If your child was accepted ED, and is in the admitted students group chat, please remind them that all of them are admitted, and begin in the same place…as freshmen. It doesn’t matter when anyone was accepted (ED, RD, TO, etc), they are all now Cornell class of 2023.
Our son applied to Cornell engineering to enter fall 2011. He has a great grandparent who graduated from there in 1906. Our college counselor said that for any legacy to be considered, he would have to apply ED. Cornell doesn’t like to be back-up and neither do most schools.
Hey, Cornell Computer Science senior here in the college of engineering. If any of the accepted students have any questions, feel free to ask!
He will attend UVA
@CornENgCS Since you offered. My son is admitted into College of Engineering, intended major: Comp Sci. Two questions: (1) when do student declare major, or are they assigned to major right away? (2) What are the conditions of admission (“your admission is conditional…”)? Say, for Berkeley, I know, the conditions are to get the high school diploma and to have no more than 2 "C"s in the senior year. For Virginia Tech - just get the diploma. What are those for Cornell?
@CornENgCS Hi, just wondering how difficult is it to transfer from CAS to Engineering?
Is there a group for Human Ecology TO students?
Are there any other Spring Admits out there??
Hey, I got into CoE at Cornell. I was wondering if I should do the Prefreshmen Summer Program (PSP). its like taking classes before 1st semester, but from what I’ve heard its not the greatest and there’s a stigma attached to people who do the program. I was wondering whether I should do it or not
This opinion is just based on my own research but I thought that program was mostly for kids coming from high schools that may not have offered some of the math and science APs or electives that most engineering students would have had. Especially math since the expectation for freshmen is that they’ve already taken Calc 1 before matriculating.
@ElenaParent To answer your first question, you don’t have to declare your major until the end of your sophomore year, but if you want you can declare earlier if you fulfill all the requirements, and those requirements can be found in the engineering handbook on the Cornell Engineering website. For your second question, when I got in they didn’t specify any conditions, but you have to fulfill your high school requirements and graduate on time.
@Micc It’s actually not too difficult, I know friends who transferred to engineering and it was straight forward if you take the required courses which you can ask one of the advisors in the engineering college at Cornell about.
@isxxco I did the Pre-freshmen summer program, and I can tell you that this is the biggest myth that there is a stigma associated with those kids. It in fact is really beneficial because it gives you a head start with Cornell academics and going into fall you’ll be more prepared than a lot of kids. It will also give you really good connections with the advisors, who can help you with a lot of things. I don’t think you have an option if your chosen you have to do the program, and I think you should definetly do it.
I was not required to do it actually, I was invited to it. Speaking to a sophomore there, I heard it was for people with not the strongest application. My application in my opinion was not weak but for CoE, it was probably bottom half, but it is not the strongest either. But, I was invited, not required to do it. I’ve heard people saying it is not really worth it so I’m wondering if it is.
Hey, for those who got admitted, did you get the paper package in the mail yet?
Got it yesterday. The t shirt came also. So fast!
@isxxco not sure, but from what I’ve read on reddit I think those who are required have a better financial deal for it and it’s kind of expensive and not so worth it if you have to pay.
You might want to find out about costs as part of the decision making.
Has anyone heard back about the Cornell Commitment programs? The release date says early April…
Ok so right now cornell’s CoA for me is about $29k/yr and its my top choice school and my second choice is $24.7k/yr. I was wondering whether I should contact the financial aid office about getting more aid because my family does not want to pay more than $30k/yr and im sure Cornell’s CoA is going to go up to $30k/yr/ Considering that I already got about $47k/yr in aid, should I appeal? And if so, on the basis that I really want to go and money is tight and the next best offer is $24 - $25k/yr? I was wondering this
Did any of you who are in the West Coast get the welcome packet? We are still waiting.