Cornell RD Chances

Colleges & Universities Cornell University
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<p>Schools applied to:
**Early Decision/Action Schools: None **
**Regular Decision Schools:
UCLA
UC Berkeley (Social Work)
Amherst
Cornell (CAS)
Columbia (CC)
Northwestern (Weinberg)
Harvard
University of Chicago
UPenn (CAS)
Yale
Princeton
Duke (Trinity)
Dartmouth
Johns Hopkins University
Washington University at St. Louis
Williams
**
Rolling Schools:
Michigan at Ann Arbor
Demographics:
[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): International
[<em>] School Type: Admissions-based prep school
[</em>] Ethnicity: Yellow
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Did you apply for financial aid? No
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None, really[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Academic Profile:</p>

<p>Standardized Tests
[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (Please List Breakdown) 2390
[</em>] ACT (Please List Breakdown)
[<em>] SAT II: 790 790
[</em>] AP Scores: 5544
[/ul]</p>

<p>Courseload and Transcript
[ul]
[<em>] Weighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.86/4.0+ (school only does W GPA)
[</em>] Briefly describe any upward/downward trends: None
[<em>] Freshman year courses (only list honors/AP) 11 courses (No APs allowed)
[</em>] Sophomore year courses (only list honors/AP) 12 courses (No APs allowed)
[<em>] Junior year courses (only list honors/AP) 5
[</em>] Senior year courses (only list honors/AP) 8
[li] Rank: Top 5% (School does not give exact rank. On Common App, as top 10%)[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Awards and honors
[ul]
[<em>] Major Awards: Won an international economics award
[</em>] School Awards: Various Leadership Awards
[li] Other Awards: Math Olympiad, National Honor Society Induction[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Calculate your academic index:
[Academic</a> Index3 - College Confidential](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/academic_index3.htm]Academic”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/academic_index3.htm)</p>

<p>Your Academic Index: 224
AI Rank * : 7 out of 9 </p>

<p>Subjective factors:
*Extracurricular Pursuits:<a href=“also%20list:%20number%20of%20years/%20leadership%20positions/%20achievements”>/i</a>
[ul]
[<em>]1. Student Body President
[</em>]2. School Ambassador
[<em>]3. FBLA President
[</em>]4. Student-teacher of an AP class
[<em>]5. Founder of a humanitarian organization and president
[</em>]6. School Model United Nations Director+ President of the General Assembly+ Secretary General+ Founder of a Conference
[/ul]
*Job/Work Experience:<a href=“also%20list:%20number%20of%20years%20and%20achievements”>/i</a>
[ul]
[<em>]1. Tutoring
[</em>]2.
[li]3.[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>*Volunteer/Community service:<a href=“also%20list:%20number%20of%20years%20and%20achievements”>/i</a>
[ul]
[<em>]1. Regular volunteer at a welfare center
[</em>]2. Founder of a humanitarian organization
[li]3. Founder of a non-profit global volunteer movement[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Essays:
[ul]
[<em>]1. Common Application Essay Topic: Wrote about social welfare and my interest in the major
[</em>]2. Supplementary Essay Topic 1: Liberal Arts education
[li]3. Supplementary Essay Topic 2: Humorous essay, an interview with myself[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Recommendation Letters:
[ul]
I did not see them, but they gave me brief descriptions.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendations: One teacher called me a genius and my other teacher explained my work ethic.
[</em>] Counselor Recommendation: Counselor mentioned the difficulty of our school and how I have the single most challenging course load of the entire school community.
[li] Additional Recommendations: My principal mentioned the various leadership awards and called me a ‘once-in-a-career’ applicant.[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Interviews
I had a bunch. They all went well.</p>

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<p>imo match but u never know. Your race hurts you but your international status helps you. I think you’re getting in :)</p>

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<p>Ouch. Sorry that my race hurts. :S </p>

<p>^^ Thank you, let’s see what Cornell is going to offer! (In my country, 20 people applied and 6 got in)</p>

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<p>LOL i <3 your ethnicity: Yellow XD
yeah, im yellow too, and it hurts us a lot in chances ): lmao</p>

<p>you have a good chance. its all on your essays now</p>

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<p>How the hell does international status help him???</p>

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<p>Being an International does not help him at all. It is all the more detrimental, since you’re in the same pool as the Asian prodigies applying from outside the US.</p>

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<p>But the thing is for an international applicant such a high SAT score would make him stand out from the pool. Their SAT scores are generally not as high as applicants from the US.</p>

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<p>That’s not true at all. Certain countries in Asia (I’ll focus on Korea, because I have cousins there and I know what living there is like), the competition in SAT is cutthroat. Students spend hours daily studying for the SAT, because not only is it used for admission into top US institutions, it’s also used for admission into top Korean institutions. And kids only have one opportunity a year to take it. So pretty much if you don’t get a good score your first try, you’re pretty much not going to get into a good college. My cousin there, who is a year younger than my brother recently scored a 2390. She lived in Korea her whole life, and my brother, who’s been living in the US for the past nine years only scored a 2310 when he took it (Not that a 2310 is bad, it’s just lower in comparison to a 2390).</p>

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<p>Wow they use the SATs there now too? I feel sorry for my relatives</p>

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I am Yellow, but I have lived all my life somewhere else (not in Asia).
So I will be considered in the European pool, I guess.</p>

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It only helps because it is high in general.</p>

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Haha, I love being Korean.</p>

<p>

They mainly prepare for the TOEFL, SAT is just another indicator.</p>

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True, but they also go to Japan to take it (yes, Koreans have a very high regard for education).</p>

<p>

Wow!
But there are not so many perfect scorers in Korea… They usually have around 2250+</p>

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<p>"Quote:
But the thing is for an international applicant such a high SAT score would make him stand out from the pool. Their SAT scores are generally not as high as applicants from the US.
It only helps because it is high in general.
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No it doesn’t help you personally. It helps your country, but sadly not for you. It only means you have more competition.</p>

<p>"Quote:
My cousin there, who is a year younger than my brother recently scored a 2390. She lived in Korea her whole life, and my brother, who’s been living in the US for the past nine years only scored a 2310 when he took it (Not that a 2310 is bad, it’s just lower in comparison to a 2390).
Wow!
But there are not so many perfect scorers in Korea… They usually have around 2250+ "</p>

<p>That’s good enough to create a lot of competition</p>