@binlee, this is from Cornell website:
https://admissions.cornell.edu/standardized-testing-requirements
Is anyone else having weird problems with the Cornell financial aid site? When I try to log in I get an error message saying I don’t have permission to access it
good luck to everyone, only 4 days left now 
cornell is my top choice, I really regret not EDing!
no one can give you an accurate chance.
you can view the acceptance rate for your college + gender here: http://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/university-factbook/undergraduate-admissions
you can also look at the freshman profile to see how you measure up. good luck!
my daughter is waiting on the ILR school…praying she gets in.
Can anyone provide their views of Cornell versus UCLA and Georgetown from a quality of education and weather perspective? I got accepted to ULCA (regents) and Georgetown (merit scholarship) and I am trying to figure this out. Thanks
I did not. I applied to Cornell, Syracuse, Notre Dame, UVA, UNC, Ohio state. Quite a random list but thanks to the lack of resources from my high school it was tough for me to know what places to look for. I was accepted to Notre Dame, Ohio state,& Syracuse
re#185:
Weather: You can look up historical averages by month. Late November thru April Cornell is worse;the rest of year it’s nice. Certainly less humid than DC in the summer. DC is gorgeous in the Spring though. Ithaca is gorgeous in the Fall. And also all the time, basically.
Education: I 'havent attended all three schools, so…
IMO Cornell has a stronger reputation in the sciences than Georgetown has. Georgetown has a particular reputation in international relations. The rest is basically a wash IMO. Of course Cornell offers more fields of study.
We know somebody who was an adjunct Prof. at Georgetown, just taught a course, not a “real” prof. with PhD headed towards tenure. City schools are more likely to have more of these types. Doesnt mean they are bad teachers, or unqualfied for what they are teaching.
My subscores:
E-36
R-36
M-30
S-36
My math score is significantly lower than my others (clearly). Is this a dealbreaker for me? This was my first try, I figured my other subscores and composite score were high enough to make up for it. Also considering my excellence in math elsewhere on my application (High marks/ap scores in all My math classes), I was hoping this would shine through as well.
Yes, that’s where I got the quote I gave above (“Your ACT composite will not be superscored”). But that doesn’t tell us if Cornell looks at the ACT subscores from your different test dates, or only the subscores from your single highest ACT composite score.
see one of my other comments on this thread that has a link to the source. The acceptance rate for females to the college of engineering is over 19% while the acceptance rate for males for the college of engineering hovers around 6%
Chance me pls!!
UW GPA: 96.16 (our scale is out of 100)
SAT: 1560
APS:
World -5
Bio -5
Lang -5
US -4
Chem -4
Taking psych, gov, macro, and calc BC this year
Decently strong LORs
Variety of extracurriculars, heavily involved in music (4 diff ensembles) and played soccer for like 7 years. secretary of class. President of the region of my youth group, social action chair in the past. Other leadership positions too. Had a job since sophomore year.
@zzbooboo1 I don’t know and can’t venture a guess about your chances. Anything can happen. What I know is that engineering is math intensive and Cornell Engineering will look at your 30 score in the ACT Math. Cornell Engineering’s 25th percentile score in the ACT Math is 34; your 30 is far below that.
Thank you for your thoughts. I think Cornell STEM/Engineering may be better but Georgetown and UCLA have great medical schools which means that there could be more LS research opportunities available. Also, Cornell just feels somewhat isolated.
Is anyone else having weird problems with the Cornell financial aid site? When I try to log in I get an error message saying I don’t have permission to access it. It hasn’t done this before.
re#193 this is not my area but here are past comments of @norcalguy, who did undergrad at Cornell and is now a physician:
“The only advantage I can see from having an affiliated med school nearby is that you can do clinical research. But, the vast majority of premeds simply aren’t equipped to do clinical research in the first place and don’t do clinical research. So, if you’re just going to end up growing mammalian cells in a petri dish, it’s pretty much a similar experience whether you do it in an university lab or a med school lab.”
and also
"However, there are TONS of research opps. on campus. "
(referring to research relevant for MD preparation)
Here are some rankings, FWIW:
https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/biological-sciences-rankings
I’m not seeing Georgetown anyplace, might have missed it…
And obviously Ithaca is somewhat isolated, but with 30,000 students
there is generally enough to do right in and around campus and the city, most of the time, for most people. How much free time do you expect to have, as a premed?
Thee other two are city schools, and in my experience the city tends to negatively impact the robustness of campus life, as people just fritter off into the city. A campus-centered non-urban school is a different college experience.
Go where you feel more comfortable, or where you get a great deal, if you want, but tons of future MDs get their start at Cornell.
Thank you for all the information. This is very helpful. I will look at the links.
Is being a white female applying to the CoE strong enough of a hook to get me in with good stats?
As you can see, I’m extremely anxious over this lol.
@zzbooboo1 what major? i know some majors (Like ECE) have wider gender gaps than other majors (BME actually has more women); so applying to one of the majors with a wider gap can potentially make women in engineering an even larger hook
I applied to BME. Does that make my chances better or worse…