I tried looking all around for a general "Cornell Chances" thread, but couldn't find one. If one of y'all have one bookmarked somewhere, please redirect me to it please, and an admin or somebody can shut this one down.
I'm looking at Carnegie, UPenn, Cornell, and some other less known schools.
I am an Asian (AKA "undisclosed" for admission sake) attending a rural area high school renowned for its drug trafficking and swaths of students who don't care much for school spirit and academics. That said, I am in the STEM program, a program seemingly exclusive to Maryland in its schedule focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
SAT || 2180 (retaking to expect 2300)
PSAT || 225 (national merit qualifier (yet to hear results))
SAT 2 || 800 Math 2 ;
740 Biology
APs || 5s : Calc AB, Calc BC, Computer Science, English Lang 11
4s : Biology
Current: Physics C, English Lit 12, Psych (2 college courses: Sociology and Multivariable Calculus)
Extra Curriculars: Track, Cross Country, Basketball, Volunteer at Animal Shelter, student government, National Honor
Society, Founder of a computer club
Interned at the University of Virginia
Completed my STEM Capstone project on "Usage of Computer Science to Mathematically Model the Spread of Disease within a closed school environment"
My school has a system where College classes and AP courses are weighted a 5.5, and honors are somewhere in between 4-5. That said, I have a 4.7 GPA. Haha.
Unweighted, it's about a 3.8, and that's a topic of concern for me; I didn't do very well in my junior year; the famed, most critical year of the high school career. I messed it up, got caught up with girls. I'm really hoping that the work I put in this year will be enough to make up for the *nothing* that I did last year.
I intend on:
Starting a school sports televised network
Running for class president
Winning Valedictorian
Fundraising
Joining Robotics Club
Playing Tennis
Get 800 on Physics Subject test.
So, assuming I complete everything on this list, what are my chances for Ivy? I've never considered myself Ivy League material, but now that I'm a senior, it's all very surreal and the realities of my potential are catching up to me. I would like to go into engineering. All three of the schools I aspire to be accepted into are very competitive, and students who apply are often just as multifaceted as I am.
Mathematically, there are tens of thousands of schools, and if every single one of those schools has a valedictorian, that makes up still for ten thousand very talented individuals competing for Ivy League Schools.
Do you all think I could make it to any of those listed schools? Thanks for taking the time to read and perhaps answer.
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