@grundeis I am not familiar with any statistics or the reddit thread you referred to, but I believe that Cornell admitted close to 700 fewer people than last year. How is it then, that Arts and Sciences may not take waitlists this year, as I know many people (including from my school) got off the A&S waitlist last year?
How are 2019 admits chosen differently from regular A&S waitlist admits??
Are they like “weaker” applicants? How are they chosen in general over the actual 2018 waitlist admits?
@grundeis I think they chose the 2019 admits as the strongest applicants who have opted for spring (checked the box on the waitlist response form). Fall 2018 admits would be among those who may not have checked that box.
NB: I mentioned earlier that one of my family members had emailed Cornell regarding the waitlist process. They replied to him saying that I will receive admission decision by “mid-May” for the A&S waitlist. So lets see.
OMG so if we checked 2019, but I really really want to come in 2018!
The only reason I checked off 2019 is to have a second, backup chance to go to Cornell…
Is it almost impossible to get into 2018 now?
@grundeis wow so I was looking at your old posts and your creds were quite impressive. And even you got waitlisted? Where have you committed as of now?
I’ve heard they rarely ever offer internationals a spot in the spring session and if they do they dont give them aid. Does anyone know if that’s true?
I don’t want to publicly disclose information about my commitment, but I didn’t get into a single “private” school that I applied to with:
1590 SAT; 35 ACT; 3.84 UW GPA; 800 Math2; 800 Physics; ISEF 4-time consecutive Finalist (qualifying from Bay Area regional), Regeneron National Scholar (top-300), Published peer-reviewed article as sole author, Internships at Stanford and Berkeley, 2 patents pending, 5-time California state science fair qualified with 1st, 2nd, 3rd placements.
@grundeis - If I have to guess, I think it is because you didn’t have ECs outside of academic. I looked back on your posts and didn’t see any listed.
UCLA is a great school. Congrats. CA schools are very competitive and are more stats driven.
@oldfort Um I don’t really agree with that…? Is this nothing except “academic”?
Piano, singing (including multiple concerts as part of a Boychoir together with a professional symphony), 2 youtube channels, president/vp of 2 clubs, built 3 websites, swim team…also studied in two high schools in two countries simultaneously for 11 years…
As I posted, I only read your posts, not your application. I know this is all moot at this point, but out of curiosity, did you list any volunteer/community work? Any ECs you listed above were for the benefit of others?
@grundeis are you an international student? Your profile is quite impressive
Someone please do post on this thread if you get off the Cornell Arts and Sciences waitlist for Fall 2018. Thanks.
@grundeis Are you an ORM? Practically the only reason I can think of why you didn’t get into any privates
There are thousands of top notch students that don’t get into upper tier schools. I’m still unsure how I feel about the vagueness of a waitlist but it’s not my call to make.
My own son: 36 ACT, 1530 SAT, National Merit Finalist. UW4.0 at highly competitive public HS, he’s in the top 5% of his class. 270 volunteering hours with President’s Award for volunteering twice plus many local awards. Class D ranked fencer, soccer player for over 10. US nationality. 780 Math 2 and I forgot what his physics score was. 7 AP taken. Sings in select school choir (4 years), sings at local church choir too. Officer of Science Olympiad team (too small of a team to go past regionals). Won a medal in all three years of competing, with each year a higher medal (silver this year in remote sensing). 4 year member school trebuchet team. Essay was strong, one recommender let his read that letter and it was also strong. Not a person of color, not first generation, does have financial need. Attended national science conference, regional study programs.
My son got waitlisted at Cornell and at Carnegie Mellon. There was an outright no from Johns Hopkins… He will probably end up going to our flagship university for physics with the three scholarships they are giving him. Unless we hear from Cornell, of course. He said no to CMU.
You could easily fill the ivies with all valedictorians and have to turn away 3x more. On the Cornell tour, they even said that they could kick out every accepted student and refill the class from the waitlist and statistically it would be exactly the same. I just have to assume that they already took enough kids like my son from our region and although he looks steller to me, he’s pretty much the standard applicant for Cornell.
I can’t find the stats yet for Cornell, but here is Harvard for this admission cycle: “The 6,630 students who applied early were accepted at a 14.5 percent rate, while only 2.43 percent of regular-decision applicants were offered admission.”
@ificanyoucantoo i got a call from human ecology saying the same thing yesterday, but I have not received an email yet, have you?
@flowergirl667 what major are you in human ec? And congratulations!
Has anybody heard anything about SHA waitlist?
Has anyone been accepted from CAS for Spring 2019? If not, I think the Spring Admission wave should come out on Monday
@NYCSenior I haven’t heard anything back. I’m getting anxious lol
It’s weird how we haven’t seen anyone get into CAS off the waitlist for Fall 2018. In the email I got from them, they explicitly said CAS for Fall 2018 is already full.