It is very true that a deferred application, reduces the chance of admissions significantly. You can check on your schools naviance on how may (if any) deferred apps turned to acceptances. Our GC advised us to choose another school to apply ED2. S3 chose not but did do the following:
A weed after being deferred, contacted the admissions director (after a number of phone calls) and discussed the situations, he was told that t he ADCOM wanted to see how the rest of his SR year grades were going to hold up before making a decision. He thanked them and send a follow up email.
In February, he sent supporting documents and short essay expressing his continued interest in Cornell, his Sr. Year GPA and some additional awards h accumulated in Model UN. He added that Cornell remained his first choice and if he were admitted, he would attend. He asked his GC to call but the ADCOM would not accept calls from the school and requested she send an email. She did and it was added to his admissions file. He chose not to send an additional letter of recommendation. He was admitted in the RD round for a January Admit. Was a very long process. Wish you all luck. Your chances of admissions goes from 26% ED to 14% RD. I have never seen any stats on number of deferred would were accepted/denied. I have heard many of the deferred applicants receive the GT option.
I heard more applicants are deferred than rejected from CoE? Anyone know if this is true.
@3rdsontocollege What does GT option mean?
John Ahmed, No, Cornell is not “a dream school”. It may be your dream school but it is a nightmare school for others. In other words, Cornell has positive and negative characteristics. And, the same characteristic one person sees as a positive can be viewed as a negative by others. And, there are plenty of great schools out there to dream about. Consider what it is that you find so special about Cornell and look for that and other positive qualities in other schools. Start thinking about the not so great aspects of Cornell so that you don’t continue to pine for it. This advice has backfired for me in the past-when students have done just that but then gotten in. But the chances are against that from happening.
So consider the drawbacks to Cornell-some of which are:
-it is cold. It is cold temperature wise but that’s not the only way. it is not a warm fuzzy place. Students can be cut throat competitive. The school can seem to care less.
-It is not as intellectual an environment as you’d think and as some may want. The importance of grades trumps almost everything else.
-Its Ivy League name belies its SUNY genetic pool. It’s true. It isn’t technically a SUNY but it is most certainly influenced by it. You can tell by how it nickels and dimes students. You can also tell by its bureaucracy. It isn’t as bad as named SUNYs (which probably pay twice for administrators than they do for instructors and where it is not unusual to have an Associate to the Assistant to the Associate Dean of Deans) but it is pretty close.
I agree with the first paragraph and somewhat disagree with the points in the second paragraph.
- Yes, it's cold, but some students love the cold weather, my daughter included.
- My D has not seen cut throat competition for grades. It may happen in some classes, but this has not been her overall experience.
- "the school can seem to care less" I don't think this is necessarily true.
- "not an intellectual environment" Again, not true.
- "importance of grades trumps all" This is true at all highly selective schools. So be it. This is not unique to Cornell.
- "Nickles and dimes students" True, but Cornell is not alone in this.
Some of these above points made by lost account sound like sour grapes to me.
Not sure where this statement came from. Cornell’s student activity fees is 236/yr, Columbia charges 700+, and other schools charge as high as few thousand $$. Would you rather pay for what you need or would you rather pay a higher rate for things you do not need.
What the heck is SUNY genetic pool anyway. It is insulting on so many fronts.
I also do not know why you feel Cornell “can seem to care less.” Both of my kids had few major illness while in school and the professors were more than accommodating for them to make up their prelims and papers. Whenever they went to office hours their professors or TAs were always helpful. Let’s also not forget that most classes are curved to B to B+.
Cornell is more professional than other Ivies because of AEM and Hotel schools.
Cornell is not for everyone. It is a large university and it treats students like adults. Professors and deans won’t call you up if you should miss few classes. My kid turned down a small LAC because they were too warm and fuzzy.
If you check other threads on this site, you can see that lostaccount hates all SUNY schools and anything associated with them. Why? Who knows.
On another note, a girl from my D’s high school was deferred last year from HumEc and got in regular decision. So it is possible.
was anyone deferred SHA
If you check other threads on this site, you’ll also see that lostaccount is highly critical of WUSTL and brown, again without disclosing why.
@jf2580 GT is a “guarantee transfer” option that is offered for your sophomore year. You need to go to another university for freshman year, take required courses and maintain a certain GPA.
If you got deferred will Cornell automatically receive your mid-year grades or do we have to request that our transcript be sent?
Also, what should I send in terms of an essay? Between November and now, I started working at a local vet clinic, would that be good to write about in my essay? Maybe make that the focus of my essay? I know a lot of you have said that it would be good to let Cornell know that they’re still your first choice, but I’m wondering how best to incorporate that in an essay.
My son got D from the ILR in 2014, got an acceptance letter in March 2015. Got injured in the first two weeks of the semester, profs were great. ILR is a warm and inviting major, I have met a large number of the profs and had a nice chat with the dean about non academics, very approachable faculty. If Cornell is so terrible, why do people keep applying, going and graduating? I agree, the comments above sound like sour grapes.
Out of the 1150 deferred applicants how many will make it regular decision
Hey guys, did any of you call the (Cornell) college you got deferred them to ask about why you got deferred?
If so, did you get a response? I’m incredibly worried because both I and my GC called, and we never got a call from ILR.
^ @NotAMathlete, admissions officers generally don’t take calls from GCs. Don’t worry, this is standard, not a reflection on you. Also, this is application reading time, and they are super busy. Anything you want to know now is probably a moot point.
@TiggyB62 Haha, thanks, you’re like the Cornell page’s voice of reason. I should probably stop worrying so much! :^))
My son was deferred and later got the ILR guar transfer offer.
Went to a major local public college on an full tuition merit scholarship.
Ended up not liking the location and much about his public school,
so he has moved on and taken advantage of the GT offer.
He loves it at Cornell. Work is voluminous but he enjoys the campus,
his dorm and met nice, smart people.
Had he not gotten the the transfer offer, might have picked a different
choice for freshman year. Anyone deferred by Cornell is likely to have other
good options if you do your homework and find other appropriate schools.
Don’t focus too much on any one school, find 5-10 you would be happy with.
If we end up getting a GT can we end up starting in the spring if at our other university we start during the summer? Is it a credit type thing or by school year?
@CCSenioritis A FYSA admit will start in Spring Semester, GT is a Sophomore Fall admit but you need to take certain classes and maintain a minimum GPA for your first year.