Yes, you can be on as many waitlists as you want.
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Yes, you can accept multiple wait list offers.
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Thank you!! Good luck to all in the future
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Absolutely. My son wait-listed at 2 schools until he received the transfer option. He then declined the other offer.
it looks like that, for me at least. Cornell is a little finicky with financial aid packages from what Iāve researched. So mine hasnāt come yet.
waitlisted
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Waitlisted. 1550+ SAT, 3.9+GPA, 15+ APs, some humanities/research/olympiad ECs. Got a note from music professor saying my playing was some of the best he heard this year in music supplements, guess it really is meaningless though. Got into Yale so itās all good though, although I loved Ithaca
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Wow 68,000 applicants!
DS waitlisted to CoE. Heās good with that!
You will have to re apply for aid next year then it will update.
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My son was waitlisted. 36 ACT, 13 APs, EC, work experience, Eagle Scout, tutoring, orchestra, brother is student at Cornell vet school. Received four waitlist responses in total and a few rejections from top schools.
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I was accepted and it looks the same for me. I read that Cornell will send financial aid packages early April
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Kind of surprised how many are willing to play the waitlist and transfer game. Waitlist just prolongs the likely ultimate rejection and even our local community colleges get trasfers to Cornell every year after Cornell attrition. Everybody applying to Cornell has likely gotten many other good offers. We moved on to just as good options and wonāt play that game. Good luck if you want to play.
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Hey are you sure that if you maintain a good average at a state university you can transfer to Cornell after the first year. I donāt really mean to sound egotistical but given my stats and ECs I really expected better but Iāve been waitlisted or rejected from nearly every school I applied to, but now Iām probably gonna have to attend Stony Brook next year. But Iām hoping to transfer over after the first year since stony is a state university right?
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Were you offered the transfer option?
Accepted; College of Engineering (I canāt believe it, I feel like this is a dream) Biomedical engineering
Test scores : 1500 super score (720 rw 780 math)
Rank: 3/330ish kids (top 1%)
Gpa: 98 UW 101.624 W
ECS very very mid : a few leadership positions (sci oly, glsen, NHS), helped/started a few club fundraisers. I crochet in my free time and donate the projects to hospitals and womenās shelters. and last summer, almost every day, I worked with a student with learning disabilities to teach him how to read.
LORs : AP physics teacher (she was also my regents physics teacher and sci oly advisor) sheās like my bestie and I think it was really good. Alg 2 teacher (my school fāed me over in middle school and with covid summer classes werenāt really any option, so in order to take calc senior year she vouched for me to take it and skip precalc) she loves me and it probably was really good
Essays: Common app (rewrote the entire thing like 2 days before) but I honestly really liked it? it was honest and fun imo. Cornell essays (1st talked about literally like one aspect of Cornell engineering specifically and then talked about a bunch of other things about Cornell that I liked (bee keeping club, student run food pantry, ecology house, etc) | 2nd I talked about how both my parents have a degenerative eye disease, how my dad has gone blind in one eye, and how I am more likely to get it, and some of the solutions I would want to come up with degenerative tissue diseases)
Iām literally shaking right now, it feels fake. sorry about the format, Iām not really in the condition to be writing right now!!
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If you received the transfer option itās guaranteed as long as you meet the requirements. If you plan to re apply as a transfer that is completely different.
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thank god Iām not the only one 
I didnāt receive it. Are my chances of getting in as a transfer very low then?
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It depends on the college you applied to. You can always reach out to admissions and ask them about applying again next year as a transfer.
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College of Arts and Sciences