<p>what are some of the things you think applicants do or do not do that prevent them from getting accepted or decrease their channces of getting accepted to Cornell in general?</p>
<p>Bad grades...bad test scores?</p>
<p>This thread is stupid- if you submit something thats not good, it hurts your chances. Same with handing it in late, anally emailing them, and other stupid stuff any doofis knows not to do. ...duh... I think a big stumbling block might be essays, though. If you have crappy interest essays, it shows you don't care about getting in there.</p>
<p>^^ lol, I called them anally and still got in. Um...perhaps not being qualified is a bad thing. Asking the wrong teaches for recs, writing essays on stupid subjects, whining in essays, spelling things wrong, idk..lol...it's easier than getting in ;).</p>
<p>Yeah...I know an adcom and one day he was telling my parents how horrible it is when he reads negative essays. But he has a specific definiton of what constitutes a negative essay. You can write about your father's battle with cancer - he just doesn't want to hear you scorning your horrible and/or boring hometown. Unless it's a satire, or love/hate. He was like "this kid...if the most important thing he has to talk about is the fact that he can't stand anyone in the place he grew up, how does he expect me to believe that he'll be able to adjust to Cornell?"</p>
<p>WAIT so calling them anally is a good thing??? What number did you call exactly? :p</p>
<p>a sure fire way to not get into cornell would be by being unqualified, then murdering the adcoms families, raping their pets , and burning their houses.</p>
<p>lol, raping their pets</p>
<p>I completely understand the whole burning their houses and murdering their families thing, but with a high SAT score I'm sure they'd overlook the whole raping their pets thing.</p>
<p>hey, I still got in ;)</p>
<p>NickyJane...ur 100% right...making it to the midrange excuses the whole pet raping incident. after all the poor pet was probably so old it was gonna die some day - of rape or old age.</p>
<p>Ivy League beastiality, gotta love it</p>
<p>I don't think it's possible to rape their pets. Their pets are so old that they must be dieing to get some since they cannot attract other pets anymore and...well.. you know the saying! Can't rape the willing!</p>
<p>Ok guys...i was just kiddin and this is making me kinda sick now. some graphic images just flashed in my mind just there and made me wanna puke...so lets end this "raping the pets" convo.</p>
<p>lol, jeez, no one asked you to visualize it</p>
<p>its a habit that iv got from practicing for SAT critical reading -visualise the passage. btw i think we should really stop this sorta convo coming to think of it cuz i got banned for a week for posting crap in threads...almost kicked outta CC.</p>
<p>"a sure fire way to not get into cornell would be by being unqualified, then murdering the adcoms families, raping their pets , and burning their houses." </p>
<p>Hahaha, I hope none of them have goldfish.</p>
<p>My friend purposely sabotaged her U Maryland application so her parents wouldn't make her go there if she got in (she wants to go to Harvard or Columbia) by saying she was a racist bigot in her essay. I'm sure that would work for cornell too</p>
<p>I disagree. Ivies are looking for diversity, and how many bigots can there possibly be at Cornell. An outright racist might shake-things up a bit.</p>
<p>lol. i disagree with that totally...being a non-white and having experienced racism, I can tell u safely that a racist bigot will not be safe on Cornell campus if I attend :p</p>