A
AP Spanish Language A A
AP Psychology A A</p>
<p>Good Extracurriculars which i will not list at this time b/c when i tried to copy and paste my resume, the format got all messed up but I am apart of many clubs and president of one organization that I started at my school (community service organizion) and Captain of the Tennis team
-staff writer for the school newspaper
-have won many tennis tournaments
-have done a lot of community service--peer tutoring
-have done research outside of school, entered my project into Intel and Siemens Westinghouse
-have played in outside orchestras
-apart of Model UN and Math Team, have won some awards</p>
<p>first of all, Cornell was and is still one of my top 2 if not my top school. If I were to get into Penn and Cornell in the regular decision process, I do not know what school I would choose. I applied to penn ed because my sister attends cornell, so I would rather not attend the same school as her if I don't have to. However, I would love to go to Cornell, don't get that wrong. And as far as chances, I have absolutely no clue what it takes to get into these schools and that's why I came to CC for some help.</p>
<p>"I really wanted to apply ED but was swayed by my parents and my GC to Penn b/c of the prestige, ivy league, and etc..."
you could show more character and decide for yourself - cornell is for ppl with strong character - you dont do what ppl tell u but u have ur own opinions</p>
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I really wanted to apply ED but was swayed by my parents and my GC to Penn b/c of the prestige, ivy league, and etc...
-PennHopeful87
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i hope you go to penn, since it is in the ivy league, and b/c it is so much better than Cornell, im sure you will find a lot of other pretentious friends there and etc...</p>
<p>I don't think he was trying to be pretentious guys, thoguh I'm not quite sure what he meant by Ivy League (perhaps he means Cornell does not seem as prestigious as Penn... when infact Cornell is a very prestigious school). Anyways, your chances are decent, you seem to be the average, if not better, Cornell applicant, perhaps your essays or some of your ECs wil lstand out... but you never know with these admissions officers, lol. And what school are you applying to- I think that makes a difference.</p>
<p>Good luck with Cornell, and may God lead you in the right direction :-D!</p>
<p>Actually, Cornell is one of my top choices and I DO NO KNOW its a top ivy league school. It was actually a mistake on my part because I copied and pasted my post on another school's post which was not an ivy league--therefore, sorry for the mix up. I do know that Cornell is prestigious and is an ivy league, i mean my sister goes there. All i wanted to know was my chances, tis my sincere intentions and thats it. Sorry for the confusion. P!</p>
<p>average chances, you are not of the best that they get, and you are certainly not the worst that they get, you are right in the middle, so it comes down to the type of student body they are taking, if they already have a "higher caliber" you and what you represent, then you may be out, it could go either way, but you definately have a shot, but it is also not in the great to sure thing category</p>
<p>cantwaittogotocollege, honestly, are you stalking me or do you have absolutely no life and go to each school's thread and track down who is writing what and on what threat?? Seriosuly, I would ponder those questions and strongly recommend you find something that occupies your time instead of stalking people. I mean seriously you must have too much free time. I have a right to post on multiple school posts and I do in fact have an interest in all of them. I am not a dimwit who applies to random schools and has no intention of intending. As you probably know b/c you have stalked all of my posts, I am very interested in going to Northwestern, Penn, Duke, Cornell, or Hopkins. Now will you please stop stalking me. Much appreciated, Thanks, Steve</p>
<p>Oh man, CC drama. This is far too amusing. Once again, it evades me how anyone can NOT be completely obsessed with Cornell.. I don't even think I could be of any help in convincing you because I (like many of the other people posting on the Cornell board) fell in love at first sight. :)</p>
<p>pennhopeful, I have no intention to stalk you. what happened was I saw this thread and then when I went to Northwestern thread, I also saw the exact same thread, with the title, "I love Northwestern" I think it was. Then, yeah, I did find all the posts by you to see how many people you are trying to deceive. People are trying to evaluate your chances because it is your SECOND choice. Tell them it's your 5th choice. Do you think they will still put effort to even read your stats? Why can't you just say you are interested instead of saying it is your second choice? I mean I don't know why but that just makes me mad.</p>
<p>He put Northwestern, Hopkins, Cornell, etc. as his second choices because he has no special affinity towards any of them. From his post, it seems like all he cares about prestige and since they all carry about the same amount of prestige, he could careless which ever one he gets into as long as he gets into one of his "second choice" schools.</p>
<p>Interesting variance of schools as well, i mean if you can't decide between a strong business school or a strong science school and a school in the city or a school the middle of nowhere, you should just go by the "prestige" of the name.</p>