<p>Application season's is about to rear its ugly head pretty soon. </p>
<p>I'm sure I'm not the only one applying! Share your thoughts - if you plan on doing ED/RD, what school, major, your chances - anything you feel like sharing.</p>
<p>I'm going to be applying to COE, probably RD for ISST major.</p>
<p>As for me, I’m primarily interested in the College of Engineering. I might do ED depending on whether or not I manage to get good scores on the SAT II tests. </p>
<p>I’m also stuck between doing ED for Cornell or attempting EA at MIT…</p>
<p>Most likely RD for CALS, Science of Earth Systems.</p>
<p>Either AEM in CALS or Economics in CAS, RD.</p>
<p>i’m applying RD to CAS but the supposedly harsh winters are making me nervous</p>
<p>I’m applying ED to ILR. 
I’m hoping I get in so I don’t have to spend $1000 on my other apps.
Any other ILR-hopefuls?</p>
<p>Most likely ED to CALS. Hopefully I’ll get in!</p>
<p>Ok now I feel really old. This is not cool.</p>
<p>Y’all are talking about applications and I’ll be a junior when you enroll. Oh dear…</p>
<p>and I will be a senior. they’re trying to rush me out of this place! </p>
<p>btw, while I’m posting: the harsh winters. don’t worry about them. unless you have a particular reason you need to avoid cold/snow, you will be able to adapt.</p>
<p>Winters:</p>
<p>I’m from Texas. I love the winters here.</p>
<p>You all will be fine.</p>
<p>Haha, good to hear that someone else from Texas was able to deal with the winter in Ithaca just fine.</p>
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<p>You feel old? I’m starting to feel like a dirty old man.</p>
<p>“Haha, good to hear that someone else from Texas was able to deal with the winter in Ithaca just fine.”</p>
<p>It’s really not as bad as most people make it seem. I mean it helps that I like cold weather, but still.</p>
<p>It mostly boils down to your attitude about the weather and having proper clothing.</p>
<p>RD/ED: Not sure yet.
School: College of Arts and Sciences
Major: Lab Science other than Bio (w/ possible minors in Mathematics and History)
Chances: Good–triple legacy, top 5% in class, 2160 (re-taking) SAT, good EC’s, recs, etc.</p>
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Yeah, chances are definitely not good.</p>
<p>^Hah… what would you know…
I have tremendous interest in the school and just because I don’t have inhuman SAT scores–which some delusional people seem to think are all that matter–doesn’t mean I don’t have good chances…</p>
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What would I know? Apparently a lot more than you. Easily over 10,000 of Cornell’s applicants each year have tremendous interest in the school. To claim that this so called “interest” along with your provided objective stats somehow makes your chance of admission into Cornell, or any T20 school, “good” shows both your naivete and lack of knowledge concerning selective college admissions.</p>
<p>Just because I, unlike some emphatically mislead people, do not spend my life studying for standardized tests–which in no way show intellectual curiousity and love of learning–doesn’t mean I know nothing about the college admissions process. I have seen how many posts you have made about the SATs and I am utterly disgusted. Do you have nothing better to do with your life than brag about what you did for three hours one Saturday morning? Get a life.</p>
<p>Notice that I havn’t mentioned the SAT once in addressing your naive claims that you have “good” chances. I too do not spend my life studying for standardized tests, and for you to make such an assumption is quite pathetic. Almost all of my posts concerning the SAT are tips for students looking to improve their own scores, and if you actually looked through my posts, you’d be hard pressed to find any post in which I brag about a perfect score. However, the subject of my own credentials is entirely irrelevant to the fact that you are still making an erroneous claim, and I suggest you be a little less quixotic about your admissions chances.</p>
<p>Jersey-
I am not erroneous in thinking that I have a good chance of getting into Cornell. Three to four people per year from my high school are admitted to Cornell (out of classes of roughly 250). I am ranked 6-8 in my class, and less than half the people in the top 10 even apply to Cornell. There are many cases in which people who aren’t even in the top 5% get into Cornell. Naviance–a college admissions database that is specific to my (and possibly your) high school–shows the average accepted GPA of students admitted to Cornell from my high school to be a 4.14. Mine is a 4.35. Beyond GPA, I have taken a curriculum considered unique by my guidance coucilors. They consider it not only extra rigorous but also very indicative of my interests.
Furthermore, Naviance shows that my SAT scores are only slightly below the accepted average for my high school (which is a 2172). My success in the most rigorous courses offered at my high school far outweighs this very slight “disadvantage”.
It is very likely that I will apply ED to Cornell. My college advisor as well as my school guidance coucilor have both said that my chances of getting into Cornell with the triple legacy advantage and high school achievements are “off the charts”. My college councilor takes 20 students per year, not all of which are considered to be elite college candidates. Regardless, she manages to get over half of them into Ivies and top 10 schools. If you don’t think that that is impressive, you are erroneous.</p>