<p>Hey everyone,
Just wanted to see if anyone else on this forum was a Human Ecology applicant to Cornell. Decided that making a group for just us would be beneficial for discussing.</p>
<p>I’m a Human Ecology applicant too! What major are you applying for?</p>
<p>Same! Human biology, health & society</p>
<p>HBHS. I am an aspiring premed and HBHS with Global Health minor is PERFECT…</p>
<p>Just to throw some numbers out… Only around 1400 people apply to HE each year… W/ about 400-500 acceptances
Idk if thats good or not but just throwing it out</p>
<p>HBHS aspiring pre-med student here as well! :D</p>
<p>matrixsurgeon- glad we have similar interests and love the name haha </p>
<p>@Justin5585
I thought that my username was pretty cool too! I love both my profile picture and my username as they both describe two interesting things about me. And yes we both have similar interests!</p>
<p>@girlygirly
Although the numbers indicate that close to 30% of us will get accepted (we can even say 25% for natural competitive increases purposes) I don’t think its necessarily a good thing because everyone that applies to Human Ecology tends to be people that are very extremely focused on what they want to do with their education because the college itself is so unique and very revolutionary in nature compared to the way most schools work. That with the fact that the essay is weighted so highly makes the college as hard in my opinion as CAS or CALS. And for out of state people like me, we are competing with loads of In-state applicants with great stats and ECs who they give priority to because of the land grant institutional rules (right?). I am worried that I don’t have the focused ECs for the admission but we shall see what happens. But yes the numbers do show us that there is a small pool overall so we all will get looked at very closely which is a good thing in my opinion. </p>
<p>Btw has anyone had their interview yet? I had mine and it was with a Human Ecology graduate and it went AMAZING. He told me everything about the programs there when he was there and how they JUST added a new building/facility for the college that is really innovative and new and such.</p>
<p>Hey matrixsurgeon what you believe was an interview was an information session if I’m not mistaken. Cornell doesn’t factor in interviews in the application process and all meetings with alumni are purely informational. Can someone confirm this?</p>
<p>Oh and I have mine next week</p>
<p>@justin5585–yes, those are ‘informational’ interviews with Cornell alum, but not information sessions. I think one would need to perform horribly for the interview to have any weight in admissions. Having said that, don’t just blow off an interview invitation. One exception I can think of is the mandatory Hotel School interview. Students who are unable to visit Ithaca for that interview are interviewed by Hotel alums in their area. Otherwise, you are correct. Matrixsurgeon’s experience is what Cornell hopes is achieved by these interviews. He learned more about the program and the school and met a grad he liked.</p>
<p>Just to clarify, I mistakenly used the word “interview” when I should have used the Cornell-appropriate term of information session. It is fundamentally the same as an alumni interview at any of the other schools out there that use this. The interviews ARE a part of the admissions process if you choose to do it (albeit its very very slim as CT1417 pointed out). The person I interviewed with explained that every “interviewer” has to submit a report to the admissions which is obviously different for every school. The only way one could really make a difference with their session is if you messed up horribly (lied about something on application, etc) or if you have different circumstances then when you applied that you can tell the interviewer which would be included in that report. My interview asked me if there was something I wanted him to include additionally and I just talked about my main passion/interest I have. </p>
<p>But on the very basic level, alumni interviews-regardless of school- are a method by which to do one or combination of three things:
-Learn more about the school and its opportunities by meeting face to face with someone that actually attended the university.
-Include additional information or expand on information that might be useful for the admissions offices (doesn’t just mean a resume, etc)
-A way for the school to include their alumni in the admissions process while outreaching personally to thousands of applicants all over the country (and world).</p>
<p>Bump</p>
<p>I am a deferred Nutritional Sciences applicant from AZ! Best wishes to everyone</p>
<p>I’m apply to human ecology too!</p>
<p>I found this great blog that follows two humec students. I think one is hd and the other is hbhs and they give some really good insight to cornell, humec, and premeds. the site is cuatmedschool.■■■■■■■■■■ can’t wait for decisions I’m crossing my fingers!</p>
<p>@matrixsurgeon received a phone call from Human Ecology student. Was not an interview. How about yall? @collegebound752 @justin5585 @cornellkid2018 </p>
<p>Nothing yet. Have yall had interviews? @girlygirl122</p>
<p>@collegebound752
I believe my situation is the same as @Girlygirl22 but I had the official “interview” which is the alumni network conversation thing back a little while ago. And then I got the “thank you” hand signed letter which was confusing. And then I got this student call which is not really a “interview,” but more of a personal contact. What about you guys?</p>
<p>@collegebound752 no interview here just a friendly call</p>
<p>Interview + letter + personal call from alumni (HBHS major :D)</p>