<p>This is just to avoid confusion of a bunch of people making the thread.</p>
<p>After some discussion people seem to have decided there will be two threads: one for decision and vital stats, and another for discussion and venting ;).</p>
<p>The vital stats/most useful info people feel are important are: College, Decision, unweighted GPA, rank if available, SAT/SATIIs or ACT, Hook/special factor in decision (this could account for anything from recuited athlete to URM), and just for the sake of interest and getting to know each other, location (city, ST seems a good format IMO). If anybody thinks other pieces are important, please tell me here.</p>
<p>After some discussion, people were agreeing that since recs, essays, and ECs that aren't particularly outstanding are very subjective, and thus are unneccessay in order to give a general idea of an applicants qualifications for acceptance/deferral/rejection, they do not need to be included. (i.e. a student saying "I had great recs" or "an 8 out of 10 essay" won't really help you actually know just how good either aspect of the app was) Also, those parts are just plain less important to the application than most of the other parts here.</p>
<p>I will make them between 10am and 12 noon on thursday.</p>
<p>As for template or no template...hey let the participants decide...most are totally bummed (reject/denial) and can't do anything but a few words. The acceptees are usually scraping themselves off the ceiling and can't delete all the spaces in the template...but it does look cool when somone has it nailed and produces a sparkling acceptance post...</p>
<p>I especially like the color:</p>
<p>**Good Luck Cornell EDers!</p>
<p>Dont Forget*[ul]
[<em>]There are lots of great schools besides Cornell
[</em>]You can get a bad education anywhere if you try
[]If at first you don't succeed, there's always the transfer option[/ul]</p>
<p>yeah, the proper format looks good, but as you have seen in the past, it inevidably gets screwed up multiple times and all the extra [b ] [size=+2 ] sitting in with "GPA: 4.0" make it really hard to read. That's the only reason I'm reulctant to suggest the fancy formatting. It looks good, but the benefit is marginal, and IMO less than the cost of dealing with really confusing screwed up formatting. (can you tell I took econ in HS? all 5s baby! :D) If you look at the princeton forum for example, you'll see that half the people just ignored the formatting.</p>
<p>For the record everybody, we WANT your input on what you think should be in the threads; it's just that to avoid the confusion of multiple threads someone had to take the initiative to organize it. So tell us, do you have any further modifications to recommend? In particular how do you feel about fancy formatting, knowing that it will get messed up by some, I garuntee it :D, no matter how straightforward it seems!</p>
<p>Yes and no...I've personally seen people waste the opportunities at all the top schools - Harvard, Princeton, and yes, Cornell...</p>
<p>On the other hand, a motivated student can get a tremendous education at any major state university...its all there... one just has to work little harder to find and take advantage of it at those places...</p>
<p>I think we should do the fancy format. Someone should make sure they explain it as clear and simple as possible and people can just preview to make sure they didn't mess up. Worst case scenario have a back up format thats just manual tabbing and if people don't want to be cool with the nice format they can use that. :)</p>
<p>I could host just a simple plain-text page with the non-spaced formatting...that would probably be best. Just link to it at the top of the thread and copy and paste your stuff. That way you get a nice format without the worry of people not deleting the spaces.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT:can't remember
[</em>] SAT IIs:didn't exisit
[<em>] GPA:not sure
[</em>] Rank:top ten
[/ul]Location:old and grey Other Factors: General Comments:
Ithaca is gorges!</p>
<p>Live - one small change - you need to take the space out the [ b] bracket before "location"</p>
<p>Stats: ILRST212 - statistics sucks[ul]
[<em>] SAT: sat on my ass
[</em>] SAT IIs: (insert fart noise here)
[<em>] GPA: not provided
[</em>] Rank: your mom is #1 on my rank!
[/ul]*Location: Springfield center for troubled youth *
*Other Factors: i work for the president. I do nothing. neither does he. *
*General Comments: go to google.com. In the search thing type in failure and hit 'i'm feeling lucky' *</p>