Chance me: ED to Cornell/ED2 to Washu (need input please!)

throwaway420
Mon, 07 Oct 2019 23:45:05 +0000

Here are my stats:
Male, White, high income family (no need for financial aid)

Applying for engineering for WashU, biochem for Cornell (engineering program at Cornell seems too stressful)-on premed track

GPA: 4.13 W, school doesn’t give UW or rank (excluding freshman year, my lowest grades have been 2 B+’s)

ACT: 34 (36 36 30 35 and 34 32 34 34-hoping my other math scores will make up for this anomaly)

SAT: (haven’t taken)

SAT II: 800 Math 2, expecting 800 Chemistry

AP’s taken/taking: Psych, Stats, Chem, Multivariable, Gov (school has a policy on AP’s and forces us to take several other classes before we can take AP’s-also we have to take certain classes which fill up our schedules)

AP Tests: 5 on Psych, Stats, and BC (self studied)

Letters of rec: precalc teacher who loved me and graduated from Columbia so I think his is going to be good, and my English teacher whose letter I know is going to be great

EC’s: shadowed a doctor over the summer, competed in DECA nationals, done community service work, some other clubs, part of NHS and tutor for it, and am hopefully starting biological research soon (more out of interest but I hope to mention it), also have taught myself very high level math out of interest (graduate level stuff idk if it matters)

Others: have a sister attending the school (undergrad) and have spoken to two reps in person and am fairly certain I made a good/memorable impression with both. Also have suffered from really bad injury/severe health related trauma which caused me to miss most of my freshman year and caused my gpa for freshman and sophomore year to be much lower than it should’ve, also took away a ton of time from doing ec’s as the recovery process took a very long time. This is gonna be my essay topic and im discussing how it made me stronger. For WashU I’m gonna write the supplement about how my passion for math has inspired me to translate my problem solving skills on paper to problem solving skills in the real world which I think is going to be good.

Are my chances okay?