<p>The lady I spoke to said that the mid-year report was not used in the decision making process and not that important but to make sure and send a final transcript if you are accepted. </p>
<p>My mid term grades were the worse in my h.s. career -- so I guess that is good news.</p>
<p>Just thought I'd share this with other Cornell hopefuls.</p>
<p>wait were these for rd applicants as well?</p>
<p>RD is the only applicant group left besides transfers</p>
<p>you should call the other colleges and see if this applies to them</p>
<p>"The lady I spoke to said that the mid-year report was not used in the decision making process and not that important but to make sure and send a final transcript if you are accepted."</p>
<p>Is this for deffered ED applicants as well?</p>
<p>Don't know. I applied RD. </p>
<p>Maybe she meant "your application is so bad anyway, nothing could help you at this point" LOL</p>
<p>What!? Midyear reports not really counting towards the decision? I find this hard to believe . . .</p>
<p>Wow, I hope that lady was right. While my mid-year grades didn't suck, they definitely weren't as good as my first quarter grades.</p>
<p>Same, if Midyear grades aren't counted, that would be awesome.</p>
<p>Here is how the conversation went:</p>
<p>Me: I am calling because I see that you have only received one of the teacher recs I sent.</p>
<p>Her: Did you get an email saying your app was incomplete?</p>
<p>Me: No, I was checking on line.</p>
<p>Her: Don't worry about it then, you are fine. Only one rec is required anyway. If you did not receive any email indicating your app was incomplete, then everything is here.</p>
<p>Her: I do see that your mid year report is not here but don't worry because we have hundreds yet to file.</p>
<p>Me: Our school did not mail them until Feb. 24. I know things sometimes get lost in the mail, should I ask my school to send another copy?</p>
<p>Her: No. Your application is being reviewed by CAS and your mid-term report won't be used to make the decision. Just make sure to send a final transcript if you are accepted. </p>
<p>So, what I got out of this is that the mid-year report is filed away in your file in the admisssions office -- not, sent over to the colleges within Cornell. </p>
<p>What could stink about this is that I updated Cornell with a bunch of stuff I've done since applying and I bet those updates are sitting in my application file (if not a big pile of paperwork ready to file) and CAS will NEVER see it.</p>
<p>um, u did speak with an admissions counselor right? Some of these secretaries are terribly uninformed.</p>
<p>Typically admission officers use the Mid-term report to confirm borderline decisions. They are not a key section, but if they were undecided about a certain candidate, the Mid year school report serve as the deciding factor for acceptance or rejection. Not like its totally useless, but not extremely important. If you have been consistently getting good grades, a bad midterm school report is not likely to affect you too much. On the other hand if one was accepted ED or even and RD's who are extremely impressive but they decide to goof-off and secure D's and F's, i dont doubt they may overturn the accepted decision.</p>
<p>My midyears are my 1st trimester senior grades...so my school report ONLY has my junior grades, which are not as good as my senior grades. If they see in my school report that it does not include grade 12 marks, will they look at my mid-years or just reject me w/o even looking at the mid years? Help much appreciated.</p>
<p>Why would they request midyear senior grades if they are not included in the decisions process?</p>
<p>most of the time, midyear reports are submitted after students have received a decision. the midyear reports are then used to keep track of students' closing progress in high school (usually). for instance, a lot of students tend to slack off in their senior year and the midyear report will help the university to either to keep you or refuse you. no one wants slackers, esp. not cornell i'd assume. i knew of a couple of seniors last year that were denied orientation because of their significant decrease in grades shown on their midyear reports. they cried waa-waa-waa all the way home.</p>
<p>**midyear reports could also be used against you in relation to scholarships you might've received along with your decision. bad grades = no more scholarship.</p>
<p>How could that possibly be true if many candidates were deferred? If the midyear report was not used at all in the admissions process, why would they take the time to defer applicants in the first place if the only information they would get after deferral is a midyear report? Wouldn't it be more logical to just reject them? I am not refuting what you're saying by any means, I just find it ridiculous that Cornell would say that midyear reports arent being used in the admissions process!</p>
<p>the lady probably asked you to send midyear reports either after your decision or whenever your first semester grades are available for the purposes i've stated above. :)</p>
<p>hey guys, the op could be sum 4th grader, dun stress out</p>
<p>what's an "op"?</p>
<p>original poster? i highly doubt it</p>