I applied to Cornell Engineering ED and was deferred. My counselor called Cornell and the Cornell admissions officer said the College of Engineering rarely defers applicants, and if it does, it considers you a competitive applicant. I checked the official website of Cornell Engineering, and it says the following:
“A small number of students who are not admitted during the Early Decision period are deferred to Regular Decision. Deferrals to Regular Decision are only granted to a small number of students who are in serious contention for a spot in the class.”
What does it mean? Does it mean that I still have a solid chance (better chance than a typical RD applicant)?
@yitian9898 That is such a specific question that it’s hard to answer unless someone reading this went through the same thing. Even then, how would they know unless someone from admissions told them? I think you should take that website statement for what it is, you diferred amongst a small pool of applicants so you’re still in the running. They probably want to see how you do your first semester grades to make sure you can handle CoE versus the RD applicants. I would look at your deferral as a positive. Not a sure thing but you might get good news in March.
@cotopaxi Thanks for the comment! I do hope to hear good news from Cornell in March.
I also got deferred, good to know that it is rare from a counselor. Not sure how trustworthy website is.
@Niceguy720720 I think the engineering website is fairly trustworthy because I didn’t see this kind of statement on other colleges’ (A&S etc.) websites.
@yitian9898 if you don’t mind could you post your stats?
SAT 2250 (new SAT 1550)
full GPA
TOEFL 116 out of 120 (international)
Most rigorous courses
National AP Scholar
Numerous leadership positions in engineering & student publication
software internship experience in a large engineering firm
Top 20 in all-state math competition
Regional science fair awards
My stats are
-2260 (800 math, 720 reading)
-4.62 (9-12 w GPA) (full gpa top 1% of 500, probably valedictorian but don’t know for sure because school won’t tell me exactly rank)
-SAT subject tests: 790 math 2, 780 bio m, 790 us history
-Most rigorous courses
-National AP Scholar
-National Merit Commended
-Started program that does science experiments with orphans in Mexico
-Internship at university under renown computational biologist, working on publishing paper
-Very involved in Indian Music
I’m an Indian male
Looks like we have p similar stats, hope we get good news in March!
@Niceguy720720 I think you have a good chance with your stats. But who knows. Cornell is Cornell.
@yitian9898 did you end up getting in, I did not. I thought I may as well help future years.
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