Am I Even a Candidate for Cornell?

Colleges & Universities Cornell University
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<p>Hi, I’m going to be a senior in high school (over 3000 students total, and 1000 in my grade alone) which is ranked as one of the top high school’s in the country. </p>

<p>*SAT Reasoning Test - 2100
-Math - 750
-Writing - 700
-Verbal - 650
*SAT Subject - Math II - 640

  • US History - 650</p>

<p>*Unweighted GPA - 3.5 / 4.0
*Weighted GPA (the normal way most schools do it) - 4.3
*Weighted GPA (my school’s weighted one) - 5.62 / 6.0
*Class Rank - 83/1005 - top 8% of my class</p>

<p>*Classes Freshman Year - HP/Gifted English, HP/Gifted American History, Honors Physical Science, Honors Latin II, Honors Geometry
*Classes Sophomore Year - Honors English, Honors World Cultures, Honors Biology, Honors Algebra II, Honors Latin III,
*Classes Junior Year - AP English, AP US History, AP Latin, AP Statistics, Honors Physics, Honors Pre-Calculus, Honors Chemistry I
*Classes Senior Year - AP English, AP US History, AP Biology, AP Psychology, AP European History, Honors Calculus
*Outside Study - Greek
*Total AP Classes - 9
*Total Honors Classes - 14
*I take the hardest courses available to me for each subject</p>

<p>*Extra Curriculars Freshman Year - Student Government Association (Homeroom Repliaison), National Junior Honors Society (Member), Concert Band (Clarinetist)
*Extra Curriculars Sophomore Year - Class Cabinet (Class Vice President), Indian Cultural Association (Member), Student Government Association (Class Representative)
*Extra Curriculars Junior Year - Class Cabinet (Member), Indian Cultural Association (Member), Student Government Association (Class Representative), National Honors Society (Member)
*Extra Curriculars Senior Year - Class Cabinet (Member), Indian Cultural Association (Vice President), National Honors Society (Member), Student Government Association (Class Representative)</p>

<p>*Outside Services and Things
-Helped my local government Commissioner with his elections (which he won) two times
-Helped my local US House of Representative with her election (volunteer)
-Helped with Allyson Shwatz’s Congressional Campaign (volunteer)
-Helped with Kathy Boockvar’s Congressional Campaign (intern)
-Volunteer continuously at my two temples
-Tutor kids in various subjects
-Volunteer for local events
-Work at Kumon Learning Center - tutor and teach kids from ages 3-17 since 9th grade</p>

<p>*Awards
-American Legion Award
-Contiguously getting the Honor/Distinguished Honor Roll Award
-Business Award
-Service to Student Government Award
-Cum Laude National Latin Exam - 9th Grade
-Cum Laude National Latin Exam - 10th Grade
-Cum Laude - Philadelphia Classical Society - 10th Grade</p>

<p>*Ethnicity - Indian-Asian
*Religion - Hindu
*First Time College Student (well my brother just graduated college (Yale) so he would be the first in the family)
*Income - Middle Class Family</p>

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<p>Yes, you are a competitive candidate.</p>

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<p>will be a reach.</p>

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<p>Colene–a reach because of the SAT score?</p>

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<p>That’s a medium sized part of it, yes (ORM doesn’t help either). You’re probably in if you ED though.</p>

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<p>Indian you say? most definitely in. im a white dude that got a 1950 sat score, was top 25 pct of my high school class of 220, had no “legacy” or anything like that. no strings to pull. i applied ED, got a guaranteed transfer option, did a year at SUNY Geneseo, got a 3.6gpa, and saved 10 grand in tuition while having 40 credits transfer. not a bad deal.</p>

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<p>" got a guaranteed transfer option"
There you go. I was chancing him for freshman admission.</p>

<p>They literally give out one of these options for every accepted freshman for the contract colleges. Also, the Good/Bad side of transferring is that your GPA doesn’t carry over, you don’t get as much time to take Cornell’s courses, and you have to make new friends with people who aren’t as sociable as freshmen anymore. Of course, it’s good for you if you’re only looking for a degree from Cornell and that’s it.</p>

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<p>uhm, thank you for the reply colene? i was addressing OP however. And also thank you for fully weighing all of my opportunity costs in your evaluation of my attending Cornell as a GT and knocking down transfer students as not being sociable. If anything, we’re more sociable. As a transfer, I think I would know. Yes OP, I think you’re a very competitive candidate and best of luck in admissions.</p>

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<p>I’m not saying transfers aren’t as sociable. I’m saying the non-transfers would be less sociable than they were when they’re freshmen, and that there ARE significant costs to doing this.</p>