<p>i submitted my app by the deadline: 12/31/05
but i havent received a single thing, nothing, from cornell
some people received the pin via email, but i havent received anything, not even alumni informal interview email
doesnt the decisions for cornell come out starting from february 15?</p>
<p>What college in Cornell did you apply to?</p>
<p>Firstly, if you are international, there's a slim chance you'll get an alumni interview (I never had one and my friend's dad is a hotel school alumnus). Either way the interview doesnt matter. Secondly, just call them and they'll give you your PIN. no worries.</p>
<p>i didnt know that i could just go to their site and create my own pin number
hehe...
but i still didnt get any interview email or calls
by the way, im not international</p>
<p>"i didnt know that i could just go to their site and create my own pin number" ???</p>
<p>Either way, the interview doesnt matter and even if you have one, it wont make much difference to your application.</p>
<p>i sent my app in a week late and i got in a couple of days ago. The day after i applied i got a call from an alum when i was at school about setting up an interview. After i had my interview he said i had didnt have a very good chance of geting and that i would hear in the next couple of weeks. I was very suprised when i heard i had been waitlisted because i had a 4.4 gpa at Boston College High School 2200 on my SATS and i had 3 800's and 1 780 on my SAT II. However i decided that i will not be upset because i value my life and dont want to kill my self when i get there since they have the highest suicide rate of all college EVEN HIGHER THAN MIT!!! so theonlyone i hope for your sake you do not get in and if you do you do not kill your self in the middle of an extremly bad winter</p>
<p>"i value my life and dont want to kill my self when i get there since they have the highest suicide rate of all college EVEN HIGHER THAN MIT!!!"</p>
<p>THAT'S BULLSHI T!!!! Apparently Cornell has a suicide rate lower than the national average and as well as that of MIT's. This info's available in an article on the MIT website. I read it a long time ago. Try googling and you'll find it.</p>
<p>carl......you were accepted (RD) At Cornell? What school?</p>
<p>****! and besides, going to a university with a high suicide rate doesnt mean that you're gonna commit suicide too!</p>
<p>This is why we need a sticky at the top of the forum that has the actual suicide stats so we don't have to keep going over this again and again.</p>
<p>Someone find the stats on the MIT website. I cant seem to find it now - I'm sure its there.</p>
<p>Here are some quotes from the February, 2001 Boston Globe article on college suicides, the only such study I have seen. It was mostly about MIT.</p>
<p>"Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been far more likely to kill themselves over the past decade compared to those at 11 other universities with elite science and engineering programs - 38 percent more often than the next school, Harvard, and four times more than campuses with the lowest rate - a Globe study has found."</p>
<p>"MIT's rate stands at 20.6 undergraduate deaths per 100,000 students since 1990. For the comparable age group in the United States, 17- to 22-year-olds, the rate is 13.5 per 100,000. At all colleges, experts estimate, about 7 undergraduates per 100,000 kill themselves. Calculations based on 100,000 are used by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other experts to compare deaths among populations."</p>
<p>"The rate at Harvard, with total annual enrollment of about 18,500, was 7.4, with 15 suicides since 1990. The rate at Johns Hopkins was 7, and at Cornell, 5.7. At some public universities that compete for students with MIT, incident rates were also lower: The University of Michigan, which enrolls about 37,000 students a year, had a rate of 2.5."</p>
<p>The full Boston Globe article can be purchased from Boston.com.</p>
<p>The student newspaper at MIT published an article in February, 2000, which provides a snippet of information about Cornell:</p>
<p>"Cornell University is one peer institution that does maintain moderately complete records of their student deaths in response to a common perception that they have a high suicide rate. Cornell had eight students take their own lives in the past ten years. With about 19,000 students on campus, Cornell has a suicide rate of about 4.3 per 100,000 student years for that time period, far below both MIT and national rates."</p>
<p>The full MIT article is located here:
<a href="http://www-tech.mit.edu/V120/N6/comp6.6n.html%5B/url%5D">http://www-tech.mit.edu/V120/N6/comp6.6n.html</a></p>
<p>My summary: The national college undergraduate suicide rate is 7 per 100,000, which is actually much lower (about half) than the rate for all people of college age. Cornell's rate, likely taken from 1990-2000, is around 4.3 to 5.7. MIT's rate is much higher, but there is no full national study of all universities to show which school has the highest. In fact, both of the above articles state that several schools refuse to provide suicide data or do not keep track, including Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon, and Yale. </p>
<p>This is the latest data I could find on school suicides. Draw your own conclusions.</p>
<p>Norcal guy...I agree with you - perhaps we should get Roger Dooley to put a thread on the "Cornell Suicide Myth" up in featured discussions...</p>
<p>Alexandre - can you help with that?</p>
<p>You're welcome to use my post if that'll help</p>
<p>Here's something from the CAAAN website as well:</p>
<p>Why is Cornell called a suicide school?</p>
<p>Because of misinformation. This reputation was perpetuated by a segment on college suicide done by 60 Minutes on CBS in the early 1970s. Due to the unusual geological setting (with all our bridges and gorges), the entire segment was filmed here at Cornell and the Universitys name was mentioned in the piece more than any other school when, in fact, Cornells suicide rate was below the national average. Based on a survey in 2000 conducted by the Boston Globe, Cornellians are actually less likely to take their lives than students at colleges nationwide including other Ivies and peer institutions (The Cornell Daily Sun, February 13, 2001).</p>
<p>Ah - finally. So that's settled then.</p>