***Official Cornell ED 2018 Results ONLY***

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<p>Decision: Accepted CoE!</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 760 CR 770 M 730 W
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Phys 800 Math II 790 Chem
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10% (Decile System)
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB (5) Physics Mechanics (5) Physics E&M (5) Eng Lang and Comp (5) Euro (5) US history (5) Compsci (5) Chem (5)
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Macro & Micro, AP Bio, AP Eng Lit and Comp, AP Stat, APGAP, Calc BC (summer cty), Multivar (cty), 3 Periods for napping not including nAPGAP :slight_smile:
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):national ap, national merit, 2nd Place ARML Team (Lehigh Valley Math Team FTW!), and some other math and business awards</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): math team (prezi), DECA (prezi), french club (treasurer), LV Math Team, Science Olympiad, Vex Robotics, Model UN (Ilmunc only)
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Hospice & Manor Care ~ quit because of the ensuing depression :frowning:
[<em>] Summer Activities: Hanging out with my grandparents in the uranium enriched villages of India
[</em>] Essays: Ehhh… I got pretty lazy and did it in the last two days. Horrible decision. They were just… SO BAD
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Fantastic! They absolutely loved me!!!
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Awesome and hilarious! Best Counselor Ever!
[<em>] Interview: Scary, but okay. We talked about math, problem solving, and existentialism. I do regret talking about philosophy. I should probably avoid that from now on.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yup
[<em>] Intended Major: ECE
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): Pennsylvania
[<em>] Country (if international applicant): Murica
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Indian
[</em>] Gender: 100% muh-MALE
[<em>] Income Bracket: ~ 150k
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): The Awesomeness:)</p>

<p>[/ul]Reflection[list]</p>

<p>[<em>] Strengths:
[</em>] What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: I took an intellectual course: I talked about my excellence in finance and math, and about how I attend hackathons every now and then for fun. I really stayed away from the “we want to get to know who you truly are inside”. Lets face it: everyone’s probably changed themselves enough in high school to have lost what was “truly” inside.
[<em>] Weaknesses: Essay… I think. I talked about wall street and Elon Musk
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My application was altogether very good, and my sister goes there also.
[<em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Penn State
[</em>] Your “Big Red” factor - the most unique thing in your application: I know loads about Wall Street. CNBC is like the only thing on my tv, and that’s all my parents ever seem to talk about. A bit sad actually.</p>

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<p>@atrip2018 I just want to point out that Cornell is need blind for all students, not just Indians. </p>

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<p>[noparse]
Pick one:
Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown): 760 CR 770 W 730 M
ACT: 34
SAT II: 780 Phys 800 Math II 790 Chem (sent 720 Phys, 750 MII, 790 Chem)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.85
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 41/336
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB (5), Chem (5), US History
Senior Year Course Load: AP Psych, AP English Lit&Lang, AP Calc BC, Multivariate Calc, Organic Chemistry I, German IV, Band/Orch
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A (unless NMC finalist counts)</p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): FRC robotics (leadership team), FTC robotics (captain), science club (copresident), violin, bassoon, jazz guitar, MUN, other stuff
Work Experience: Physics lab intern
Volunteer/Community service: Minimal. Some library work
Summer Activities: Vacationing, interning, summer classes, one music camp, robotics, moving, so on and so forth
Essays: Meh. Started like the week before.
Teacher Recommendation: Fairly ok
Counselor Rec: Meh.
Interview: N/A</p>

<p>Other</p>

<p>Applied for Financial Aid?: Y
Intended Major: Undeclared
State (if domestic applicant): Iowa
Country (if international applicant): -
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: M
Income Bracket: 100000+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/a</p>

<p>Reflection</p>

<p>Strengths: idk lol
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: Talked about love of both pure and applied sciences. Probably wasn’t very strong and might have come off as not passionate.
Weaknesses:Essays, GPA, class rank, lack of rigor, test scores, lack of major extracurriculars/awards
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Pretty average stuff. Nothing particuarly spectacular.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at Iowa State, University of Iowa, UIUC
Your “Big Red” factor - the most unique thing in your application: ehh idk. </p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown): 2010 (CR: 690, M: 650, W: 670)
ACT:
SAT II: Biology M: 670, Math I: 670
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 9/190
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Literature, AP Biology, Calculus Honors, AP Calculus, Physics, French IV, Environmental Science
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Excellence in American Government</p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Track and Field (captain junior/senior), Varsity Cross Country (captain junior/senior), Varsity Nordic Skiing (captain senior), Varsity Indoor Track, Student Council (class treasurer freshmen/sophomore, executive treasurer junior, school board representative senior), Youth and Government, Model Congress, Math Team, Quiz Bowl (captain senior), National Honor Society (Vice President senior)
Job/Work Experience: Golf course junior/senior
Volunteer/Community service: 10 hours sophomore year, 20 hours junior/senior year
Summer Activities:
Essays: Wrote about knee injury for main commonapp essay and politics for CAS supplement
Teacher Recommendation:
Counselor Rec:
Additional Rec:
Interview:</p>

