<p>What were your stats, because I haven't seen any NY residents accepted by Human Ecology?</p>
<p>None that we know of were admitted and I think only 1 ny'er here was admitted to ILR out of the 5 or so that applied.</p>
<p>cheers,
Mike</p>
<p>NY applicant to HumEc here and got deferred.
But my guidance counselor and I called HumEc admissions and actually found out why I was deferred.
And the reason was pretty fixable... so MAYBE i actually have a prayer RD.</p>
<p>Chandler that's awesome, why? i'm really curious because when I saw you and all these other qualified kids getting deferred, it made me anxious.</p>
<p>sorry OP HumEc apparently decided to lose it's reputation as the Cornell college with highest acceptance rate and become ridiculously selective. Also, the contract colleges have decided to go against their original purpose and stop accepting New Yorkers. <em>sarcastic tone in case anyone takes that too seriously</em></p>
<p>Yeah chandler Im interested in why you were defered also. When I called the ILR admissions person just wrote me off and said it was so competitive and you either made it or you didnt. Also the contract college should be accepting more ny'ers there land grant colleges afterall. I laughed when my interviwer mentioned that it was 90% ny'ers whn she went lol. Had friends get into NYU Stren, Washu, and UChicago today, boy this deferal crap sucks.</p>
<p>cheers,
Mike</p>
<p>Thanks, just 2 more things:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Does anyone know whether they will accept more in-state applicants regular decision or will it be like ED?</p></li>
<li><p>Do you think Human Ecology will continue this practice (rejecting/deffering in-state accepting out of state) in future admisssion decisions, or is it just for this year because of the budget cuts and economy?</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I really do think it has to do with how tight the budget is...</p>
<p>Hey guys, the reason was that the admissions officer "wants to know more about how my EC's have connect to the Human Ecology mission, and how my EC's influenced me to choose HBHS/HumEc as my top choice program".
My HumEc essay talked about how my INTERESTS correllate with HumEc, but apparently they want me to explain directly how my EC's tie in with HumEc.</p>
<p>Weird reason for deferral much?
She said my numbers were totally satisfactory, etc and cited the above as the reason why I was deferred.</p>
<p>Sorry if this worries you : ( but the contract colleges do not discriminate applications based on state of residence (NYS resident or not). The reason why the incoming class of the contract colleges have more NY state residents is because many many more people from New York apply to these schools (for the lower tuition). Since there are more NY applicants, it looks like the contract colleges are required to accept more people from New York when this is not the case.</p>
<p>Im still not convinced as a bunch of us ny'ers (like chandler above) had well above average stats and fit and still had people with signifigantly lower stats get in. I'm really trying not to complain but youd think that out of all us NY applicants at least a normal proportion of us would get in. ILR, Cals, and Human Ec are supposed to be around 50% IS/50% OOS yet we havent seen close to that percentage on this borad. Out of the many ILR applicants from NY I've only heard of 1 from this site get in. In addition we have yet to see a single Human Ec applciant from NY on this board get in either. I guess we'll have to wait and see in the RD round.</p>
<p>cheers,
Mike</p>
<p>well the CC population makes up a tiny part of the total applicants. Of course you would hear more people getting in from other states, because there are way more of them in total...</p>
<p>Cornelli, do you have geographical statistics for the ED round this year? I know the Common Data Set states that they do not discriminate based on location, but I wonder if that holds true in the early decision part of the process? Maybe they make up the difference in regular decision.</p>
<p>There have been a few claims on this board that some alumni interviewers have stated that in-state admission will be affected because of the economic downturn. That's where these rumors are coming from.</p>
<p>And Chandler, that's great news for you! It's something concrete you can work on. Best of luck!</p>
<p>I think that maybe we all have good chances RD. But then again, that could be a total lie.</p>
<p>Thanks, page! To your son too!
I'm glad I have something concrete to work with now, I'll have to better convey why HumEc is the only place for me, WHILE USING my EC's as tangible proof.
Maybe that'll at least help me get a GT and not a flat-out rejection.</p>
<p>Oh, and a kid from my school who applied to Engineering got in ED, and with much lower stats than mine.
Go figure.
He was the only kid accepted Cornell ED from my school.</p>
<p>this makes me nervous because I'm from NY and am very interested in CHE because it is one of the only schools that offers an Apparel Design program along with a strong liberal arts curriculum
like....its so rare to have that opportunity, and it's the only school on the east coast I've found
=/</p>
<p>I'm really not too sure about that. I am pretty sure that Cornell is not legally allowed to discriminate based on location though, and I don't see how they can justify using location as a factor for ED vs RD. Maybe there are other factors present here... maybe less applicants from New York apply to ED vs RD because there are a lot of good schools in the northeast and they want to keep their options open? Or maybe funding for NYS residents in the contract colleges is really that low and the admissions office has decided to defer a lot of New York residents in order to make sure that they can offer the tuition break to all admits. I don't think there is any way to ever know... sorry</p>
<p>Oh I'm sure that the contract colleges didn't defer NY people with their location as a MAIN reason - but it may have factored in slightly. After all, in other years, colleges give a very minor preference to applicants from states or areas which have very few applicants. Or it could just be that CC HumEc/ILR EDers had fantastically bad luck this year (which is possible).</p>
<p>Yeah of course NYS residency isn't a main reason, it's probably a minor factor, if a factor at all. Who knows, maybe we're just looking for evidence to confirm our personal beliefs, so to us, it seems like more NYS'ers are getting deferred this year. </p>
<p>Cornell has stated it will cut back on construction projects, but some alumni (who obviously could be mistaken) have said they might be cutting back on NYers as well. We'll never know for sure what goes on in admissions...obviously admissions would never come out and say, "Sorry guys, I know CHE/ILR/CALS are financed partly by NYS and y'all get a tuition break, but we're gonna have to cut back on you guys to make more ca-ching off the OOS kids..." but who knows what goes on inside those ivy-covered admissions walls?</p>
<p>There have been at least 5 NYers on this board who I remember posted their stats and I thought, wow those applicants are like perfect fits, they're only in HS but they show so much passion for Animal Sci or HSBS or Agriculture or whatever, and they got a raw deal. It makes me anxious, as a transfer applicant to HumanEc, which apparently has decided to decimate its acceptance rate this yr.</p>
<p>i honestly don't think that the admissions would use the situation agiainst the NY applicants. I think cornell knows that not all oos kids will necessarily be paying more tuition, because a lot of them do actually apply for financial aid. In some cases, an oos with aid may end up paying less than NY student who doesn't apply for aid.</p>
<p>^ Well ED students absolutely have to matriculate at Cornell, so by accepting a ton of OOS ED applicants, Cornell guarantees they get those kids tuitions. Students who do ED generally are financially set, as they know if accepted, they'll definitely have to go to Cornell, regardless of what their FA package looks like.</p>
<p>A person may decline to attend a university they were accepted to ED if the FA package is insufficient.</p>