Cornell University Official Class of 2011 Early Decision Results

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<p>Decision: Accepted to CAS!!!</p>

<p>Stats:
* ACT: 33
* SAT IIs: SUPER LOW!!!!! (this might give RD people hope). Lit- 680, US hsitory- 650
*GPA: 3.96w...don't know what it is unweighted
* Rank: 12/285 (top 4%)
* Other stats: don't feel like typing out
Subjective:
* Essays: really good and original. Common app essay was verrrrry clever in incorporating Cornell and Ithaca into it without sounding cheesy.
* Teacher Recs: one good...one bleh
* Counselor Rec: decent
* Hook (if any): I live in Mississippi, but I was the chapter starter of my school's Young Democrats of America (which I guess is unique since MS is mega republican hardcore), I am also the founder and president of my school's Asian cultural society (I guess that set me apart too since I am trying to promote racial tolerance and knowledge in a place where it's often too homogenous). I've also lived basically all over the world (so international exposure...talked about that a lot in my essay).</p>

<p>Location/Person:
* State or Country: Mississippi
* School Type: public
* Ethnicity: Chinese
* Gender: Female
Other Factors:
Lots of extracurriculars that express my broad range of interests. For an Asian, I'm very liberal artsy. I am on the school debate team (secretary). Lots of leadership positions. Community involvement etc...participated/organized the first international week at my school. Some work experinces as waitress and as a model for Hollister...Governor's school during the summer....I dunno...I'm sure I had more but I can't think right now.
General Comments: COOOOOL! Good luck RDers!</p>

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<p>*Decision: Accepted! to CAS *</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 770 Verbal, 800 Math, 690 Writing
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math2C, Chem, Physics, Mandarin 800s
[<em>] GPA: 3.63 UW
[</em>] Rank: top 5-10%
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Kinda generic in a way, but won' t say it's dat bad.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: No idea, probably good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: No idea, probably even better
[<em>] Hook (if any): Math Sciences geek.. AIME 7, AMC 127, Physics Bowl 2nd place in Region, Chem 27th in Gr11 Canada
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: BC, Canada
[<em>] School Type: Public, Pretty competitive IB
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul]Other Factors: My ECs are just average, and I wont expect the recs to be very personal either. I think my strong upward trend and good math sciences pulled me in.
General Comments: Thank god No More App Essays + Anxiety, they are driving me Insane. Good to know that I am going somewhere XD..</p>

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<p>Wow, basically everyone got accepted! Congrats from a Penn class of 2011'er.</p>

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<p>Yeah did neone get rejected? I hope it wasn't a mistake. . .</p>

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<p>It's not unusual to see a high percentage of CCers get accepted, especially ED. Check out the Penn decision thread and you'll see the same thing. CCers are already more qualified than the average applicant and I'm guessing no one who got rejected from Cornell yesterday is dying to post on CC right now.</p>

<p>BTW: Congratulations to eveyrone who got in. Prepare to work your @$$ off next year. It's not unusual to see 0.5-1.0 drops in GPAs from HS to freshman year of college.</p>

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<p>Accepted (CAS)</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 710 Verbal, 800 Math, 620 Writing
[</em>] SAT IIs: 790 Physics, 750 Math IIC
[<em>] GPA: Does not use GPA system
[</em>] Rank: N/A
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I thought it was pretty good
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Fantastic
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Great
[li] Hook (if any):[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Been lurking around this forum for a long time, this is my first post, glad that its a good one.</p>

47

<p>*Decision: ACCEPTED COE!!!! *</p>

<p>Stats:[list]
[<em>] SAT: 2150, then 2190 (770M,690R,740W,12E)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 physics, 770 M2c, 740M1c, 640CHem
[<em>] GPA: 95.2
[</em>] Rank: like 65/600 (i know right, im so freaken suprised)
[<em>] Other stats:
[list][ b]Subjective:[list]
[</em>] Essays:(wrote in 20 mins, dident show to any1, but i tend to write 12 essays on standarized tests, so i guess they might have been good
[<em>] Teacher Recs:AMAZINGS
[</em>] Counselor Rec:~eh?
[<em>] Hook (if any): Huge upward trend, self study ap tests, 100s senior year
[list]Location/Person:Commack, NY (5 people to cornell so far!!!)[list]
[</em>] School Type: medium public (IB SChool)
[<em>] Ethnicity:caucasian (its the asian in it that got me to work hard)
[</em>] Gender: male baby!
[list]Other Factors: Summer research, bunch of clubs**
General Comments:WOW no sports or instruments or theather, im suprised!... wow im just sooooooo soooooo sooooo hapyy. cornell 20111 !!! yeah thats right in not graduating for another 17000 years or so, i wanna hang out at cornell that much!</p>

