My GPA is 4.2 out of 4.0 and SAT super score is 1430. I was in another country freshman and sophomore year, so I had only one AP class junior year. This year, I have 4 APs. My ECs are pretty good too.
Re: your “shot” I have no particular insight that would make my guess any better than yours, given some data. So I’ll give you some data, and you can decide yourself.
I assume you are talking about the engineering college. Recent admissions data =10.5% admitted.
Recent SAT distributions for the aggregate university are here
http://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Profile2018-Freshmen2.pdf
But that is an agggregate of all its colleges, not the engineering college alone.
Test score breakouts by college have been hard to find for a number of years.
For engineering alone, this is data for the class entering in 2010
https://web.archive.org/web/20100912084739/https://www.engineering.cornell.edu/prospective/undergraduate/about-engineering/facts/class-profile.cfm
Test score data for entering engineering students for Fall 2011 is here:
https://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000176.pdf
ASEE data for Cornell Engineering from 2017 is:
12% accepted (1.520/12,335)
SAT 50% mid-Ranges :
Math 800-740
Reading 770-670
Writing 750- 700
ACT 50% mid-ranges :
Math 36-34
Composite 36-31
For 2018 the data is here (no SATs posted)
http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/8046/screen/19?school_name=Cornell+University
My guess is your APs are on the light side, but you may have a good enough reason for that.
The bigger concern, IMO, is whether you can accomplish what you think you want to do there.
My recollection from another thread is you were interested in Engineering Physics. Unless something has changed, that is an “elite” program within the engineering college, with very difficult classes and particularly brilliant students. Even if your admissions “shot” to the college is successful, that does not guaranteee that you will make it through it as an engineering physics major. Those people are brilliant. Are you? Are you one of the smartest people you know? Not saying you arent, just that you might ask yourself that. Not for the college as a whole so much, but just for chances of making it through there as an engineering physics major.
thank you for taking the time to reply! I can not say for myself if I am smart or not, but I feel confident that I will work hard towards my major, and if I do get in, I believe I have the capability to succeed. The rest depends on whether I can keep up the amount of hard work and dedication required. But as you know, I am really interested in the engineering physics program so I know I would put my 100% to succeed in this area. Thanks again!