<p>after reading thru this thread since i made a list of CAS times... i have come to the conclusion....</p>
<p>...that the times are completely RANDOM.</p>
<p>even if there was some kind of pattern, i think it'd be reaching to try to guess what times are cutoff points. ahhh so much for 12:26 acceptance dreams...</p>
<p>Oh I'm CAS by the way</p>
<p>well,mine 2.34 so rejected?</p>
<p>Nooo! I refuse to give in. There still the possibility that they were organized by birthdate
Or Social Security number.
Or email address.
Or high school.
Or number of siblings.
Or bank routing number.
Or phone.
Or phone service.
Or number of characters in the essay.</p>
<p>... You get my drift. (Post them anyway so we can compare! ... Or so everyone else can steal your identity. :P)</p>
<p>Haha, never thought of CC as a device for cons...</p>
<p>ahh, I just read through 2011 RD Decisions thread and it was pretty depressing...</p>
<p>For my own sanity, I'm not going to believe Mariusz360. Firstly, because I am a 1:28er who would probably be accepted under our past understanding, and secondly, because every single likely letter has been in one group, and most people who thought they had no shot were in the 2:00 group. Some people who had stellar stats were in the supposed reject group -- well, as we've seen constantly in this game of college admissions, many with great resumes get rejected. </p>
<p>I think some of the correlations we've seen in times are too important to ignore.</p>
<p>I hope I'm right.</p>
<p>But you have to take in to account that those likely letters....were all for Engineering.</p>
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<p>I agree with this. It's not like the times start at 1 etc. from samuel c's post <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/479839-cornell-decision-email-wrong-submitted-date-10.html#post1060068125%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/479839-cornell-decision-email-wrong-submitted-date-10.html#post1060068125</a> from earlier this afternoon, the earliest common time seems to be 12:16. even then, who's to say the submit times are in perfect periods of one hour for each group.</p>
<p>the frequency of the numbers is odd as well. obviously CC is only a small sample, but even then, I find it strange that there are only a few times that are not shared/repeated. while I agree that there is probably SOME pattern to this, for all we know it could be some arbitrary number Cornell gave us that we will never know.</p>
<p>The engineering had 1 times I believe (likely)</p>
<p>is it only Engineering that sends out likely's?</p>
<p>I think those after 2 are rejected. Me and Afro_ninj really have no shot (no offense) and we're around that time, so are a few others who say they have no shot. Here's my stats in case you don't believe me:</p>
<p>CAS undecided female
GPA: 3.4 UW 3.8 W
SAT: 2150
SATII: 660, 770
EC: a few, all similar, like 2 leadership positions
School: Really competitive public from LI, about 30 from my class of 190 applied to Cornell (usually 15 kids get in each year)
Class Rigor: 9 AP's, some advanced classes.
AP's: 5's on 4 exams, I'm taking 5 more this year
Essays: Did em in like an hour. Not too much effort. </p>
<p>Grades in general aren't that great, lots of B's, two C's. Also didn't bother visiting the school or doing an interview. so I didn't show any interest.
I have a feeling the 2pm'ers are the rejects.</p>
<p>Honestly, I didn't visit the school or do an interview either, so you never know.</p>
<p>Just to agree to the previous posts, assume that Cornell averages n kids/min. Times range from 12:00 to 3:00 therefore, because computers work at a constant pace assuming hour cut offs yields an acceptance rate of 1/3, and the times really range from 12:16 to 2:44 (I think) so more that 1/3 would be acceptances. This I cannot believe. Mariusz360 serves as physical evidence of the same thing.</p>
<p>Anyway what no one that believes in a simple pattern has dealt with is why Cornell would do such a thing? </p>
<p>Personally this raises one question in my mind, why does the Ivy League have a designated release date, especially one that is (sort of) allowed to be violated? </p>
<p>Finally, I'll reiterate my advice from page 4: the best way to find out is to wait. The pattern is hard to detect and we lack the data to draw any conclusions safely.</p>
<p>yeah, I like the idea of sending the emails by social security number.</p>
<p>How about everyone put their social security number, and if possible the credit card number they used for payment...</p>
<p>ok, my social security # is 091-42-6028. Anyone else want to post theirs? My time was around 2:30 and I applied to CAS. </p>
<p>joking, btw...in case crazy neurotics actually post their haha.</p>
<p>Have we already discussed whether the times correlate with the majors? I think we should all list the college we applied to, the major, whether we think we'll get in (very likely, likely, maybe, not likely, definitely not likely) and the time. I'll start:</p>
<p>CAS
Philosophy
not likely
2:44</p>
<p>yeah for a second you scared me there molly, i should have been more blunt about my sarcasm b/c i know we're all stressed and overanxious.</p>
<p>I seem to see a lot of CAS applicants with around 2? Or am I just hallucinating.. after reading 18 pages of this thread, I forget all these times and stuff >.> lol</p>
<p>This is getting to be a really messy thread. We needed a consolidated format earlier. But w/e. </p>
<p>CAS
English
Not Likely
12:26</p>
<p>I guess I'm an exception to most CAS students then?</p>