how I got into cornell (stats, gpa, ecs, more)
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- Опубліковано 25 січ 2023
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wtf idk what happened when exporting this but the audio is SO BAD 😭. I promise I'll fix it next time. At least I got that upgraded camera 😃.
Anyways, here are my mediocre stats that got me into an ivy league school 👀.
introduction video → • B̶r̶o̶w̶n̶ Cornell Por...
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application background & context 0:58
the numbers (stats, gpa, rank) 1:22
class schedule 2:28
standardized tests (ACT, APs) 4:26
awards 6:16
extracurriculars 6:52
essays 7:56
analysis 9:03
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your camera work isn't bad at all, you're in focus and centered in frame 👍for your audio i'd probably look into an actual microphone depending on what kinds of videos you plan on making, if you're going to move around a lot you could get a lavalier mic or an on-camera mic, but if you plan on making content like this you could just get a desk mic as well
haha I had a dedicated mic. I just totally messed up the input gain 😅. Thanks though :)
It’s nice seeing videos like this where the ec’s aren’t insanely crazy and being a bio major (for some reason science majors aren’t too popular on college stats videos). Gives me a little hope on the application process as someone from a fairly small school. Congrats on Cornell!
I felt like the legacy was a big part that also came into play, his ec’s wasnt too crazy like in others I’ve heard before, but yknow good luck!
Nah the 171 pushups is by far the most impressive thing about this
Thanks for sharing these crazy stats Rj. So proud of you. Wishing the best for you at Cornell.
BRANDONNNNNNN THANK U 🥰🥰
hey congratulations on getting into Cornell!! I'm sure you'll love it there :)
Congrats on your acceptance! as a junior this was super helpful! i envy your stats 😅
Haha thanks. U should see my friends tho… 🥲
@@jerryji6254 aint no way theres is even better😭. did you get excepted any where else besides cornell?
currently waiting for my RD back! So nervous, but congrats! You deserve it
Thank you! Good luck on ur RD 😇
Congrats bro, good luck :) thanks for posting a stats vid!
Thank you!!
You're my role model, please post more
congrats!!
Congratulations! First year in college is the hardest but once you get over the bump youll be fine. I took summer classes at Cornell but ended up studying at Syracuse University.
Thanks for the advice! 😁
🫶🫶🫶 realest homie on da block 😌
Gonna miss u bro 🫶
i cannot overstate how cool you are. congrats x5
Lol nahh
Hey Ralph! I remember shadowing you at your school 3 years ago. Didn’t end up going but still, great job man!
Hey, thanks! Hope you’re doing well at whatever school you’re at!
Congratulations 🎉
Honestly keep posting cuz its actually entertaining LMAO
I wish I had more time to get higher grades but the biggest state school where I live has a really good campus and is a big player in innovative research. I've only taken a few AP classes in science and math since my school doesn't allow AP classes until junior and senior year for some reason but I'm hoping to get into an ivy league for graduate school!
Best of luck!
wow this randomly showed up in my feed but congrats RJ! Can't believes its already been 6 years 😀
YO CALVIN WHATS GOOD!! Thanks bro I hope you’re doing well 😌
NO WAY CALVIN 🤯🤯 bro give me ur socials tf
congrats, ralph!! cant wait see you on campus in the fall. 2027 lets gooo!!
do 'day in the life of a cornell student' someday hehe
This makes me wanna cry...
I have Bs in ap econ, ap bio, and ap calc, and it's already march idk what I can do anymore. It's so hard and nearly impossible for me to get good grades in ap econ and ap bio
Question.
Those pre college courses during summer at Cornell seem very pricy. $1500 per credit, totaling to about $5000 per course.
Do you think it helped you with tye admission?
I mean it demonstrated his interest in the school and how he could handle a college class, and gave him a lot to write about for his Cornell essay, so I’m sure it did. I’ve been admitted to Cornell regular decision, and wrote about my visit to Cornell over summer break, which most certainly helped me get in as well.