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<p>im a newb.... one more try
*Decision: ACCEPTED COE!!!! *</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2150, then 2190 (770M,690R,740W,12E)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 physics, 770 M2c, 740M1c, 640CHem
[<em>] GPA: 95.2
[</em>] Rank: like 65/600 (i know right, im so freaken suprised)
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays:(wrote in 20 mins, dident show to any1, but i tend to write 12 essays on standarized tests, so i guess they might have been good
[<em>] Teacher Recs:AMAZINGS
[</em>] Counselor Rec:~eh?
[<em>] Hook (if any): Huge upward trend, self study ap tests, 100s senior year
[/ul]Location/Person:Commack, NY (5 people to cornell so far!!!)[ul]
[</em>] School Type: medium public (IB SChool)
[<em>] Ethnicity:caucasian (its the asian in it that got me to work hard)
[</em>] Gender: male baby!
[/ul]Other Factors: Summer research, bunch of clubs
General Comments:WOW no sports or instruments or theather, im suprised!... wow im just sooooooo soooooo sooooo hapyy. cornell 20111 !!! yeah thats right in not graduating for another 17000 years or so, i wanna hang out at cornell that much!</p>

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<p>Decision: ACCEPTED CoE!</p>

<p>Stats:
• SAT:2030
• SAT IIs:Chem 720 Math2 740
• GPA: 4.0
• Rank: 5/102
• Other stats:
Subjective:
• Essays: pretty good I'd say. Engineering one more passionate.
• Teacher Recs: Dunno- hopefully good
• Counselor Rec: seems like she likes me so again hopefully good.
• Hook (if any): none maybe being international and well traveled, or my athletics or my passion of music- I'm one of 8 percussionists chosen from around the world for the International Band Concert being held in Luxemburg this spring. Or is that not a hook? maybe not!!!!!
Location/Person:
• State or Country: Saudi Arabia
• School Type: private
• Ethnicity: Pakistani
• Gender: Male
General Comments: Cornell! Yeah baby!!!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>[ size=+3][ color=blue][ b]Decision:[ /b][ /color][ /size] Accepted: College of Human Ecology</p>

<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT: 2080
[ *] SAT IIs:790, 650, 650, 690, 680
[ *] GPA:3.97
[ *] Rank:9/306
[ *] Other stats: ---
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays:pretty good, altough I only showed my supplement essay to one teacher and made only one revision and wrote it only the day before.
[ *] Teacher Recs: i sent three and read 2 of them- both amazing. I couldn't believe my teacher actually see me as that kind of a person. Even though I didn't read the last rec, I knew it would have been good as well because my english teacher loved me last year.
[ *] Counselor Rec: must have been very...very generic.
[ *] Hook (if any):None.
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country:CT
[ *] School Type:Public
[ *] Ethnicity:Asian (surprised that didn't keep me out)
[ *] Gender:F
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]
[ b]General Comments:[ /b] I ACTUALLY DID IT!!!!!!!!! MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted - CALS</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: Math - 760, Reading - 750, Writing - 690
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math II - 760, World History - 780, Chem - 760
[<em>] GPA: 4.0/4.0
[</em>] Rank: No class rank, but I'm tied for Valedictorian right now
[li] Other stats: 6 AP Tests, all 5's - Chemistry, World History, US Gov/Pol, English Language, Statistics, Computer Science AB[/li]National Merit Semifinalist
[/ul]</p>

<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Really good; a spin on a cliche topic.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Stellar
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Not too sure; I wouldn't be surprised if she confused me for another student with a nearly identical name.
[</em>] Hook (if any): I want to major in Atmospheric Science, and it just so happens that I actually work professionally in that field already, doing programming for companies that contract work with NOAA and doing work at the National Weather Service.
[/ul]</p>

<p>Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Kentucky
[</em>] School Type: Public, MOST competitive (#8 for total number of NMSF this year)
[<em>] Ethnicity: White (Jewish)
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]</p>

<p>Other Factors:
Extracurriculars:
Eagle Scout,
over 300 Hours Community Service, with about 1/3 with me in charge as project coordinator,
Captain of my high school's Varsity Quiz Bowl Team (competes at NAQT HS NC and PACE every year, placed 7th and 12th in the past 2 years)
Assistant Concertmaster of the Louisville Youth Orchestra,
Violin for 10 years - (not competitive with it, but play for fun, make it to All-State, stuff like that, featured on From the Top w/ my orch)
President of my high school's Young Democrats club for two years, extremely politically active,
Not active in research, but competitor with some intriguing un-mentored projects at the local/state level (last year with a partner, we used evolutionary programming to evolve algorithms that could perform pattern recognition on EEG data, if we had a mentor we probably could've been even more successful than we were),
Work as a programmer for a local IT company,
Unique major - Atmospheric Science,
Volunteer/work at the National Weather Service's local office,
Varsity Swimmer at my High School,
there's more, but these are the big ones</p>

