<p>Classes
All Honors Freshman and Sophomore Year
Junior Year - all Honors and AP Lang and Composition and AP Gov
Senior Year- AP Calculus, AP Stats, AP Physics B and C, Honors English, Honors Engineering</p>
<p>Scores:</p>
<p>SAT Math -700 Critical Reading-640 Writing-720 </p>
<p>Subject Tests:</p>
<p>Math 2- 730 Physics- 680</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Varsity Football 1-4
Varsity Baseball 1-4
National Honor Society
G.I.V.E. Club (Volunteering)</p>
<p>Volunteer/Service Work </p>
<p>35+ Service hours per year from grades 10-12.</p>
<p>Awards
Dartmouth Book Award
Spanish Award
English Award
Algebra 2 Award</p>
<p>Your GPA is excellent, and that is the most important factor</p>
<p>Your SAT is a on the lower range, but that shouldn’t hurt you (2116/2235 is the average for my high school).</p>
<p>If I were to be worried about anything it would be your extracurriculars, as they do not demonstrate any real passions or commitments on an intellectual or career-oriented level (although varsity is quite incredible). Try to bolster your resume with a job, and definitely spend some time on the weekends doing community service. If anything, try to create a hook for yourself with your sports resume by entering some competitions. Cornell seems to have a good record with athletes. </p>
<p>Deadlines are approaching fast so you may not have too much time.
Good Luck!</p>
<p>Playing varsity sports takes up almost all my time after school so I am hoping that they will understand that. Also, I forgot to mention in my stats that I do have a part time job in the summer months when I am not playing a sport. But thanks for your feedback!</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies everyone. @Statlerbound , I am pretty happy with my essays so I think they’ll help be out a little. I just have to hope and pray now.</p>
<p>Depending on the school you apply to you could stand a chance… personally your M+CR total 1340 is low, usually 1400 is solid , GPA is great, EC’s idk what to tell you but they arent that great, just typical stuff people are in, with that said, if your essays are amazing then you are qualified, but its a reach IMHO, and again none of us have the true chance reality so just my input</p>
<p>I don’t think many people who don’t play sports really understand how much time they take up, especially with doing community service and other things in addition. I wish admissions weighed playing sports a lot higher because after school and practice/games I have little time to do homework, but still manage to get it done.</p>
<p>I play 2 varsity sports and I have plenty of time to get my homework done, and of course I had a tough curriculum. I spent my summers doing TONS of volunteer work - as well as doing my own thing throughout the week after my sports practices. I was president of clubs but it wasn’t just me doing everything, and my coaches and advisors understood about conflicts and worked with me.</p>
<p>Oh I wasn’t saying you don’t understand! But for me I usually have to do work after practice until around 8-930 which doesn’t give me much free time to do other things.</p>
<p>That’s a different scenario, i only worked friday and saturday mornings, long shifts so during the week that’s tough. Maybe emphasize that in your app somewhere?</p>
<p>I think practice and training commitments are different for each sport. My sport requires 2.5 hour practices every schoolday with competitions taking up most of the weekends fall, winter and spring. I spend the summer weight training and crossfit 4 hours a day. I compete on a local, state and national level, former state champion, twice placing top 25 nationally. Some of my friends are in other varsity sports with practices every other day, for just the fall or spring. Their time commitment is manageable. I was so disappointed during an interview when one school sort of dismissed my athletic commitment and achievement and asked “well what else do you do with your free time during the school year” I felt like screaming I didn’t get that 95 GPA from sleeping! My routine of school, sport, dinner, homework consumes my time from 6am until 9-10pm mon-fri. So yea the schools say to show passion, just it evidently doesn’t count if it’s an Olympic sport. Sorry to vent on you guys, it’s just sometimes hard to understand this college selection process.</p>
<p>@Cundalini I totally agree with you. I wish they could see the passion we have for sports. Some people have a passion for academic clubs in HS and some have a passion for sports. I think if you show that you have a passion and are successful in an area other than academics itself, then you should have an edge over some other people who really don’t. Just because we play sports doesn’t mean we don’t work our you know whats off!</p>
<p>Sox, I have come to the realization it doesn’t matter what some admission officer thinks. It’s my life. I am happy. We know how to work hard, commit to goals and succeed. If they don’t want or understand us it’s their loss. Still got my fingers crossed they say YES, good luck.</p>
<p>@petersuu that viewpoint seems a bit unfair. I have come to the realization I am not an Olympic level athlete in my sport (which is a varsity sport at Cornell). It’s just not my future. My plans are to attack my school work with the same intensity and focus as I did my high school studies + sport. I suspect most other students at Cornell have a higher IQ and better prep than my large public high school provided me. I can only compete and suceed by out working everyone of my classmates. So while it would be fun to continue in my sport at Cornell, and yes I am good enough to be recruited, why bother? What confuses me is the whole assessment process. I thought EC’s were to show passion for something and prove you could handle high school academic work while doing something meaningful outside of the classroom. I am starting to suspect its more PC and biased and why not? It’s hard to understand the commitment level it takes to compete at a high level in any sport. The year round training, weeks away from home at development camps, the stress of competition. It’s easier to understand EC’s like Environment club and Habitat for Humanity that make the world a better place but as @Sox said doesn’t necessarily shown passion or commitment to excellence.</p>
<p>You have an amazing GPA, I envy you
Although, it seems like your extracurriculars don’t seem to reflect a “unique” factor that great schools like Cornell are probably looking for. I’m not sure if I even have that myself LOL Anyways, I would say you have a good chance so mid reach. </p>
<p>@Cundalini I agree with you on every level. But what can we do, right? It’s out of our hands and if someone doesn’t want us then, like you said, it’s their loss. And @justin thanks for your input!</p>
