<p>So you got into Cornell, but you've decided to attend another school instead. Which one? Why are you choosing <insert alternative="" here=""> instead of Cornell?</insert></p>
<p>Well, I'm pretty happy with the fact that I got into Cornell.</p>
<p>However, I was wait-listed at Harvard (bad thing for me, I'll explain):</p>
<p>I'd choose Cornell over Harvard 8 times out of 10. My dad however (I'm Chinese :p stereotypical Asianness coming up) wants me to send the deposit to Cornell and take the acceptance, but stay on Harvard's wait-list. If Harvard takes me, he says Cornell can keep the deposit and wants me at Harvard instead :mad:</p>
<p>Is this even allowed? Don't the Ivies share admissions info with each other?</p>
<p>It's allowed; in fact, for waitlisted students, that's what you're supposed to do--send the deposit in for one school while waiting for the school you were waitlisted at. Don't count on Harvard, however, as they have one of the highest and most consistent yields of any college.</p>
<p>what happens to be ur major college_he...? because if its engineering, by going to hahvad, ur commiting the BIGGEST, most atrocious mistake of ur life. Cornell is THE best Ivy for Engineering. Period.</p>
<p>btw.... sorry DecisionDecision for hijacking your thread</p>
<p>Argh. I'd like to rejack.</p>
<p>So you got accepted at Cornell, but you're probably going to turn them down because you want instead to attend _____ (fill in the blank).</p>
<p>So you got accepted at Cornell, but you're probably going to turn them down because you want instead to attend Colgate University.</p>
<p>I'm going for pre-Med and I've heard too many horror stories about Cornell Pre-Med plus Colgate gave me a lucrative fin-aid package compared to that of Cornell's (and Wesleyan and Middlebury and....). I also got waitlisted at Harvard and Brown but am not counting on either one.</p>
<p>In the end when I visited schools last spring break I felt more comfortable at Colgate and I think that they are comparable schools so I will be going there in the fall.</p>
<p>So I got accepted at Cornell, but I'm probably going to turn them down because I want instead to attend Olin College.</p>
<p>Well, first off, I'm technically on the waitlist, but they accepted around 50% of the student's last year, plus I if I don't get off this year, I'm guaranteed to go next year, and I would just take random non-engineering classes at UIUC for the "gap" year.</p>
<p>While not my main reason, I would be lieing if I said the full-tuition scholarship at Olin didn't factor in (still haven't received any finaid from Cornell). My main reason is simply fit. I've visited during their Candidates Weekend, met some awesome (prospective) students and faculty, and felt extremely comfortable there. The hands-on classes and projects seem so much fun (although they'll probably be more work than normal hw). Cornell seems like a great place, which made it so much harder to turn down. Good luck to everyone, regardless of where you end up.</p>
<p>Isn't it more like 4% get off the waitlist or something like that? Unless your specific school is somehow 50%...</p>
<p>i think he means he got waitlisted at olin</p>
<p>why would he be offered full tuition while on the waitlist?
i think he got into olin</p>
<p>50 % of cornell's wait list does not get accepted</p>
<p>Cornell:Qualified applicants placed on waiting list: 2,370
Applicants accepting a place on waiting list: 1,942
Students enrolled from waiting list: 124 </p>
<p>that's US news stats from 2002-03</p>
<p>to be clear, 1942 accepted a position on the waitlist, not were offered admission after being waitlisted</p>
<p>although the actual offering statistic is not given, one can infer that if only 124 enrolled from waitlist after accepting position, it's highly unlikely that boobo's 50 % statistic (1150 in 2002) is realistic</p>
<p>i'd say the waitlist acceptance rate is probably similar to that of regular admission</p>
<p>if i'm wrong, i'd like to know so since i have a friend who is trying to get in off the waitlist this year</p>
<p>Everyone at Olin gets free tuition.
My guess is that more people will be taken off the waitlist this year because Cornell admitted fewer students. I don't think the yield is going to go up, but I may be wrong.</p>
<p>It also had more applicants, so the percent drop doesn't reflect EVERYTHING...</p>
<p>Figgy, I was waitlisted at Olin as verybored said. Last year about 11 out of around 20 people got off of Olin's waitlist. Olin has a unique waitlist that gives the waitlister an option to take a year off (to do almost anything, as long as it's productive in some way) and then he is guaranteed a spot in the next year's class. </p>
<p>BTW, I did get into Cornell Engineering.</p>
<p>O ok sorry that was a bit confusing. Well congrats on Cornell and maybe u will get in the waitlist, and if that's what you truly want then I hope you get off the waitlist there and do GREAT at Olin.</p>