Official Cornell ED 2017 Results

volynsal1
Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:22:51 +0000

Haha I was originally not gonna post… but after getting into UVa today I feel pretty happy.

Decision: Rejected (AEM)

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2190 (M750 R710 W730 E11)
ACT: N/A
SAT II: M2: 800, US History: 740
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.86-3.93ish (I’m not totally sure what colleges saw…)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): No rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 (US History), 5 (Lang)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Comp Sci, BC Calc, AP Stat, AP Lit, AP Spanish, Honors Econ
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None

[ b]Subjective:**
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Pascack-Volunteers (Founder and co-president), Debate (captain), Spanish NHS (President), iPhone App Design & Maintanence
Job/Work Experience: N/A
Volunteer/Community service: Tons… 150 hrs I think volunteering at a blood bank, and I made my own club…
Summer Activities: Crapload of tennis, chilling…
Essays: Out of all of my colleges, I think UVa (and Duke) got my best supps. My Cornell essays I thought were terrible…
Teacher Recommendation: Pre-calc & Lit teachers - would assume to be satisfactory
Counselor Rec: would assume to be satisfactory
Additional Rec: None
Interview: none

[ b]Other**
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yep
Intended Major: Finance
State (if domestic applicant): NJ
Country (if international applicant): US
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 250,000+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I’m Ukrainian (born in Ukraine??)

Reflection
Strengths: Phenomenal ECs, great GPA (I got only one B for my first 3 years)
Weaknesses: SAT score not good enough for ivies, tanked my senior year
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: No clue
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Villanova (5k per year merit scholarship), TCNJ (7k per year merit scholarship), UVa ; Wait listed: WUSTL (Olin); Rejected: Nowhere else yet haha