Is it worth applying/Do I have a chance?

tigerrr
Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:20:44 +0000

Top 10% should be good enough to get into Cornell if you’re looking SOLELY at the grades aspect of your application, as long as you’ve taken challenging courses and continue to take challenging ones senior year. Not sure about Yale, was under the impression that they generally look for the top top students in terms of rank in school (top 10? not 10%) but I could be wrong.

But there’s so much more to your application, which is why it’s pretty hard to chance you based even on the information you’ve given. Lots of intangibles, which I’m sure you realize.

Cornell’s architecture program has a required interview ([Required Interview](Undergraduate Admissions: Architecture | Cornell AAP)) and portfolio requirements ([Cornell / Architecture / Undergraduate Admissions / Portfolio Guidelines](Department of Architecture | Cornell AAP)). I don’t see anything in your extracurriculars that indicates your interest in architecture, so not sure where you actually stand on that. It’ll probably help to take a look at the requirements for the program.

For Yale, you’d be looking to go into architecture too?