<p>I applied Arch ED and just waiting to hear back on the 10th and the suspense is killing me. So if there are any ED Arch students on CC post a reply, I'd love to know stats and such. 8 days GUYS!!!!!!</p>
<p>hey i applied ED for arch!
there are 2 other people on here besides you and me. i can’t remember who but if you look at the 2014 early decision thread you’ll see them. not many of us :)</p>
<p>i’m international (sort of) i’m a US citizen, but i live abroad so i’m not sure how they would compare our stats. i assure you, academically, i’m not at the top of the pack at all. i’m kind of on the lower end. but as you’ve probably heard the portfolio/interview matter the most. </p>
<p>i think i have something new in my portfolio b/c i incorporated from the country i live in (india) and they’re really unique. i’ve been in art for years and i’m a great artist, but i could’ve had a better portfolio no doubt. </p>
<p>you should check out the graphic design work of this other guy (i think it’s arctic92?) he put his website and it’s really amazing. </p>
<p>haha i’m not really stressing. i always get way calm before the deadline and completely forget about it. and i hate checking results straight when they come out. haha i have no idea why. i just like to avoid them for a bit. :)</p>
<p>Well I know the portfolio and our interview questions weigh heavily. Im just worried that like you, my academics arent strong enough. I think I need to take your advice and relax. Nothing we can do now but wait. I’ve done a lot in the architecture field so far and know more information about it than any of the people at my school who “think” they want to do architecture. For me, I KNOW its what I want to do and nothing else, so I hope my passion shined through and they see it. So yeah good luck to you and I hope we get accepted. Keep updating…</p>
<p>haha thanks letstalkcollege :P</p>
<p>ArchitectKid1, it’s the same for me, I know i want to do architecture and i don’t know anything thing else suited for me.</p>
<p>As for my specs:</p>
<p>89.8/100 GPA (though i went from a 83 avg freshman year to a 90/92 avg soph/jun years)
2180 SAT, 780 Math IIC
Born and Raised in NYC
Chinese American Male
you can check my thread if you want the full breakdown, but i’m also not at the top of the academic heap :P</p>
<p>I heard that AAP admissions are basically run by the professors and whether they like you or not; I took a big gamble in that most of my portfolio is digital art, which I hope they like… the wait is killing me haha, i’m trying to relax too.</p>
<p>Hope to see you all there ;)</p>
<p>yeah. im just straight up not good at anything else. but yeah I would ask to see all of your stuff at thta website but I don’t know if I can take the added pressure of seeing what I am up against. I’m hoping the portfolio was good and my essays were passionate enough to gain the attention of the officers. I know that although our academic stats aren’t the best, its not a huge deal as opposed to the other college admissions. stress stress stress is all I can feel, and quarter finals are next friday… ahhhhhhhhhh good luck everyone</p>
<p>I think we’re the only ones on here. At least the only ones who bother to post.</p>
<p>I know we’re only a sample of four out of very many, but it’s good to see that we all have mediocre academics. :P</p>
<p>my only worry(other than the weak academics) is that in my supp essay i focused entirely on my interest in architecture and art, and not at all on my interest in Cornell… 500 words is not enough to express both hahahah. and the prompt didn’t really seem to point towards anything about Cornell, so I at the time I thought they wanted you to avoid all the “sucking up.” hopefully the fact that i applied ED can show the interest in Cornell…</p>
<p>haha tell me why I wrote my supplement on Gehry! My friends say I have a man crush on him, but he truly motivates me and I admire all of his work. So at least we have passion and that is obviously a must. haha thats hell funny</p>
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<p>seriously that bugs me so much. well, a lot of them have fallen out of it though. they did more research and decided it wasn’t for them, but there are a handful left who I question… Hahaha i know that sound so judgmental or w/e but it’s frustrating. Architecture became this completely bandwagon thing at my school. Especially 'cause we’re a predominantly Asian school. The expectations are to become an engineer/doctor/lawyer something of that sort. NEVER an art/design major. A lot of the kids want to do something “design-y” so they pick architecture and their parents eat it up without knowing the amount of work and passion it really requires.</p>
