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Cornell University
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Ithaca, New York 14853
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Old 10-07-2012, 09:24 AM   #1
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Chance me RD (CS)

Is CS in the engineering school?

CS+Pre-Med
Asian Male
Very competitive school(sent 15 kids to cornell last year)
No ranking
Class Size: 600

GPA:
3.86 UW 4.62 W Computer Science/Math GPA
**Is there anyway for me to communicate this with my colleges? Such as add it in the "Additional Writing" Space on the Common App?**
3.65 Cumulative UW 4.38 W GPA

SAT:
1440/1600

SAT II:
Math Level 2=790
Chemistry=760
Biology M=740

AP:
AP BC Calculus-5
AP AB Calculus Subscore-5
AP Chemistry-5
AP Biology-5
AP Computer Science A-5
AP English Language-4
AP Government-3

9-11 Grades: Rigorous Schedule practically all honors + AP

Senior Year Courseload:
-Honors Advanced Multivariable Calculus and Differential Equations
-Honors Molecular Biology
-Honors English 12
-AP Computer Programming


Honors: National Merit Commended Scholar, AP Scholar with Distinction, (Placed Honors in First round of USNCO), Mu Alpha Theta Math Honor society

EC's:

+100 Volunteering hours on Farms, fundraising/ donating to help impoverished people in the D.C Area

-Spent One summer at Walter Reed George Washington Univ. Campus in an Engineering Internship for High School Students

+500 Hours Internship AT NIH Studying Fibromyalgia and Cancer
**Will get published in research paper**
-I assist nurses with clinical work, perform Buffy coat lymphoprep and RNA extractions, help with more clinical data, use advanced math and statistics to help calculate lab based data significance.

+20 Hours Shadowing Doctors on Clinical Rotations of cancer Patients

School Related EC's:

-President/Co-Founder of Information Technology Club( the only one at my school)
-Vice President of Chemistry Club
-Senior Officer/Co-Captain of Mathletes
**Second Team in the County
-Taken AMC10, AMC 12, Qualifier to second round of UMD math competition, (Second Place) Qualifier of 8-man Princeton, Harvard, and MIT math meet( hoping to place as an individual medalist)
-Future Doctors of America Club
-Science Bowl Team

For Programming:
-Proficent in Java
-Experienced in C++, Visual Basic, HTML, Oracle protocols, Python

-Working on building an Iphone app/ Android App
-Built an Oracle Portal

Thank you!
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Old 10-08-2012, 06:11 PM   #2
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boooooooooomp
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Old 10-08-2012, 06:46 PM   #3
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CS is in both Engineering and Arts & Sciences. And RD engineering to Cornell is very difficult; you're competing with all of the MIT/Stanford turnovers. I would say you have a very very very good chance ED but only a good chance RD.
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Old 10-08-2012, 06:53 PM   #4
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Thanks,

You read that my UW is a 3.65? and that my CS/MATH gpa is a 3.86? Do you know anyway I can communicate this with Cornell?
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Old 10-08-2012, 06:59 PM   #5
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You can find the admissions officer specific to your area: http://admissions.cornell.edu/contac...representative

And with your GPA, a lot of other things matter-how competitive is your high school, how you are in relation to other students, etc. Yeah, it seems a little low but I would say everything else makes up for it.
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Old 10-08-2012, 07:20 PM   #6
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Thanks for the info!
I would ED but my parents want me to keep my options open
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Old 10-08-2012, 07:24 PM   #7
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Well, you should ED atleast somewhere. It's one of the easiest ways to increase your chances of getting in.
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