<p>^^ are you guys like passionate into going for researching and comp sci and stuff ? since your applying there ?</p>
<p>regular decision to engineering school woohooo!</p>
<p>thinking about applying early decision to CALS - animal science major. not quite sure how many ppl apply to this major…does anyone know how rigorous the application process is in this area? thanks a bunch.</p>
<p>Anyone here plan to take a dual degree? How different it is from “double major” in job recruitment? I am an international student.</p>
<p>Dual degree = double major isnt it.? And i will be applying to cornell engineering so can i do double degree outside the college of engineering ?</p>
<p>yea! i actually want to double major (dual degree?) in animal sciences and spanish. 
random yes but i love working with and studying animals and i love languages.</p>
<p>ED CALS for me. Either Bioengineering or BioSci</p>
<p>sats
cr 610 math 610 writing 640
ush 3
ap calc 4
ush 660
math 1 650</p>
<p>senior year bc calc, ap lit, ap bio, ap world.</p>
<p>ecs
environmental club 4 years, treasurer and pres hopefully senior year
started an ocean advocacy group at school
humane society
volunteer at a local environmental group where i have logged 100+ hours
nhs
capstone project: greenhouse effect
certified master gardener
changed school’s recycling policy
competitive rower for 5 years
very passionate about environment
local soup kitchen volunteer ( not too much though)
I will get great recs
and my essay will be about my involvement with my local enviro organization</p>
<p>theres more i cant remember all…</p>
<p>and i took two college courses over the summer
and im on jets
and academic team</p>
<p>Jaroba: international or NY residents? Financial aid or not?</p>
<p>not international and no financial aid</p>
<p>cornell university college of engineering supplementary essay has 950 words. Is that okay ? How many words on average should be in the essay 
?</p>
<p>If you are referring to the “college interest essays” part of the Cornell’s supplement as seen on common application, that is way too long. The maximum limit is 500 words</p>
<p>I added Cornell to my college list just to quote the instruction part for the supplement essay.</p>
<p>Please respond to the essay question below (maximum of 500 words) that corresponds to the undergraduate college(s) to which you are applying. If you are utilizing the primary / alternate admission option, you must complete an essay for both colleges; please complete the essays that correspond to your primary and alternate choice.</p>
<p>I suggest you cut out about half of your essay?</p>
<p>^ OMG i totally didn’t see that. Thank you so much! :)</p>
<p>About common app essay and supp essay, I have a small question.
The limit for both essays is 500 words ?</p>
<p>You only do one supplementary essay for cornell. you do the other one for a diff college only if you want to keep and alternate option of another field/major in cornell</p>
<p>@THAI</p>
<p>as I said, the supp essay’s limit is 500 words</p>
<p>as for the common app essay, there is only a minimum (250 words) but you really shouldn’t make it that long. I think an ideal common app essay is between 350~750 words
I personally will keep it between 500 and 600</p>
<p>^^ Yea my common app essay is currently 950 words. I will try to chop it down to 700-750 ish :)</p>
<p>Thats really good jaroba, good luck to you! You seem passionate about your major which is good. I’m not so like that for what im aiming for lol</p>
<p>finally cutdown my Cornell supplementary essay for college of engineering from 983 words to 583 words. Just gotta decrease it to 500 or less :)</p>