<p>I will be applying to Cornell RD and I am interested in getting chanced.
ACT: 34 (35 Superscore).
UW GPA: 3.822 @ end of Junior year
25/257 (10%) at a highly competitive collegiate high school in Dallas. </p>
<p>EC: Eagle Scout, Worked full time during Junior year, Special Olympics Coordinator (2 years), Speech and Debate (2 years), UIL Academics Regional Qualifier (2 years), AVID Tutor.</p>
<p>Senior Courses: All college classes. Will graduate with an Associates Degree. </p>
<p>Letters of Rec: Great letters all from college professors. One from the pref. Dean of Student Life at Oklahoma University.</p>
<p>While students take college classes and often get dual credit for high school, if you are actually graduating with an AA degree, then you may be considered as a transfer student rather than a freshman. I’m not positive about that but it’s something that I have heard could affect your status, including financial aid. It may be safer to just use those college classes as dual HS credit. Just a thought. And I’m not positive if that’s true. Good luck. Nice stats :)</p>
<p>@Renomamma</p>
<p>It’s not about if you graduate with an associate’s degree or not. There is a specific college credit threshold that changes your status from Freshman applicant to Transfer</p>
<p>Off the top of my head, I believe for Cornell it’s 12 credits</p>
<p>Good to know.
I don’t know how many college credits an AA degree requires, but just thought it was worthy of bringing it up.</p>
<p>We apply as freshman because we don’t attend college after earning our HS diploma.
Students have been kicked out of colleges when they applied as transfer from this program.</p>