<p>Hi,
Besides the in-school EC’s (Varsity athlete, president&founder of engineering club and Science Olympiad, Physics Club member of Diversity Board and president of diversity club, President and founder of Business Club, President and Founder of Engineering Club, Financial manager/writer for Journalism Club, etc etc, all of which i dedicate large amounts of time to, and all of which I hope show my broad range of interests, but also my ability to be a leader and my focus on math and science), I am a 15-yr old intern at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (numero uno) working in Environmental Health engineering, in a legitimate position (i’m in my lab during lunch as i write haha). I have multiple acknowledgements, and I will be published at least once by the end of the summer in an engineering journal, as well as in a public health/environmental health journal. How will this accomplishment be loooked upon when I apply to CALS EnviroE. ED this fall? I have out-of-school EC’s besides this, primarily working at the University of Maryland Medical Center and helping out the Hemophilia Foundation of Maryland since I was a preteen. I am going to get letters of reccomendation from the President of the HFM (hemophilia foundation, statewide organization), the head of the BSPH lab that I’m working in, and maybe one from UMMS to supplement my school recs.</p>
<p>and tons of hours btw, nothing here is a ‘shallow resume-padder’.Especially the research, the HFM, and the UMMS, which total about a thousand hours combined, and the school activities go in the hundreds of hours per year. I know CALS is all about fit, I just want to be able to have the right EC’s. </p>
<p>Jazz Band btw, and attendee of two international Jazz competitions (not that they were actually as big of a deal as they sound, medium-high deal haha hopefully it sounds good tho)</p>
<p>Your gonna get in no doubt. Your resume looks outstanding and i say you have a very high chance of getting in. I got into the same CALS EnvE with a less then stellar resume. Just keep it up with schoolwork and your ec’s</p>
<p>Thanks for the supportive words, does Early Decision make a big difference when applying? I know the acceptance rate would jump from ~21 to ~40, but in some cases that’s just because of recruited athletes. I don’t think there would be many recruited athletes in CALS though. Is EnvE a really competitive major to get into?</p>
<p>Early decision makes a big difference, but with your stats you are a definite in whether or not you apply early. Are you the first author of the articles you are publishing in the engineering and health journals? If you are, it’s even more impressive.</p>
<p>Yessir. And I’m in the news, do you know if I could let Cornell know about that somehow? I really want to be a Presidential Research Scholar.</p>
<p>*I don’t think there would be many recruited athletes in CALS though. Is EnvE a really competitive major to get into? *</p>
<p>There are actually a fair number of athletes in CALS as well as other colleges, but brush them aside for a bit since you actually seem to be competitive with most folks. I’m just not sure since you haven’t posted anything else in this topic.</p>
<p>What other info do you want?
Our school has a 50% acceptance rate to Cornell ED, historically. the average weighted accepted ED GPA is 90, I have a 92. That GPA is with no URMs or athletes, unhooked applicants basically. I think one was a legacy, but he had a gpa above 93 so he didnt really even need the legacy status. Ive taken more APs and honors than anyone in my schools history, and i’m pretty proud of that considering our acceptance rates to the ivies are all above 35%, which reflects our strong student body. I am, like I said, an independent researcher at JHU Bloomberg, and I am also going to enter the Intel STS (can anyone tell me how much of a boost it is to simply enter, regardless of Semifinalist status? semi results are posted after Nov 1.) I am also interning at Merrill Lynch, in the regional office. </p>
<p>SAT- 2390 superscore, 2340 highest single-sitting, no prep. ACT- 35. Taken once. 35 science section.
Can’t think of anything else. I’m going to contact the professor at Cornell CALS who deals with carbon nanotubes, and see if he can give me some info. Or is that a bad idea? I’m also in contact with one of the people who run the President’s Scholars Program.</p>
<p>if i were you, i will not ED at Cornell. you will have plenty of good options, including other top schools, unless of course it’s Cornell that you want.</p>
<p>i think presidential res scholar etc. may be used as a recruiting tool. i am not sure if they extend it to Ed.</p>
<p>simply entering sts is not a boost</p>
<p>good luck.</p>
<p>I’m applying EA to UVA, MIT, Chicago, and UMDCP (safety). The big school of them all is MIT, of course, but Chicago is undoubtedly the best engineering school in the Ivy League, and if I decide to switch over to ORE/Financial Engineering, and go into investment banking from an engineering degree, MIT, Cornell, Princeton, and Columbia are the top schools for that. I don’t really worry about alumni connections as long as I am in the Ivy League, my schools’ alumni networks (both middle and high) have let me speak to CFOs of Fortune 500 companies, as well as get in touch with high ranking workers at the Big banks. EnviroE is great at Cornell and MIT, so I see no need to not apply to Cornell. Besides, I loved it in my visit, I like their work hard party hard mentality, and I like Ithaca. What else is there to it, it seems to me not appyling ED to Cornell would almost be like a crime. The PresScholar is legit- 10k per annum for research, and stipends to attend national/international conventions. It is extended to ED. </p>
<p>Are you also saying that doing independent research is not a boost, and that the research papers are not a boost? I hope not…although I can totally see where you are coming from when you say its not a boost to enter. MIT does ask for the abstract though, and considering that only 2000 apply, I thought that having scientific papers and an abstract to the STS paper, if it is good, would be a significant boost, especially considering how few high school students do environmental engineering independent research as high schoolers. Thanks itsme123</p>
<p>“Chicago is undoubtedly the best engineering school in the Ivy League”</p>
<p>Chicago as in University of Chicago? I hope you know UChicago isn’t an Ivy…</p>
<p>Cornell I meant hahaha Chicago doesn’t have engineering majors…</p>
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