What are my chances?

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<p>Anyone feel like musing on my chances?</p>

<p>Intended school/major -CALS: Biological Sciences</p>

<p>-SAT 2210 (710 Math 730 CR 770 Writing)
-College Board AP Chem score - 5
-2nd or 3rd in class out of 126 students (top 2%)
-All ap courses offer in school have been taken ( all the reccommended units of math and science including calculus and Ap chemistry)
-GPA : 99.72</p>

<p>Activities:</p>

<p>-Soccer x 2 years (captain)
-Cross country x 2 years
-Outdoor track x 2 years
-Indoor track x 3 years
-Quiz team x 4 years (captain)
-Chem team x 2 years
-Greek and Latin club x 1 year
-Drama club x 2 years
Volunteer work at local hospital and some paid jobs throught the years.</p>

<p>*all sports were at the varsity level</p>

<p>Honors
The usuals (national honor society, varsity letters,honor roll,ect.) along with some science related awards for various competitions and tests.</p>

<p>I applied ED and I am very nervous. i just started googling the words "will i get into cornell " haha. Any thoughts from prospective students, current students, or alumni would be greatly appreciated.</p>

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<p>Is AP Chem the only AP you took?
You have a decent chance as long as you show enough fit - you don’t have many ECs relating to bio.</p>

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<p>I think you have a excellent shot… in fact, with ED, I think you’re a lock!</p>

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<p>yeah i recognize the EC issue. I tried to related my essays to my love of the sciences. Im from a small town in NY with few opportunities. we have no other ap classes. i would have loved to take ap bio but its not offered.</p>

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<p>thanks for the responses guys</p>

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<p>your stats are pretty solid
did you take any SAT II’s?</p>

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<p>CALS only reccommends SAT IIs. Its the only school at cornell that doesnt require them. i was hoping cornell would consider my ap score as equivalent to an SAT II. but i dont know. i hope it wont count against me to much</p>

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<p>if the school doesn’t require SAT II’s it probably shouldn’t hurt you that much, as long as your AP exam grades are good.</p>

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<p>wow your GPA’s 99.72? does that mean you got 100 on almost every course?? so impressive! :slight_smile:
by the way, hope you got in!</p>