<p>I'm crazy I know, but I don't think binding is for me and I want to defer my Cornell ED application to RD so I can see my various options but then there is the issue of madness and riskiness. Other than Cornell School of Engineering the only two schools I am really interested in is Stanford and MIT(MIT especially). My choices are in this order MIT, Cornell then Stanford. This is on my overall likings of these schools. I know you may be thinking why didn't I just apply EA MIT? Well the thing is, MIT doesn't have EA for international students and I really want to see if I can get in. I just feel there's a special connection between MIT and I(although some of you might say what's this dude saying, everyone feels that connection with MIT). But honestly mine is different. So my question is basically if I can and should defer my Cornell application. This is very crazy because I have a good chance of get into Cornell's ED pool but if I try all RD. I might get rejected from all the schools I mentioned including Cornell and as Cornell's Financial aid is limited for internationals, even if I get into RD there's a high bet I wont get financial aid. Is it possible for me to defer to RD myself for Cornell? And if so, Would it be wise just because I want to get into MIT or would it be downright stupid because MIT has a 3% rate for international students?</p>
<p>Just call Cornell and ask them to move your app to RD. It happens all the time.</p>
<p>Thank you but is it crazy to do so given MITs low rate of admission for internationals</p>
<p>I personally think that it’s not so smart to change the ED to RD if you think your chances are shaky, but if you want to do it, it’s as simple as an e-mail and phone call.</p>
<p>You get a bump up for ED at Cornell. They out and out say so. I don’t know if that is the case for International students. but at that school, in exchange for making full commitment early and pulling all of your other applications, they will look at your application and make an early determination. That is the trade off. So, it’s really Cornell’s rate of admissions that you are concerned with, not MIT’s, since if you change your ED app to RD, your statistical % of acceptance goes down. By keeping ED, IF you get accepted to Cornell, your chances for MIT go to zero since you are supposed to tell them you are accepted ED to Cornell. If you don’t, Cornell will, and you will be taken out of consideration for MIT. That is the whole idea of ED. Only you can decid what is worth doing.</p>
<p>I do not know Cornell’s cut-off date for making a switch but be aware that you generally cannot wait until the last minute before decisions are issued to switch an ED app to RD because they lock in applications sometime before mid-Dec, and thus if you are going to do the switch you need to do so soon and possibly by the end of this month. Morever, though calling may work, you need something in writing to later prove you asked for the switch and thus it is advisable, and there are ED programs that require, to send a letter or email (or both) making the request for a change or follow up any phone call with a confirmation letter or email stating that you called, identifying who you talked to and and setting out that the person said the change was being made.</p>
<p>I love Cornell though, but MIT has always been my first choice. But wouldn’t you think it’ll be better if I had like a small acceptance rate at Cornell and MIT. Instead of higher at Cornell and zero at MIT? Honestly the hardest part of applications is making decisions and not the requirements.</p>
<p>Bump please!</p>