<p>will it hurt if i have couple of B and B+'s and couple of A's (mixed)?
Is yale like cornell ... you have to fit in the department ... or do they prefer someone with prefect grades?</p>
<p>Yale is a stretch, but I would say you’re a match for Cornell.</p>
<p>yale prefer prefect grades but what if your essay are great … will that help</p>
<p>Bumpbumpbump</p>
<p>Any other ivy that will be ok with the grades</p>
<p>bumpbumpbump</p>
<p>no one can tell you for sure because its not just about gpa. people would need to know your hs stats, your ec’s, classes youve taken, major your applyin for etc. to give you a fair answer</p>
<p>Getting into an Ivy League school as a transfer is ridiculously hard whether you have a 4.0 on your college transcript or you had a 2400 on your SATs. If you’re looking to transfer because of your discontent at the school you go to now, by all means apply to Yale and Cornell but I would suggest applying to a fallback.</p>
<p>Unv col 1st-yr smn WN
intro sociology B+<br>
intro biol anth B<br>
social problems C+<br>
basic writing WF<br>
writing tutorial A<br>
plane trigonometry C</p>
<p>fist year semester i droped it because i did not want a online course i wanted a classroom so i moved it to second semester … the same thing but ohh welll</p>
<p>basic writing i dropped it because when i did my (first-Year Testing, Consulting, and Advising Program) i was placed for basic english then when i retook the test i was placed on a higher english course … to make this story short… i dropped the course to take the higher english but passed the deadline.</p>
<p>Basic
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: African (Burundian)
School: Catholic College Prep School
Major: Anthropology
State- NJ</p>
<p>Test
ACT: 30
SAT- 2100/2400
AP Tests:
• Computer Science
• European History </p>
<p>Honors
• Algebra 2
• Pre-Cal
• US History II
• English </p>
<p>Senior Schedule:
• Economics
• AP Euro
• AP Computer
• Honors Pre-Cal
• English VI
• Religion VI</p>
<p>Other Stats (THAT WILL KILL ME)
Rank: School does not rank, but top 25% in class.
GPA: 3.0</p>
<p>ECs:
Erase - Erase racism on earth: 9, 10, and 11(President)
Red Cross: 11, 12 (President)
Model UN: 11, 12
Yearbook: 12 (photographer)
Soccer- 11
Swimming- 12
Cross Country-10</p>
<p>Miscellaneous/Notes</p>
<p>• play the drums in band (not a school band and also not normal for African WOMEN to do that)
• made my own computer game
• made website for recognition of war
• scuba diver!!!
• Will be certified CPR</p>
<p>Volunteer- Red Cross overseas (1 month)
Community Service-100 hours
Summer Jobs -NYPIRG (helped to pass an environment bill in new york !!</p>
<p>Essay
I will write about a Table. How the table is important to me: In Africa my family and I were in a war and so we hide underneath the table from the bombs. Now, since I am in the USA for many years, don’t know exact number… but anyways, now my parents uses it to talk about bills and how will survive for next day. </p>
<p>So the essay will be a contrast of the use of a table in two different countries and two different situations. </p>
<p>COLLEGE STATS: 32 credits
*Working on a research about aniemic teens … the professor is writing a book about it. (this will be entered in the penn state mont alto Academic Festival… research showcase)
*Doing another research with a chemistry professor … use computer modeling to study interactions between differnt molecules (such as cellulose and proteins) in plant cell wall (computer work)
*working at the bronx zoo: Working with children in the zoo’s camp program.(winter break)
*American Museum of Natural History (intern summer)
*accepted summer research intern at Mount Sinai Environmental Medicine
*penn state field school (anthropology)
*more writing competitions… (3-4) love to write for some reason???</p>
<p>*Just submitted an essay to Paris Review
- UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY FIELD SCHOOL(summer)</p>
<p>Recommendation:</p>
<p>Chemistry professor-(the one i am going reseach with… from cornell and has connections with a science professor)
Comparative literature professor- he went to grad school at Yale.
English 005 tutor- she said i was her best student
Anthropology professor- he his the head of the department </p>
<p>College activities:</p>
<p>Penn state THON
Student run philanthropy that raises money for the Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital, directly benefiting children with cancer. (dance for 2 days straight!!) -_-'</p>
<p>Engineering club- the advisor came from cornell has connection also</p>
<p>2nd semester:
Introductory Biology I
Microbiology
Microbiology (lab)
English 015
Stats
The International Folktale (comparative literature)
Freshman seminar
First Aid, Personal Safety, and CPR [for fun]</p>
<p>Might change … instead of biology i might do philosophy (ethics)</p>
<p>Your GPA is a 2.92 if one ignores the basic writing class (I honestly don’t know how they’ll look at WF, which I think means withdraw fail). </p>
<p>That’s not going to be nearly high enough for Cornell or Yale, to be perfectly honest. Apply to easier schools and keep Cornell as a reach. Both schools only admit a small percentage of all the transfers who apply (Cornell’s acceptance rate is deceptively high due to guaranteed transfers). </p>
<p>Most people point to a 3.5 GPA as the cutoff for the top schools, and realistically I doubt that Yale admits many people with GPAs below 3.8 (I might be wrong about this, I am basing these GPA cutoffs on forum rumors).</p>
<p>you’ve made a million threads saying that you want to go to top schools and i don’t think you can. your grades aren’t good, i don’t think you’re taking a rigorous courseload, and you’re clearly just looking to go to places just for their prestige. get your act together and figure out what you really want to do and then come ask for serious advice.</p>
<p>Your HS stats and test scores are actually pretty good (I hadn’t seen them when I wrote my previous post). Cornell might be feasible, but it’s a stretch with your GPA.</p>