Foriegn Born

<p>Does it help in admissions to be foreign born? Also does Cornell only evaluate the top 2 SAT subj Scores submitted or all subject tests submitted?</p>

<p>^I had the same questions. Where were you born?</p>

<p>But for the latter one, I would think that even though they may say they are only going to look at the top 2, they are probably going to look at all of them, at least all the ones that you took only once, and then the top scores of the ones you took more than once. Like if you took Chem, Lit, Phys all once, and then you took MathIIC twice, they’ll look at all of them except the weaker Math IIC. My reasoning is that this would probably help them make the most accurate decisions when the competition is so stiff.</p>

<p>Over summer, I asked my professor and he said that it’s very interesting to have grown up somewhere outside of the US because then you bring new ideas to the university. It’s cool you’re born outside, but I don’t think it will help much unless you wrote a stellar essay about the influence of this foreign country or culture or smth…</p>