Cornell Early Decision Class of 2030 Official Thread

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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?
Ask your questions, the CC community is here to help!

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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:

  1. 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
  2. Writer/Blogger at Medium + other social media (3yrs): wrote articles about various healthcare policies to better promote literacy amongst teens: reached about 5k views
  3. 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.
  4. Boys Varsity Tennis Captain(4yrs)
  5. VP of Schools Public Health Club (4yrs) (lowk filler, but had guest speakers + informational meetings)
  6. Healthcare volunteering (2yrs) (50+hours): Talked/Interacted with hospital patients regarding healthcare experience/disparties faced; submitted reports to hospital to improve their data
  7. Part Time job (3yrs) math tutor, 500+ hours
  8. 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
  9. VP of Science Team (3yrs) (filler, signed team up for sci Olympiad, slideshows, etc.)
  10. Varsity Math Team (4yrs)

Awards:

  1. National US medicine + disease Olympiad Gold medal recipient (top 5% nationally)
  2. HOSA Medical Law + Ethics 3rd place at States (qual for internationals)
  3. Science Olympiad States: top 10 placement for anatomy and physiology
  4. Central State regional Tennis champs
  5. Ap scholar

Applying to Brooks ED as a healthcare policy major. Any tips/advice?

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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.

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We just signed the ED agreement last week.

Daughter attends small private boarding school in MA. Full IB diploma candidate, 4.2 unweighted (on 4.3 scale), NMSF, 1570 SAT (790 r/w; 780 math). Applying to college of engineering.

Her high school has limited science offerings - only IB offerings for science are Bio and ESS, she is taking both HL plus AA math HL. She took the regular physics and chemistry classes sophomore year before starting the full IB curriculum and had A+ in both. But we are a little nervous that could negatively impact her.

Decent ECs (co-captain of equestrian team; peer tutor; resident assistant; school tour guide; job as camp counselor at science museum over summer; year-long independent research project on sustainability at her school; chorus and a capella)

Legacy student (dad).

She’s working on getting all the supplements done. 7 for college of engineering!