<p>Like everyone has said you have a great list of ECs and a solid SAT yet your GPA is lacking. I think you have a decent chance of getting into any of these colleges even though they are all a bit of a reach. </p>
<p>I think the fact that you self-studied for two different APs is really awesome and if you write a good essay with some nice recs to help you out you should be good.</p>
<p>While your Sat scores and ECs are fairly good, your GPA hurts(hurts even more cuz u r asian). Also, I noticed your ECs lack in leadership positions. I might have missed what u want to major in, but your ECs do not really show your interests.</p>
<p>Your sports ECs are pretty good and you should hope they cover your low gpa.</p>
<p>Cornell: mid-high reach</p>
<p>wow! thanks for chancing me! could you take another subject test maybe math and get 700+ andthen i think you’re a really strong applicant!</p>
<p>Id say Cornell is a high match to low reach, based off of your GPA. I’d say tufts is a match, rice match, Georgetown high match, and umiami a low match to match. Thanks for chancing me!</p>
<p>Is this a feel good thread?</p>
<p>lol nope, my 5 pager of ‘chance my match schools thread’ was closer towards being one though. </p>
<p>I’m genuinely and pleasantly surprised by how many people think that I’m not hopelessly paying Cornell 70 bucks for a rejection letter…I thought my counselor was the only one, another one of those “you just might get in!” optimistic counselors (not like that’s exactly awful either). Nobody here is an expert, but I’m really surprised I don’t see the words “high reach” kicked around more.</p>
<p>My turn to ask questions: Why do you really feel the need to tell me that I’m aiming for nothing, and then later ask if I’m looking for two pages worth of insta-ego inflater? You’ve left your mark, why come back? There’s tons of other threads like mine that could use reality checks too.</p>
<p>-shrugs-</p>
<p>My good friend’s son with UW 3.7 from Dalton was WL at AEM.
My older daughter from a top private school with only one B (APUSH) was WL at CAS and rejected at many top tier schools, ultimately matriculated at Cornell.
My nephew graduated top 5% was rejected at Georgetown/Cornell/Dartmouth, but accepted at JHU RD.
My two other nephews with good grades (not most rigorous courses), planned their ECs around hospitality, was admitted to Cornel Hotel ED.
My niece was top 10% of her class. Her top admit was UNC Chapel Hill, instate.
My younger kid, Sal of her class, ED at CAS and was admitted. She was the only one admitted to Cornell from her international school in 7 years.</p>
<p>I know Cornell’s student profile well (that’s an understatement). You’ll need top stats to get into CAS and CoE, and special talent/interest for other schools within Cornell to be able to get away with lower stats.</p>
<p>You can continue with “chance me and I’ll chance you back.” My suggestion for all of you is to study your school Naviance to figure out your chances. Your application will be read relative to your school then your region. An applicant from Montana will be read differently than one from NJ.</p>
<p>ED is a free option. You should use it wisely. I wouldn’t waste it.</p>
<p>Now THAT ^^^ is golden information. I wish you got to this point far earlier, but thank you so much for bringing real world info into a world of heresy and guesswork. </p>
<p>I’ve played around on Naviance, and well, Naviance thinks I’m not ridiculously far off from Cornell. ~30 apply/year, so we’re known well by Cornell; 8 or so get accepted out of those thirty (its fairly consistent over the years). I’m in the midst of the green dots and red xs of the scattergram. </p>
<p>Further Naviance # crunching: </p>
<p>For ED, 12 have applied early over the past three years; the kicker is, 7 have been accepted. Now some are athletes, leggies, and some are geniuses, and some are…not much more than I am.
So that’s why this thread really exists; to see if I have that anything extra that they might like or find worthy of acceptance.</p>
<p>Our GPA grading is hard, so I make the top 25 with my lowish GPA (and I guess with 30 students/year applying, Cornell must have figured out that we spit out lower GPAs in general; a 4.3 average for early acceptance rates exists).</p>
<p>Again, thank you for your very useful contribution. I promise I’m not banking on ED for getting me into the school I want (that’s why EA exists, right Northeastern?), but I am using it as a last fling for my reach school.</p>
<p>Honestly, I think your GPA is going to kill you here. At non top-tier schools they will take a kid with outstanding extracurriculars but mediocre grades, but a places like Cornell you have to have a solid GPA AND good extracurriculars to get accepted.</p>
<p>Hey! You have a pretty impressive resume, and although your scores and GPA are not as impressive as the rest of your application, they are nevertheless decent as well. I’d say your scores will be just around average in the applicant pool, which means that yes, Cornell will be a reach school for you, but you still maintain a good chance of getting in.</p>
<p>I think one of the most impressive characteristics of you is that you speak five languages, and you should definitely highlight that on your application. Perhaps you can even boast about knowing a bit of Chinese since Japanese characters do contain Chinese characters. (I’m Chinese myself and I know it doesn’t work that way, but why not ;)) You have a decent resume of courses and the only thing holding you back a bit I would say are your SATs or SAT IIs. If you feel like you have the ability to retake them and score better, you could give it a shot in November and send them in from there. Or did you already take it October? If you don’t want to take them again, the scores will still be totally fine.</p>
<p>Overall, I’d say you have an above 50% chance of being accepted early decision. Focus on writing a good essay and really fill in those activity columns on the common app with all those extracurriculars you’ve got. In early decision, you’re a sure-fire candidate, but a very decent one, so don’t be unconfident about yourself by any means.</p>
<p>By the way thank for posting on my thread as well! I’m also applying to college this year and I’ll probably also be applying to Cornell, although RD. Maybe we might even end up seeing each other there! :)</p>
<p>Here’s my thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1553736-chances-berkeley-cmu-harvey-mudd-columbia-etc.html#post16378481[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1553736-chances-berkeley-cmu-harvey-mudd-columbia-etc.html#post16378481</a></p>
<p>Okay so, what @Truust said is totally true but you essays and teacher recs. can flip the coin in a second. So what I mean to say is, let your personality be shown in the essay and your love for Cornell too. Show who you really are. Work towards your essay you might have a chance!</p>
<p>Catchy heading by the way!! (Call Me Maybe) :P</p>
<p>Chance me back please!!</p>
<p>An applicant’s GPA and test scores are the most important factors when applying to top tier schools, except for some well known hooks. It is only when you have “good enough” stats that you would have seat at the table to play. If you don’t have a seat at the table, your ECs, LORs or essays would not matter. With 20k+ applicants they are looking for reasons not to admit people. </p>
<p>When my kid was having hard time to let an EC go because it was affecting her grades, her private counselor told her to drop it. She started to work with a counselor junior year. They came up with a very long list of schools for her. The counselor said the list really couldn’t be finalized until her final SATs and junior grades were in. </p>
<p>One thing about your essays…A school like Cornell doesn’t care how much you love it, they care about what you can do for Cornell. Keep that in mind when you are writing “why College X.” Most applicants like to write about how much they love a school because of the location, curriculum, professors, size…Schools already know what they can offer. What they want to know is how you could contribute to the campus, what you are bringing to the table.</p>