Please chance me for RD...

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<p>Primary: CALS (AEM)
Alternate: CAS (Economics)</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2140 (680 CR, 700 M, 760 W)
[</em>] ACT: 31
[<em>] SAT II: 690 Math I, 630 Lit
[</em>] GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7 UW, 4.8 W
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 2% of 6350, not a typo.
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): English Lang 4, USH 4
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Math Studies 6, Environment 5
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: IB English, IB Info Tech, IB Photo, IB Spanish, IB ToK, Honors Calculus, Weightlifting, Team Sports
[li] Awards: 2 statewide awards for playwriting, a couple in school awards, one regional award for art.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 12 yrs club soccer (captain), 4 yrs school soccer (captain), 2 yrs Business & Stocks Club (treasurer, vice president), 2 yrs Recycling Club, 2 yrs Political Science Club, 2 yrs Chess Club.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: 3 yrs cashier, 2 yrs babysitting
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 200 hrs for IB/NHS, 200+ hrs spent helping out on a farm with a Cornell alumni.
[</em>] Summer Activities: None.
[<em>] Essays: Great.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Both pretty good.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Generic, good though.
[</em>] Additional Rec: None.
[li] Interview: None.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Florida
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: ~35K
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First Gen</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection:[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Class Rank, CALS Supplement (wrote about working on a farm with a Cornell graduate), W GPA, rigor of courses.
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT I and II, maybe UW GPA.[/ul]</p>

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<p>the only potential issue i see would be your test scores. But i think you have a pretty good shot.</p>

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<p>since you are majoring in aem or economics, it could be a problem that your SAT math scores are so low, and esp since its math 1. however, the rest of your application is really solid!</p>

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<p>Holy crap. I thought my school was big.</p>

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<p>your class size is almost 4 times the size of my entire school and twice as big as Cornell’s freshman class size. O_O</p>

<p>your chances look good, but I’m really not a good judge. I slipped in through ED</p>

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<p>Thanks for the reassurance guys. My school is not really that big, however, there is no ranking/decile system within my school, instead, all schools in my county go by a system, so that is basically every senior in my county.</p>

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<p>Still, more than 6000 seniors in a county… Crap, man.
You don’t mean “country,” do you?</p>

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<p>Nope, haha.</p>

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<p>Whoops. Chances:
Your SATs are higher than mine, ACT could be better but I think Cornell likes SAT more than ACT.
Did you convert that from percentage to a 4.0 GPA or is that what it is?
This may bring you down some, as Cornell - well, probably all - <em>love</em> straight A students. My GPA is around a 96 but a 4.0 on the 4.0 scale since all of my grades are above an A. That’s what I say, anyways. ^_^</p>

<p>Good volunteer work… And you <em>are</em> working on a farm - plus for CALS.</p>

<p>Hmm… Let’s say a very low reach to a medium match!</p>

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<p>Wow, great, thanks a lot. I really hope that farm work will help out my CALS AEM deal, as it is pretty relevant and I put a lot of time into that.</p>

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<p>Rank is good; test scores are on the low side (Cornell doesn’t look at Writing :frowning: )–but thankfully, there is far more to the college admissions process than test scores. </p>

<p>Your ECs and essays will make the biggest difference in your application. If they are good, you will certainly improve your chances.</p>