1550 SAT
35 ACT
800 Sat Math II
750 Sat Physics
GPA 4.7/5 Weighed
Course Load
US History: 3
Psychology: 5
Comp Sci: 5
English Lang: 5
Gov: 5
Macro: 5
Senior Year Courses:
Physics II AP
Environmental Science AP
Calculus BC AP
Statistics AP
Comp Gov AP
English Lit AP
Astronomy Honors
Extracurricular:
Freshman: 300 Hours Volunteering
Sophomore: 300 Hours Volunteering
Junior: 300 Hours Volunteering
Those 900 hours were spent at an organization which benefits my home country. I was head of course planning which would create education material for kids in the country that couldn’t attend school.
Me and a Group of Friends funded the created of a library.
Hosted a Quiz Competition with a prize that would help with college tuition.
National Awards:
Presidential Volunteer Award Gold
AP Scholar with Distinction
(saying this kindly): get somebody to proof-read your essays for grammar
If your only EC is 5 hours/week annually volunteering for something, what do you do with the rest of your time outside of school? what have you done with your summers?
Yes I am instate for texas, and I’m planning on ED for Cornell. I’ve spent time in the summer at my home country with my organization that was for freshman and sophomore summer, this summer I am planning on doing an internship
In-state for Texas you can pretty much chance yourself- your school’s naviance should be dead on.
For Cornell, they will expect that you have done something useful with your time outside of the classroom and during the summers.
Based on your posts, you have volunteered the equivalent of 1 day/week during the school year, and done some bits while you back in your home country for summer vacation. Without something else to your story, I don’t see how even your nice stats are going to get you into a highly competitive college.
You seem quite similar to me (at least academically) back when I was in high school. I’ll agree with everyone else here in saying that academically you have a chance at Cornell or UT Austin, but EC-wise it might not bode too well for you.
Your EC’s really don’t reflect huge passion or interest in the major to which you are applying, which is especially problematic for computer science that is very competitive at both schools. There’s not much that makes you stand out among other academically accomplished applicants.
It might be hard at UT Austin whose application makes you choose a major, but when applying to Cornell University via the College of Arts and Sciences, going “Undecided” is an option. This might help your chances, but not by much. It would still be very hard for your application to convince admissions to choose you over someone who has good stats as well as EC’s that help them specialize in their chosen field.
They might be worth applying to, but I wouldn’t get my hopes up. Either way, I hope you get into a college you like. Good luck.
For Cornell (which has a great system for ‘undecided’ students) it doesn’t matter if the ECs relate to a specific field. It’s that they expect you to have done something outside of homework and going to class. Doesn’t matter too much what: art, music, sport, babysitting your siblings while your parents work, paid work- but HS students have a LOT of time outside of classtime, and that you are doing something productive.