I’m not an admissions counselor, so I can’t say for sure, but I personally think it did. My thought process was that if I could show Cornell that I could handle one of their classes and do well (A+ was 97.5%), it would help. However, it definitely did help with my essay writing since what I said in the essays became authentic. But also I kind of suck at writing, so that’s another factor 😅. Hope that helps!
I really enjoyed your video! Your video has been very helpful to me! Will be earning my first AA degree in Liberal Arts. I have been working on my AA degree within 6 years. I have been studying at a 2-year college within 7 years. Back in my junior year of high school, I have volunteered as an office assistant at the main office. Also, I have had a shadow job with my dad from his job. It was during the pandemic. I have assisted him taking the notes. It was not a real job, it was a shadow job as a Administrative Assistant. Then, I had stopped working at age 23 because I had to study for college. I am working on my second book which is called My Life Throughout with Autism and Being a Military Child. It will be a same content but different chapters. My dream career is to be an actor and journalist. Acting my dream career at a young age. However, I did not have time to do all that because I had to travel all over the states due to my dad’s job in the military service. I have been to 6 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, 4 high schools, and 3 community colleges. I graduated from high school in the spring of 2016. I have been doing fifteen semesters at a 2-year college as a part time student. I was in the Dean’s List three times in a row. During my first and third time attended to a 2-year college, I did not even take that seriously. From last year during the pandemic, I started to take more seriously in college courses. For right now, my overall grade point average from a 2-year college is a 3.1 out of 4.0 scale. My institutional grade point average is a 3.35 out of 4.0 scale. When I went to another 2-year college for my fourth time, I started to take seriously a little. During my fifth time attended to a 2-year college, I had to take one course at a time due to the pandemic. During my third time attended to a 2-year college, I also took one course at a time before I moved from state to state. When I transferred from college credits from the states of Georgia and Maryland to Florida, I only had 10 credit hours. Back in the state of Georgia, I took one college level math course for management major as getting my technical diploma. Then, I took three college level courses for math, English, and bowling as one elective course. Congratulations on your academics and extracurriculars. That is very impressive that you those things in high school. Back in 10th grade, I was a member of a student in Spanish club for a day. Since I had to move again in 10th grade, I have taken Spanish 1 as my half foreign language credit in 10th grade. I only was in Spanish 1 for a short time because I arrived to Puerto Rico for a couple months to finish out the school year. After I finished 9th grade, I had to switch schools from state to state for another year. I had do a lot of moving due to my dad’s job in the military service. Back in my sophomore and junior year, my dad was overseas in that time. He is technically my stepdad but I always call him dad because he is the man who raised me as a child. Acting and journalism are my dream career. After I complete with my AA degree in Liberal Arts this semester, I will train for acting in the studio. Then, I will be working on my BA degree in broadcast journalism at a 4-year college. Also, I will be doing internship for journalism to receive elective college credits. I used to be good with math and science back in high school. When I went to a 2-year college, I have started to do better in reading and history. Since I am going to be a journalist and actor, I will be working on my reading comprehension to maintain in the higher levels. I will comprehend for reading out loud to myself. That is how I will going to work in the journalism and acting entertainment industry. When I was in grade school, I was more in self-contained courses with special needs students. When I went to high school, I was more in classes at the mainstreams with general education students, but with paraprofessional teachers assisted me on my assignments. It was back in 10th, 11th, and 12th grade. Once I get my Finale and ceremony posted on my first book, my first book will be ready to get published soon. I am still working on my second book. It will have the same content, but it might have different chapters. I graduated from high school in the top 10% of my graduation class. I was in the first row going to the stage because I had a outstanding grade point average. I had a 3.7 as a grade point average from high school. I was ranked 28th of my whole school. I was always an honor roll student in high school. I had a yellow cord for being a top 10% of my graduation class. I had a green cord while my dad was deployed during my high school career. Also, I had a white collard for being a member of National Honor Society. I had a certificate of being a member for National Honor Society as well! In high school, I have started to take more seriously. In 9th grade, I did pretty well on my grades. In 10th grade, I did pretty well on my grades. In 11th grade, I did pretty well on my grades. In 12th grade, I did alright on my grades. I did not so bad in my senior year by the way. In my senior year, I was a honor roll student for about a few times. However, I did not received any honor roll certificates since I was a member of National Honor Society in my senior year. My name is Andres by the way. It is pleasure to meet you! Again, you did a great job of your academics and your extracurriculars. It is very impressive. In 9th grade, I was a member of Boys and Girls Club as well! I was a member of Boys and Girls club back in middle school for a few semesters! Including during the summer of when I was in middle school and high school. I was a member of boys and girls in the summer back in 2011 and 2012. In the summer of 2013, I have attended for a few times. I was diagnosed with autism at age 3. It was before I went to preschool. I have been to school within 22 years. If you want to know which states I lived in before, my first book will be ready for you to publish sometime in this coming May. I have been taking theatre and journalism courses at a 2-year college. It was not too long ago. My name is Andres by the way, it is pleasure to meet you! I really enjoyed watching this video because this video has been very helpful to me. Good luck with Cornel University! God bless you and your family. 🙏❤️
Thank you so much, Andres! I really commend your journey (I also moved around a lot and went to a bunch of different schools-6 different ones before high school), and I wish you the best of luck in yours books, journalism, and acting pursuits!
