<p>I've all A's in Freshman year, 3 B's and 4 A's in Sophomore year and 5 B's and 2 A's in Junior year</p>
<p>I've taken 5 AP courses and 1 honors course in Junior year. Planning to take 8 AP exams in May
Planning to take 4 AP courses in Senior year</p>
<p>236 PSAT
2370 SAT
800 Math Subject SAT
800 World History Subject SAT
780 US History Subject SAT
760 Bio Subject SAT</p>
<p>President of World Adult literacy club with over 1000 hrs of community service
Captain of Quiz-bowl team
Model UN
Columbia Science Honors program</p>
<p>Ethnicity - Asian Indian</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>how do students at ur school do? The 5 B’s u received in junior year, do many top notch students get that many Bs. That would be the one large weakness in ur application. Otherwise ur at the higher end of the applicant pool in terms of stats. Also, which school are u applying to, what is ur intended major, are u a NYS resident?</p>
<p>my close friend received a perfect on the sats, straight a’s, great ec’s, study abroad, you name it
- and was rejected.
on the other hand, others with significantly lower stats& less impressive ec’s were accepted.
my point?
that you can’t “chance” a person for cornell- or for any other ivy for that matter.
it really seems to be some crapshoot.
it is now my dearest ambition to be an admissions official at one of the ivies
just to see how this thing really works.</p>
<p>anyways, definitely write strong essays- esp. the supplements.
i really think that’s what makes the difference.</p>
<p>1) I am in the top 25% of my class of 130.
2) I hope to major in economics, so I’d apply to CAS.</p>
<p>i just went to a cornell info session this week. It was specifically tailored to the coe but they said that if you actually do a good job answering the supplement essay, that pretty much puts you in the top 20% of the applicant pool. If this is true then … good supplement + good stats = high chance of acceptance! 
Good luck! I will be applying to coe!</p>
<p>The B’s are a bit odd, but I think you can get in with high-quality essays and (teacher and counselor) recommendations.</p>
<p>look, admissions is a crapshoot. Writing a good essay on ur specific college and how it will help u further ur goals will put u up there. but just to give u one example, a star kid from my school got into princeton, duke, and rice but was waitlisted at CoE. No one really knows what the **** is going on in the admissions office. if ur really set on cornell, apply early decision</p>
<p>The fact that Cornell denies some students with amazing credentials is a source of confusion. When you take a second to consider what they want out of a student it begins to make sense. If there is a kid with a perfect gpa and sat score in addition to having over 500 hours of community service they are likely to get wait-listed/rejected. This is because the admissions staff will conclude that they have no social life and thus would not benefit the reputation of Cornell as an ivy with great social opportunities. There is no point in giving a student an education if they aren’t going to fit into a business environment or be able to present research findings to a symposium.</p>
<p>look i would hardly characterize the kid i described above as some quiet recluse. He is quite outgoing. That said he may have written not such a great essay. And to say that he might have gotten waitlisted cuz cornell is a social place and that this student may not (in the adcoms opinon) have been social is kinda weird considering that princeton, duke, and rice are fairly social places as well. Im just trying to say that admissions is far from numbers driven (though my numbers certainly helped me). Just another example of crapshootiness: A double legacy to Penn got rejected from wharton ED, waitlisted at Cornell AEM, rejected at Chicago and in at Harvard (these programs are all highly selective, its a crapshoot).</p>
<p>whether he was or wasn’t a recluse, it is just how you come off in terms of the application. The fact that his essay was not stellar probably compounded the assumption that he was not strong socially. I can’t comment much on princeton or duke, but I live less than an hour from Rice and I can tell you that Rice has a horrible social scene. Cornell has a vastly superior social experience, especially where the Greek System is concerned.</p>
<p>your test scores are incredible and they will help, but the downward trend in grades isn’t looked at too nicely. It’ll come down to essays. My opinion: you’re at the point where you have the shot, but in all ivy league admissions there’s no telling if you’ll get in. It comes down to two things: do you have a shot or do you not? I put you in the former category.</p>