well this is a bummer: Cornell Reduces Proportion of Students Admitted Through Early Decision Track - The Cornell Daily Sun
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This equity thing is American cancer. We already have so much generosity - if you have money, you pay full tuition, If you do not have, someone else will pay for you. What else damn equity people can ask? Other people are not responsible for anyoneâs inadequacy in any aspect. I am sick of this damn thing.
Furthermore, Cornell should have disclosed this earlier before application deadline since this policy change may have impact on which university an ED applicant applies for. There could be lawsuit consequences for this abrupt major policy change.
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Feeling wasted the ED chance. Should have applied ED to other.
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My son was so sad about this today. He feels like he also wasted his ED. I think this is why they sent out an email last week regarding ED process and requesting if you wanted to pull your application to contact them.
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I didnât get any idoc requests. Income $350k. Not expecting any aid. May be thatâs the reason no doc requests in idocs.
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I showed this to my daughter and she is very upset! why is it always me? âI did not have a middle school graduation due to covidâ, " i was locked at home for an entire damn year (CA school)" and now this? What is wrong with this world! Cornell may face legal challenge for this undisclosed hidden agenda. It wastes many studentsâ option for other EDs. I can not believe why Cornel discloses this at this time!
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me too. This is completely need-based socialism and people still complain about equity. it is amazing indeed.
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Hello, my stats: 3.88 unweighted 4.50 weighted GPA with a few B+âs but t mostly A or A+âs. 34 ACT. 2 varsity sports winning 2 back to back state championships. Had my own small business on the side while volunteering a ton. Do you think I got any chance getting into Nolan at ED? Bummer is I do not have hotel specific experience. Thank you so much!
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is your cycle selected is 2024-25 ?
We are in the same range and did get the request. It seems though that people who fall out of the range of need for financial aid are at a great advantage if they are limiting ED admits to wait and see how the FAFSA money falls.
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The acceptance process is completely separate from financial aid. Admissions is need blind.
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I saw that this morning⊠I wish I knew it, so I could have re-evaulated NYU vs cornell for ED. Well, too late nowâŠ
tell her that it is not just her. My son too. he was supposed to go on a graduation trip with his whole class to DC for a week before going to high school but the trip was cancelled and no refund. ($900). then, he was stuck at home in 9th grade and the school was poor and had no streaming technology (Zoom or etc). So, they recorded some videos. Thats it. he was googling and youtubing for information by himself. Then, it is part of their life. right ? every generation will have challenges.
Cornell has the right to conduct their admissions process however they choose. As they evaluate the applicants and notice that the current pool doesnât fit their institutional goals, they can adjust their process. If the âequityâ relates to mitigating the level of legacy admissions and/or opening up the pool to prospective students who are considering Cornell amongst other choices, as the article suggests, then the institution has the option to minimize that impact through ED if they want to.
I get the frustration that theyâve seemingly changed their calculus on ED admissions in the middle of this admissions cycle but talking about lawsuits etc⊠is just silly. If your student was a competitive candidate for Cornell admission before this âannouncementâ, they will still be one after it.
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pull the application but the deadline of ED had already passed. what is the point there? right?
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the point most people here disagreed with is that they could have announced it or something to educate interested students about possible changes of policy, so parents and students could have re-evaluated their ED options. My son and I were debating NYU vs Cornell and the ED admission rate was close enough. 27% vs 20%. Now, the 20% may become 10% or whatever.
âAs they evaluate the applicants and notice that the current pool doesnât fit their institutional goalsâ. Are you saying they changed it after looking at the applicants. I read the article, the discussion was like Oct⊠before the deadline of the ED.
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IMO, you shouldnât be using ED acceptance rate to pick your ED school. The ED numbers are skewed by recruited athletes, legacies, and other institutional priorities. The unhooked ED admission rate at NYU or any other school may be higher by a larger margin. My two cents.
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Weâre saving this article to show S24 if he doesnât get in ED. To put it all in perspective.
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If Cornell is your first choice it shouldnât matter. ED is not meant to be a used as a way to game the system.
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I know, i read about it too. legacy and sport took most of the spots. the truth was that we have visited many colleges (5 or 6) in new england and NY area. Then, he narrowed down to two of his top choices NYU and Cornell have the right program for him. Even I suggested Dartmouth, and he didnât like it. He could not decide which one and we even used a list of Pros and Cons to narrow down which one to use for ED. Anyway, it was the whole storyâŠ
I spoke with the admission officer in NYU when we visited there and we discussed my son background (GPA, SAT, activities and etc). it said that they got over 120K applications each year and the chance to get into NYU via regular decision is very difficult⊠he even suggested to apply for the liberal arts (2 years program) and will auto transfer to 4 years program after 2 years of liberal arts study. The average SAT there was 1530 (I know they were inflated since more than half people didnât submit SAT score). he even told me that the acceptance rate was like less than 10% in Regular⊠he suggested to use ED 1 or ED2âŠ
a very nice admission officer and very helpful. we picked cornell because NYU does not have a campus environment where Cornell campus was beautiful, etc⊠and PE is requirement which is good for my sonâŠ
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