<p>GPA: 3.52
Honors?: Yes
SAT I: 2400
SAT IIs: 800, 710, 700
Major: Economics (B.S) and Chem
Year: Frosh
ECs: (College) Yearbook editor, free SAT tutor for some underperforming high schools, Honors rep, Triathlon-competitive, 5K and 800m, international awards in technology development (HS also); (HS) Competitive music, StuGo, YB, Writing.
Work: Medical Biller; EKG reader (self taught); also paid SAT tutor for rich parents who can afford to pay
Hook: Track, tech stuff and board scores (SAT I and APs mostly)
From where: UHouston
To which ones: Cornell CALS</p>
<p>Everything's submitted (except for the app!)...I'm just in the process of thinking about how to attack the Cornell supplemental essay asking the EXACT SAME QUESTION as the CommonApp. Oh goody.</p>
<pre><code>I've got a couple questions for you. You say that you have submitted everything except the application, but I thought the first thing you are supposed to submit is the application because without doing so they would not have made a folder for you? Also how are you handling the mid-term grade report, as you couldn't possibly have submitted it yet because the semester just started. Also, have you gotten your Dean's Report completed and submitted, if so, how did that go??
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<p>I've sent off everything that I could possibly send off (excepting the Cornell Supplement and Mid-Year report). They DO have a folder for me which contains my SAT score report, first semester transcript, 2 prof recs, 1 employer rec, AP score report and Deans Report.</p>
<p>My Dean basically checked off I was in good academic standing, not in any disciplinary problems and marked me as top 1% or whatever that thing is on every category available.</p>
<p>I'll decide whether or not to pay the App fee and apply after I hear back from WashU in about 2.8ish weeks.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.77 (22 credits), 4.0 high school
SAT I: 2280 (770CR, 800W, 710M)
SAT II's: 770 US, 790 French, 750 Lit
major: Poli-sci
year in college: current freshman
EC's: tutor underprileged high school student, piano, The Spectator
work: tutor French for Columbia
hook?: the school I come from, hispanic, waitlisted last year
from where: Columbia U.
to which ones: Harvard</p>
<p>I want to go to Harvard. Wow, I wonder how many people have ever said that. :)</p>
<p>And what do you mean by honors? Are those prizes we have received or whether we are in some sort of honors program? If the latter is the case, than it's no for me.</p>
<p>From-Emory University
GPA: 3.87 (19 cred), 3.6 HS
SAT I: 2140 (730CR, 700W, 710M)
SAT II's: mid 600's on math1, math2, spanish
major: Biochemistry/Music
year in college: current freshman
EC's: jazz pianist (lessons, jazz combo, etc), chemory (emory chemistry society, running club, swimming club
hook?: professional jazz pianist (sending audition tapes), competitive enough to swim
To: Yale, Penn, Columbia, G-town</p>
<p>dearsiyes, do you have your prereq's done for Cornell CALS?</p>
<p>HS GPA: 4.28, top 3%
College GPA: 4.0 (12 units, but core was challenging honors classes) 18 credits this semester, can (hopefully?) get al A's on midterm report
Honors? Yes
EC's: Clubs, founder and pres of voluntarism club, private music lessons, choir club, 40 hrs of community service, possible undergrad research with UA biology department, maintain website listing children's clinics for volunteers. Also, pretty good HS ec's.
SATI: 740/720/700, retake Sat.
SATII 790 Math II 760 USH
Work: Minor job as cashier last year
Hook: Good essays, recs, and ECs? I have a req from a Columbia alumnus and my calc prof, and a pot. letter from Yale trustee.
Ivy's: All, Cornell CALS being my top choice (prereq's done)
From: University of Arizona</p>
<p>If anyone had any input on my chances, I'd appreciate it. </p>
<p>I had a small disciplinary violation on my record (cited at party in first month of school) but I have a letter from Dean saying I'm in good standing and went above in getting it dismissed (see EC's). Still, I'm losing sleep over it because I really, really, dear god really want to leave the place I go to school now. (Do you think NYU CAS/JHU is a guaranteed backup?)</p>
<p>Some Harvard transfer applicants DO get interviews. However, not everyone does and if you get one, it doesn't mean you're in. If you don't get one, it doesn't mean you're not in either.</p>
<p>I have all prereqs and recommended courses done. I'm especially for one of the niche majors and have also taken a course leading to a nice prof rec (in addition to an ongoing research effort with a mentor hopefully leading to an eventual journal entry). </p>
<p>BTW, I don't think you can consider JHU a backup when it only has a 15% admit rate. NYU, maybe?</p>
<p>OK, maybe NYU. Do you have any idea about how Cornell would feel about a minor displinary issue like that? Because I was extremely confident about my chances before I found out that it wasn't expunged. Even though it's still a 50% acceptance rate at CALS. But still, I just wanted to jump off a cliff when I found out.</p>
<p>What do you mean by calling? Do you mean calling Cornell and asking them how they feel about disciplinary issues? Obviously I would address it in the provided space, I was wondering what, if anything, you knew about how schools like Cornell disqualify applicants based on minor infractions outside of plagiarism or violence.</p>
<p>Also, what weight do they place on applying to 'niche' majors? Will applying as a biology major hurt me even though I have all of my prereq's done? Should I maybe try biogeochemistry, for which I also have the prerequisites done and is a much more niche major than neurobiology?</p>
<p>Well..you have to have some reason for wanting to apply to a certain major. It's pretty obvious to see an applicant for what he/she is considering adcoms have been at it for a while (generally).</p>
<p>If you write passionately about biology then it's the same as anything else, I guess. You just need to worry about conveying the sense that Cornell could provide you with something no other school could.</p>
<p>This might be tricky for you guys coz I am an international student. ;)</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0
Honors?: Yes, loads in HS, few in college
SAT I: CR 600, W 760, M 800
SAT IIs: Math L2 800 Physics 800
Major: Physics/Math
Year: Freshman
ECs: Not much--one semester math research in college; minor activities; better record of EC's in and after HS, if that counts.
International Student
From where: not-very-well-known public university
To which ones: Harvard, Yale</p>
<p>I know how small my chances are at H and Y. So, I am also considering some tLACs.</p>
<p>GPA: No idea. Somewhere between a 4.0 and a 3.0. (I get all As-A+s in two out of three subjects, and do appallingly in Advanced Latin)
SAT I: 2050/1320. 800 cr, 550 m 690 w
SAT II's: 790 writing, 720 lit.
(A-levels - better indication in an intl student! AAB with a Distinction in AEA English (goes beyond AP level)
major: International Relations
year in college: freshman.
EC's: founder/president/teacher of the ballroom and latin dance team/society, member of selective church choir, director of a Shakespeare play in my first semester acting as set designer, lighting designer, costume designer/maker, horse-riding, any form of dance, flute since I was seven years old, competitive ballroom dancing on the regional circuit.
work: Been in a job since I was fourteen, currently have a nine hour job alongside my schooling to pay for it.
hook?: Competitive ballroom dancer/founding a society and teaching ballroom as a freshman in a university? I have a lot of 'leadership' roles on my transcript, and a good reason for my work to have been slipping.
from where: St Andrews
to which ones: Yale and UPenn.</p>