citybirds27

Please chance!

Basic:
Male, Born in India, From VA
Go to average public high school for 3 classes and a Governor's School for 3 classes (math, science, technology ones). I've taken a couple of CVCC credit classes and some of my classes next year are also CVCC credit.

Academics: (after senior year will be around)
GPA - Unweighted: 3.95 ;GPA - Weighted: 4.3 to 4.4
Class Rank: 10th - 12th of 360,

Scores:
SAT: Took 3 times, best in June (770 M, 730 CR, 720 W) so 2220 and 1500 M+CR

AP Euro: 5. AP Eng Lang: 4. AP USH: 4. (self-study) AP PSY: 5 (self-study)
senior year AP's: AP Stat, AP Calc BC, AP Environ, possibly AP Bio

Taking SATII's in october: Math II, History, maybe Spanish to get out of some requirements

Extra Curricular:
-NHS -will probably be officer at our school (find out next year)
-Varsity Club - those with Athletic and academic varsity letter
-Key Club, Spanish Club, Latin Club

Leaderships Positions:
-Governor’s School Student Activites Board
-Train people at Hospital (will have around 200hrs)

Sports: (20 hrs/week - all year round, including summer)
-Indoor Track - Varsity Letter - senior co-captain
-Outdoor Track - Varsity Letter - senior co-captain
-Cross Country - Varsity Letter - senior-co captain

Volunteer/Service Work:
-Volunteering at the Lynchburg General Hospital (200 hours)
-Relay for Life - Made my own team that has over 40 people.. organized entire event and all fundraisers.. raised over $1000
-Various races for charity: 9th Annual Central Virginia Kidney Association Race, Turkey trot (cancer), other running related volunteering activites.

Honors/Awards:
-Accepted to Central Virginia's Governor's School - a school for Science and Technology.
-Participated at annual school trig-star tournament (trigonometry) - placed 3rd sophomore year
-Chosen to be one of four ambassadors to represent CVGS at NCSSMST conference - an association of Specialized Secondary School
-Participated in Research Symposium (top 10) and Regional Science and Engineering Fair.
-Accepted to VJAS (state science fair), Placed 2nd in the Psychology Category.
-AP Scholar with Distinction and aiming for National AP Scholar

College/ Summer Programs:
-Taking classes at local community college (CVCC)
-Boys State - elected as senator and clerk

Extra (academic):
-Research project about memory and perception because I'm interested incognitive science and neuroscience.. reserached neuroscience program at UVA
-My only two B's were in 9th grade year in easy classes and have improved and gotten straight A's since

My essays will be about my world (india-NJ-VA) and (try to) humor ones, and my passion of cognitive science
Guidance Counselor Recommendation will be very good because I'm first one at school to self-study AP's and the teachers will be also.

Any chance?
Should I retake SATs?
What should I aim for on SAT2s?

Prism123

you have a great chance, no, and high 700s


your sat1 scores are not only fine, but you've already taken it thrice so its unlikely one more time would improve it, and would probably hurt actually as some schools don't like it when you take it a ridiculous number of times.

iX3demosthenes

lol essays about india-nj-va? iono it might seem a little trite. i had an indian friend who wrote about something similar. then again, it could be purely coincidental. on a more serious note, SATs are good, GPA/class rank is excellent as are the ECs. assuming SAT IIs and essays and recs are as good as your other stats, i'd say greater than 50% odds for sure. most of my stats appear comparable to yours, but your GPA blows mine out of the water

Sapere

You have a good unweighted GPA. I'm not entirely sure how your school calculates weighted GPA (A in honors is 5 is they way we were taught), but I would like to see a description of your current and past coursework. Good class rank, within top 10.

Your SATs are fine and you've already taken them three times. Did you use your highest scores? If you didn't, then there's a chance for you to improve without having to retake.

Good AP classes, self-study doesn't mean you get honors credit though and it doesn't appear on your transcript for Cornell to see. It's good to see you're keeping up hard senior coursework, do not fall prey to Senioritis.

Those are good SAT II's, If you're majoring in any of the Sciences, you might want to take a test in one of those as well.

Your clubs are solid. I don't see anything completely out of the norm, but if you have had several years of participation, then you will be good to go. Good leadership positions. Think you can secure an internship at that hospital? Mention your sports too.

I'm just going to sum up the rest in this paragraph since there's so much. You've got a good chance, make sure to mention the research project. Just keep those grades up and hope for the best.