That’s kind of odd that they specifically mentioned it in the email, where they also told us not to send anything else to them including LOCI, etc. I wonder if anyone from CoE submitted LOCI or else?
Hmm, yes it is. I would think if someone submitted anything else they are clearly going against what the CoE asked them to do and it would only look bad. But who knows, I dont think it said anything about having guidance counselors call so maybe people did that.
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The email specifically mentions no lobbying efforts. That means guidance counselor calls I believe. We respected that and did not ask guidance counselor to call. Hope that was right decision.
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My D22 got an email asking to confirm the waitlist interest. Did anybody else get this email?
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Could you tell us what does it say, plz?
Which school?
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College of Arts and Science
It is asking for continued waitlist interest. Also indicating that a confirmation of the interest means that one would accept an offer of admission if it were extended to them. Is this a good sign?
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Sounds like a good sign! When did your D submit LOCI and where are you from?
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I saw somewhere on Reddit saying that in 2020 some A&S waitlists got the same email except theirs have an additional statement that “they are in a group of students on the top of our list”
folks, why I found that 2026 class, cornell only admiited 4908 students, while 2025 class was 5836. That’s 900+ cut. Any clue why cornell did this? Can we say, this year Off-WL of Cornell may get boosted?
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I heard that Cornell had a housing problem last year. Maybe that’s why they admitted less students for fall 2022.
My daughter did not and also applied to the college of arts and sciences. Seems like a great sign for your daughter!!
I agree - it definitely seems like a very good sign.
The follow up question for the forum (which many must have) is whether anyone has been accepted from the waitlist in the prior 1-2 years who did NOT receive this email?
I guess it could also be the case that students who submitted their loci and waitlist response before April 10 got this re- confirmation email？(April 10 was the waitlist reply ddl and A&S need to reconfirm students’ interest in waitlist activities). Idk how that works but at least it’s a good sign that A&S will be taking some students off this year (seems like last year no one received that email) and your D is contacted proactively by the college 
Anybody know if CALS is starting to take people off the waitlist?
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We are from Maryland. And she submitted her LOCI post April 10th date. It was mid April I believe.
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For CoE, did anyone get an update email in mid-April as they indicated in the separate email as below?
In mid-April, we will send you an update on the status of the wait list.
I did some research about Cornell admits/enroll data.
2025:
admits: 5852. enroll: 3765. Yield: 64%
2026:
admits: 4908. enroll: TBD. Yield: x%.
If x = 64, then, enroll would be: 3141.
Then look back all Cornell historical data, seem to me that they wanna cut the enroll back to 3300-. 2021(last year)'s 3765 is too high.
History data:
2021: 3765
2020: 3249
2019: 3189
2018: 3295
2017: 3349
2016: 3315.
Hence, I predict that this year, Cornell will use WL to control yield and bring more kids off the WL.
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Great info, thank you!
Do you have yearly Admitted numbers before 2025 as well?