<p>General Comments: I'm very pleased with this outcome; See you all on campus!</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted CAS</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1940 (660/650/630)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 770 - World History, 740 Chem, 660 Math Level I
[<em>] GPA: ~97/100 UW (Not sure of exact decimal and my school doesn't weight)
[</em>] Rank: Not given
[<em>] Other stats: ACT 30
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Great I think (My English teacher liked them). I decided to not go straight forward in the supplement and actually used the change in Andy Roddick's tennis game over the past year as a metaphor for my intellectual interests.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Amazing (At least the one I was able to read, but the other had to have been good since the other teacher is known for great ones and I had a 100 average in his class)
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Assuming it's good since she always seemed impressed with me.
[<em>] Hook (if any): 7.5 years of martial arts maybe. Possibly that my school has a lot of success sending kids to Cornell.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: New York (Albany region)
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul]Other Factors: EC's: Cross-country, tennis, martial arts, Key Club, tutoring, NHS, Masterminds, Model UN Vice-President, and band for 7 years. I'm also a first generation college student.
General Comments: I know for sure Cornell is the place for me and I'm excited to have gotten in.</p>

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<p>Hey how come the decision was on the website last night...but now its not?</p>

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<p>Instead of going directly to the decision, you now have to click "Check Your Decision" in the middle of the page after you login.</p>

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<p>wow congrats too all those that got accepted...which is everyone apparently...lol see you guys didnt even have to be going crazy</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted to engineering</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1570, 2290
[</em>] SAT IIs:790 math II, 780 Japanese, 770 chemistry
[<em>] GPA:99.97 weighted
[</em>] Rank:13th out of 323
[<em>] Other stats:Good ECs?
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: One good, rest okay
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Probably good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Probably generic but good
[<em>] Hook (if any): Well-rounded, maybe?
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: New York
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments: I can't believe it... I'm ecstatic... good luck to RDers!</p>

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<p>i am kind of stupid and not knowing how to post stats, can anyone give me a hint how to use it???</p>

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<p>*Decision: ACCEPTED - CAS (Biological sciences) *</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2080 (740 math 680 CR 660 Write 11 essay)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 chinese 780 math level 1 760 biology M
[<em>] GPA: 4.8/6.3
[</em>] Rank: 200/1023
[<em>] Other stats: philosophy club, snowboard and ski club, senior computer tutoring, a summer internship, a job..... nothing major, did not cure cancer and told them about it in a supp essay
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: hmm i liked it, it was definitely not an average essay because i basically told a story instead of just saying what im good at. the subtle message probably went through
[<em>] Teacher Recs: didn't see it
[</em>] Counselor Rec: didn't see it, but she hated me. when i asked what i got for course rigor, she said she gave me a 3/5, this is when im taking physics, advanced biology AND chemistry 2 all in the same year and because of double labs, i dont even have lunch on some days.
[<em>] Hook (if any): nope not any
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: PA (but am canadian, so international)
[<em>] School Type: just a plain old large public
[</em>] Ethnicity: asian
[li] Gender: male[/li][/ul]Other Factors: Im very capable and that showed in the interview, thats all i can say for myself in this situation. My 'crappy' GPA and rank was not due to my low grades, but rather a very complex and confusingly weird weighing system that my school uses to evaluate high school transfer students ( i came from Canada to the states starting my junior year and all the credits i took before i came here was weighed VERY low)
General Comments: i hope everyone here will be sucessful at cornell!!!!!~~~~~`</p>

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<p>*Decision: ACCEPTED TO CAS *</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2100 (740W/690R/670M)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 760 Spanish, 660 US, horrible world history
[<em>] GPA: 3.9
[</em>] Rank: top 15%
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Really funny and unique.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Amazing. They've both known me for a long time.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: We're really close. She's written great recs for me before.
[<em>] Hook (if any): URM, national achievement scholar, first generation college student
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Upstate New York
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: African
[li] Gender: Female[/li][/ul]Other Factors: leadership, 450+ volunteering hours, went to cornell's multicultural thing. who knows?
General Comments: So glad I'm in! I can rip up those other college apps! ahhh</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted, CAS</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 770 CR, 690 M, 740 W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 740 US, 730 Lit, 720 French
[<em>] GPA: 3.96 UW, 4.02 W
[</em>] Rank: 17 of 205
[<em>] Other stats: APUSH (5), AP English Lang (5)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Creative, interesting, about a club I created called "The Society of Freaks."
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Through the roof.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Very effusive, except that I found someone else's name in it; therefore, I think some must be a template.
[<em>] Hook (if any): None.
[/ul]Location/Person: Twin Cities, MN[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: USA
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian-American
[li] Gender: Female[/li][/ul]Other Factors: I'm a high school junior applying one year early. My cousin, who's an alumni rep, wrote me a recommendation, and I attended Harvard SSP.
General Comments: Sixteen and going to college, WOOHOO! No more high school!</p>