<p>i applied Cornell CAS ED, and got rejected =(.
I'm going to apply Penn CAS and Columbia College. </p>
<p>Any thing i can do to maybe change my fate? (i ripped my Common App essay since i'm so disappointed)</p>
<p>I’m sorry to hear you’re feeling the pain. Do you feel you had a solid application for Cornell? If so, you have very good chances at Penn and Columbia. If you were more like the bottom 25% of their accepted student scores, then you might want to look for more match and safety schools.</p>
<p>A year from now, you’ll be in your freshman dorm, possibly attending a winter formal, then studying for your first final exams, looking forward to the holidays and reuniting with family and local friends. The memories of today will be a distant fleck on your consciousness.</p>
<p>theres this really cute senior girl i know who got into cornell ED</p>
<p>good luck with the other schools, know someone who got into cornell ED, sorry man</p>
<p>Check the Columbia ED thread. I think that Columbia (like Cornell) has not been too generous to CCers for ED. This may translate into RDers. :(</p>
<p>i think i had a solid application for Cornell. I think a couple of things killed my chances- 1. Cornell requires 3 foreign langugue units and i only have one. 2. Essays are too common. I’m rewriting my essays and pouring my heart into them. It will be easier this time cuz my heart has now been wounded.</p>
<p>what are your test scores and gpa</p>
<p>Hey Shuai, I know how you’re feeling. I got rejected from Penn SEAS ED…well it’s not as bad as I thought it would be, but it’s still pretty bad. </p>
<p>Yeah, Cornell Dartmouth and Duke are up next.</p>
<p>Hey, I totally get where you’re coming from. I was rejected from Columbia ED. I feel like curling up in a ball and just locking myself in my room, but I know that I have to be proactive so I am now working on my Cornell Supplement and it has really taken my mind off of the rejection. Try it out?</p>
<p>Karver—why would you say that. i’m sorry you didn’t get in. it’s not the end of the world tho, i promise! one of my best friends got rejected from penn this morning. she’s really upset. but keep your chin up and i promise everything will work out. some schools want certain kinds of people that others don’t…perhaps columbia will want your type of personality more than cornell.</p>
<p>also–i’m stupid. what does SEAS and CAS mean? :/</p>
<p>With your scores, you should be into a great school. However, there are a lot of other factors out there that don’t necessarily work against you, but favor others over you , such as legacies, and other “hooks”…therefore, to make up for any of that disadvantage, I would suggest help with your app/ essays from a pro. They can be found on the web, or I can suggest one. Of course, you may have already discovered this on your own…good luck with all your apps !</p>
<p>Shuai,
I’m sorry you didn’t get in. The fact that you were short foreign language credits possibly hurt your application; sometimes when a school is faced with mountains of applications, it’s easiest to make the first cut against those that don’t measure up to the established criteria…and the rest of the application might not have been considered at all----because the school has so many applications to consider where all of the established criteria are met and the applicant seems to walk on water!</p>
<p>You will still get in to somewhere wonderful</p>
<p>do you think i should address this issue in the Additional Information box for penn and columbia?</p>
<p>Foreign language is “recommended”. BUt i probably should explain my deficiency a little bit right?</p>
<p>It probably wouldn’t hurt. It’s not like the admissions people aren’t going to notice it anyway. Or maybe you could have your GC address the issue in her LOR? What is the reason you don’t have the required foreign language credits?</p>
<p>my GC talked about it a little bit, i’m not too sure i didn’t read her rec but she mentioned it to me. </p>
<p>Anyway, long story short, i immigrated to Canada in grade 6, kind of struggled with english. I did a year of french in grade 9 and then dropped to focus on my academic english, which has since improved significantly. The kids here in canada usually go into three majors, life science, engineering, and commerce. These three programs don’t recommend foreign language and require some special courses like accounting for commerce and computer science for engineering for example. So i had to take them. I didn’t really think about coming to the states for education until grade 11, so i didn’t plan to take the foreign languages throughout school. I know i have a weakness in my application, but i’ll just do my best to achieve my dream. If i get rejected by all of them, then its not meant to be. </p>
<p>But my question is: should i talk about my course choices in the Additional Information box?</p>
<p>The admissions reader for your application should have Canada (or your section of Canada) as a territory and should be familiar with the typical course work.
Do not panic over one decision.
I agree with fauve above that it can help to take the long view of setbacks like this and remember that this will all work out.</p>