@@ralphhojr thank you Ralph! Really appreciate it.
I forgot to tell you that I was born in the city of Buffalo in New York. I lived there in my early childhood until age 5. I was in kindergarten during my first time being in a military move. I grew up with my Spanish speaking family who are from Colombia and Puerto Rico. I was born from my bio parents that are originally from Puerto Rico, and I was raised by my stepdad who is originally from Colombia. I am full Puerto Rican and half Colombian. I speak Spanish and English. Even though I learned Spanish and English at the same time, I learned how to speak more Spanish at age 16 when I first moved to Puerto Rico. I have practiced with basic sentences in Spanish during the summer before going to junior year. I started to speak Spanish fluently at age 18 attended to a 2-year college. For right now, I am taking a Spanish that are for Spanish speakers as well as in last semester. I have taken a CLEP for Spanish language, and I did not do so well. That was why I took a Spanish course for speakers because I already knew how to speak Spanish. I have a brother in my mom’s side. Also, I have four sisters and one brother in my bio dad’s side. They’re all younger than me. Hope you enjoyed my story about my family and how it is like about my early childhood.
Wait what just happened?? I just woke up and the video was done?!
Can you do a video on the process of applying to college. For example you talk about creating an common app account so you don’t have to enter all the information several times. It’s very helpful.
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll make sure to note that.
congrats! see you in aug!
🤝😎
hey! congrats on the acceptance! i'm a sophomore right now in HS right now taking ap bio. i was wondering what did you use to study for the ap bio exam? what resources did you find most helpful to do well? thanks and good luck at Cornell!
I used a Princeton review book and just went through it. But also just to be safe, after I finished the content in the book, I checked the AP curriculum and made sure that each topic on the official website was covered in the book.
Hope that helps!
dude congrats!! Also got in ed for cas!
Yo congrats!!
Bro congratulations! How did you achieve those grades my friend, how many hours of studying a day?
Thanks! It was quite a lot 😅. Usually it would be after school (3pm) until about 8pm with breaks and dinner and stuff if I don’t have any upcoming test or quizzes. That’s when the midnight oil starts to burn lol
I'm noticing a familiar theme with all of these how I got into x ivy league university. And it's not SAT scores or GPA.
THANK U!!
No problem
Hi!! This video was so helpful, I am currently trying to figure out my sophomore year schedule and I wanted to take atleast 2 APs relevant to going into medicine. I want to take an AP science but don’t know how to fit it into my schedule since it takes up 2 class periods. Do you have any tips on what to do?
Hi! If your schools allows it, since you want to go into medicine, you can drop a subject and replace it with a STEM class. But if that’s not allowed, then there’s always the option to take it at a local community college. Just make sure that you’re able to handle the workload. I would personally recommend a self-paced option if that’s available and you think you can keep yourself on top of the work. Hope that help!
@@ralphhojr Alright!! Thanks so much!
@@dhanvid1014 no problem!
Hey man, was wondering if you had a good comp sci teacher and if that helped you get 5s. I had a bad teacher so I got 4s but idk if the teacher was the issue.
