Cornell University College Of Engineering Puns

My school is full IB so my entire HS gpa is around 6.3-6.5.

I have decent extracirrculars: I started a fashion company, won a few national level competitions, and did a lot of service learning extracirrculars like Microloans and Community service.

My sat is 1550 and I’m taking the ACT and I’m predicting around 34-36 there. I think I’ll get 800 for SAT Maths II, 760-800 for Physics, and 760-800 for Chemistry.

I am an Asian international male.

I have a close relationship with my math teacher so I think I’ll get a good LOR. Chemistry and Physics I have okay relationships with and my Econ teacher also likes me I guess 🤷‍♂️?

I took pretty rigorous classes I guess. Hl: Math 7, Chem 6-7, Physics 6 SL: French 6, English 5, EcoN 6

Help a smol junior boi out! Thanks ahead of time! 😘

this was JUST CHANGED and is effective immediately for applicants of the Class of 2024! They do encourage sending test scores if you feel they will strengthen your application, but your application "will not be disadvantaged in the review process" (quoting from the email that was sent out). Here is the link to Cornell's website for further reassurance. Good luck with your applications everyone!

Legacy: Double legacy to the University of Michigan

Grade: 11th

Race: Asian

Gender: Male

SAT: 1470 (670r/w, 800 math) plan on retaking in June, 740 Chemistry, 760 Math II

GPA: 4.00/4.00 unweighted this year, 4.85/5.00 weighted, top 5% in the grade with Cum Laude award **A is the highest grade, not A+**

Prior year GPAs: 3.65/4.0 in freshman year (school doesn't count), 3.84 in sophomore year

Grade trends: Continuous upward trend and improvements in all classes. B+ in Freshman history regular to A- in Honors World History to A in AP United States History. A- in Honors Mathematics I, skipped Honors Mathematics II after working my ass off, A in Honors Precalculus, A in AP Calculus BC (My school jumps from Precalc to BC)

School: Top 150 in the nation, in Massachusetts

Classes:

A in AP Chemistry (100 on every test, teacher says one of the best students she's ever had :))

A in AP Calculus BC (skipped a grade in math)

A in AP United States History

A in Regular English (4.5/5.0) on the GPA scale

A in Honors Biology (5.0/5.0) on the GPA scale as Honors and AP are counted the same as they are nearly identical difficulty wise

A in Chinese 5 Honors (5.0/5.0) (The year before AP Chinese)

Extracurriculars:

• 13 years of swimming (recreational at this point but I did it for 10 years on the city swim team, won medals for the leagues)
• 1st degree black belt in karate
• 90 hours of volunteering watching over little kids at a summer camp
• President of the Asian student organization, organizing a mass event with a projected 5k in revenue, organized fundraising event where the entire school bought 700 dollars worth of food in 5 minutes. All proceeds go towards the terrible incident in Indonesia
• 10 years of piano, won so so awards from the royal conservatory of music

probably forgetting a few more but I'll let you guys judge off what I have so far

I called the undergraduate office and the representative told me that it's unlikely that I'll be accepted since people have already been contacted for admission. But Cornell's engineering website doesn't have any information about them resorting to the waitlist yet, and I haven't found any waitlist acceptance posts on Reddit or CC.

🎩 🤡 👔 👖 👞

I spent the last 72 hours in Cornell with some of the warmest people I’ve spent time with in a while. The one girl knew everyone on campus. Everyone seemed like friends, and everyone was so friendly and nice. It really really hurts knowing I missed out on that college experience by going to a tiny school ten minutes from my home.

There were no parties, no residence, no student life, and no memories. I can count on a single finger how many people I still talk to from college. I wish I could go back in time and do it again.

Indulging in a dangerous hypothetical for a sec, I think I’d go to the school deep in the city after college, and live downtown. I didn’t because it was so expensive by comparison and I didn’t want my parents to pay more. I’ve got a track record for putting everyone before myself. I never care. But this time I know I made a keystone mistake.

I'm twenty four now with a stable job and I know I can't go back in time. And I'm sad.

Can someone confirm? Seems benign compared to other things we have seen.....but still..

https://twitter.com/AvidBrandy/status/1226567127642984448?s=20

Edit : link to video. https://twitter.com/AvidBrandy/status/1226563714280611840?s=20&utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Went to international school. I fulfilled all Community Service hours as requested for each year.

White male, Central Asian/Persian, SAT 1280 superscored, 28 ACT superscored, no subject SATs

9th grade: 3.49 GPA UW, 3 engineering-related ECs, Student Council (no leadership)

10th grade: 3.02 GPA UW, 1 academic EC (with a trip overseas), 1 engineering EC, Student Council, no leadership, 1 AP class (got a 3 in World History :( )

11th grade: 3.39 GPA Weighted, 1 sports EC (cheerleading), 2 APs (Chem and Capstone, got a 3 for Capstone, 2 for Chem), Student Advocacy Forum (no leadership available for anyone, basically more rigorous and higher in "prestige" than Student Council),

12th grade: 3.88 GPA Weighted, 2 engineering ECs (same as 9th grade), no sports, community service hours are in progress, 6 APs (Calc AB, Capstone 2, English Lit, Physics II, Spanish, Stats), Student Advocacy Forum,

Total, by the year's end: 80 CS hours, 9 APs, 1280 SAT, 28 ACT, 12 ECs.

So I know there's a megathread for this, but I already posted there, and I still don't know what to do. I'm a student in the Philadelphia area, and I got no financial aid to either school. My parents said they would support me either way, but they can't afford to pay full tuition at Cornell. They would pay now, but I would need to pay them back 50,000 at some point. I worked extremely hard to get accepted to a T20, but I feel like I should really choose Georgia Tech even though I like Cornell slightly better. Any advice?

Classes: 6 AP Classes + Two college Spanish + One college English

GPA 100/100 weighted

GPA 94/100 unweighted

Scores: ACT 36

EC’s

Worked in Hospital as an Anesthesia Tech for 4 years- about 200 hours cause I could only go on the weekend

Worked in a Bio Lab doing research for about 4 months

Did research on Solar Absorbers at another lab in a different University

Soccer Team- 4 years JV + V

Tennis Team- 4 years V (No 1 on team)

Ski Club for 4 years

Shadowed Multiple Doctors

I don’t know if this counts but I went to a summer camp in Boston for Research for one summer

Then I went to Spain and helped doctors out there.

National Honors Society for 2 years

The only awards I got were a math award in 10th grade.

Write For the Student Newspaper for the Last 2 years.

Am a eucharist + alter Server in my Catholic School

I know 4 languages English, Spanish, Ukrainian, Russian

Spent most of my summer in the Ukraine cause my parents always send me away.

Want Major to be in Pre Med/ Biology

Common App: Talks about spending time with Patients and doctors changed my perspective on life and made me realize that my purpose is to help people without expecting a result back. And I talk about a emotional experience with a patient that changed my life.

What's the difference between these two?

Which one is the one that people usually go?

I'm a CS major and I wonder if I need to go to both.