<p>I'm a little confused on the process to apply. I read that you need to select your college and major and a 2nd choice and that those colleges all have different essay questions. But the common app has no where to select those options and only asks for the standard personal essay. Also, where do we indicate that an application is ED? Thanks!</p>
<p>Are you sure you can’t figure it out? Have you been on Cornell’s website? What about reading common app’s instruction. If you can’t follow those instructions, I am not sure if you are ready to go off to college.</p>
<p>Agree with oldfort, but if I recall correctly, you state that you are applying ED on Common App under the tab Cornell - there should be either a drop down or a list of buttons where you can select ED (usually due Nov 1) or RD (usually due Jan 1). For your personal essay - that’s your Common App essay, where you answer one of the 5 or so prompts they give you. This is what will be sent to every school you apply to; it is about you as a person, in general, and your first general impression. The whole 1st choice/2nd choice college is specific to the Cornell supplement - these are extra, Cornell-specific essays that you write with a major/course of study (or lack thereof if you’re undecided) in mind.</p>
<p>So when I applied, I wrote a personal essay, selected RD for my application type, and wrote 1 essay about CALS and left the 2nd choice option blank.</p>
<p>Thank you lichte!
I’m sorry, I was probably not very specific with my original question. Also I think the Common App website has changed a little since last year. But anyways, under the Cornell Tab there’s no drop down list or anything like that. It does say “Term or admission plan incomplete”, which sounds like where I would list ED, but when I clicked that it says “The questions you are attempting to access are not yet ready for completion. Please check back later to complete your questions for this College.”.
I still can’t locate the Cornell Supplement. Under Cornell the only options are Common Application (which doesn’t include the supplemental questions anywhere), Member Questions (which when clicked displays the same error message as above), and Assign Recommenders.</p>
<p>Maybe Cornell’s supplement is not ready yet. I don’t remember when it was ready last year when my kid was applying.</p>
<p>Yeah basically none of the supplementary stuff is ready for any schools yet. I’m sure it won’t be too long before it is.</p>
<p>Ahh I see. I guess I was just too impatient! Haha but thank you all very much.</p>