<p>I know that most colleges have an appeals system where if you feel they did not make the correct admissions decision based on your application, you can submit more up to date information about yourself and make your case to them, and then most likely you will get in if qualified. Is it possible for me to do this with cornell. </p>
<p>I have a 1290 SAT combined Math and CR(a little shy)
3.77 GPA unweighted full IB diploma
Honor society
Ect, ect, ect...i feel that i could qualify.</p>
<p>Basically the reason I want to make an appeal is that my friend from the next town over applied to Cornell with stats much lower than mine, and was accepted:
i.e
3.6 GPA with only 2 APs
560 Math SAT, 640 CR SAT
Only one sport, not many Extra Curriculars
and so on</p>
<p>My question is, does cornell allow appeals, and am I too late to make one for a fall 2009 spot? thanks</p>
<p>Daughter rejected at Cornell: 2290 SAT (800CR/760M), SAT II–800 on World History and U.S, History, 790 Literature, NMS w/$$, Cum Laude Society, president of clubs, editor of magazine, two-sport varsity athlete and league All-Star in one, Destination Imagination (global competitor 3 of 6 years), top scorer on National German exam and honor society, all fives (so far) in AP exams–total of eight APs (school limits), 4.0 unweighted at time of application, oboe player. Go figure. It doesn’t make sense. Georgetown and Chicago thought she was good enough.</p>
<p>MD mom… sorry to hear about your daughter and congrats on her getting into Georgetown and U of C but i am not asking about unjust rejection because g-d knows there are thousands of them… the truth of the matter is that 85% of applicants are qualified and would be perefectly successful at cornell but only about a fifth of the applicants get accepted(and some of those who get accepted dont deserve to)</p>
<p>my question is just: does cornell offer the chance to appeal a decision (about 90% of colleges do)</p>
<p>You could probably appeal; it is probably too late. Guidance counselors call schools all the time to speak for their students. </p>
<p>My daughter, though she was a bit surprised, was not bothered by the rejection. It was her only one. She had been accepted by her top choice schools by the time she completed the Cornell app and it showed in her essay.</p>
<p>Yea thats good for her…I had a pretty rough year with college admissions
I applied to Northwestern, Cornell, UVA, UNC, Berkeley, Umich, NYU, BU and got rejected from every one of them accept for BU
My guidance counselor and I were really nervous actually because all these rejections came in and the last one that I was waiting for was BU and up until then it looked like i was not going to be attending college lol</p>
<p>I understand the rejections from NWU, Cornell, and NYU since they all look for SATs a little higher than I had, however i was in the range of all others…but luck was never my thing so eh</p>
<p>Rejections are no fun at all. But schools, like Cornell, weigh heavily on extra’s and how your essays are. My SAT’s weren’t that exceptional at all so I disagree that maybe it was only your SAT’s. BU is a great school. You should be happy.</p>
<p>depends on what college you applied to vs what college that kid applied to; each college has their own admissions so you might’ve applied to a more selective school like Architecture or Arts & sciences while they applied to the ag school–disclaimer: not to be taken as an insult to those of you in the ag school. If anything you can try to transfer after a year at BU, which by the way is in one of the best cities in the U.S imo.</p>
<p>still, don’t base your decision to appeal and think that you should get on based on one outlier of a admissions decision. It could be that your friend was working at 5 different restaurants and applying to the hospitality school or something. Just know that there were also many people with amazing stats who ended up getting rejected as well. </p>
<p>Plus, if you have any serious thought of appealing, now is probably a little on the late side.</p>
<p>Take it from their point of view. They have tons of good applicants, way much better than you sitting and waiting for that waitlist admission. Why would they turn to a rejectee over a waitlistee whom they already consider was “almost good” enough?</p>
<p>hmm now i’m thinking my stats werent as bad as i thought. mine were only a little better than this friend of yours. but i applied to ILR and fit into the program. </p>
<p>what did you apply to? and yeah your rejection is sorta expected.</p>
<p>Your appeal will be fruitless. What is your IB predicted? I had a 39 predicted and got rejected for CAS. Final exam mark was a 42, eh. </p>
<p>Your GPA is average, SATs are low. If you show up at the admissions officer with your friend going, “this kid got in and I didn’t, please let me in”… well you can see the ridiculousness of that yourself. </p>
<p>Correct me if I’m wrong, but do any of the Ivies even have appeal processes?</p>
<p>the kid that got in probably had something else going on for him/her, because i can’t see Cornell accepting kids with stats that low, i mean i know there’s fit but academics has to play a part.</p>
<p>Yeah i did apply to something i fit into pretty well. My senior year I taught myself several computer programming languages, such as PHP, VB, HTML, CSS, ect. All were self taught and through this knowlegde I started my own online business. I applied to CAS as a computer science major. I mean yes SATs and standardized testing is important but I thought that showing that I taught myself something so difficult, while at the same time applying to college, maintaining a 3.77 GPA in full IB diploma, and being captain of the cross country team, that that would be enough to refute the low SATs.</p>
<p>As a general reply to all…
no i would not state my case as “he got in why didnt I”
I just wanted to use an appeal as a second chance and to send some more material sort of like a way to take a second look at my application you know?</p>
<p>I would not have been a jackass about it because then I would never end up at cornell.
If i was that stupid i would not be applying there lol</p>
<p>If you’re not even on the waiting list, I think you’d be wasting your time, when you should be focusing on the school you will actually attend. Unless you have some reason to think Cornell made a mistake, or if there has been some huge change in your status, it’s a waste of time. It’s also too late in the process. You should move on.</p>
<p>Dont’ bother. Every school at Cornell has their own admissions criteria and even within the school, such as CALS (ag school) there very selective programs such as the undergrad business and animal science, which are harder to get into than even A&S (ChaoticOrder, are you listening?)</p>
<p>yes, and all the spots in the incoming class are probably filled by now. So you probably won’t have a chance even if they did make a serious mistake. I believe that no one has gotten off the waitlist at CAS, meaning it’s full.</p>