<p>aBeautifulMind- I also applied for philosophy</p>
<p>But this whole thing seems random to me. There is a guy from engineering with a LL who said his time was 2:44.
My time was 2:26. One of my parents has multiple Cornell degrees and is very plugged into the university and active with fundraising.
Some of my stats:
GPA (at NE private school) 3.8
SATs 2330 and three SAT IIs all over 770
Solid ECs, 3 varsity sports, captain for on, community service, president of clubs etc.
I don't want to sound pompous, but I would be surprised to be rejected.</p>
<p>I look at that, and think the exact opposite. I think the constant recurrence of specific times (12:26, 1:28, etc) reveals that it was automated. And all students in that specific time have a specific decision. I think once all WL, for instance, were "uploaded" so-to-speak, they brought up the accepted students, "uploaded" them, etc etc.</p>
<p>Yeah, DaFunk is definitely accepted. This definitely proves how the 2:00 isn't necessarily the rejection group. It is probably not the acceptance or waitlist group either, because I know I'll be rejected. That only leaves one option, this entire thing is completely random.</p>
<p>What if.....they organized all the folders of different students on a computer... and just copied the folders over. The entries are probably dated with the minute that their folder was finished, so all 12:26's belonged to the same folder, probably all of the same decision and similar schools. This dosent assume any correlation beetween groups of people in the 12:20's or 12 at all for that matter, just a correlation beetween the specific minute that your dated with and your decision. If this is done by a person, this could explain how some things are dated just 1 minute apart, yet there are 20 minute gaps on some others.</p>
<p>Sorry, but a random selection just doesn't make sense to me. These obviously had to be in some type of order, or we all would have the exact same time. And Cornell must be organized in some way with these applications -- whether it be alphabetically, by college, etc etc. And uploading the applicants must have been in that organizational order.</p>
<p>The only way it could be random is if Cornell deliberately randomized the applicant list. However, being how neurotic this entire thread is, I don't think they would have expected this. Random selection doesn't make sense to me.</p>
<p>to add my 2 cents...
there's no real way for US to predict acceptance/rejection/etc sitting here infront of our computers UNLESS we're talking about people holding likely letters in their hands. and at this point, people with likely letters have pretty much left the cornell thread with the ease of mind that they have already confirmed acceptance. SO what we're really doing here is guess work. If we could so easily categorize people into acceptance/rejection files just by a few words of how they assess themselves, then whats the point of having an admissions committee? this thread is putting false hope/ false dejection into people and making the wait all the more anxious for all of us.</p>
<p>we only have 1 more day to go
lets not get toooo crazy in the meantime! k?</p>
<p>Just to reiterate my two cents: I think colleges are too organized with their applications for this to be random.</p>
<p>The only way it could be random is if they deliberately randomized the applications. And to do that, they would have to expect this craziness from applicants, and develop a randomizing program for when they uploaded the apps.</p>