@Amyleeal I think you will find that all ivies and top 20 schools will have some students with a range of stats, so don’t worry too much. Good luck!
Can anyone please link me the portal link? I cant really find the link anywhere 
@Rohitmohit Here you go: http://admissions.cornell.edu/apply/first-year-applicants/check-application-status
Should you submit FAFSA before getting accepted or wait till you get accepted (seems like FAFSA submit deadline is before decision date)?
It seems FAFSA can only list 10 colleges. How do you submit for more than 10?
@Amyleeal It’s simply yield protection. Cornell ain’t Harvard, and they know that many of the uber-qualified students apply to Cornell as a sort of backup. If they have confidence that that particular student will get into better colleges, why would they accept them and f up their yield?!
@shivaya FAFSA must be submitted by Feb 1 for most colleges. As for applying to more than 10 schools, here’s what the FAFSA website has to say about it. Google is your friend (;
Your Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) can list up to ten colleges. Once you receive your Student Aid Report (SAR), you can make the information available to more than ten colleges through one of the following options. Each option will allow the college to receive an electronic copy of your SAR, and you will also receive an updated SAR:
Click Login on the home page and log in to FAFSA on the Web. You will be given the option to Make FAFSA Corrections. Remove some of the colleges listed on your FAFSA, add the additional school codes, and submit the corrections for processing.
Give the additional colleges your Social Security Number, name, and the Data Release Number (DRN) from your SAR so that they can add their school code to your FAFSA and receive an electronic copy of your SAR.
Call the Federal Student Aid Information Center and have them add the colleges for you. When you call, you must provide the DRN from your SAR or confirmation page. Refer to the Help page for contact information.
If you have a paper SAR, you can replace the colleges listed on the SAR with other colleges, and mail the SAR back to Federal Student Aid. Note that the paper SAR only allows you to change up to four colleges.
Note: If there are ten colleges on your FAFSA, any new school codes that you add will replace one or more of the school codes already listed.
@mdorbust ah, that’s a bit of reassuring info! thank you, i feel a bit more at ease 
do deferred applicants have to submit the FAFSA even though we already sent them our tax returns?
How can I show interest to Cornell to demonstrate their my number 1 choice, even though I couldn’t apply ED because of my I didn’t take the ACT
Can you visit? @DAVE437
^hmmm probably not
I think they have some admissions chats. Not sure what else. Hopefully someone else will answer!
You could email your admissions counsellor to see if there are any current student you can chat with? Or contact a local alumni chapter to ask questions.
does any1’s portal still have only the check for the application and nothing else?
Son’s only shows the one check mark. He sent it in on 12/29. Other stuff was sent a while ago, so I hope we are ok.
Has anyone been offered an off campus interview by a local alum?
@ScottG I got an email for it today.
@Chrysanthemum14 Can I ask what major you are applying for?
For anyone who submitted on 12/31/15. Do you see green check-mark next to your supplement and school report on your portal?
I wasn’t emailed a portal yet