You are a strong contender. Apply, but I hope you have a good number of other fine business schools that you applied to.
As someone who has done a ton of college research to assist first our son and then our daughter I must warn you that Cornell Dyson is a truly intimidating school to apply to for even the most competitive students. Yeah, I know that’s a cliche comment for all the top tier universities and colleges. But Dyson is unquestionably in a niche of its own. Most years it is as hard to get into as MIT, CalTech, Harvard or Stanford—or harder. Yes, admit rates fluctuate at all schools everywhere, and that’s true of Dyson also, but post-Pandemic, admission rates have tightened even more. Over many years Dyson admit rates haven often been between 2-4%; other years slightly higher. The year our son applied and was rejected, 2017, the admit rate was 2.5%, I believe.
As the smallest “traditional” undergraduate business school in America Dyson enrolls only approximately 150+/- students each year and enrolls only about 40+/- transfers in sophomore year. Again, these numbers fluctuate based on university needs—but not by much.
The second smallest undergrad business school is MIT Sloan (who knew MIT even had an undergrad business school?), but be aware that it has an even more quantitative curriculum than Dyson (which requires 3 additional STEM courses). So this is another option for you to try for. Many Sloan students vie for Quant roles upon graduation. But again, not much “easier” to get admitted to.
Our daughter, who attended a very good but not prestigious public high school, attends Dyson (class of 2027) and remarked that she was amazed at the many elite public and private high schools represented among her admitted class and earlier classes. Quite a few have additional achievements related to science and math but especially business internships and even prestigious “business or finance prep” courses or certificates taken at colleges while in high school, over summer break. More than a few she met earned a finance-related certificate at Oxford and other similar world-class universities abroad. Moreover, quite a few of her classmates have parents in IB, PE, VC, Hedge Funds and related high-finance or consulting fields.
While on campus on Move-in Day last year, waiting for a campus bus after I parked our car in the designated lot, I was chatting with a Cornell professor (whose wife was a Dean at one of Cornell’s schools) who was also waiting to get back to his son moving in as a freshman, as I was for my daughter. When he asked which school our daughter was accepted to he said that’s always the most difficult school to gain admission to at Cornell.
So, I tell you all this just to prepare you for the extreme difficulty of getting in. But I hope you tried and wish you the very best.