This is the official thread for those applying ED to Cornell University.
List your unweighted GPA, any SAT /ACT scores, and ECs. What majors are you going into?
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Decently Competitive Public High School
Unweighted GPA: 3.85 (All in A range grades, quite a few A minuses. Only 2 B+’s in APUSH and Spanish junior year semester 2, but due to close family member death)
Weighted: 4.64/5
SAT: 1560
School doesn’t allow APs until junior year: Took APUSH, Lang, and CS and got a 5,5,4 respectively. Taking BC, Stats, Psych, English Lit Senior year.
ECs:
- Interned at Town Department of Health (2yrs); worked with epidemiologist and co-wrote lit. reviewed paper on Tobacco Free generation policy and submitted to board of directors; led to legal vote; awarded $1.5k
- Writer/Blogger at Medium + other social media (3yrs): wrote articles about various healthcare policies to better promote literacy amongst teens: reached about 5k views
- President/Founder of Non profit (3yrs) : dedicated to making racket sports more accessible in local area and getting rid of cost barriers; free annual clinics for kids (had 50+ local) for underprivileged.
- Boys Varsity Tennis Captain(4yrs)
- VP of Schools Public Health Club (4yrs) (lowk filler, but had guest speakers + informational meetings)
- Healthcare volunteering (2yrs) (50+hours): Talked/Interacted with hospital patients regarding healthcare experience/disparties faced; submitted reports to hospital to improve their data
- Part Time job (3yrs) math tutor, 500+ hours
- Volunteer at Love for our elders (2yrs) : wrote 100+ letters of kindness and gratitude to elder citizens to help combat senior depression; 60+ documented hours
- VP of Science Team (3yrs) (filler, signed team up for sci Olympiad, slideshows, etc.)
- Varsity Math Team (4yrs)
Awards:
- National US medicine + disease Olympiad Gold medal recipient (top 5% nationally)
- HOSA Medical Law + Ethics 3rd place at States (qual for internationals)
- Science Olympiad States: top 10 placement for anatomy and physiology
- Central State regional Tennis champs
- Ap scholar
Applying to Brooks ED as a healthcare policy major. Any tips/advice?
will the lack of science APs hurt me? I couldn’t fit them into my schedule due to the classes I wanted to take, but I tried to show my proficiency in science in the olympiads.