<p>Other</p>

<p>Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Biology
State (if domestic applicant): New Hampshire
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: > $40,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first generation</p>

<p>Reflection</p>

<p>Strengths: Essay and extracurricular activities
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: politically/socially engaged
Weaknesses: Test scores
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I was accepted to all of my early schools except for Northeastern which I was waitlisted for (which I don’t really understand)
Your “Big Red” factor - the most unique thing in your application:</p>

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<p>A Little late, but…</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<pre><code>SAT I (breakdown):didn’t send
ACT:34 (M:36 E:33 CR:34 S:34 Essay: 7)
SAT II: Chem: 680 Math2: 650
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.85
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):11/~290
AP (place score in parenthesis): Chem- 5
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: English IV, AP Calc BC, AP Physics, AP Bio, AP Music Theory, Concert Band
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): a few school awards
</code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): NHS (President), XC 4 yrs varsity (Captain), Winter Track (Captain), Boy’s State, Peer Leaders (VP), Marching Band (section leader), tons of music stuff on the sax and piano.
Job/Work Experience: Church Pianist 2 yrs, Intern at BioTech company for a summer, Freelance Pianist 3 yrs, Released a jazz album over the summer.
Volunteer/Community service:Produced, hosted, and performed in a Hurricane Sandy Benefit Concert; Musical therapist at the hospital for 2 yrs; some church stuff
Summer Activities: working and volunteering, but made sure I had lots time to hang out w/ friends and have fun… summers a time to relax, especially for a high school kids who are stressed out 9 months of the year
Essays: very good
Teacher Recommendation: great
Counselor Rec: great
Additional Rec: none
Interview: none
</code></pre>

<p>Other</p>

<pre><code>Applied for Financial Aid?: Yep
Intended Major: Pre-Med/Music
State (if domestic applicant):NJ
Country (if international applicant): US
School Type:Public, average
Ethnicity:White
Gender:Male
Income Bracket:100,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
</code></pre>

<p>Reflection</p>

<pre><code>Strengths:ACT, extra-curriculars, recs
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: Music and Medicine; I was excited about Cornell in my essays, and made sure to look like a nice kid… a school’s campus is like a town, you’re not gonna want a-holes living in your town.
Weaknesses:essay score on act, sat ii’s
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:strengths
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:Northeastern honors program
Your “Big Red” factor - the most unique thing in your application: The fact that I’m a white male with some AP classes and a good act score… lol, nah probably music and great relationships with teachers.
</code></pre>

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<p>Decision: Deferred -AAP</p>

<p>this is really late but, i hope this may help other applicants in the future </p>

<p>ACT: 29 composite
29 english, 22 math, 34 reading, 31 science, 12 writing score. </p>

<p>Rank: top 50% (3.4 this year.)
Senior year courseload: studio art, precalc, offsite advanced 2D art, studio art weekends, dual enrollment writing and literature course (got to apply my AP credit) Ap literature, Ap physics, newspaper, anthropology online course.
Major Awards: Michigan interscholastich press association awards for graphics, scholastic silver key, local art shows scholarship earnings.
Subjective:
Performing arts (Media leader 3 years)
Newspaper (Graphic editor)
High school Student rep at local art museum
Big Brothers big sisters
Job/work experience:
Work for a local jewelry store, register, inventory, customer service, Panera.
Volunteer/Community service: (i put that in the extracurriculars)
Summer Activities: work, classes, and volunteering.<br>
Essays: got real and talked about inspiration for life while hanging out in my garden, spoke more poetically. Got a heck of a lot of peer review from AP and dual enrollment teachers along with family
Teacher Recommendation: got a lot, I used the ones I read. I know my newspaper teacher mentioned me being like a daughter to her and I teared up. I tried to chose teachers who knew more personally and had more experience working with me with my strengths so they’d be cool.
Counselor Rec: I didn’t get to read it, but I asked her to please mention how much school I missed due to my autoimmune.<br>
Additional Rec: none
Interview: none</p>

