<p>Ook, none here</p>
<p>I’m really worried about my essays. I made a few silly errors on my common application essays back in September, I was rushing things for no reason. And back in January, I wrote up two new essays that I felt were a lot better than my original essays and came from my heart and I sent them to Cornell. I’m just wondering if they’ll discard the original essays like I requested and consider the two I sent in place of them. </p>
<p>(Yes, maybe unnecessary angst, but I feel that if I even have a shot, the essays could make or break me 
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<p>ahhh mojave, thanks for beating me to what needed to be said. race, you are over-ambitious and not in a good way. all of your posts scream prestige-wh0re and you clearly aren’t meant to be in an elite school. be more realistic. </p>
<p>dreamingbig - don’t worry too much. they usually honor requests like that if your stuff hasn’t moved to the adcom yet</p>
<p>cannobs - preference is given to those with prereqs completed. but you said that you should have them done, so i think you’ll be okay.</p>
<p>I actually have 4 W’s on my transcript, but they were all from my first semester of college. I signed up for classes but was under extenuating circumstances and had to drop all them after the drop period. I also had to take the following semester off so I’m a full year behind others in my HS graduating class. I explained the situation in my essay, and I’ve managed all A’s/A-'s since. I hope the adcom will understand and won’t see the W’s as an indicator of my lack of strength or character as a student.</p>
<p>should i send Cornell updates of final semester grades? </p>
<p>3 of my classes have posted my final grades, all As. </p>
<p>I am not sure if I should send an updated transcript to Cornell? Is it too late you think? Not significant to the adcom? these grades match what was submitted on my midterm report.</p>
<p>When I first started attending college in US I didn’t know that students can drop classes. As the result I have bad GPA for the first quarter. Although throughout 5 quarters I was able to pull up my GPA by significant amount.</p>
<p>Hey guys when we all transfer to cornell (keeping fingers crossed for everyone) does our gpa transfer over, or is it only our credits?</p>
<p>i believe just credit hours transfer. the cornell gpa would be a 0.0 lol</p>
<p>Crap, I have another problem on my common application. I just realized that I mistakenly checked the FY- JV box for Baseball as an extracurricular activity. When I filled out that common application, I wasn’t thinking and thought that the FY meant freshman year of HS (because I did play JV Baseball during my FY of HS).
And then when Cornell asks if you’re in your college’s Honors program on the supplement, I checked yes. The thing is I was in my last college’s honors program but I never applied for the honors program at this school since it’s a community college.
And to make matters worse I put the chair of the English department down as my adviser because I didn’t know anyone at the community college when I submitted my application, and by the time I met professors who actually got to know me it was too late.
Now I’m convinced I’ve botched my application :(</p>
<p>yep, Cornell gives you a fresh start and only your credits transfer, not your GPA.</p>
<p>@Dreamingbig
hey…you are tooooo nervous about your application. I believe all of us make some kind of mistake on our forms. Don’t worry, these are very minor mistakes and Cornell will never judge you based on the minor grammar mistakes you made on your essay or that you put a wrong person as your adviser. You will be fine and Cornell can tell that you really put your efforts on it.</p>
<p>Just want to tell you that dont look at back to your application forms once you submit it. you cannot change it anyway. So just relax and think about if you need provide some additional information to the admission.</p>
<p>@DreamingBig</p>
<p>I wouldn’t sweat it too much about the baseball thing. I thought that at first too and checked off all the sports I played in high school, but figured out they meant college sports before I submitted. I’m sure people make that mistake all the time, and they will understand.</p>
<p>I think it’s also perfectly fine to have the English chair as your adviser, because not many community colleges have transfer advisers/have good transfer advisers. Personally, my transfer adviser is a dumb ass and insisted that I apply only to SUNY Plattsburgh. I only put him down on my application because I had no one else. If your English chair knows you well as a person and can positively speak to your character, you should be fine. I don’t even think they contact your adviser. I would imagine they only contact them if something is seriously wrong with your transcript/there is something they need to verify on your application.</p>
<p>The only thing I would be worried about is the Honor’s Program mess up. I don’t think Cornell will be too happy to find out that you aren’t actually in the Honor’s program, when they were under the impression that you were. You might want to consider sending them a letter (by fax, include your full name and birth date so they can attach it to your file) explaining the mix up. I’m sure they will appreciate your honesty now, rather than them having to come to you later to explain yourself.</p>
<p>Good luck and don’t stress too much, I’m sure your application looks great all things considered.</p>
<p>Along with my acceptance email, Cornell attached a PDF of the credits that would successfully transfer over. Of the 39 credits I’ve taken this year, they are accepting 37 of them. Oddly though, they are only giving me 2 credits for my 3-credit Statistics course. I’m calling them this week to ask why they did that. (And also the 1 credit they aren’t accepting is a 1-credit culture course I had to take because I live in International Housing - Casa Italiana. So I don’t care that they aren’t taking that lol). So, I think, in actuality, 38 of my 39 credits will transfer over, which is great.</p>
<p>And, yes, to confirm, you start a new GPA at Cornell…as with most new schools students transfer to for that matter.</p>
<p>@shred4life: SUNY Plattsburgh is an awesome University. Many of there students go on to great graduate schools. What is your major? so SUNY Plattsburgh is your safety school?</p>
<p>Hello all. Long-time lurker, first time poster here. Applying to ILR from Tufts A&S (Econ/French double major). I’m getting nervous since it seems like decisions could come out any time now. Anyone have any good tips for handling the stress?</p>
<p>@ race </p>
<p>Sry my friend, but i dont think there will be many accepted students with W on the transcript. The competition is really among those who took full or near full course load and still got consistent good grades.</p>
<p>My app has been forwarded to review (status must have changed over the wkend)!</p>
<p>But my midterm report won’t be in till Tuesday…
Definately want them to see it as I’m having a good semester so far (~3.9)
Anything I can do to make sure they see it before making a decision?</p>
<p>@weezyf I dunno about you but it’s approaching the end of the semester for me so exams are rolling in so I keep myself busy by studying.</p>
<p>It’s great that they only transfer credits cuz I’m not doing so fly this semester >.<</p>
<p>Most schools have their own writing programs that they require their students to take. NYU has its own writing program and CAS (which I’m in) only requires 1 semester. I’m under the impression that Cornell requires 2 semesters of writing, CAS at least. And NYU’s classes are also very credit heavy; most of our classes are 4 credits and labs are 2 credits. If I get in, do you think all my credits would transfer over? or at least for significant classes like Chemistry and Calculus as 4 credits each? Would I have to take writing over again?</p>
<p>^koldsoup im at nyu cas too! haha and im in writing the essay too! so much work for that class, but i surprisingly enjoy it haha. </p>
<p>do you have halpin for gen chem 2? or leingang for calc?</p>
<p>@koldsoup
I’m trying (unsuccessfully) to study for a Stats midterm tomorrow. Otherwise my plate’s pretty much empty except for DECISION STRESS AHHHH. (Ahem.)</p>