If it makes anyone worry a bit less, I am in a group chat with other Cornell applicants and one of them is neighbors with a Cornell interviewer. They spoke with them and they apparently told them that they were accepting much more early decision students this year.
If anything, Cornell will just defer much more students than years past. My friend who applied to UGA told me they defered around 8,000 people this early action round so many schools might just do that.
My son is applying to CAS. I’m wondering if admissions tries to fill in by major. Do they try to admit a certain number of kids to fill in economics, English, Asian studies etc…
Yes, she is. She’s in COE also. Loves it! I think she just took a class in SHA (well still taking). Are those the HADM courses? She’s getting a Dyson Business Minor and so some of the classes overlap I think with SHA. I can be wrong as their system is so confusing to me.
My D21 has also applied CS in Engineering. Let us hope for the best. Colleges might have tools to identify the right talent.
My D21 is applying to CALS. super nervous time!!
I don’t know about that. They do accept by College because each college does their own admissions/acceptances, but generally you don’t declare your major until after sophomore year and at least for majors like CS you need a certain GPA and to have met certain requirements to affiliate so of course there are always those students that aren’t able to achieve that.
Also freshman year at least for COE, there is like no choice for your classes. So they essentially know how many seats and sections they need. This is one thing for the entire school that worries me about having a larger freshmen class. The sophomore class may be smaller, but they are opening 2 new dorms next year that were originally to be for sophs but rumor is they’re going to be used for housing freshmen but also rumor is now they’re going to renovate Balch dorm which they were supposed to do this year but put a hold on due to covid, (although I think that is mainly singles anyway), so how does that affect numbers/beds they need? Years ago in building the dorms they did say they were planning to have bigger class sizes. But they still need the space and people to teach then.
@purplecards09 I can see that being accurate only because they want to have guaranteed filled seats. I also saw in that link above that you posted that deferral requests must be made by March 1 which means they want to know who isn’t taking their seat before the RD date.
Cornell admits by school, not by major.
Yes, the HADM classes are hotel. I think that some classes may overlap with Dyson, but I’m not sure.
It’s a unique challenge for the little sib applicants- Cornell is all they know.
Good luck to everyone!
Someone also told me that for the “in state” colleges there they have quotes of how many New York students that have to admit. I actually wonder if they have way more NY applicants than usual.
Were tests able to be taken in NY or were they mainly cancelled?
Mine is a twin so he’s seen the other school up front and close and it was on his list too until Covid and the many essays. That knocked it off.
If you’re from New York I believe the state funded colleges like that. I read in an article that students from New York often get a closer on their applications. So if New York students are aware of this, maybe there are more of them. With 9,000 applications, there is for sure going to be more from each state.
CALS admits by major. Not sure about all the other schools. CAS doesn’t admit by major but that doesn’t mean they don’t aim to have a well rounded class!
Haha, that makes me think of them having some secret algorithm they use, although for COE I bet they do because they had a couple of questions on their application this go around that I am pretty sure were engineering specific and would be easy weed outs. The ones that asked your highest math and what years you took Physics. They didn’t have that this year, and from my understanding not all of their schools had that. They also had that tell us 3 words about you and 3 words that describe Cornell engineering.
Thats more what I was trying to ask. Wouldn’t they admit according to the direction it looks like a student might pursue? For instance, if the kids essays and classes point to biological sciences or another points towards economics etc…
thanks lol yeah that’s true
Hi everyone! I applied to human ecology! I’m not in New York though, I’m not sure how that effects things.
So Dec. 8 is the deadline for interviewers to submit the report?
They’re not submitting any written report this year but December 8 is the last contact you can have with them prior to ED notifications.
I’m hoping that’s a plus to not be from NY and that the bulk of the 9k applicants are.
DId anyone hear that only 27% of students submitted test scores? Obviously, part of that is due to some of the schools not taking scores at all so it’s hard to determine what percent submitted in the test optional schools which is more relevant.
It was on red it.
Can you send the link to where that was said?