<p>is admission to cornell extremely dependent on sat score?
i heard that it was by my fellow international peers who got accepted there.
in other words, if you get a pretty high SAT score, you're almost always accepted. do you think that's true or has even a little bit of truth in it?
post you ropinions please!!!</p>
<p>not at all true IMO. the kids with high SAT scores usually have alot of other high stuff to match. I think well-rounded, focused, and empassioned are the important things, other than just being smart.</p>
<p>not really. . .I got in with a 1360, my friend had a 1560 and double legacy and was rejected. My class rank was better (1/94), but he was in the top 5% of a more competitive larger high school. </p>
<p>I think Cornell looks at everything you're involved in and your transcript, first. . .considers the essay. . .and a good SAT score just backs everything up. I don't think an SAT score makes or breaks anyone in most cases.</p>
<p>You really need to have a solid application. Don't depend on SAT scores to get you in.</p>
<p>A high score won't get you in, but a low score will keep you out. If you get straight As and are #1 in your class but can only manage a 1300, it sends up red flags.</p>
<p>How does a 1300 send up red flags? Maybe a 1200, but a 1300? If anything it would be getting in the 1500s and having a low GPA thats raises the red flags.</p>
<p>I know a lot of 1550ish, top 1% of their class that didn't get in.</p>
<p>1300 is on the low end of the spectrum for Cornell, isn't it? It can mean one of several things. The first thing that comes to mind is that it means you come from a weak school so your high gpa isn't very impressive in that context.</p>
<p>Low GPA/High SAT implies that you are lazy, but it's not the SAT score that will keep you out. It's the low GPA that will do that. If anything, a high SAT in that situation would help because it means that you have potential.</p>
<p>In the end, SAT doesn't really mean much. Do decent and you'll be ok. They really do look at stuff like your course selection, recommendations, ECs, etc. These "soft factors" are highly underrated by seniors.</p>
<p>AJKates: they probably didn't have convincing applications. Cornell knows it's second banana to harvard yale and princeton. all 3 Harvard bounds at my school and one other Harvard bound friend of mine got rejected from cornell.</p>
<p>I think this backs up the statement that essay is important. In other words, your grades and scores show you're smart. Once your deemed "smart," your essay and ECs decide if you get in by showing how interesting of a person you are. Some uber kids can get in without being to interesting but that's more likely ED where they know Mr. 1590 4.0 won't be going off to Yale.</p>
<p>You're the best in your school, with perfect grades, but you only come in around 25% for Cornell's SAT score applicants...that would send up a red flag for me if i were on the adcom.</p>
<p>Well I know personal experiences never count toward the majority but from the two kids from school in NY heading off to Cornell, one was a URM with a 1240 and incredible ECs and one of the most RIGOROUS schedule ever. I mean it was insane. AP Phsyics, Math Research, Multivariable Calc...ughh and whole other slew of awards and such. And the other was an Asain Idian with a 1340, valedictorian and some ECs.</p>
<p>My asian female friend with a 1250 got into Cornell and didn't have much else going for her. It's random.</p>
<p>random is true. thisSHHHHisBANANAs: how could someone be in multivariable and not get close to an 800 on his math section. Was his verbal really around 440+</p>
<p>your math is a little off, it is likely that he got a 800 math and a 540 writing (800+440 = 1240 ;))</p>
<p>and now you know why I only got a 740 and not that 800 in M hahaha. I've done this several times on this board, been off by 1 digit in one place value. Well that's more plausible...</p>
<p>the thing is.. in my case, i go to a british school. here, we have no rankings(as in top 5% etc), no gpa, no ap courses, etc. instead we have a-levels(kind of equivalent to ap). would the sat scores be more important in my case?</p>
<p>yes for an international yes they probably would.</p>
<p>jenni87 not to romp on you personally or anything but i know several people from different british high schools taking a-level courses that are dumber than a sack of bricks. this poses a problem only if colleges are used to getting applications from these students and believe that a-levels are therefore worthless because of the quality of students like the one i know (quality being a lack thereof) so the key for you would be to score high (2150+ or 30+) on the SAT or ACT proving that you scores are meaningful and then take a few SAT IIs if you can as well scoring 690+ on them. This would prove that your high school classes weren't a cake walk. The other thing that will be important when coming from Britain will be having good extracurricular activities because British schools consume less time and colleges know this so the students from Britain should probably play a sport and do community service, especially when applying to IVYs like Cornell. Other than that write a good essay and count on your Geographic diversity to get you in.</p>
<p>don't count on geographic diversity to get you in at all. How many students from britain want to go to cornell? probably a much greater proportion relative to the spots available for british applicants and we americans are relative to spots for domestics.</p>
<p>That would be like us applying to oxford or kings and counting on our "geographic diversity"</p>
<p>Also, I don't mean this in a derogatory way, but you basically just told her to have a really good application, which is entirely right. Just saying admissions for internationals seems to be more competitive unless you're from some SWEET and obscure country like Namibia. Ok, so how many of you have even heard of namibia :p</p>
<p>Well I don't know that many britons apply to cornell because i think those type of students would apply to harvard or yale (their oxford or kings) I mean try to name their #6 or #7 college... you can't much less apply there. So geo diversity will help I think. Also yes I did tell her to have a really good application. Of course I did, the school in question is Corenll. Finally my main point addressed her question about test scores and I was saying DO WELL because if you don't they may group her in with less qualified British applicants previously recieved.</p>
<p>I am really sorry, but I might ask you a really stupid question.</p>
<p>What is : "double legacy"? </p>
<p>thanx!</p>
<p>I'm thinking double legacy means, parent and sibling(s) have gone to Cornell--or--it means that one parent is an alum, and the other parent is faculty.</p>