Did I ever have a Shot @ Cornell?

Colleges & Universities Cornell University
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<p>Location: Oakland, CA</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Persian/ Filipino/Hispanic (My mom is part Spanish) </p>

<p>Low Income, 1st in my family to go to college…</p>

<p>Major: Medicine</p>

<p>Rank: 1 / 300</p>

<p>ACT: 26 E/W:29, M:28, R:25, S:26, E:26</p>

<p>1st SAT:1680 <:P---------Took the test when I was sick…</p>

<p><strong><em>SATI: CR:640, Math:660, Writing:660, <------ Best Scores!</em></strong>**
Essay:12 [Improved 300 points!]</p>

<p>SATII:
US History: 780
Biology (M): 720
Math IIC: 630
Math IC: 700</p>

<p>Summer 2005: Harvard SSP Neuroscience: A-</p>

<p>Freshmen Year:
GPA: 4.0/4.0</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:
GPA: 4.333/4.333</p>

<p>Community College 2004
Micro Economics: A
Chemistry: A</p>

<p>Junior Year:
AP Biology… A
AP US History… A
AP Studio Art… A
AP English… A
HP French 4 … A
HP Pre-Calculus … A</p>

<p>GPA: 5.0/5.0</p>

<p>Senior Year taking:
AP Calculus
HP Physics
AP English
AP Gov/Econ
AP Art 2D
Current Life Issues</p>

<p>AP Exams:
AP Euro History: 5
AP US HIstory: 5
AP Biology: 5
AP English: 4</p>

<p>EC’s & Awards:
-Questbridge Finalist —> sent application to Princeton & Stanford
-UC Berkeley Incentive Award Candidate
-President Art Club
-VP Key Club
-Varsity Tennis (scholar athlete)
-Newspaper Editor: Freelance Writer, Illustrator

  • Historical Art Association: Best in Show (1st time school earned this honor)
  • PTA Art Relfections: City Council 1st Place
    -Principal’s High Honor Roll
    -Mayor’s Award Recipient
  • *4th Place: San Francisco Bay Area Science Fair 2003 (Parallax Shift)</p>

<p>*Stellar Essays!
*Great Rec’s From Teachers & Director of School District
*Great Rec’s from Renown Local Artist
*Submitted my Slides of Paintings to Stanford, Princeton & Brown
*Only student applying to Princeton in my Highschool

  • #2 & #3 in my class were accepted into Stanford</p>

<p>Thanks for the Comments!</p>

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<p>yes you are ivy material, did u apply ED any where?</p>

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<p>testing will be ignored. you’re very competitive anywhere…</p>

<p>cornell has a medicine major?</p>

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<p>Well, I applied to two Ivies, Stanford and UC Berkeley…I’m keeping my fingers crossed!</p>

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<p>nvm i’m an idiot…no wonder why I failed the CR section</p>

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<p>Ivy 1 + Ivy 2 + Stanford + UC Berkely</p>

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<p>I was thinking about taking the SAT for one last and final time…but I believe 3 times is enough…(considering my first fluke)…I just hope these colleges will understand where I’m coming from (i.e. my socio-economic status and the fact that I’m the first one in my family headed to college).</p>

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<p>2 ivies plus stanford and Berekely or r u refferring to them as ivies? b/c they are not ivies. if not which ivies? be becoming with information don’t be secrettive if u want help</p>

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<p>i thought he was saying stanford and berkley were ivies</p>

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<p>If he was listing them as Ivies, he would have put a colon. The way the sentence is written now, the commas separate them. So, there are a total of four schools applied to: (see the colon?) Ivy 1, Ivy 2, Stanford, Berkeley.</p>

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<p>cornell won’t know anything about your socioeconomic status. need blind admission means just that. adcoms don’t know who’s rich and who’s poor.</p>

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<p>do you really believe that? navie the finanical aid office is the same office as admission, low-income students are a target just like urm they need them to further diversify theier campus and get pell grants. don’t you get it college is a business</p>

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<p>I know what you mean, I’ve suspected the same, but I don’t see the benefit in taking a poor minority over a wealthy one.</p>

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<p>i don’t know if they do or don’t, you can be poor and not a urm, not saying you were saying that all urm r poor bc im not</p>

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<p>I wasn’t implying that. I’m a URM myself. I see your points though. I personally still don’t think that being poor will help anyone in admissions. I certainly wish it did though.</p>

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<p>it’s the overcoming adversity angle.
and to continue this discussion (though UCLAri cleared it up well)</p>

<p>do math people. cornell is THE engineerings school. If he applied to Cornell, and he considers stanford and UC-Berk ivies, he would think he applied to THREE ivies, unless he thought Stan and Berk were ivies, and cornell wasn’t, and no one with those stats can be THAT street-dumb</p>

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<p>i didn’t think you were, just making sure. yep is it won’t help them if they are not qualifed. but cornell and ny state have programs EOP CEOp- i don’t know something like that for socii-economical disadvantage kids. they probably have to fill a few spaces each year but thats another story</p>

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<p>To clarify things, the two Ivy League schools that I applied to were: Brown and Princeton. The reason I posted this thread was to see if I was competitive enough to survive the applicant pool at Cornell. I was considering about apply to Cornell, but I simply ran out of time. :{</p>

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<p>deadline isn’t until jan 1, i would have applied to princeton and brown but thier applications were ridiculous especially brown,</p>

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<p>yeah. the other day i was saying “i wish i had remembered to give my GC the brown form, so i could apply.” then i looked at the app, and <em>gasp</em> I was fine with it</p>