<p>Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: yep
Intended Major: Fine Arts, urban studies as a second.
State (if domestic applicant): MI
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):</p>

<p>I had a lot of unresolved issues of autoimmune during my sophomore year, I did really poorly. I was put on immunosuppressant’s, hormone treatment, and a new diet at the end of the year, which was very rough physically, emotionally and mentally for me. I also had surgery this past summer, which has allowed me to function a lot better. Basically talked in an additional letter about why and how stuff happened. I don’t want to be seen as sappy and i definitely dont want to sell myself by what hinders me in my life. but, I wanted to state what occurred and how my recovery is going to allow a greater understanding of my application.
Reflection</p>

<p>Strengths: Essay!! Letters of recommendation, portfolio (I hope)
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: my experiences and growth in life, and how I try to express that through art. Honestly, I just tried to express what I express through my artwork also;
Weaknesses: GPA!! (I was a 2.7 end of my sophomore year. I dragged it up to a 3.4 after my second trimester of this year)
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:</p>

<p>I feel like i don’t have enough academic affinity to actually succeed. While I focus more in art, and I know I would be able to succeed there, my gpa and track record is not that wonderful. Getting deferred was a huge shocker.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: </p>

<p>Accepted: Western Michigan university, university of Vermont, champlain college, SAIC, RISD, University of Massachusetts Amherst (scholarships at all)</p>

<p>Waitlisted: University of Michigan, Northeastern (rejected later). U of M I know I’ll be rejected, they flat out stated its because of my gpa.</p>

<p>Your “Big Red” factor - the most unique thing in your application: Essay.</p>

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<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown): Did not Send
ACT: 32 (E28, M33, R31, S35)
SAT II: Math 1: 750 Math 2: 700
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 15/538
AP (place score in parenthesis): Human (4), World (2), Bio (1), English Lang (3), Macro (2), Env Science (4), US Hist (2), Statistics (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Art History, AP English Literature, AP Psychology, AP US Gov, Teacher Assistant 1, Administrative Office Tech, AP Calc AB, Student Government
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Anne Frank Humanitarian Award</p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Student Government (Student Body President, Student Body Treasurer), Class Council (Vice-President, Treasurer), Relay for Life Club (Founder/President), National Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, Varsity Soccer, Varsity Tennis
Job/Work Experience: Walgreens, Mathnasium (Math Tutor)
Volunteer/Community service: RCMA(250+ Hours)- Helping improve the lives and education of migrant workers and their families. Barefoot Hope(20 Hours)- Feeding the homeless of Tampa. Relay for Life(40 Hours)-Money to benefit the American Cancer Society.
Summer Activities: Worked at Walgreens, took MAC 1105 at local community college, as well as a honors virtual school class.
Essays: CA- Student Body President changed by outlook on leadership and success. CALS- Working with migrant children of RCMA inspired my future. Very Strong Essays
Teacher Recommendation: Very close teacher, excellent recommendation.
Counselor Rec: Very good
Additional Rec: Past SGA Sponsor, best letter I have ever had the privilege to read.
Interview: Over 2 hours, still in touch today. Best interview of my life.
Other: In touch with recruiter</p>

<p>Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: Applied Economics and Management(AEM) through CALS
State (if domestic applicant): Florida
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Large Public (2400 Students)
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Upper Middle Class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/A</p>

<p>Reflection</p>

<p>Strengths: Leadership, Community Service, Rank, Testing
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: Giving back to community.
Weaknesses: Unweighted GPA, Major Selection (8% AR for AEM Major)
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I think I was rejected because of my major selection, AEM, because it has an acceptance rate of only 8%. Also my unweighted GPA drastically hurt my application.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:Accepted- UF Honors, College of William and Mary, Fordham, FSU, USF. Waitlisted-UVa. Rejected- Cornell, UPenn, Dartmouth
Your “Big Red” factor - the most unique thing in your application: Community Service- Working with migrant workers.</p>

<p>If any applicants have any questions, or want advice to applying to top tier schools such as Cornell please dont hesitate to contact me!</p>

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<p>cn we take sat and sat subjest test on same day? to apply for ED whn should i take sat?</p>

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<p>Late Congrats to Everyone!</p>

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<p>what’s your intended major?</p>