Cornell Early Decision for Fall 2022 Admission

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My daughter applied to Dyson RD and got a request for an alumni interview/meeting yesterday. Is this a good sign, that she got an interview? (this post has been edited for clarity)

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Meetings are solely indicative of the availability of alumni in your area. Don’t read anything into it but hopefully your student enjoys the interaction and gets a better feel for the university.

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That’s great. Which state are you in, if you don’t mind being asked. Trying to figure out if Cornell interviews are common or rare/location specific. My son hasn’t received an interview email, BTW (in NJ)

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We are in Central Texas

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The Cornell Common Data Set lists the importance of various factors as Very Important, Important, Considered or Not Considered. It has Interviews categorized as Considered. While not as important as an SAT score or high school rigor, it isn’t meaningless.

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Cornell moved to making the alumni meeting non evaluative for all but the College of AAP. It is not even called an “interview” anymore and we don’t submit a report other than if a meeting happened or not. That’s the extent of it.

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Thanks everyone. I wasn’t asking if the meeting/interview itself is meaningless. I was asking if the fact that she got invited to meet with an alum is indicative of the fact that they consider her a good candidate, or whether we shouldn’t read anything into it.

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The alumni chairs that make the assignments don’t see the candidates application so don’t read anything into getting (or not getting) a meeting. All we get is the student’s name/contact info/name of the high school.

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Hi - For Letter of continued interest, is there a deadline?

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There isn’t usually a deadline but I recommend students submit in January since they’re now in the review process of RD apps, including deferred. Many students should hopefully have grades from first semester in the system to maybe brag about those grades or what they learned that was interesting that wasn’t captured in the app during ED.

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How do you send LOCI? Think the portal doesn’t have a place to send. Do you just email? Thanks!

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Is there an additional supplemental section to upload in the portal? If not, send to admissions via email.

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Hi,

The portal does have a box on the right that you click on to upload your LOCI etc.

Does anyone have any insight into Cornell ILR admissions? How competitive, how much of the Freshman class is filled in ED, stats of admitted students, whether legacy helps etc.

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Thanks!

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Yes. My major is info science in CALS.

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Same major and same college. I am also deferred. :frowning:

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Okay random but did u get an email from CALS admissions after you were deferred asking to set up a Zoom call? Because I got an email and I had a Zoom call with an admissions officer but I’m not sure if they gave it to everyone or just some people

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No, I did not get that email lol. I have heard from others that the interview is useless, but I am not sure.

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Cornell interviews are informative, not evaluative. So they have no bearing on admission decisions
You can read more here:

https://blogs.cornell.edu/admissions/2021/11/02/lets-talk-about-cornell-admissions-interviews/

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