<p>Hey guys, could you guys offer a view on this?
I havent seen my dad since i was 2months old, so we couldnt fill out the ncp custodial profile and stuff. I sent in a ncp waiver form with 2 letters from counselor and principal, and a letter from me and one from my mom, so 4 total, to cornell financial aid office.
At first, the office required me to submit my dad’s ncp profile and tax return, and about 3 weeks after i submitted the waiver form, the office said all financial information have been received, including my dad’s information. Does this mean the waiver was accepted? and does this mean that I am accepted to the school as well? I mean… who would spend his or her time reading 4 letters if i was rejected lol.</p>
<p>If the FA office said that then that means your FA info was processed. Not decision.</p>
<p>I got accepted into Cornell, got my email on March 15 and my letter came in the mail on March 18. Here is what it says:</p>
<p>You are cordially invited to join us for Diversity Hosting at Cornell University
Ithaca, NY</p>
<p>April 7-26, 2013</p>
<p>Visiting Cornell during Diversity Hosting will give you the opportunity to experience life as a Cornell student. We will provide limited transportation, housing, meals, and a rich array of opportunities to attend classes, meet with faculty, and converse with current Cornell students about their experiences.</p>
<p>This special invitation is extended to you because of your strong academic and personal record and because you will be admitted to Cornell Universitys Class of 2017."
I am a female nutritional sciences major going into CALS by the way.</p>
<p>So someone asked me what my stats were: Valedictorian of my senior class (1/400), unweighted GPA: 4.0 weighted: 5.25, lots of community service through Salvation Army, National honor society president, academic excellence awards, Editor and chief of newspaper, peer tutor, church facilitator, and other ECs that I can’t think of right now lol. I was really surprised I got in actually because my SAT scores are lower than their normal, SAT math:640 SAT critical reading: 660 and writing was:700. I do think my essay helped me and some killer references from The Salvation Army didnt hurt ;)</p>
<p>^Are you URM?</p>
<p>The results will be uploaded onto their decision database before the JavaScript countdown reaches 0 seconds. They’ll probably upload them a day or 2 before, if not a few hours before. So you might be able to view it a little bit before. I’d recommend waiting until the 28th though.</p>
<p>^I’m guessing there’s a server-side countdown on the decisions page though that prevents us from seeing it before 5 pm.</p>
<p>Won’t the servers be jammed if all ivies come at the same time (which they are).</p>
<p>^If the people who applied to multiple ivies are split up in to which university they check first, wouldn’t the initial immediate traffic be lower on each site that if they released at different times?</p>
<p>It’s still a pretty huge number. ^_^</p>
<p>^True, but not because of the other ivies coming out at the same time.</p>
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<p>I think they have some sort of database using PHP or something like MySQL which contains the 35,000 decisions. It’s not too heavy stuff (think of a website like YouTube and how many terabytes are being accessed per second), so I think the risk of the server crashing is low. </p>
<p>Based on my amateur analysis of the code… it seems like there is a user-side countdown running exactly to the second, and once it hits 0 “javascript:ShowDecision()” or something like that runs. Typing “secondsleft=0” in the address bar causes the user to click on a link which runs this. But they haven’t uploaded the decisions to the database yet so an error comes up.</p>
<p>But this is just speculation :)</p>
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<p>Sorry, it’s this: “javascript:secondsleft=0”. Typing it in the address bar and hitting enter causes the user to be able to click on a link which says “Your application decision is now available online.” Clicking on this runs “javascript:ShowDecision()”. But they haven’t uploaded the decisions to the database yet so an error comes up.
What I’m speculating is that the decisions will be uploaded to the database beforehand, and for a while they’ll sit there until the countdown hits 0. Then, the link will pop up and we can view the decision.</p>
<p>I know a dozen people will freak out and attack me for trying to see my decision beforehand and tell me to wait until March 28th 5 PM. I understand guys. I’m just having some fun to pass the time away until then :)</p>
<p>I’m an Asian male (yay predetermined disadvantages) applying for architecture at their art school. I just applied like on a whim despite my mediocre SAT scores… yay me</p>
<p>^Are you going to be checking the link daily? (It’s literally just viewdecision.aspx rather than decisionmain.aspx) If so, will you let us know if it ever shows anything other than an error?</p>
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<p>Let us know if it works, and if so, how to do it!</p>
<p>E O Wilson is sooo cool. >.<</p>
<p>So I know you guys are dying to see your decisions on the 28th (which I can totally understand…), but I just want to let you guys know that you guys are wasting your time here.
My decision letter came on the 16th, but my dad held on to the mail until the 20th. When he gave me the letter (finally), he criticized me for spending too much of my time idly waiting for my decision letter. He was trying to prove a point that there is nothing I could do that would change the committee’s decision. Until the 20th, I did exactly what you guys are doing now: making wrong predictions and wasting time.
So here’s my nice little advice for my future Cornellians. Go out and enjoy yourself. Keep your grades up in school. Make memories that will last. And prepare for success as well as defeat. Last thing you want to do is wasting your time at CC making wrong predictions…
I wish everyone good luck in their admissions!</p>
<p>Cornell admissions office and Cornell financial aid office is entirely separated…sorry
But sounds like you had an one heck of an essay to write about, right?</p>
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<p>I’ll try to hold myself back because I don’t want them to get mad at me if they notice suspicious behavior on my login. But I probably won’t be able to stop myself though :)</p>
<p>If it works I’ll post it for sure. But in case you’re wondering, it’s as simple as typing “javascript:secondsleft=0” into the address bar and hitting enter. You’d be telling the server there are 0 seconds left and it’s decision time ;)</p>