Is it a moot point to tell the AdCom about a mistake on your application now?

Colleges & Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>Basically, I don't know why this happened, but my primary and alternate college choices got mixed up. I realized this yesterday. On my CommonApp (I went back and checked), my primary says ILR and my alternate says CAS. On my Cornell Application Status check website, it says CAS for primary and ILR for alternate. </p>

<p>The only reason I would want to bring this up now is because I was rejected to CAS, but I don't know if ILR even saw my application. When I went to the Cornell info session, they even admitted that some colleges don't even look at the candidates who listed them as the secondary choice for various reasons, including 1) the college was full with primary candidates and 2) the primary college never forwarded the application to the secondary for various reasons (didn't think the applicant was a good "fit" at either school), etc.</p>

<p>Cornell ILR was definitely my #1 choice. Is it a wasted effort to try to call/write to the Admissions Office at this point?</p>

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<p>This is probably grounds for an appeal since you were considered for the wrong college.</p>

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<p>Ok, thank you. I will try to contact the ILR Admissions Office to make them aware of the situation.</p>

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<p>I would contact the ILR admissions office directly.</p>

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<p>Today, I called both the Undergrad Admissions Office and the ILR Admissions Office and left messages for both. (No one answered the phone.) Two days ago, I also e-mailed both admissions offices and mailed actual letters to both admissions offices. I don’t know how many messages the Admissions Offices are receiving at this time, so I don’t know when I can expect a reply?</p>

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<p>they’re probably insanely backed up, but keep on it.</p>

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<p>The Undergraduate Admissions Office e-mailed me to tell me the ILR School never saw my application. They said it was an error on their part, but nothing can be done now.</p>

<p>I’ll probably end up at NYU, but am devastated because I was really convinced I was the perfect “fit” for ILR.</p>

<p>Some of my stats/info were:
3.9 GPA, 7 AP’s (4 on test in English & US History; 5 tests this year in Psych, English, Euro History, US Government, and French), 2070 SAT (650 CR, 700 M, 720 W), 700 Math SAT II
Lots of extracurriculars/leadership related to what ILR is all about (“advancing world of work/solving human problems”): Model UN/Congress (7 awards, 4 leadership positions), +150 hours interning for a Senator (got a letter of rec from Senator explaining my great verbal/people skills), community service for Red Cross + hospitals, AP French tutor (currently have a 99 in AP French, tutor kids in French I-IV; I know foreign language is an important requirement for ILR), and many other meaningful activities </p>

<p>I really wanted to focus on “advancing the world of work.” Maybe I’ll try to transfer into ILR next year.</p>

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<p>now that is not cool on Cornell’s part. </p>

<p>The good news is I knew more NYU to ILR transfers than any other college during my time on the hill. With a soild GPA, recs, and essays, a transfer is very real possibility.</p>

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<p>This is a good attitude. ILR does love its transfer.</p>

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<p>That is really messed up on the part of admissions. Of course, the party line is that all decisions are final and nothing can be done. I would still forward the email from them to the University President. You never know…</p>

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<p>The ILR Admissions Office contacted me to say they were also “sorry for the news,” but “due to the record number of applications, we did not have time to look at applicants who listed us an as alternate college choice.” The Dean of Admissions at ILR e-mailed me to tell me that he pulled up my application and read it yesterday and that I looked like a “very strong applicant with impressive credentials who was surely accepted at another great university,” but “acceptances can no longer be made after April 1st.” He encouraged me to eventually try to transfer to ILR. </p>

<p>I think an e-mail to the President will be useless. I’ll probably be ignored or just get a similar reply. :frowning: I thought I loved Cornell, but Admissions seems crazy.</p>

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<p>So, just to be clear: You thought you list ILR as your primary, but didn’t, or did you list ILR as your primary and Cornell accidentally switched them around?</p>

<p>Either way, you can always consider transferring. ILR loves transfers. Hell, our only Rhodes Scholar from the last couple of years was an ILR transfer.</p>

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<p>CayugaRed, Cornell mixed them up. But like I said, I’ll probably try transferring. :)</p>

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<p>This is not very nice on Cornell’s part although I’m glad to see you have such a positive attitude. They should’ve given your application another review.</p>