<p>Asian male (T_T)
Competitive public school (8 people out of 500 got into MIT alone)
SAT I (superscore; cornell does superscore right?): 790 CR, 800 M, 800 W
SAT II: 800 math 2, 800 chem, 800 us history
GPA UW: 3.8
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AP's - Sophomore: AP Biology (5), AP World History (5)
- Junior: AP Comp Sci A (5), AP Calc BC (5), AP US History (5),
AP Human Geo (self-studied: 5), AP Chem (5)
Senior: AP Physics C, AP Econ, AP Stats
Also taking Multivariable Calc this semester and Linear Algebra next semester</p>
<p>EC's (plz tell me how weak or strong they are):
- Senior District and All-State Orchestras
- Paid internship at a chemical research company over the summer
- Job at an ice cream store
- Math Team member
- Science Team member (qualified for nationals last year)
- Attended PROMYS summer math camp
- NEC Preparatory School (outside orchestra)
- Section leader in school's Honors Orchestra
- Teacher Assistant at a foreign language school</p>
<p>Honors:
Qualified for AIME
Honors roll (lol)</p>
<p>I’d say you got a pretty good shot. Just make sure your essays and recs are good.</p>
<p>EIGHT into MIT? from a PUBLIC school? what school is this?!</p>
<p>Lexington High School, not that people outside the Greater Boston area would have heard of it.
This is my school’s naviance data for MIT</p>
<p>Class Apply Admit Enroll
2010 38 8 6
2009 28 6 3
2008 27 7 4
2007 31 5 2</p>
<p>Cornell Engineering ED: Low Reach/High Match</p>
<p>You have a great GPA, SAT scores, and ECs. I agree with the above post in that if you write strong essays, you should be good to go : )</p>
<p>If luck works out for both of us, maybe we’ll see each other next year!</p>
<p>Chance me back?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/1009398-chance-me-free-spaceship-omg.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/1009398-chance-me-free-spaceship-omg.html</a></p>
<p>OP, First, I would like to wish you lots of luck in the application process, your grades and stats look wonderful as all Cornell applicants do. The people on this board could not possibly tell you what your chances are because they are not the ones who will be viewing and deciding on your application. We have seen students with perfect scores and close to perfect GPA’s and great EC’s get turned down by Cornell, and other top schools, so the only advice that anyone could give you, is to apply. </p>
<p>There have been students accepted with lower stats, and many times the reasons for that do not seem clear. Many applicants have interesting backgrounds, and have done some extradinary things that do not seem obvious by the way students present information on this site. </p>
<p>For all of those highschool seniors that are asking for someone to chance them:
Apply and see what happens.
Do not get discouraged by students with very high stats and grades. Cornell recognizes what many students do not have perfect scores…and that intelligence can be measured by what a student does, not just purely on his grades and scores alone.<br>
If you have what you consider to be poor ECs but your parents are of low income and that money was needed to help out the family, Cornell will respect that. Not every student was able to take part in EC’s but be sure to make your work experience meaningful to Cornell. </p>
<p>As always, I would like to wish the OP and all other applicants a wonderful senior year, and before you know it you won’t need to guess where you will be attending.</p>
<p>Lexington is a pretty suburban area around Boston where there’s a high number of high achieving students, so I’m not surprised that 8 kids got into MIT last year. Based on your scores alone, I would say you have a great shot at Cornell ED. However, you could also apply to MIT and take your chances there. I feel like you could get into Cornell RD, and that you shouldn’t limit yourself to one school because of your scores. You don’t have very much leadership experience on your CV, which may hurt you at top schools, but Cornell Engineering doesn’t really care from what I’ve seen.</p>
<p>Thanks for all your responses. I already made the decision not to apply to MIT. I just don’t see any (tangible) benefits MIT will give me over Cornell (of course, if you disagree I’d love to hear opinions). Plus there aren’t many schools better than Cornell for CS (and two of them are public schools quite far away)</p>
<p>^ My son who graduated MIT this past May plans on attending Cornell for his graduate work. I think you are correct that CS at Cornell is hard to beat.</p>