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Old 12-30-2008, 03:25 PM   #1
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CHANCES THREAD FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NO CHANCE in CORNELL

CHance ME?!?!? (my SAT is a....1880) >_<***
Do i stand a chance (SAT is a ......1880) ?!?!?!?!? some kids have 4.0 gpa, 2100 SAT, great currics and get deferred!!!! ><
here are my stats....
lols i want to go here sooooo badly, you have no idea!!!! (brown univ is out of my reach lol)
gpa. 3.97 W
SAT scores: 1880 O___O* sweat*
Subject test: didn't take it yet...
Act:27....O____O; *gulp*
taken all honors.....
taken all the math and science classes available at my skool
ONLY taken 2 AP's-calc and physics- (but made it up with college courses at harvard and this community college) so......think of it as.....6 AP's...lols
skool type: catholic
rank: top 10% (out of 350)
ethnicity:asian (works against me!!! arghhh!!!) >.< first gen. to go to college in america
no legacy.......
essay.....so so.....
recs......standard....i got one from my lab teacher in harvard summer school tho...
extra currics: Live Poet's Society, Book Club, Mission Club, Interact CLub, Founder of a charity organization, Indian Classical dance, Math League, tutoring, vocal recordings in multi-languages, independent cancer research reviews, piano, and thats pretty much it....
Languages: Tamil-mother tongue, Telugu-2nd mother tongue, Hindi-can only read and speak a little- (Indian dialects), Russian-can speak and read Cyrillic, and Spanish....and Japanese ^.^* and im sending colleges me singing in russian and english ^O^*
Other factors: Completed 8 credit course for undergraduate biology in Harvard this summer..............and im sending cornie this huge lab report thing from harvard summer skool on Meotic Mapping on Yeast......
so pleaseeeee chance me?!?
i dont have a good SAT, i don't think my currics are that impressive, my gpa doesn't stand out when applying to it, my essays are OK, anddddddd............lol did i mention the SAT score...xD 20% chance i get in? 10%? lols....25%? LOLxD

p.s. i wanna major in bio or biomedical engineering
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Old 05-18-2009, 10:05 AM   #2
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Improved SAT score to close to 2000.
A jump of nearly 100 points!!!!!!!!!!!!
ACT was only a 29.
3.97 was actually UW and 4.30 was W.
Got into some very good colleges. LoL. but not
the Cornell.
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