Adezar1

Highschool Courseload:
Freshman year: Alg2 Honors, Biology Honors, World History Honors, English 1 Honors, Lifetime Wellness, Spanish 2 Honors.
Sophomore year: PreCal honors, Chemistry Honors, English 2 Honors, Spanish 3 Honors, Biology [AP], European History [AP].
Junior year: [AP] Calc BC, [AP] Chemistry, [AP] Physics C (Mechanics and E/M), [AP] English Lang & Comp, [AP] US History, Spanish 4 Honors
Senior year (predicted): [AP] Statistics, [AP] Physics B, [AP] Government&[AP] Econ(each as ½ semester), [AP] Environmental Science, Personal finance (required), [AP] English Literature, and Music History (stupid fine arts requirement).
My class rank of Jan. 5, 2012-May 24, 2012 was 9/506, but now I think it slipped down, but not sure, so it’s probably somewhere between 7-12 out of 506. Cumulative GPA is 4.60555 where there is a max of 5.0 for AP, 4.5 for Honors, and 4.0 for standard classes, such as Physical Education. The only reason I took physics C before B was because our school was only offering it this year, and I wouldve rather taken C then B later than simply just B.

Extracurriculars:
4 Years Debate team: 4th place, 5th place, and 6th place in 3 regional highschool invitational tournaments, one in debate and two in extemporaneous speech.
3 Years Science Olympiad team: Regional Awards (2012): 1st place Water Quality, 2nd place remote sensing, 3rd place experimental design.
Regional Awards ( Science Olympiad)(2011): 3rd place Wind power, 4th place experimental design, 6th place remote sensing
For the State competition at UTK (SciOly) I’ve won 1st place in Remote sensing (2012), 5th place in water quality(2012) and 6th place in remote sensing (2011).
Our team won 6th place in the state, and I’m currently the Vice president of the club.
2 years Spanish National Honors Society-Member
3 years Mu Alpha Theta Honors society-Treasurer
2 years English Honors Society-Member
2 years Science National Honors Society-Member
The debate team is part of the Forensics National Honors Society, so 4 years there
1 year National Honors Society
Black Belt in taekwondo (7 years), and registered black belt in CTF. (My instructor was a former world champion thought very highly of me so maybe a reco?)
1 full year varsity tennis (had to drop because of time)

Summer:
Volunteered 30 hours at library (LOL).
Summer of 2011 I was part of Vanderbilt’s STriVe Program where we volunteered in the Children’s hospital for 105 hours in the summer, and talked/learned about various medical professions.
Summer of 2012 I am currently doing a paid internship at TSU on behalf of the Air Force research labs' partnership with Tec^Edge with robotics engineering where we have to design and build a robot with a certain function, and operate it remotely via a virtual rendition of the robot on the computer. I think the professor is publishing/ giving a speech about it and I might have a chance to be in the published work, idk though.

Test Scores:
AP Scores:Biology (5), Chemistry (5), Physics C: Mechanics (5), Physics C: E/M (4), Calculus BC (5), European history (5), US History (5), English Language (5).
ACT: 33
Breakdown (test 1) Rdg: 34 Math: 34 Sci: 32 Eng: 32; E:10
Breakdown (mandatory test at school so idk if this counts): Rdg:30, Eng: 31, Math: 36, Sci: 35
I’m planning on taking it once more, hopefully I can get at least a 34-35 if I put some effort.
SAT I: 770M, 750W(9 on essay), 690CR (planning on taking it again hopefully 2300+)
SAT II’s
Math II: 770 (may retake)
Biology: 750
Chemistry: 800

And I’m taking some courses on Coursera.org, like poetry and humanities purely out of interest but I don’t know if I should put that on the application.
I would be applying to Cornell's School of Engineering. **What are my chances ED vs Regular?** Oh, and I’m Indian too, race will probably play a negative factor . Another thing is that my class is EXTREMELY competitive, and a few might also apply to Cornell regular decision, that's why I'm considering ED.
I'm applying as a resident of TN, and my school is relatively new, its only like 8 years old so idk if that will help or hurt.
I'll also be working on the supplement and common app right as it is released on Aug 1 so i expect a fairly good supplement; i've already been working on the common app essay
Let me know if there's anything i left out, thanks

dpf001

Apply ED and you'll be more than fine. ED I say you have 50%+ , and RD I'd say 30% +

Adezar1

Then i have other little things like Science Bowl team A (top 16 in state... fail), and honorable mention for national spanish exam (level 4).

Colene

You'd probably have a slightly above average chance at ED. ~ 40% if your school is decent (not very top but not bad at all).
Good points:
everything is decent - good (grades are very good, scores are decent)
ECs are decent - good
Passion shows through
You're EDing

Bad points:
Could have had more leadership roles/ a bigger leadership role
You stick to the stereotypes
You're ORM and male applying to engineering and nothing truly, truly stands out

Adezar1

@ Colene, what are my chances at Brown ED, in retrospect
Even though i want to do engineering i want to do alot of coursework in the humanities, maybe a double major or a major and a double minor; should i express that?

Colene

I'd say around 40% too in your case*. Keep in mind Brown is really not known for its engineering though. Make sure you know what you're doing. Also, I don't know how this works for Brown but for Cornell if you want to double major across schools (within cornell) you'll probably need to graduate in a 5 year program (dual degree) that you get to make up on your own.

Cornell engineering overall admit rate is higher, but you will distinguish yourself better in Brown than for Cornell engineering especially among the male population and I'd think Brown would want to take more engineers.

Colene

Actually, it might be around 30%-35% if Brown also has a good number of people applying to engineering and have a similar gender distribution of applicants as Cornell eng. does... male heavy

Adezar1

i liked brown because i could be the "architect" of my class choices. but for Brown i think alot of it rides on my essays and supplements.
How do my chances improve if i can get a 2340-2400?

and it's EXTREMELY difficult to obtain leadership positions in our class because it's soo damn hard and competitive. we are probably going to have at least 12-15 people accepted to ivies this year

Colene

Like 3-5%. Sorry but scores will no longer help you much further at all. You can do that here too but you will need to apply for the college scholar program to make your own major.

Adezar1

is it better to apply to brown as a prospective materials engineer or mechanical engineer, i like both practices equally so idk which one would be better. i assume its almost a marginal difference but materials engineer is a more elusive field

Colene

You're on the wrong forum kid

Adezar1

idc this conversation inadvertently bumps the thread, i posted in brown didnt get many replies, plus no one else is replying so w/e

ashwin277

lol nishant u tr0ll