Is there a point to even chance?

Colleges & Universities Cornell University
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<p>Hi everyone, I go to a rather small but competitive public high school in my state (top 5). I have rather good stats, except my grades (the most important unfort…) I applied to Cornell ED (CAS and CALS - A/E) I know my grades will work against me, but do have a chance at all? Thanks!</p>

<p>GPA: 3.196<br>
Weighted GPA: 3.834<br>
No Rank, I know I am def. top 25%, if not top 15%
I have taken the hardest courses my school offers.</p>

<p>Test Scores:
Highest for SAT:
1390 or 2050
CR - 610
M - 780
W - 660</p>

<p>ACT:
Total - 31
Reading - 32
Math - 36
Writing - 30
Science - 27</p>

<p>SAT II
Math IIC - 800
Chinese - 780
US history - 700</p>

<p>AP’s
Calculus BC - 5
Statistics - 4
US History - 4</p>

<p>I also took the TOFEL cause my counsler recommended me to
TOFEL - 115</p>

<p>My extracurriculars are pretty good in that I have leadership roles and awards. I’ll just list the important ones:
-Executive Officer of my school’s Business & Investment Club
-Founder and president of my school’s Debate Club
-three sports: Volleyball, Lacrosse, and Ski (JV for all) for all years except junior yea
-several hundred 500+ hours of community service: teaching Chinese, fund raisers, etc.
-went to China every summer to teach english to chinese students
-particiapted in academic decathalon. (won several awards for district and state competition)
-math team
-principal flute for all the bands in my school
-principal flutist for local district band
-first flute for New England’s Conservatory’s Renaissance and Baroque Band
… (I have other activites that are as time consuming)</p>

<p>Any comments will be appreciated. Thanks!</p>

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<p>Well since you took the TOFEL are you a minority? or just asian? If you are black, hispanic, or Native American you have a much better shot.</p>

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<p>I am chinese, so i am not a minority unfort. haha</p>

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<p>Is the TOEFL score out of 677?</p>

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<p>wow your gpa is extremely extremely low. both fo them. but your sat scores are ok, the 610 in Cr is frowned upon. i would say 40% maybe if you did early decision. plus your race hurts you.</p>

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<p>Sorry, it’s just not likely.</p>

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<p>thanks for the feedback. and yea, my toefl is out of 200, not 667 haha, that would be badd…</p>

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<p>^^ isn’t it out of 120?</p>

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<p>Oh, I thought it was out of 677 for some reason… maybe that’s the TWE?</p>

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<p>Lower than average SAT scores and really low grades will hurt you, but I think you have a (albeit small) chance.</p>