Unpaid Internship at a top tier investment bank, the most active bank on wall Street for company’s under 50M market cap
Got a return offer from the same bank for a paid job
Paid Internship at a law firm
DECA: Vice President and also placed top 10 in NYS
7 APs: World (5), Sem(3), Lang(5), Stats(4), Calc AP (IP), Macro(IP), APUSH(4)
Summer Volunteer in Spain (100 hours)
3 Years Varsity Lacrosse
2 years varsity wrestling
150+ Misc volunteer hours over HS
Taken 5 dual enrollment classes with LIU and [Syracuse]
Won many math competitions when is was 8-12
Essays:
Wrote about how I was influenced and grew up around numbers and learning the reason why things are and all collalated around numbers. Pretty strong essay since I hired a college advisor to assist.
So Cornell is going to evaluate your grades in context. And thus without context, it is not really possible for us to know whether they will see your grades as sufficiently competitive.
Sometimes high schools have historic admissions data, and that can sometimes be very helpful in identifying what it takes to be competitive (if there are enough data points at least).
Absent that, you can try estimating where your grades put you in your class, in comparison to the number of kids admitted to colleges like Cornell. Like if your HS sends 5-10 kids to colleges as selective as Cornell each year and you estimate you are one of the top 10 or so students in your class, you might be competitive. If you are more like one of the top 30 or so, that might not be so competitive. That sort of thing.
93 uw with not particulate rigor courses… might be a bit tough. unless your school has huge grade deflation, 93 put a kid in our school in about 10-15 %
94 W, very hard rigor took any and all honors offered. My school is kind’ve a feeder school, maybe send 10 kids to iveys per year and more to other top colleges. Stressing out because my parents really want me to go there and I’m just not sure if I can get in. Ended up going ILR because I heard acceptance rates were higher.
I think u need to relax and it is your life not your parents, my daughterl tell me that all the time… , u need to go to a school make you happy, Cornell is very competitive, our high school send 4 to Cornell last year, and kids go there usual top 2% of their class., so imagining you are in the same class with your school top 2% kids, do u think u can maintain a good grade and happy? I have 2 kids, My son is top 10% and my daughter is number 2 in the class of 740, I will not want my son in a school with kids all like my daughter, he will not make it, so not just think getting into a school, u need to spend 4 years there, not your parents. You have similar numbers as my son, he has about same ap , 95 uw and 1500 sat. … it makes even less sense when u pick a major because it is easier to get in…
The OP appears to have applied to a school at Cornell because of perceived relative difficulty of admission. Pending clarification, economics may indeed represent the OP’s first-choice major.
@AlexHunter2007: If you would like ideas for your greater college list based on your potential major, these analyses may be of interest: