Thank you I have my fingers crossed for you all! I received the email 1pm Pacific Time, so 4pm EST. No financial aid yet, the email said I would receive finaid offer ASAP after I receive the official admission offer in the cornell portal.
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I took a read of your previous posts. Seems that you got the email from CoE on May 3rd for âContinue Interestâ confirmation, and got the offer today(May 12th). Is that right?
Thatâs right. I submitted the interest confirmation form yesterday.
yesterday??? I saw you asked the question on May 3, nine days ago. OK, so, you got the âInterest Confirmationâ email from CoE yesterday or the day before yesterday(May 10th), then you confirmed it yesterday (May 11th). Then you got the OFFER today(May 12th). Correct?
Yep as I said I submitted the form yesterday but received the email with the link earlier
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Thatâs interesting. CoE did not specify a deadline for you to finish the online form?
BTW, seems that CAS does not use form, but simply an email and ask kids reply the email for confirmation purpose.
That is interesting. My daughter received the email last week and she sent her essay the same date (C0E), but we have not received any other information.
My best wishes for you Signsea22.
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Same here @Moj1. Son sent his statement back the same day he got the email (May 3) and has not heard anything yet. With others getting an offer the day after they submitted I guess that is not a good sign.
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I donât understand your reply. Sarwat_Siraj above said accepted to CALS. So I was asking what major.
Please hang in there. You never know. Maybe a different Engineering Majors have different people reviewing the essays. Good luck to your son.
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There was no deadline, just asked for response as soon as possible. I wasnât going to submit it, just did it late on a whim.
Thank you I think you are right. The admissions director followed up with an email with some soundbites about the specific department I wrote about and mentioned he noted which majors I checked off on the original application and the waitlist form. So I think people get admitted from the waitlist to fill certain niches. Best of luck!
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The admission officerâs follow up email was before or after the admission offer email ? And So had you checked off slightly different majors on original and waitlist forms ?
I was replying to someone else about CAS.
Yep I recall checking off a few different ones on the original app, but only one for the waitlist form. The follow-up was after the email, once I had accepted the offer.
I actually am bit confused by WL movement. For example, I saw several parents are saying that their kids finished the INTEREST form/email on May 3rd, but still wait for updates from admission office, while we kept seeing some other kids got in off the WL. My question:
When started processing the WL on May 2nd, the admission office should have had the rough idea of how many spots they have, correct? For example, 100 for this year. Then they will carefully review the top candidates and send exactly 100 interest letters out, or they will play safe: send 150 interest letters? Ideally, they can NOT do so. The reason is simple: They will screw up if they get 101 interest back while they only have 100 spots. And if they get 149 interested back, AO will become crazy. Correct? So, they have to follow the algorithm: have n spots; review and pick n WL candidates as the first wave. Correct?
After the n offer letters being sent out, maybe someone, after 5 days, did NOT enroll. Then, AO can figure out the size of second wave, along with some other tiny spots, for example, some kids drop after getting in MIT from MIT WL. So, they can define the second waveâs size, say, m. Then they pick m WL candidatesâŠ
Does this make sense? But I could not explain why some kids still wait for offer after May 3rdâŠ's interest confirmation.
Most schools approach their WL on a rolling basis. If they need 100 kids, they contact 100 kids. At many schools, this contact will be a phone call and they will ask if the kid plans to attend if they are given an offer. If yes, they will get the offer and have a relatively short time in which to pay the deposit. The schoolâs goal is to fill those places ASAP, so if only 75 kids of the ones called are still interested, they will call another 25.
This isnât a yield exercise for them. While the mechanics and process can vary from school to school, they need to fill those 100 spots with a fair deal of attention. So if they needed 75 boys and 25 girls and in their calls, only the boys said yes, that remaining 25 - round 2 of calls â will be all girls.
At the same time, a handful of students who had accepted spots at this school may get WL offers from schools they like better. So now this school has 10 more spots to fill. And letâs say these are all boys. This is why they couldnât release all the boys from the WL - even though it looked earlier like they werenât needed. This is where the much smaller extended WL comes in and where many kids will be told they are are released while some will remain on the list.
Realize that while this example is boys and girls, IRL it also includes FA need, major or academic focus, EC, etc. At smaller schools, there is probably more precision at play.
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Is your child accepting Cornell offer?
we confirmed the interest email from CAS. but no official offer arrived yet. Hope will come tmr or next week. bit anxious. Thatâs why I am discussing the WL processing model.
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Got it. In the very first wave for CAS, the kids got offers after they confirmed interest at different times.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/uf168g/received_an_email_regarding_the_cornell/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
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