<p>Hey. I know someone who got accepted to Cornell RD this year with less than a 1000 M+CR SAT score. Is this unusual? School of Hotel Management.</p>
<p>Just wondering.. I didn't apply this year and get rejected or anything so I'm not bitter. Just curious if that's uncommon and she lucked out or what. She's like Caribbean I think (but born and raised an American citizen) if that makes a difference.</p>
<p>Is she a NYS Resident? If she happens to be one, then it’s possible that she was admitted via H/EOP program.</p>
<p>Sorry, I don’t know what either of those things are. Haha.</p>
<p>Wow, that’s fairly low! I think the average SAT for Cornell overall is above 1300 out of 1600 or 2000 out of 2400. It seems strange that math/verbal skills are not valued much for someone in hotel management? I don’t know. Maybe she had some sort of hook? A special reccomendation from an alum/someone else, unique job/internship, legacy? Maybe she really wow’ed them with her interview or a special portfolio or something? I have no idea! If you’re actually friends with her, I’d suggest asking her. There had to have been some reason for the admissions committee to think she was qualified.</p>
<p>I guess the odd thing to me is that the SAT is curved such that a 500 is average. I find it odd that an Ivy League school accepted a below average tester.</p>
<p>I don’t know her <i>too</i> well, but I’m pretty sure that none of those guesses apply. I know she was involved in a fair amount of extracurriculars, but none of them were shoo-in talents like state or national awards… mostly just organizations she was a part of, or held a position in, like NHS. No Cornell family or friends, I believe, and I don’t believe she had any talent that she could present in a portfolio.</p>
<p>All that comes to mind is her high GPA, but my understanding was that SAT’s were a means to check inflated grades… and if that’s the case, she’d be the epitome of a red flag.</p>
<p>“Is she a NYS Resident? If she happens to be one, then it’s possible that she was admitted via H/EOP program”</p>
<p>you mean “Is she a ■■■■■?”</p>
<p>By NYS you mean New York State? Nope, Texas. Still not sure about H/EOP but I guess that’s not relevant then.</p>
<p>wow she is luckyy!!</p>
<p>hey that just shows you that grades aren’t everything now…</p>
<p>lol I saw on movie that the adcome will look at your SAT and calculate how much money your parents have to donate to the school in order for you to get accepted.</p>
<p>HEOP is a big possibility; however, you can’t really formulate a definite conclusion as to why she got in simply with her lack of a presentable score. And furthermore, it’s obvious that there must have been something else which stood out. For example, my friend got admitted to Columbia ED with a 1760 on his SAT. It was a pretty abysmal score but in his essay he stated that he was the only one who took BC calculus in the school–a one person class–and he was admitted for that. In short, unless someone explains all elements of his or her application to you, you cant make an assumption about his or her admissions decision.</p>
<p>@runjumpfly: I see what you’re saying I guess, but her grades were fine; almost all A’s. My curiosity was essentially in the fact that the SAT is intended as a means to see if grades are inflated… All A’s an then a low SAT basically undercuts her achievements in school (academically). </p>
<p>WorkingMachine: True, I’m sure there’s something I’m missing. Its just that I know her and her brother fairly well, and even he was surprised that she got in. Its just somewhat perplexing because logically if you have a weakness that significant on your application then you’d think there would have to be something else significant to make you shine, but neither her brother nor I were able to come up with any big clincher in her app.</p>
<p>how much money did her parents donate?</p>
<p>The School of Hotel Admin does not put too much emphasis on SATs and stuff. They care mainly about experience and passion of the hotel business, so if your friend had a lot of hospitality related experience, that could have been why.</p>
<p>The typical student at Cornell has ~2100 SATs. There is a fair amount of fluctuation however, some students with high SAT scores get rejected and some with low SAT scores get admitted. Someone I lived with freshman year had 1500/2400 and got in because he was recruited for the football team.</p>
<p>yes, in our naviance, (school in China, HK), there was a student accepted with 1000 SAT to cornell, and many many students <1300 got in.</p>
<p>It sounds like the original case cited could have been a development admission.
Or maybe not, From the Common Data Set, 12% of enrolled freshmen had CR scores 500-600 and 1% were 400-499 and 5% had math scores 500-600.</p>
<p><a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000504.pdf[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000504.pdf</a></p>