Please chance me for Cornell Arts and Sciences. I'll chance you back within a bit

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey everyone,</p>

<p>I'm a US student that applied ED for 2014. I was wondering what you think my chances are at getting in.</p>

<p>Asian male without reported ranks</p>

<p>GPA: 3.83UW/4.1~W</p>

<p>36 ACT - 35E, 35M, 36R, 36S, but 9 on essay bringing the combined Eng/Writ down to 32
(No idea how I got this, didn't even study except for one practice test in the week leading up)</p>

<p>SAT IIs - 800 Math2, Chem, 790 BioM, 760 Physics, 730 Chinese with Listening</p>

<p>All honors/APs except for one semester regular English Junior year (didn't get good rec to get in honors), and the other semester being a "Film Literature" class, also 5 APs senior year</p>

<p>Do AP scores really matter? Schools don't even look at them for admission, but whatever: 5 - Physics B, Stat, Chinese, 4 - Bio (very difficult year, only 5% got 5's)</p>

<p>Did summer class "Intro to Sociology" at local community college </p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Internship that turned into a job summer before senior year (still doing it)</p>

<p>Volunteering at local senior facility's mental health floor (~50 hrs, 11-12)</p>

<p>Varsity swimming (9-11, going to continue in 12, attended CCS 10 and 11 for those of you that know what it is, captain 11th and likely going to be captain 12th)</p>

<p>Club swimming (9-11, going to continue in 12, did during offseason, part of top 10 teams in US)</p>

<p>Varsity wopo (11)</p>

<p>Georgetown Summer Program (6 weeks, A's in both classes I took, summer after 10th)</p>

<p>"Buddies for Math" (program started at local underprivileged elementary school, helped tutor 3rd/4th graders in math, standardized test scores rose 40%, 10-12)</p>

<p>General tutoring at local church (church has mostly underprivileged members, started it myself, no official numbers but progress has been said to be positive, 11-12)</p>

<p>Essays - Hopefully very good :P, at the very least they're not bad</p>

<p>Recs - Heard they don't count much since they basically all say the same thing (no teacher's going to give a student a bad rec), but one of them was an English teacher who loved me, and the other one was a math teacher I was close enough to to unawkwardly race to rank 100 in Tetris Battle :P (if that's a good indication)</p>

<p>For what it's worth my grandfather got his Master's and PhD at Cornell, though in Sibley School of Mech and Aerospace Engineering and not A&S :'(</p>

<p>Also, does anyone know if CAS weighs any part of the application, specifically test scores, any higher than the rest?</p>

<p>Thanks for reading, and please let me know what you think!
I'll chance you back as well!</p>

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<p>I think that you’ve got a pretty good chance. But I am slightly concerned about your ECs. There is nothing that immediately pops out at me and makes me go wow! But I’d say low-mid reach. You’ll probably get in ED though.</p>

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<p>Cornell: Low Reach</p>

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<p>You have a strong application…but then again, so does everyone else to applies to schools like Cornell. Hopefully you’ll get accepted! :)</p>

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<p>@beatles. I think that with ED he’ll get accepted. Just because most people with the super amazing stats are aiming at HYPMS and the self-selection for Cornell isn’t quite as great as some of the other ivies. This will lead to a more favourable competition pool.</p>

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<p>You have fair chances, but always remember how uni now look for a more well rounded student versus a super academically inclined one. I had two friends who both applied to Cornell out of whim,they had really good grades, but what outshined the academics were their massive amounts of extracurric. which led to both them getting in.</p>