My teacher actually gave us these lecture packets that he kind of recycled from past years and made us teach ourselves. The packets themselves were helpful, but I’m not sure if that method counts as good teaching imo…
Can you make a video on study tips and how to deal with so much school work with no motivation
Thanks for the idea! I’ll definitely make that one some time down the road
Hey Ralph, thanks for the excellent video! I'm actually applying to Cornell ED for econ major soon as well as an international student, and I was wondering if I could get some advice regarding different parts of the application. I think I got a pretty similar academic profile as yours with a 4.0 unweight GPA, 9 AP classes with 8 scores of mostly 5s with some 4s, a 1530 SAT and a 114 TOEFL. My parents and counselors kept telling me to improve my standardized test scores further but I feel like now's about the time I focus on making me stand out in other ways among all the Asian students applying who probably all have insane grades and all that. Any thoughts that you'll be able to share?
I agree with you in that now is probably the time to focus on essays since you’re so close to the admissions process. Hope that helps!
Hi! I’m currently going to be a sophomore in highschool and I have a question, Does freshman grades matter for ivy league schools? If i have get really good grades later on?
Hi! Freshman grades don’t matter as much as later years, so if you show an upward trend, it would look good. It probably would be better if you had better grades all four years though. Hope this helps, and good luck!
See you in the fall!
yo what were your swim times? I also swim in high school right now and was just wondering. ( I also play wp btw).
Yooo nice. These are all in SCY, so I apologize if you are outside the US:
Freestyle:
50 22.8
100 51.6
200 1:51.21
500 5:09.01
Back:
100 1:07.32
200 2:30.84
Breast:
100 1:08.01
200 2:28.72
Fly:
100 59.77
200 2:12.59
IM:
200 2:14.75
400 4:43.32
The reason why all my times are so disproportionately slower than my free times is bc of a knee injury, so all the free times are from when I was 16, and everything else was like 14 and below 😅.
@@ralphhojr The free times are really good, especially at 16. Nice Job man. Also at 14 you’re still crazy, good job 👍
@@Johnny-fc5lx thanks bro u too nice 😊
Okay so I’m in my sophomore year and im taking a college credit class, an AP class and an honors class for my junior year I am taking a college credit class, Ap English, Ap U.S history and Forensic science accel and a bunch of health care electives is this good?? Or should I try to challenge myself more to get into my dream school which is Cornell. My grades are pretty steady As and one B and it’s been like this since the start of sophomore year durning my freshman year it was As.
It sounds like you’re grades are pretty good! I think as long as you’re taking the challenging classes your high school offers and do well on them, you’re in a pretty good spot academically. Best of luck in your high school journey!
I have a question mate , do US Universities really need my previous years stats ?
because I'm at 12th grade but my previous years were bad but I'm studying very much this year so I predict myself to get around 99% ( I live in The UAE )
I’m pretty sure they do, but I’m not exactly sure how the application process works outside the US. Sorry about that… 😕
congrats. My son is sophomore at Cornell
171 push ups and 47 pull ups is crazy! They could've let you in on that only lol that's impressive af!
Are you low income/first gen? Just a question lol
I was so hopeful seeing his stats and stuff and then he mentions legacy: 😦
So what should I do if in my freshman year I went to a school that didn't do number grades but only narrative grades? For sophomore year though i decided to transfer to leon m goldstein. Also colleges look at your middle school grades? Any advice on how to get perfect grades and perfect SAT and ACT scores or how to get into ivys in general?
Even though your school only has narrative grades, colleges will understand that and take that into consideration. They also don’t look into middle school grades, and do a TON of practice questions and exams.
@ralphhojr thanks so much I appreciate the advice
@@beyblade332 of course happy to help :D
ok next time lead with the legacy part :(
oh damn handsome and smart 😭
Haha I wish… 😅
See you on campus brotha let’s run it class of 27 on top
yessirrr
I'm a sophomore and I'm only taking one AP (Comp Sci Principles). I want to take 6 AP's in junior year and 6 in senior year. Is 13 AP's okay?
