<p>Can someone elaborate on "Cornell Presidential Research Scholarship"? If I attend Cornell University, do I apply for this program during freshman year? Is it possible to apply in sophomore or junior year as well? Approximately how many students per year are granted this honor? Thanks!</p>
<p>Admission committees from each college forward nominations to the CPRS selection committee during the RD application round. It's a very select group though I don't know the exact number of students they pick. You can also apply for this program during your soph year at Cornell.</p>
<p>Do I have to apply for this or do admissions committees nominate an applicant?</p>
<p>No, you don't apply. The nomination and selection process is automatic in the sense that all applicants are considered for CPRS.</p>
<p>By the way.. is it okay if one of my essays (maximum 250 words) is only 180 words? It seems short, but I don't want to add extraneous information.</p>
<p>As long as it develops a complete thought being short (or being slightly longer, for that matter) is fine.</p>
<p>I am a presidential research scholar, ask away....</p>
<p>i didn't have stats that were like OMG out of this world, my number stats</p>
<p>1450 SAT I, 740/730/740 SAT IIs
96-97 GPA with 10 APs (graduating)</p>
<p>very good ecs
won some prestigious research competitions (I was an Intel semifinalist)</p>
<p>bball....Do they tell you if you were picked in April?</p>
<p>yeah.....i got a big package from the Office of the President of Cornell University with a personal letter and then a formal congratulations telling me about it and how it is only 45 out of 3000 freshman</p>
<p>bball87, I think your ECs are astounding (especially the Intel semifinalist title, needless to say!) I know this is going off topic, but I'm really conscious about my ECs. They're mostly school clubs and a varsity sport (and I know I've said this throughout the forums about a million times). I feel like this is going to get me rejected.. ugh..</p>
<p>what r ur stats krabble, in all honestly, i dont think cornell cares much about ECs, they seem like a very stats driven place</p>
<p>in my school, most of the kids that have 1400+ on their SAT get into Cornell fairly easily, but then again, I haven't seen one student in my school NOT get into NYU above a 1350 SAT (NOT ONE) and i see kids on these threads not getting into NYU with 1500s, so go figure.</p>
<p>My high school ECs were ok i guess
captain of a sport (tennis)
president of a community service organization and co-creator
did some volunteer work
violin and orchestra..</p>
<p>what about ed'ers</p>
<p>off topic but are there honors programs within the 7 schools?</p>
<p>bball87:</p>
<p>SAT I: 650 CR / 750 M / 710 W (My CR seems to be below their middle 50th percentile--and below for the other schools I applied to)
SAT II: 760 Chem / 710 Math 2
GPA: 4.35 of 4.6
Rank: 22 out of 650
ECs: Mediocre and nothing really spectacular</p>
<p>I'm an Asian male from Pa by the way. Unfortunately, I don't really know if most kids from my school get into Cornell or not, but at least 2 were accepted (but I know at least 2 from last year's class is enrolled).</p>
<p>I should mention that I was deferred from Penn ED and it didn't really hit me until a few days after the letter that I realized my ECs were lacking and that <em>special something</em> was missing from my application. What am I supposed to do about it now? Sorry if it seems as though I give off a bad attitude about it, but I don't see much hope when I don't have anything that stands out.</p>
<p>By the way, my Penn rep. (actually a substitute) specifically told me that my CR score was below their average, and though he didn't explicit state it, I assume he was hinting at the fact that it irks them very much (not to say it's the only thing keeping me out or anything).</p>
<p>P.S.- I've applied to the CAS (or equivalent) to all of my schools.</p>
<p>CPRS is one of the most prestigous honors/scholarship thingys you can get into. You don't have to apply. They'll let you know if you're in.</p>
<p>It's not so much about SAT scores or EC's as if you have research experience in HS. If you don't, you can forget about being chosen for CPRS as a freshman.</p>
<p>They do select a very limited number (10 or less) of second semester sophomores to join CPRS. However, you need a research professor's nomination which means you must begin research prior to the second semester of your sophomore year at Cornell.</p>
<p>do they let you know if you got in around april? and what do you get out of being a presidential whatever scholar?</p>
<p>do you know anything about the meineg (i dont know how to spell it) family scholarship and how that works/when you find out etc?</p>
<p>It's all about high school research! If you don't have extensive high school research experiences they probably won't even consider you.</p>
<p>well in all honestly, i know a bunch of intel semi-finalists and a FINALIST (1 of 40 in the country) that are not pres. research scholars, it is really weird. I do know of some pres. res. scholars that didnt even win any type of intel or siemens, but had amazing SATs and grades like 1530+ on the SAT.</p>