Um... Asian Canadian Male Chances? I like Cornell ALOT

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<p>Asian male from Windsor Ontario Canada
Honor roll student: A average (80%+) for every year of high school
Special honor roll student: (90%+) for grade 10
Taken every enriched/gifted course offered (projected enriched credits: 20)
Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, English; working knowledge in French</p>

<p>SATs:
waiting, took december administration
SAT II:
Math IIC 800 Physics 760 Chemistry 730</p>

<p>My essays are going well, I'm still editing</p>

<p>Averages (Marks from our school are deflated and the schools know it because every year, we have at least 3 people going to Ivy or Psuedo-Ivy, so our marks are increased by 10% automatically)</p>

<p>Nine: 87% (A)
Ten: 92% (A)
Eleven: 87% (A)
Current marks: 89% (A)</p>

<p>English Enriched: 77% (B+)
French Enriched: 88% (A)
Chemistry Enriched: 97% (A+)
Physics Enriched: 79% (B+) (highly deflated)
Biology Enriched: 85% (A)
Calculus Enriched: 96% (A+)
Geometry and Discrete: 94% (A)
Computer Science: 95% (A+)</p>

<p>Competitions: (at least top 10% on all national contests)
AMC: 123
AIME: 7
ARML participant all 4 years. Massey Ontario A ranked 15th in North America against big state all star teams. Individual medallist.
COMC: 64
Euclid: 73
York Science Olympiad Team finish 3rd in province
Great Lakes Science Olympiad Team finish 1st overall 1st in Bio 1st in Chem
Sir Isaac Newton Contest: 97%ile
Avogadro Contest: 97%ile</p>

<p>Athletics:
Competitive Swimming, high school team, travel team
Club:
15+ hours/wk spread over 8 practices
Club Record Holder in two events
Southwestern Ontario regional champion in two events
Highschool:
City Champion in one event
Provincial Qualifier</p>

<p>School Clubs:
Debate team
Science club
Robotics team
Night math participant
Sunday math participant (by invitiation, ARML team is selected from this pool)</p>

<p>Work Experience:
Chef's assistant at Chinese restaurant on saturdays for 5hr/wk</p>

<p>Personal Circumstances:
Currently living alone, parents working in other cities, does this kinda count as hook?</p>

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<p>yes..i have a feeling we all like cornell alot</p>

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<p>bump..........</p>

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<p>damn, canadas grading system is really different, you guys must have a tougher curriculum to have 80 as honor roll</p>

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<p>Not really. When a teacher gives you an A, you get a 87 entered into the computer. A- is 80, A+ is 95. Getting some A- means we're screwed.
Provincial Standard is B, so if we meet all requirements of the assignment, we get B or 75. The only exception here is for tests, where direct percentage is entered.</p>

<p>Our math tests are really long, like 5 pages to 10 pages for a 35 min period, so sometimes we can get a good curve, and if we're good enough, we can get above perfect. So math marks are easier to get.</p>

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<p>bump........</p>

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<p>bump bump bump</p>

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<p>You are fine dude. Hopefully you applied to the engineering college. You did very well on AMC and decent on AIME. College of Engineering would love to see those numbers and ECs</p>

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<p>do you think this year's AIME and AMC score (and possibly USAMO qualification) would get in on time? I'm aiming for 138 and 11 this year. :D</p>

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<p>If you get an USAMO qualification, then you are pretty much set. MIT will probably take you without looking at your other grades. Regradless to what you get this year, I think you are in a really good shape.</p>

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<p>bump........</p>

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<p>no ap? no way</p>

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<p>Our school doesn't offer AP, but our enriched courses are harder than AP.</p>

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<p>did u get your SAT scores back yet? Cause that'll kinda help us out.</p>

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<p>Dec 19th, counting down already... haha I'm predicting:
780 to 800 for M
650 - 700 for CR
680 - 730 for W</p>

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<p>G!
lol this is Bob . . . if you remember me</p>

<p>good luck to you too man</p>

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<p>Bob from Gr 9??? Yup I remember you!!! GL wherever you go man!</p>

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<p>hey im a new CCer...what does "bump" mean? sorry to post this in your thread g-man...im applying to cornell regular and you are a much higher ranked applicant than i am, i think you have an AWESOME shot if those SAT's turn out how u expect.</p>

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<p>B - Bring
U - Up
M - My
P - Post</p>

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<p>Oh btw, another piece of info, my school alone has 6 people applying to Cornell. I know of another 2 at a school nearby. Does Cornell have a quota for Canadians, or they look at each application independently.</p>