seraphinel

Hi – I've already applied to my early decision school (yay Cornell!) but I'm still wondering my chances for that school and others like
USC, Carnegie Mellon, Cooper Union, Washington University in St. Louis, Northeastern, Berkeley, and Maryland – although the last three are BA's, not Barchs...


Thanks!
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Gender: F
Location: Maryland
High School: Public (ranked in top 15 of country by Newsweek)

GPA - UW 3.45 (but a 3.6 after freshman year) W: 4.23
Class Rank: top 10%, ~400 people

Been in the Pre-IB and IB Program, so I've taken max # of APs and IBs possible

Scores:

SAT I: 2210 superscore CR: 780 M :710 W: 720 // 2180 regular, CR: 780 M:680, W:720
SAT II : Literature 740, US History 770, Math Level 2: 690

AP:
5's – Literature
4's – AB Calculus, US History, European History, US Gov't

Extracurriculars:
Drama Club :
-> Chief of Lighting Crew – so essentially i'm in charge of designing the entire lighting scheme for the shows, putting it into place, and running the lights on show nights (12th grade, ½ of 11th grade, 35hrs a week for 10-12 weeks per year)
-> Set Construction (3-4 hours a week, 11th + 12th grade, 3-4 hrs a week for 6 weeks)
-> Lighting Crew, Sound Crew, (9th-11th grade, 35hrs/etc.)
Wushu – martial arts (9-12th grade, 3.5 hours a week, 52 weeks a year?)
Chinese Painting/Calligraphy - ( 9-12th grade, 3 hours a week, 45 weeks a year)
Teaching Chinese Painting/Calligraphy (1 hour a week, 9-12th grade, 45 wks)
Interned the Smithsonian (DC/Gov't Museum System)
- 45 hours a week for 6 weeks over the summer

Volunteer/Service Work:

150+ Hours of Community Service Work
150+ CAS Hours

Honors and Awards: Member of the International Thespian Society, AP Scholar w/ Distinction
College Summer programs: CTY - Johns Hopkins, Writing, Pop Culture

Teacher Recs:
IB Art + Design teacher, had her for 3 years – she loves me
AP Calc teacher – pretty good with her, seems as if she likes me, and i did well in her class

Other stuff:
I wrote my extended essay (for IB) on architecture - a study of the influence of japanese art prints on the architecture of frank lloyd wright

I think my Cornell interviewer (was oncampus, professor) really liked me, but that coulda just been who he was. :/

last but not least: Portfolio - a photoset on Flickr
it's missing the drawing i did of the inside of a cathedral from patterns, and probably one or two things, and some of the photos arent as of good quality as in my actual portfolio, but hopefully it's enough to get the general gist...

molly4190

I don't know much about cornell (hopefully you'll get in ED) but I'm guessing you'll def get into northeastern, WU, USC...i don't know enough about the others.

laurstar07

you are probably ok for northeastern and maryland, maybe not for cornell

sashimi46

who was the professor who interviewed you?

Tzar

everything is good except your portfolio-- which could be stronger-
the submission date for Cornell has gone by so there is no use in talking about your portfolio now. However, I can tell you, if you still are applying to Cooper that the best way to do well on the Home Test is to do something amazingly thoughtful. The ideas which you present are just as important, if not more so, than the quality of the drawing/photo/ect. The writing portion is critical as well. ----You have a shot for Cornell, but it isn't as good as it could be.

noopsgnitaenam

I'm not into the whole rating other people thing, because I'm applying this year too. But I just wanted to point out that CMU requires SATII Physics or Chemistry. And I like the concept of the self-portrait frame series you did.

fedmom1080

Do you go to Richard Montgomery HS in Rockville? I don't know if your GPA is high enough for Cornell or WashU. You will probably get into to Maryland and Northeastern. Not many kids got into Cornell last year from RM.