<p>I was just reading through the ALS web pages and became very excited by the course offerings in ag and plant sciences/genetics. I am starting to think it might be neat to visit Cornell but I don’t want to waste everyone’s time. I am not some super scholar and work hard for my grades.</p>
<p>GPA 94.8
ACT 29 (first try could retake in oct, maybe 31?)
SAT II 730 chem, 720 bio, 720 us hist, 710 world hist</p>
<p>Compete year round at a state and national level in my sport 500+ hours a year
Work and live on NY based family farm; horses, beef, poultry, field crops. I probably work 500+ hours a year, certainly full time in summer. </p>
<p>I can see from this forumn I am a long shot. Do I have any reasonable chance to get into ALS? It’s a huge family effort to make a visit. Thanks for the feedback.</p>
<p>Look, as you may have heard they don’t want only upper scholars, they want also hardworkers with potential. So if you think you have the potential for there go for it… You may be surprised after that :)</p>
<p>Does your family farm do anything with Cornell Cooperative Extension? Is the vet that comes to your farm connected with Cornell? We’ve had students from our school’ with lesser stats than yours get in under these circumstances. Even without the 2 mentioned “hooks”, if you could get your ACT score up to 31 you’d have a decent shot.</p>
<p>Csdad, yes one of our vets is a Cornell grad. We have also done business with the Cornell vet hospital directly. I have also attended some of the cooperative extension classes on pasture management, etc. </p>
<p>Does Cornell break out stats by school or better yet major? </p>
<p>I guess I better buy a prep book or two and see if I can improve my ACT score :).</p>