<p>say someone got a 2350+ on the SAT (with a 1600 CRM) and has a **** gpa. and i mean really ****ty as in a 3.2ish UW. although the gpa is crap, the courses taken are ‘heavy’. by the end of junior year this student will have 4 AP classes done (all 5’s hopefully; ap chem/psych/macro/micro) and will have 7 Hnrs done(counting freshie and sophmore year also). by the end of senior year this person will have 13 APs and 7 Hnrs. His math 2/physics/chem subject tests are 800 and bio is 740.
(ight this student is me. the SAT score is just hypothetical)</p>
<p>by the end of my junior year summer i will hopefully have over 5000 dollars raised to help make a hospital in Pakistan, have some type of medical based research published, a lot of doctor shadowing done(around 150 hrs…), will be volunteering at a clinic where i will learn how a clinic is operated and will learn how to diagnose a patient.(i plan on making this my college essay and will hopefully rock it). another 50 hrs at the local hospital and a summer spent at brown university doing the precollege program. i am also running for a position at a club in my school and will probably win it.</p>
<p>*<strong><em>notice</em></strong>**
my fresh and soph more years were pretty crappy. i screwed up alot and didn’t do to well at all. i am trying to do my best to pull my gpa up(will be retaking my regents examinations in august; and if i can pull a 100 on hopefully all of them, my final averages for all my science/math classes and spanish/english/s.s. will hopefully go up and jump my gpa to a 3.4) and am aiming for A’s of my 4th quarter junior year(been working awesome, i have a 102 in precalc hnrs somehow).</p>
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<p>so overall do u think i have any chance at this amazing school? i would really love to attend cornell</p>
<p>never can tell, just try and get your gpa as high as possible
never can tell with admissions at the top schools except that it is a crap shoot
Sat means less and less as time goes on - some schools like NYU making them optional
Penn saying they receive less consideration than a lot of other factors
SAT is used here a lot at cc for comparison, however there is no question that GPA is very imp.
go read the Yale and Harvard posts and you will see many unhooked non minority admits with like 2000 SAT total, but high GPAs and very outstanding ecs that made them sepecial.
you would rather be a 4.0 #1 student with a 2000 or even 1900 sat for sure
a 3.2 is low; even with a 2400 SAT and great ecs it could be very hard to get into many of the prestigious colleges and universities.
From what is going on at schools like NYU which have made the sat optional and Penn which does not give it super significant consideration, the sat may be a thing of the past 10 years from now. just my opinion here. good luck.</p>
<p>Why you might be accepted
[ul]
[<em>] Upward grades trend is good.
[</em>]Projected SAT scores are excellent, however, everyone and their mother can get a good SAT score nowadays. Literally.
[li]A strong, demonstrated interest in medicine, if your ECs come through.[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Why you might be rejected
[ul][<em>]AP Psych & AP Econ are considered easy AP classes.
[</em>]Your poor grasp of English grammar and mechanics, as evidenced in your post.
[<em>]Lack of EC breadth- while colleges do emphasize depth, you really don’t have anything else, like band, sports, science competitions, etc.
[</em>]You only have a year and a half to prove that you can handle the course load at Cornell. That’s not a lot of time.
[li]Your hypothetical SAT score is just that: hypothetical.[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>What may or may not hurt you
[ul][<em>]Your ethnicity
[</em>]Your strength in math and science: while colleges like students who are very good at a few subjects, they also like kids who are “well-rounded” (very good at many subjects). [/ul]</p>
<p>While your chances don’t look too good, you should continue to keep working hard. No matter where you go, a good work ethic will help you more than a sheepskin diploma from so and so college. Remember, there are many applicants with your strengths and more, so you have to present a unique facet of yourself to set yourself apart. Good luck next year!</p>
<p>alright guys thanks. I forgot to put my senior course load though: all also: physics c
calc BC
comp science
English
human Geo
world
spanish</p>
<p>I plan on self studying physc b and living environment and Bio(it can’t fit on my schedule.</p>