Cornell Alumni Admissions Meeting

My D applied RD. I understand the ED decisions were made recently and the RD deadline has now passed. This past weekend my daughter got a call and an e-mail from an Alumni from the school seeking to set up a meeting with her. She indicated she is from the Cornell Alumni Admissions Network. Does anyone have any insight to the context of the meeting and is this a good sign, bad sign or just routine? Any information would help. Thanks.

CAAN members are volunteers. If there are available alumni volunteers in your home area, you may or may not receive a call/email for an informational meeting. It is not an interview. Cornell only requires admissions interviews for Hotel, and AAP applicants. You cannot call and request an interview.

It is neither a good sign nor a bad sign that an applicants gets called or doesn’t get called. It really has no bearing on the applicant’s admission decision at all. It all depends on how many volunteers are out there in your area. Sometimes there are so many kids applying from an particular area and not enough volunteers, so not everyone gets contacted. Not to worry. These are informational only. However, I’m guessing if your D set something up and never showed, it would reflect poorly on her. Either way, she should set up the meeting and have a list of questions about Cornell (academic, social, student life etc) that she would like answers to.

My D was an ED applicant and got an email a few days before Thanksgiving from a local CAAN volunteer in our area offering an informational meeting to discuss any questions she had about Cornell etc. Decisions were coming out in less than two weeks, but she responded that yes, she would enjoy meeting with him. However, she never did get a reply back from him and thus they never met up.

She was accepted ED. Good luck to your daughter.

My daughter got her interview done on 11/7 (CALS/Dyson AEM) and got admitted under ED. The interview was informational, rest assured that does NOT determine the final outcome. But the interviewer gave a very good overview of her life at Cornell.