i think they will be taking as many people OOS as they can because that means more money for them @FallAutumnLeaf
@newyorkerinCT congrats! What time did you get the email?
Damn I got that email last week as well for CAS, guess it didnāt mean anything.
That was really unprofessional of Cornell to send that email to so many waitlisted applicants. They could be under heavy fire for that.
does anyone know if CAS or Cornell in general has regional quotas, so did they mean to say āyouāre at the top of our listā in XYZ state and if and only if someone nearby you doesnāt accept their offer only then will you be accepted? (also, please donāt take my rants the wrong way, Iām truly excited for all that got in, but Iām also very confused atm)
Nah I feel you. That was really messed up for getting so many peopleās hopes up.
I agreeā¦ do you guys think that CAS is done now?
Given that they are reaching out to selected candidates by email, I think they would have written to everybody in the first wave. They are also giving a lot of time to pay deposit going by the email (~2 weeks), so it feels like even if they came back with more, it will not be until later.
I think there is still a fair chance itās not over. It makes no sense that they would sent the email and then reject most of us. If they were going to do that, including the phrase ātop of our waitlistā in the email would be completely unnecessary.
I dont know about you guys but I am a little suspicious about CAS coming out today. As of right now, Iāve only seen ONE person admitted off the waitlist from Reddit or CC. It is odd that I canāt seem to find any other posts about the CAS waitlist.
Before I get depressed about not getting in, Iām gonna wait for a few more to confirm it was today or that the wave is done with.
itās possible that cas saw an unexpectedly high yield rate which meant less people were admitted off the waitlist. but itās honestly so depressing for them to get my hopes up like that though. i hope they didnāt just use ātop of the listā to draw in more interested applicants to the pool
ive seen one person on reddit get off for cas and one person on cc get off for cas. Maybe its the same person, maybe it is not. But we should wait for more.
@thejunechild maybeā¦ but they did begin accepting waitlist applicants before May 1st which doesnāt indicate a high yield
But why would anyone fake getting pulled from the waitlist?
I donāt think anyone faked it. Maybe that applicant was special. It does seem weird that Cornell would start humec dyson AND cas on the same dayā¦
all the colleges at cornell operate differently and attract different kinds of students so perhaps the liberal arts college (cas) at Cornell attracted more people this year. very unpredictable : (
To be fair, the letter posted by @newyorkerinCT seems totally legit.
Happy for his kid, and hoping for the best for the rest of us on the ātop of the listā.
Yeah lol I never said they faked itā¦
Iād imagine after sending that email to what seemed like a significant number of kids theyād accept more kids off the waitlist or AT LEAST weād hear from more kids
Yeah, I donāt see how one person, getting in (who got the email btw) automatically means the email meant nothing. Waitlists are usually read off piecemeal, so thereās no reason to think the āwaveā is done, especially considering the fact that, out of the entire forum dedicated to the Class of 2024 Cornell Waitlist, only one user from CAS has been accepted so far. For all any of us know, there could be emails coming in later today, tomorrow or later in the week.
We shouldnāt immediately jump to the conclusion that the email was meaningless. Also, itās probably not true that the email was sent to very many people based on this forum alone, which typically attracts a more competitive student (i.e., one more likely to be on the top of the waitlist). For this reason, itās far more likely that this forum represents a disproportionately dense group of email recipients compared to the overall waitlist population.
In short, donāt abandon all hope over one person getting into CAS. That doesnāt mean anything more than that CAS has started reading off the waitlist in earnest. I know itās agonizing, Iām glued to my phone, refreshing my email every two minutes, and my hopes are astronomical after receiving the email but, we all just have to hang on for a little while longer.
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