<p>Anyone who attends or was accepted can you please help me? I want to see if I have a solid chance or if it's a reach.</p>
<p>GPA?
Rank?
APs?
SAT I?
SAT II?
ECs?
Ethnicity?</p>
<p>Also does anyone have any advice for the essay topics? I really want the admissions people to get to know me as a person, academically and personally, but I don't wanna write about my hardships (which I really have had my share of some) because I feel if I go that route, it'll just be cliche.</p>
<p>What? How can you have an average 'ethnicity'? That's nonsensical.</p>
<p>Forget about the mean ethnicity, the modal ethnicity is definitely caucasian! :D</p>
<p>As is true of most colleges - maybe except UC Berkeley.</p>
<p>...ruined my joke :(</p>
<p>writing about hardships is definitely "not" cliche. it really depends on how that "hardship" is conveyed and written. i suggest that if u want to write about ur hardship, do it in a creative way and make sure you evaluate that hardship and explain what you learned from it. you want the reader to remember how you overcame the hardship, not what it was.</p>
<p>these are really general numbers, but here is about what the average cornell acceptee might have accomplished:</p>
<p>GPA: doesn't really matter, class rank more important
Class rank: most are top%10
SAT I: 1400+ is competitive
SAT IIs: 700+ average is competitive
ECs: hard to put a number on, but you need to be actively involved in more than one area</p>
<p>once again, nobody can base their admission chances on numbers alone, but these seem pretty typical from what i know.</p>
<p>here are mine, though they're posted several times...</p>
<p>GPA? 97.7uw/103.5w
Rank?4uw/6w
APs?
Bio- 5
Lang- 5
US Hist- 5
World Hist- 5
Lit- 4
Macro Econ- 4
Micro Econ- 4
Physics- 4
Calc BC- 3
AB Subscore- 4
I decided not to take gov (didn't feel like it) or Spanish (wouldn't pass)
SAT I? 1450- 730v/720m
SAT II? 800 writing, 780 US hist, 750 World hist, 690 IIC, 660 Chem<br>
ECs? Average, nothing special
Ethnicity? Caucasian</p>
<p>link to Class of 2009 Profile
<a href="http://dpb.cornell.edu/irp/pdf/FactBook/Admissions/Undergraduate/profile.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://dpb.cornell.edu/irp/pdf/FactBook/Admissions/Undergraduate/profile.pdf</a></p>
<p>wait a sec. Spanks. Did you take all those APs before your senior year started?</p>
<p>That's not uncommon...I know I took a few as a Junior.</p>
<p>oh, no, I didn't...I only took World, US, Physics and Lang. My bad.</p>
<p>Damn. My chances of getting in seem to be getting worse. With all the geniuses in my school , although my school doent rank, if we did, I wouldnt be anywhere near the top 10 or even 20%. Things look pretty grim.</p>
<p>im not in the top 10 percent for my cumliative GPA cause of a pretty "average" freshaman year, but sophmore year i was in the top 10% and junior year i was top 5 %...so idk, but i def think its my rank that is hindering my chances for cornell :-(</p>
<p>I definitely agree with you on this. You should show how you have overcome a hardship and leave the reader with impression of your accomplishments not your difficulties. This is the key. This will set you apart from this rest.</p>
<p>My school doesnt rank... although I dont know if they do that stuff behind our backs, cant trust 'em. But anyway, Is it necessary to send class rank???? Coz based on those stats, I'm pretty screwed.</p>
<p>they send a decile estimate. if you have a competitive school it doesn't matter as much, unless of course like 10 kids from your school apply. if you have a 4.0 and a low rank your either school grades easy and you will probably be judged more on test scores, or you took easy classes which they would check out. if you have a 3.2 and a high rank then your school grades very hard and your GPA will probably be a bigger indicator than your test scores, or everyone at your school is just dumb.....</p>
<p>if there are like 10 kids applying from your school is when rank becomes most important probably.</p>
<p>in general guidance ppl give a decile rank "estimate" to the colleges because the colleges ask for it on common app. you won't get a number but you will get a decile.</p>