Cornell RD Class of 2022 Applicant Thread

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Chance me ILR

White male, Jewish, >500K Income

Intended Major: Political Science/History

GPA: 96.56 W/94.49 UW (95/98/99/104 W for high school)

School doesn’t rank/class of 91

SAT: 1530(800 M,730 CRW), 19 Essay

SAT II’s: Math II (800), WH (780), USH (770), Chem (750)

11 APs/17 In school

5 Honor Classes/9 (Couldn’t take 4 due to AP’s)

5’s on Chem (11), Calc AB(11), APUSH(11), APWH(10)

3’s on Spanish Lit(11), Spanish Lang(10)

Currently in Bio, APES, Calc BC, Lang, Macro

Dual Enrollment at local Uni in calc 2 (B+ currently)

Essay: 8/10, it’s about how Reddit has changed me

Recs: IDK, Should be good, one is from math teacher/tennis coach who I’ve been close with for 3 years, and other is from APUSH teacher in a class I was very motivated in (she said she was proud of me for being a Democrat since she is)

EC:

Intern with local Democratic Committee (June 2017-November 2017)

-Contact voters

-Help run events

Research w/ Local professor (June 2017-present)

-Is about the effectiveness of for-profit colleges

Bass Clarinet (All of HS)

First chair High School

Second Chair All-County (2016)

Second chair in Local band (2017, 2018)

Tennis (10,11,12)

-Varsity

All-League last year
Mathletes (10,11,12)

Third highest scorer on team

Treasurer (12)

Academic Team (9,10,11,12)

-Qualified for nationals three years in a row

-Main scorer

-2nd place in counties 9th grade

Science Olympiad (9,10)

4th,5th regional medals, 6th,7th,12th at states
Piano (9,10,11,12)

-Played at recital at local University

Drama (10,11,12)

-Played in pit orchestra for musical

Student Government (9,10)

-Class Secretary in 10th grade, helped plan Junior Prom

Honors:

National Honor Society

AP Scholar w/ Distinction

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Literally just saw this on Reddit lol

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@getmeoutofherexd, hopefully no where in your application to ILR did you mention you hoped to major in Political Science/History. At ILR there is only 1 major, Industrial and Labor & Relations.

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Nope I didn’t

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Can you guys chance me?
There are a lot of competitive people for Cornell and I hope I fall under that category.

Applied for Freshman Computer Science/Engineering
Desired specialized field (mentioned in essays): Cyber-Security

GPA 3.91UW 4.5W
ACT 32

Notable HS Courses: Honors Chem, Honors English 10, Spanish 2 (Freshman), Spanish 3 (Sophomore)
(No AP courses were available before Junior year at my high school)

Post Sophomore year I attended a Middle College Program and took these college courses:
Intro to C, Python Programming, Intermediate Algebra, Pre-Calc Algb and Trig, Linux Essentials 1, Analytical Geometry and Calc 1, Intro to Physics, Business Law 1, Analytical Geometry and Calc 2, Engineering Physics - Mechanics, Software Development with Java (IP), Multi-variable Calculus (IP), Linear Algebra (IP)

Solid Rec Letters from 2 Math professors,CEO of company I interned for, and Counselor

Essays: I feel they are the best I have written in my life

Leadership/EC’s:
600+ hours community service
Created a website for my temple
Captain of Youth U-19 Cricket Team
Founded 3 clubs: Film Club, LAN Club, Mission College Cycling Club
Former Director of Health and Safety Mission College
Current Commissioner of Technology
National Society of High School Scholars Student Ambassadors
Lead Programmer Robotics Team

Former Business Intern at Parle Innovation (Immersive Reality Startup)
Future intern at Xsette (cybersecurity firm)

Good Luck to everyone else!

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why don’t u wait til march 28 and see lol

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Make a different thread for chances sheesh

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I’m praying they send out likely letters soon… Don’t think I can wait til the end of the month!

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Anyone get an email about fin aid rn?

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@lnxight no and don’t read into it too much.

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I like to dream

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@lnxight no and don’t read into it too much.

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@lnxight I must have posted the same comment twice without noticing, sorry about that. What I mean is don’t take the fact that Cornell sends you an email about financial aid as a sign that you’re gonna be admitted ( But I wish it was true)

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@Inxight I got one this morning asking to provide very specific additional info. I know it doesn’t mean ANYTHING but I like to dream too LOL

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@MrElonMusk Yea no i get u. Just gotta pray at this point

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I think it’s a good sign. They have thousands and thousands of applications. Why would they take the time to remind YOU about forms that are missing for financial aid just to reject you.

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@tdd2015 On the Princeton RD thread some people were also asking whether the email about financial aid indicated anything and many said it used to but now it doesn’t

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I agree that you shouldn’t read a lot into a Finaid information request. DD got a verification request and then was deferred in the EA round at another school. We know people that got the same verification request and then were denied two weeks later. It was particularly crazy they asked us to verify because we only filed to be eligible for some merit awards, we had no serious belief that we’d be in contention for need based. Turns out you just get randomly selected due to federal govt requirements.

Missing forms and audit/verification are things that don’t take them a lot of effort to start. They can see a missing form, or that more info is needed during an initial review that may be done prior to admissions decisions being made or communicated to them. OR your app may have simply come up in the random selection for verification and it costs them virtually no effort to send you the request for the additional data. .

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I get it. And I know that financial aid and admissions are 2 different departments , but to request forms so late in the game for nothing? Likely letters should be coming out soon, maybe they want to give people an idea of what their package will look like early.
FYI- I didn’t get the email, so I hope it means nothing