You will do amazing !!
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Watch, I bet you get in. Show her the acceptance letter and hold it up in front of you. Stand there with a huge smile on your face while holding the letter.
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thank you. Besides how much I love the school, I really need the financial aid
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for everyone that submitted test scores, are they showing up on the checklist?
The only items that show up on the checklist are required items. So, your test scores won’t show up, even if you submitted them.
I am definelty going to be rejected from Cornell. I have a 3.66 UW gpa and the highest math class I took at my competitive high school is Pre-calculus
What major did you apply for. If its not Engg or Math / Physics, then you may still have a chance.
such a MOOD
My Child has applied to CALS and is still waiting for an alumni interview
Could you please share - what date did you apply and when did you receive the alumni interview?
Does anybody know when would they stop sending alumni interviews?
It’s usually the end of February but not sure if that will be extended this year since decision day was postponed.
Don’t fret about the interview. There is no report being submitted and holds no weight in the decision. Getting an interview or not is solely based on how many alumni are in your area, not the strength of the applicant.
If you have any questions, post them on CC and they’ll get answered!
Agree with this assessment and I think they are more concerned with the quality of your EC’s rather than the quantity - if you participated in something that is on point with your intended major that will be much more persuasive.
My son just received an interview request, but he was applying to College of Art and Science (CS major). I thought CAS doesn’t request interviews. Did anyone applying to CAS receive an interview request?
I’m applying to CAS and received an interview.
Oh. So he did not receive the invitation by mistake then. Thanks!!
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Yes, and the interview was never requested through the Cornell portal.
Thanks! I just searched a little and found an interesting article in Cornell Sun newspaper on the admission process.
So the first admission process is to screen applicants based on the grades and scores.
The second stage is EC, essays and recommendations.
If this is true, whoever receiving the interview invitation must have passed the first stage.
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The only school that has required interviews is Architecture. Everyone else is offered an alumni meeting based solely on availability of alumni in the area. The alumni volunteers making the assignments don’t ever see the application. We only get contact information, intended college and major. That’s it.
Alumni meetings are non evaluative. Not even a report is submitted this cycle.
Is this true? Interviewer can influence the admission?
I feel compelled to write on this topic. As a Cornell/Hopkins/Harvard alumnus, I have interviewed for Cornell for 26 years. I am also the alumni coordinator for my county, an affluent community in the Baltimore-Washington corridor. Both of my children are Ivy League alumni. I receive about 150 applications for students who are eligible for interviews annually in my county. Of those 150 candidates this year, about 20 will receive invitations to attend…
Every official contact with an elite school matters. Every official visit, every summer school course on the campus, every contact with a professor at the university matters. One dirty little secret of the Ivy League, and the other elite schools, is that they cannot possibly interview every person who is interested in attending. So, they make the interviews “informational”. Moreover, there is a tremendous variance in the quality of the alumni doing the interview. So, it is publicly treated as “off the record”. Privately, however, these encounters are different matter.
All of the elite schools are looking for optimum “yield”. They want to know that, if they accept a candidate, that candidate will attend their school, and not some other elite school. (Most candidates that get accepted at one elite school will probably be accepted at two or more). So, if you show a passion for one school, by visiting, by talking to alumni, and by attending alumni events and college fairs sponsored by your favorite school, understand that these impressions are being monitored, and that they enhance your chances of acceptance.
So, do informational interviews matter? Hell, yes! Don’t be an idiot. Your eagerness, your level of interest in the school, your passion for a particular field of study, make all the difference in your acceptance. Conversely, your lack of interest and knowledge is also noted.
In the past 10 years, not one student who met with my disfavor was accepted. This I attribute to the development of my knowledge in the university’s criteria, and in the school’s increasing trust in my judgment. They now know and trust my experience and expertise.
Most students will never get a chance to interview. This has more to do with the availability of local alumni than it does with your candidacy If you have an opportunity to make an impression on a school to which you would like to be accepted, don’t be an idiot. Don’t blow off the opportunity if you are one of those who gets the rare privilege to interview. Take it seriously.
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