I know you guys hate these but...chances?? :):)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>I'm applying regular decision. I'm a female and I go to a public high school in North Carolina.
Academics:
SAT: Verbal 680 Math 700 Writing 690
Subject Tests: Literature 740 US History (ugh) 650 (I'm scared this will hurt me)
class rank: 13/429
GPA: uw 3.7 w. 4.746
APs: English Lang 5
Statistics 4
Psychology 4
US History 3
Environmental Science 3
Government 3</p>

<p>Senior schedule:
AP English 4
IB 20th Century History
IB Psychology 2
IB Math Studies 2
AP Biology
Honors Spanish 3</p>

<p>recommendations: really good. I read one from my AP English teacher junior year. She's awesome, and the other is from my math teacher who's taught me the past 3 years and loves me.
extracurriculars:
Speech and Debate- President this year, secretary last year. Honestly this is what I've focused the most on in high school. I spend about 14 hours a week on it between practices and tournaments. I've been a state finalist, won districts and been successful in Humorous Interpretation and Original Oratory. I absolutely love speech and it shows. I've participated all 4 years.
NHS- project manager
Interact- member, service projects
student government- class representative 9th and 10th grade
Violin- suzuki level 7, I've been playing since middle school
I do Yoga and I carriage drive my miniature horse
Church- I'm the prayer leader of my youth group and I volunteer there a lot.</p>

<p>community service:
I have a lot of community service.
Church- multiple things with my youth group
Volunteer at the Coalition for Human Care
Volunteer at ARC (association of retarded citizens)
paper drives at my school and regularly work recycling drive at my town
I also have been an AP/Honors teaching assistant for the past 2 years (grade papers etc)</p>

<p>awards and other stuff:
All of my speech stuff plus:
AP Scholar with Distinction
National Forensic League Academic All-American
Junior Marshal for Graduation
NC Governor’s School Nominee – English
Excellence in Speech Award at my school junior and sophomore year
Barnes-Travis Arts Scholarship (arts award in my community)
School winner of the Rotary Club Alcohol and Drug Awareness Speech Competition
Best Newcomer to Speech Award at my school
County Winner of the Optimist Oratorical Competition (2006)
-Invited Presenter at the North Carolina Poetry Society Statewide Annual Meeting, recited my poem, Math, published in North Carolina Poetry Society’s book Bay Leaves</p>

<p>anything else that could help me:
My dad is Puerto Rican, so I can put hispanic down on my forms. But I'm not bilingual and it's not like I have dual citizenship anywhere so I'm not sure if this matters.</p>

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<p>Dual citizenship doesn’t really matter. I have EU and US Dual Citizenship, but it won’t help me whatsoever. However, being half hispanic will help you (I think you have to put mixed though).</p>

<p>With your URM hook and GPA, you have a pretty good shot. SATs are a bit low, but they’re counterbalanced by the URM thing in my opinion. Which cornell college are you applying to?</p>

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<p>sorry but rank 13 will really hurt your chances. Nah JK your ECs and awards are good. GPA is good and sats are average. I would say good shot</p>

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<p>thanks for responding you guys!
I’m applying to the college of arts and sciences. At this point, I’m thinking I want to major in English.</p>

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<p>Well, keep in mind that A & S is the hardest school to get into and average SAT scores for that college are much higher than the average for cornell overall.
However, I stand by my previous statement where you have a decent shot. </p>

<p>I wouldn’t worry about the US History score, btw, they don’t consider SAT subjects nearly as much as your actual SAT.</p>

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<p>yay for IB! </p>

<p>boo to the math studies though… are you partial? or a diploma candidate? </p>

<p>Also, I think you have a fairly decent shot. Like everyone else has said, SAT’s kind of average, however, gpa and Ec’s seem decent. However, keep in mind that applying to any Ivy is a gamble, no one’s surely in or surely rejected as long as you’re in that “competitive” pool. </p>

<p>Be sure to have amazing essays, though.</p>