<p>Well my school has been sending kids to cornell for over 50 years, and each year atlest one or two do go there.
So far heres how my college list looks:
cornell. high reach</p>
<p>BC. match
Oberlin. match
USC. match</p>
<p>Emory. Safety</p>
<p>The only thing which worries me is having emory as safety, i will aplly ED to cornell so no chance of ED ing emory. then again i think that maybe there may not be an outright safety school for me since i do require hefty FA.</p>
<p>Also, i was considering George Washington u as a safety. its nt very competitive but im getting confused on their FA.</p>
<p>Grammarian/Patrician? </p>
<p>GWU is a safer safety than Emory. Emory should be your mid-reach, imo.</p>
<p>grammarian</p>
<p>will GWU cover my need?</p>
<p>Honestly, and I don’t mean this in a mean way, I don’t think you have a very good handle on these schools and their admissions criteria. It wouldn’t matter if your SAT was 2400, with a 3.3 GPA Emory is far from a safety, it is a total crapshoot. It is almost impossible to know how an admissions committee will react to a high SAT and low GPA, but it certainly raises a flag. And any flags at a top 20 school with high admissions criteria like Emory means it is very far from a safety.</p>
<p>As far as FA, no one can tell you if GWU or any other school will cover your need. All you can do is apply, hope to get in, and if you do get in hope for the FA you need.</p>
<p>Your idea of a match and safety are also off. Again, with your asymmetrical record you need to have some real safeties, such as some schools that are only moderately selective. I should have mentioned earlier that while you say the low GPA is due to a medical issue, you would be amazed at how many students say the same thing. Not to be a total cynic, but after a while admissions people get that way about such claims, so hopefully you can provide supporting evidence. If so, it certainly helps your case. Otherwise, why would you want to take a chance that you only apply to the schools above and get shut out because they think you are a slacker that is naturally smart? That is like poison for an applicant. If I were you, besides GWU I would apply to Miami, Tulane, Pittsburgh, and a few like that.</p>
<p>hahaha i get what you mean. but im sure i can provide sufficient evidence.
i will consider the safety schools u mentioned but im pretty skeptical about their FA
Also, i dont understand what you mean by "Otherwise, why would you want to take a chance that you only apply to the schools above and get shut out because they think you are a slacker that is naturally smart? " if i cant give sufficient evidence then theyll think that im a naturally smart slacker?</p>
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They might. Put yourself in their shoes. They get some number of applications every year from students that have a GPA lower than their normal standards and lower than their SAT would indicate they are capable of achieving. Along with those applications a lot of them say “I was sick” “My parents were going through a divorce” “My XXX died”. I know I am sounding like I am totally being cold, but what would you think if you were them and you see tons of these? What are they supposed to do, especially in light of the fact that they get plenty of applications with no qualifiers or red flags at all. However, if you can “prove” what you are saying, and as long as the rest of your grades the other years are consistently high, it gives you a better chance.</p>
<p>All people should have a few safeties, it is just more the case for you since the schools you mention might not want to take a chance on you. I have no idea, they might think you are perfectly fine. But again, because the GPA does not match the SAT, it is very difficult to say what these highly selective schools that get plenty of completely qualified applicants will do. Hence the reason you should appply to 4-5 schools that are very good, but where you have a high probability of being accepted despite the assymetric application.</p>
<p>Also, you may be right about the FA, but you won’t know until you apply for it. I wouldn’t try to overthink that part, the best thing is to just apply and see what happens.</p>
<p>actually i was told by my school counselor that if my grades are converted to a GPA system then it would be about 3.7 UW and 3.9W. The breakup seems something like:
freshman year: 3.7
sophomore: 4.0
junior (harder A level courses) :3.5
senior mid year (hopefully, please assume this): 4.0
The only upward trend would be the senior mid year grades, but the main thing is that the reason my GPA turned out to be so high was that i have very high As as well as 2 Ds and 2Cs on my transcript (high level courses).
Have my chances at Cornell increased significantly?</p>
<p>anyone??? please???</p>
<p>A 3.7, 2340, Legacy applicant applying Early Decision to Cornell… I think you’ll make it.</p>
<p>Good luck! :)</p>
<p>@Princeton Dreams, thanks for the reply
Do u think i should apply EA when im depending on my Senior year grades to show that ive gone back to 4.0 GPA? If i apply EA cornell wont get to see my mid year report.</p>
<p>Hm, well, applying with legacy status gives you the largest boost in ED but your grades could be stronger for the RD round. I’d still apply ED though. Try to explain your situation, i.e Junior Year grades and that would certainly help.</p>
<p>Well that makes sense i guess. but do u know what percentage ED applicants cornell rejects or defers?</p>
<p>I don’t know exactly how many they defer but the acceptance rate for 2014 ED was 32.61%.</p>
<p>will applying rd cancel the potential advantage of legacy status?</p>
<p>Kinda bringing this back from the dead… Anyway, it’s funny how suddenly in the matter of a month (which wasn’t even a school month) your gpa went from a 3.3 to a 3.7 … In any case, I’ll assume that that was sincere, although I’ve never heard of GPAs changind mid summer… </p>
<p>Though, more importantly… If your class rank is in fact in the top 10% then don’t worry about your GPA… Class ranks put your GPA into perspective, because of the way GPAs fluctuate throughout schools nationwide… So if your rank is top 10% and you have legacy, and apply ED, then you have a good chance… (but your rank really needs to be in the top 10% for that to hold true)</p>
<p>hahah stocker 93, my school is an Alevels school so we dont really have gpa here. my gpa didnt change, they were both guesses, the latter being the one my counselor is pretty sure about.
as for class rank, my school doesnt rank, if it did im sure ill be in atleast the top 15 %. Plus its counted as one of the top 3 most (if not THE most) competitve in the country in terms of admssion to the A level program.</p>