<p>edit: Nevermind, I'll just wait the two days like the rest of us.</p>
<p>I don't know if anyone wants to be held responsible for giving you the link... I wonder if they've hidden the page by now?</p>
<p>edit: Nevermind, I'll just wait the two days like everyone else.</p>
<p>Hmm. It never hurts to be on the safe side of things. You'll find out in two days anyway. Patience, eh? ;)</p>
<p>has anyone called the admissions office?</p>
<p>Yes, I did. Check the other thread for post.</p>
<p>thanks schoolduh0610</p>
<p>lol... np. I'm still kinda scared. ok, this is what my screenshot has of the "HELP is this for real? w t f says i got in"</p>
<p>dakdakdakdak2000: I took this link from someone elses thread and it shows me a page that has my name and says i got in. Does anyone else get that. PLEASE let me know i am desprate. her is the link:
<link> (I'm not actually going to post the link...)</p>
<p>Bklyn2Cornell: omg! i got it too! it says "they havent made a decision yet on my application" HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE!?</p>
<p>Bklyn2Cornell: OMG,WAT DOES THIS MEAN>!>>!! stop scaring me!</p>
<p>**Note to both posters, I included the typos not to mock you guys but to show how nervous you guys were at the time...</p>
<p>uh btw i just tried to go to the link again to see whether or not theyve disabled it yet... and it doesnt work</p>
<p>I'm tempted, but I think I'll just wait until Thursday or until I hear back... if I hear back...</p>
<p>What do you mean by it doesn't work?</p>
<p>I really don't suggest anybody try the link anymore... it was frustrating enough last night.</p>
<p>i tried, it doesnt work, it goes back to the login page, its done with. They posted a letter on the website. </p>
<p>Now, people, imagine THIS. We are a very minute group of students correct? Those who clicked that link (including myself) are probably numbering less than 50. Even 100 is small. However, thats 100 out of over 3000 people nationwide! Imagine, out of all people, WE cause a riot at Cornell, and we cause a nationwide panic about this. If you think about it, it really is amazing wat happened.</p>
<p>kaka so in a sense, we are heroes.</p>
<p>What the people who clicked the link did was not in any way heoric. And I bet anyone who did click it and find out their decision regrets having ever done so, mostly because of the stress it might've caused. Thank god reasonable people (aka not sparticus800) work in the admissions office. Sparticus' speculation and eagerness to shoot down other peoples' reassuring posts was obnoxious.</p>
<p>lol, he was only speculating....it was understandable...i didnt get my decision yet...it said "not yet ready" for me</p>
<p>I don't think sparticus was eager to shoot down your reassurement/rationalization, as he was simply being realistic, considering what has happened in the past. It doesn't matter, now, though, since there won't be any consequences for what you did, knowingly or unknowingly.</p>
<p>spudkid, i meant heroic in the sense that other people didn't click on it and jeopardize their acceptance because some of us decided to inform the admissions officers.</p>
<p>spudkid, I was not trying to shootdown reassuring posts, or create drama. I was simply asserting my opinion that there was more than a negligable chance of cornell responding negatively to what was, at least by some, in truth, an intentional breech of the admissions website. As the night went on, more information surfaced, leading me first to say:</p>
<p>First that I felt that the site was real (which turned out to be true)</p>
<p>Then to say that the breech was similar to the harvard breech (which also turned out to be true--i.e. very simple, and just a matter of typing in the right address)</p>
<p>Which led me to speculate that depending on the circumstances cornell might issue a negative response (along with many others; it's not like I was a lone loose cannon in speculating the chance of a negative response from cornell)</p>
<p>And finally, as the night was ending, to say that based on all I had learned about the process of the breech, I felt that although possible, the liklihood of a negative response from cornell was small. (which we now know is ALSO true)</p>
<p>You should also note that the entire night i was advising applicants who had accessed their decisions to call and explain to admissions today. There's no denying that even if accessed innocently, the decisions were not intended to be seen last night. I don't feel anything I did was out of line, and as the night went on you can see how my opinion changed based on the information that came to light, and also reflecting on the input recieved on the board from others. I stand by my actions--I'm sure as cornell admissions figured out what had happened they went through a similar thought process and weighed many of the same pieces of evidence.</p>
<p>I'm here to help applicants out (and procrastinate), not to be called sensationalist on the very board where there are applicants who freak about about their decisions 10 times a day.</p>
<p>And with regard to the heroic thing--I don't know about calling you all heroic, but you guys sure were part of something exciting and possibly newsworthy!</p>
<p>Calling sparticus obnoxious is almost blasphemous...</p>
<p>Anyway, could maybe Cornell not acting like Harvard be numbers driven? If Cornell rejects people that they would've accepted ED, then they must accept more people RD (2 for every one person accepted-rejected ED in this instance due to yield hovering around 50%), thus admit percent would go down. Since Harvard Business School and the like don't really care that much about admit percentage as much as undergraduate schools do, then that could be a motivation for a different response. Then again, its such a small minority who did this that these numbers don't really matter...and the situations are different...lol just speculating and procrastinating from studying for my 7pm final.</p>
<p>BTW sparticus, it's bre*a*ch...breech means butt, I think.</p>
<p>hahaha, thanks tower, now i look like retard...maybe this new piece of knowledge will breach my thick skull ;). </p>
<p>That's a possibility (the admissions driven reason), and it crossed my mind before, but I feel it's more likely because this was a more innocent link...you didn't know what you were actually getting into, versus with harvard where you actually had to change the URL to include your ID# or ID name or something.</p>