<p>sorry bout the rant. hahaha</p>
<p>hahaha architectkid1 are you from CA by any chance? Gehry fans just tend to be westcoasters more than east. i personally don’t know what to think of him… he is the devil to any sustainable architect… but god to any design/form-minded one…</p>
<p>I am a Cali boy haah! but and yeah the Disney Concert Hall is hell for conservatives… But his spaces are truly spaces… If I had to pick another architect after Gehry for my essay it would’ve been Corbusier. and as far as the “other” people who wanted to do architecture… I could write a book on how much it makes me mad… idk its just something that we have put our heart and souls into and when someone decides 2 months before apps come out they want to do architecture… ahhhh. I’ve worked my ass off for internships and gaining connections and ahh. and yeah. im not sure many of them understand the time commitment… sleep…what is sleep? Have you done any architecture workshops at any universities or colleges?</p>
<p>All the structural engineers i’ve met would have nightmares about working with some of his stuff :P</p>
<p>I’m from the east coast but i like Gehry’s work (His work on the disney center/Guggenheim Bilbao reminds me a lot of Richard Serra’s art)</p>
<p>and yeah, it annoys me when I hear people wanting to go into architecture so they can make money off of drawing… a lot more than just that.</p>
<p>On my supp. essay I also focused more on architecture than on cornell, i hate seeming like a suck-up lol. I’ve gotten good reviews on my essays from those who’ve read it, but i’m still iffy about them (three essays on architecture made my editors sick of hearing about it haha).</p>
<p>How many kids from your schools applied early? 3 applied from my school, and one of them is basically the polar opposite of me in terms of the portfolio (completely hand-drawn work, nothing else)</p>
<p>p.s. ArchitectKid1, I’ve PM’d you my site.</p>
<p>damn nobody really ED’d for any school or any major… and I don’t know anyone in my area doing cornell… most are really into Cal Poly SLO, Sci-Arc (the radicals of the west) U of Oregon… uhhhh and some other schools. but yeah its funny how we all wrote 3 essays on architecture… it makes me happy to know people have true passion and I was really bummed there were no physical interviews… I was really banking on that, but I think I wrote well</p>
<p>oh i saw the art. love it. really awesome stuff. i ended up with like 5 hand drawn, 1 revit piece which i really loved…i think it can really hurt me tho, but i loved it…um like 3 paintings and 11 physical models i did at the Cal Poly Summer Arch program</p>
<p>Yeah I felt like an interview would have strengthened my application because i’m a very outgoing person. I was going to apply to SLO, but by the time i got there they closed applications already (>_>)</p>
<p>and thanks 
I had 11 Digital, 3 Photography, and 6 Traditional (2 freehand sketches, 1 color pencil, a sculpture, a painting, a mask)</p>
<p>anyway, 1 AM here on the east coast, night guys :)</p>
<p>See ya Arctic. Man it’s finally good to have a discussion board for us architecture kids. Even if its just 4 people(maybe 3… letstalkcollege seems to be MIA) being nerdy architect-wannabes.</p>
<p>i myself am obsessed with japanese architecture… but i’m starting to appreciate western architecture more and more… they are just very practical in a very creative and very unique way. Every design is different from the last. Japanese architecture tends to look like itself just over and over again in different forms of itself. hahaha as you can see i still have yet to define my favorite architect… I have favorite buildings, but no favorite architects.</p>
<p>very funny you mention that… I am currently this week writing an essay on Japanese and American Architecture for my Japanese 4 AP class. and yes it is in Japanese… God help me haha</p>
<p>I like asian architecture in general 
I wouldn’t mind living in a modernized siheyuan.</p>
<p>Hey guys, is your CSS profile off your to-do lists yet?</p>
<p>yeah… mine’s been off for a while. It’s probably just a technical glitch. a lot of the people on the forum seemed to be having the same problem, but when they call in, the people at the fin. aid office tell them they received it, just haven’t updated the to-do list.</p>
<p>Ah, alright. Just worried that i’ll graduate with 250k debt if i get accepted but dont get given financial aid haha</p>
<p>haha damn, i am nervous getting so close… i was way to nervous in class today to think straight. all i could think about (while sleeping in econ of course) was cornell and Milstein Hall and jus ahhh So damn nervous.</p>