<p>So, I called admissions to ask about this. Rolling admissions are only sent out by mail. However, one may not get his/her notification through rolling admissions. All decisions will be available online at 5 PM on 3/31 through a login Cornell emails prospective students.</p>
<p>So I may not find out this month. Darn :-/.</p>
<p>In regards of the common notification date, Cornell only does rolling acceptances for the state contracted schools, so I guess those aren't applicable to that agreement.</p>
<p>Thanks, Cornelli, for the CALS information. I wonder what they mean by "select regular decision applicants." </p>
<p>Obviously, they're students with top qualifications, but could they also be applicants who applied for majors that aren't offered at the other Ivy League schools (e.g. Entomology, Food Science)? This would be similar to the uniqueness of Hotel or Penn's Nursing program.</p>
<p>Or, does Cornell have any way of knowing whether applicants have applied to other Ivy League schools? Maybe if they knew that you hadn't applied to any other Ivies, they could send you a decision early. Cornelli, you were notified early for CALS Bio -- had you applied to other Ivy League schools?</p>
<p>Otherwise, I just don't understand how they can flout the common notification agreement.</p>
<p>kittastic, did they tell you that rolling decision was for the state contracted schools? </p>
<p>Hotel has rolling decisions, and they're not a contract school. And I don't think Human Ecology gives rolling decisions (for freshmen) even though they are a contract school.</p>
<p>I'm not sure why, but no, I didn't apply to any other Ivies; however, I don't think that that's the reason why I received a decision early because it seems too complicated.</p>
<p>Also, I think the rolling admissions might be just for certain majors, but I'm not sure why so I'm going to try to do some research.</p>
<p>The letter (small envelope) that I received in March was an acceptance, but was not "the" acceptance letter, so maybe that is how Cornell gets around the Ivy League notification date. A couple of my friends (one who got accepted to ILR, and one to Engineering) received likely letters and the ILR kid actually got a phone call notifying him of his acceptance in March.</p>
<p>I also don't think that the contract colleges don't apply to the Ivy agreement because they are, afterall, part of the Ivy League. And again, it isn't really rolling admissions, as no one is rejected early and it's not like they send out acceptances until the class is full and go in order of date received.</p>
<p>College applications are not reviewed the way you might think they are. There is a first round of cuts made. If you make it past the first cut, then you have a very good chance of being admitted, however if you do not, then you have a 0% chance of being admitted. So in a sense, you do not have a 20% chance, you have either a ~90% chance or a 0% chance. This makes it easy for the colleges to send out early acceptances without having to worry that they will end up accepting too many or having to automatically reject or waitlist the last applications that they get to.</p>
<p>a lot of ivies do "likely letters" to get around the Ivy League notification date.</p>
<p>last year, a couple of my really good friends got likely letters from dartmouth, columbia and uchicago (not an ivy, but pretty much same thing) and i got my letter from cornell in late feb/early march.</p>
<p>I would guess it would say something along the lines of "..you are likely to be admitted.." Some may even say "very likely." I've noticed that likely letters are often sent out to either the top top applicants or to strong minority applicants in which the school wishes to invite them to a multicultural admitted student day or something like that.</p>
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<p>Early admit letters are only sent to top applicants. The vast majority of admitted students and rejected students will hear back on March 31st I think.</p>