13 would be a lot 👀. Also colleges will understand if your school doesn’t offer as many APs, so it shouldn’t really set u back too much if at all.
Yeah its completely dependent on what APs ur school offers like ralph said. Like I took 1 my sophomore yr and 2 junior yr (i got in via cornell ed to engineering). if ur challenging urself according to ur schools curriculum then i think ur fine and dont stress urself out too much.
current Cornell undergraduate here! everyone’s situation is different but believe me, you don’t need to have the most APs, highest GPA or be the best at something to get in, try to enjoy high school:)
Wait... How does the No Count work?
keyboard is fire fr
Focused missed tho 🤦♂️
hey Ralph,
I recently shifted into the United States in the beginning of my junior year. I am doing 5 AP's this year and 6 AP's in my senior year. I plan to take the SAT in march 2024. Since I shifted into the United States only in the beginning of my junior year , will 5 aps be too less as I plan to apply for Early decision. Will the colleges understand that i could only take 5 aps as i came to the States only 1 year prior to applying ?
Hey! Don’t worry, colleges will understand this since it will be in the first section of your application-it should actually be the one of the first things they read if I’m not mistaken. Hope that helps!
@@ralphhojr I didn't think you would reply. Thanks so much. Wish you all the best !
@@romitmakar6504 no worries, best of luck!
pop off ralph
Oh. Sup 😳😅
heyy im also self studying comp sci principles. when did u start studying for the actual AP exam and what are your tips. I have an idea of where to start including watching the khan academy course and watching ap classroom videos, but im not fully sure if this is the most effective. also congrats on making it to cornell !!!
Yeah ofc! I also used AP classroom, but I also ordered the most updated prep book from Princeton Review just for extra practice. To be honest, I didn’t start studying for the exam itself until the last week because I already had a heavy background from taking AP Comp Sci A the same year. However, both the prep book and AP classroom were very helpful! For studying tips in general (maybe I’ll make a video abt this down the line), I use a modified Notion template regarding spaced repetition to continually test myself in separate units and subunits so I don’t forget anything. It’s a little complicated, but if you want to talk abt this further, my ig is @ralphhojr
did u go to sage hill lol
Did you have legacy at cornell?
Yes.
@@ralphhojr 💀i knew it bruh
47 pullups is actually crazy bro
🤷♂️ I tried my best ig
congrats but i think people should honestly do two years at community before transferring over, it saves a lot of money in the long run
That’s what some of my friends are doing. Financially very smart.
did you get into anywhere else. Also it seems like you are being forced to go to cornell since your parents went there, just saying there are a lot of other great colleges to.
I had to withdraw my applications for everywhere else since I got in ED
What is A and A- as a numerical grade? Could someone pls lmk since my school does numerical.
It can depend on the school, but mine is 93.00 - 100 is an A and 90.00-92.99 is A-
Hey, does anyone mind sharing his podcast?
did you get an acceptance package for cas
Unfortunately not… 🫤. Still going though
@@ralphhojr Engineering student at Cornell here. The acceptance package is very underwhelming for me...all I go was a sticker. Not sure if cas gives out acceptance packages but don't be surprised if you get smth small from Cornell. Anyway, congrats on your acceptance!
@@johnson_loves_caffine Thanks for the info! Oh, I forgot to mention that if you put in the email that you used for the common app and you get in, you get a free class of 2027 shirt, so there's that. Honestly though, I'm not expecting anything so anything will do :)
bruh so if you dont have at least a 3.9 unweighted gpa or 35 act just don't apply to an ivy lol... so happy i took cornell off my common app list... i stand no chance
HOLY FUCK THATS ALOT OF APS
I fell asleep 😴💤
Hello, what's your major?
I’m going in for Biology with a concentration in Neurobiology and Behavior (for now 😁)
how Blud do calculus in grade 10
讚喔同學
hm i wonder if this guy got into uchicago
LMAO 👀👀
Congrats, but fix the audio!!
Haha I figured out what was wrong 😅
Join the military, then you can get into any school.
Zero entrance exams or prep.
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10:00 moment of truth. save your ten minutes...
Congratulations!
Lol thanks!
God bless!