Ready Ike, Kick the Baby! (Chances, even though I'm gonna get waitlisted)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>Don't Kick the Baby! Waaaah!</p>

<p>Hiya. I'm not exactly sure I'll get in, but might as well get some chances to dull down the pain or pride, whchever will come to me in that letter.</p>

<p>Senior attending semi-competitive HS in South-Central Jersey (sends one Ivies, three-ish to top 40 schools)</p>

<p>Plan to major in Civil/Arch Engineering, if that doesn't work, it'll be architecture, and if not that, finance/business</p>

<p>SAT: Superscore 2060 (700M 660CR 700W 10 Essay)
ACT (good s**t): Composite 33 - 34 English, 33 Math, 31 Reading, 34 Science, 32 Writing
(Is Cornell biased on which test to accept? I mean, they've got my SAT's and SATII's, and I sent them my ACT's two weeks ago. I hope that they get my ACT's in time and will take those scores)
SAT II's: Physics 650
Math IIC 690
(Unrealistic because I realized I had to take them a week before the test date, don't think they accurately measure my skills and I mentioned this in Addt'l. Info)</p>

<p>GPA: Right around a 4 weighted, 3.7 unweighted.
Classes: Most rigorous curriculum: All honors and AP classes.
APs: Soph: AP Macroeconomics-4
Junior: AP Spanish Language-(Couldn't take test)
Senior: AP Physics (Well, it's not AP, but its the same coursework/load and I plan to take the test)
AP Calculus AB
AP USH
AP Microeconomics</p>

<p>EC's- National Honor Society
Spanish Honor Society
F.I.R.S.T. Robotics Team, member of founding team as senior
designer/engineer. We won the NJ regionals and won a Rookie
all-star award, after which we went to the world champs in Atlanta.
Morning TV show, I created a lot of attractive, professional grade Flash
Intros which really got everyone talking!
Habitat for Humanity
Perhaps one or two more as the year goes by.</p>

<p>Work experience(significant!)</p>

<p>Worked in a construction company all four years of high school. I started as skilled labor(electrics, plumbing, carpentry) and moved up to more professional jobs. I am now a project manager, sales consultant, in marketing, and I've created a website for our firm. It's a serious job in which I've used a lot of stuff I learned in school. I'm also given full-scale responsibilities, like some sales presentations and crew management, no easy stuff. I can run most machinery, including excavators and large tractors, and tools. I hope colleges look at this as a much more involved employment as opposed to something like working in a supermarket (nothing wrong with that, but my job's way more intensive!)</p>

<p>Special considerations, if any:</p>

<p>Come from a low-income family for where we live, I think. I'll do the EFC thing today with my folks, but I expect it to be at most $2,500. I work very hard to support it. I used to work around 30-35 hours a week before, now due to the housing slump, that has increased to near 35-40 hours, taking away some time I could've used to study, play lax, etc. I heard the Ivies+top schools have a hard time attracting lower income kids, so I'm hoping mentioning this will help me. I worte about it in the extra info section and mentioned a snippet in my essay.</p>

<p>Thanks for your input.</p>

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<p>your act's are really good and im sure cornell has them. if youre nervous about that though you can always call cornell and ask if they got those scores.</p>

<p>which college did you apply to?</p>

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<p>what happens if ur EFC is like 1700? is that bad or good?</p>

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<p>Best subject thread ever! You work so hard......you deserve good news.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I'll probably call them up, thanks.
I'm applying to the Englineering School. Like I said in the first post, I'm goin' for CivilEng.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>Wow your job sounds really impressive. I can't really chance you bc honestly i don't have a clue, but good luck! I'm sure you'll get in somewhere great either way</p>

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<p>Decisions come out on the 19th, right?</p>

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<p>wow! great guy! u r a super-star i think. it's impossibility that cornell dont admit u.
good luck!</p>

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<p>Apart from some of your numbers, your application looks pretty outstanding. Good chance, I'd say. Can you post or send me the link to that company website?</p>

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<p>the only way for you to do architecture here is to submit a portfolio</p>

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<p>WOW your job experience is impressive especially if you go into architecture. very few HS students actually have a project management role. it'll def give you a really good step up if you want to become an architect</p>

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<p>Cool! So everyone's just waiting for the 14th or 15th or 19th or whenever they're coming out (Anyone got a 100% sure date?). In response to Myarmin's request, the website of the company I work for is G4S</a> Construction. I actually made the site and mentioned it in my app, so take a look at it and let me know how it looks! It's still under construction (haha, construction website is under construction. Yes, not funny at all). I've got more stuff to put up, like photos and the like.</p>

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<p>lol this is really impressive, I hope you get in.</p>

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<p>Seems as though this is a heart-string case because of your families circumstances. Unless they don't read that part of the app, should truly be an auto admit.</p>

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<p>I guess the countdown is on!</p>

<p>It's the 19th at 5pm, right? Well, might as well just play football or workout or party to take your mind off it...</p>

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<p>1 day and 5 hours and 53 minutes left. Come on, already.</p>