@hf1234 congrats! I’m so excited for all of us. What’s your intended major at Cornell?
@jonesby hopefully ILR. I was looking over my supplement and found a typo…am i screwed?
@hf1234 Awesome. How bad is it? I personally don’t think it will affect your application too much if at all. Your typo pales in comparison to your overall application. I actually also made a typo in my supplement, but for another school. If it’s small enough, the admissions officer may not even see it. You should be fine, we’re all human and make mistakes.
i wrote grow instead of growth… ugh
@hf1234 You should be okay! In the context of your entire application, that’s a minuscule spec. I can’t see how something like that could rescind an application.
@jonesby yea hopefully they overlook it! btw are you applying from a private university or CC?
@hf1234 I’m applying from a CC to CAS for history. It’s been a humbling process and I mentioned that in my essay. It would mean the world if I was accepted, Cornell is my dream school. How about yourself?
ah, congratulations! Applying is the hardest part and I hope good results come your way. I’m applying from a private university-- my reason for wanting to transfer out is because I want a different major that’s more career focused
@hf1234 Thank you! I hope the same for you. It must take a lot lf courage to apply from a four year school. That’s a very good reason to transfer. Hopefully we hear back this coming November.
can anyone chance me? I applied to Cornell College of Arts and Sciences.
im currently at a top 20 school with 3.97GPA, transferring due to a change of interests.
My tests
SAT 2150 Math 2 + Chem 800
IB 43/45 no AP
average essays but I made a point to transfer.
Have TA experience, community service background throughout high school to college.
Also submitted a resume.
@Davemit I have to say your IB score looks impressive! You definitely seem to be qualified academics wise.
I’ve been lurking this thread hard-core for a few days but just now finally posting.
My anxiety is incredible. I’m a non-traditional student and single mother, and I didn’t apply to Cornell because it’s an Ivy League school, but because I love their program for my major of interest, Ithaca is a great place to raise my son, and I feel like I would fit in there. Plus, I have had to take out a lot of loans to get this far in my education, and I am really in need of decent financial aid - I’m a 0 EFC student. Cornell would really change the trajectory of my life.
I guess I’ll post my stats. I flunked my first semester of college 10 years ago and failed an Anthropology class last year while I was going through some really tough financial issues (as in, unable to feed myself to keep my son fed kind of issues). I got my A.S. in Paralegal Studies after that, then began finishing my prereqs for transferring/liberal arts AA. Then I had to withdraw from my entire semester last fall due to a comedy of errors that really left me struggling. But I’m back to all A’s, except for one B in Differential Equations (a summer class taken during a 6-week semester instead of 16 weeks. It was rough). I was also arrested for 2 misdemeanors back in 2012 after problems with my son’s abusive father, but that’s what got me to get my act together and try to make a decent life for my son and I. I’m in honors and PTK but taking honors classes is hard when I have to revolve them around my son’s school schedule & all the prerequisites for biology and statistics.
I have no clue if they will think I’m a lousy candidate or what. It’s hard to find people to compare to when your situation and history are as unique as mine.
Applied to: CAS
Major: Stat Science
HS GPA: 3.2 UW (could not have cared less in high school)
SAT/ACT: Never took 'em (see above)
College GPA: 3.7
Essays: I think anyone who tries to judge their own essays is ridiculous, but I was told by someone that mine were excellent. I’m pretty harsh on myself so I feel like they are not that great but who really knows?
Extra Curriculars: Single mom, so…
Raising my son
Housework
Cooking
Playing guitar (recreationally, I’m not very good, lol).
Hiking/camping
I had an ethics paper published in Jan. 2015
Symbolic Logic tutoring
Paralegal Internship
Worked as a legal secretary from 2010-2012.
Oh, and I also applied to:
U Rochester - Accepted
Binghamton - Accepted
CWRU - Should get my decision anytime (could be my 2nd choice if their FA package is substantially better than UR’s)
UM & UVa - I’ll find out in December
I was told by a CAS rep that they were going to try to have decisions out by Nov. 8 - can anyone confirm?
@mrsblaileen Good for you taking the initiative to turn your life around and shoot for a school like Cornell with all that’s happened in your life. I haven’t heard anything regarding when decisions will be released. The website says mid-November, so I suppose it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary to receive decisions on the 8th. I would be a little shocked though, as CAS is one of the more popular and competitive schools.
Does anyone know how many people typically gets accepted to CAS and what are the odds?
Has anyone been able to login into housing?
@Davemit I know getting into CAS is definitely rigorous, there are some stats online if you dig deep enough, but they need to be updated.
@jonesby haha omg no I haven’t tried. were you able to log in?
@hf1234 I wasn’t able to login. Were you? Historically, decisions don’t come out super early so I wouldn’t expect us to be able to login until later
@jonesby same here! let’s give it another week. I was looking at the previous year’s spring transfer thread and someone received a call on 11/6 if I’m remembering correctly.
@jonesby thanks. Five years ago I would have laughed myself into a coma if you had told me that one day I’d have the cojones to apply to an Ivy League school. I was surprised to hear that about CAS decisions as well. I have an offer I have to respond to by the 11th so I’ll be calling on the 8th if I don’t receive my decision by then. Past threads have traditionally been closer to the middle of the month, like the 17th or later. Maybe they don’t have many applicants this year? It’s impossible to know I guess.