<p>would any genius thread searchers be kind enough to find it and post a link or whatever to bring it up...im getting nervous</p>
<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=126317%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=126317</a> </p>
<p>Hope this is the one you're lookin for...</p>
<p>Hahaha, all of those bad memories are coming back to me now.</p>
<p>amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i m glad i only see 2 ridiculous real legacies (parents, not the brother/cousin crap) deferred ..and none rejected..even the guy with 3.3 UW got in....</p>
<p>okay..being Asian...and with so-so stats...last year's ED post scares the ***** out of me...
***...why are all these absolutely qualified candidates being rejected while some ridiculously low scoring ppl are getting accepted.
I AM SO SCARED NOW!!! REALITY CHECK!!!
Thanks for this post...I'm furiously working on my ten other apps now...I can't depend on anything...seems pretty much all in lady luck's hands now.</p>
<p>omg last year's results are scary!!!!</p>
<p>I've searched through and so far I've seen a 2390 and a 1600 that haven't been accepted...***</p>
<p>luckily, it looks like legacy helps... but some of those rejections/deferrals look completely random</p>
<p>not luckily for me.... i mean a 1600/2310 kid with 800/800 subject and letter recommandation from ex senator and had a patent pending was deferred........ WOW</p>
<p>Well, maybe our dicision thread will be even scarier........that's a disturbing thought.</p>
<p>I think the scariest one was I think the Asian girl with almost perfect SAT's and great SAT IIs and fantastic EC's with many honor societies (I think one was a music honor society - which I didn't know existed), who got rejected from CAS. It honestly seems as though some people who got in really didn't deserve it.</p>
<p>Does acceptance also go by your high school? It seems as though some schools will usually right off the bat take a certain amount of qualified applicants at one high school but reject the same qualified types from another high school. Does this happen a lot? I think that Cornell likes my school, but we'll see I guess, though from my school at least on scattergrams, the people who got in (11 total out of 40 something) had SATs and GPA lower than mine in general, but it also makes me nervous as those are self-reported, and so I didn't really get a good glimpse of what scores generally got rejected, so it could be the same scary trend - Cornell seems very subjective.</p>
<p>i disagree it might seem like lower sats people/ less special ec's dont deserve to get in but really, everyone applying ED obviously liked CORNELL as much as the next person so thats unfair to say those seemingly less qualified dont get in... cause everybody wants it and went through the same process to get in [although legacy really IS stupid in my opinion] but everything else is fair. sorry just had to put in my two cents after reading that lol</p>
<p>Just because you WANT TO GET IN doesn't mean you deserve it as much as somebody who worked twice as hard to get their perfect 2400s or whatever. Those people deserve it more for sure. But basically, I guess there really is no such thing as "fairness" in this process, because getting into any top college like Cornell is not a RIGHT, it's a privilege. So even though some of us may feel like we have the stats to get in, whether THEY THINK WE SHOULD BE IN IT is a completely different factor. And that is also what makes this process totally unpredictable.</p>
<p>and might i add..scary?</p>
<p>lol but then again, theres people who WORK HARD to get that high grade n still end up with a mere 2000 or so as to the better test taker that got a 2400 on the first try.. . ahh the argument can go so many ways lol but yeah, agreed. going to cornell is a privilege</p>
<p>lol, don't bother trying to justify why someone got in or not. College admissions is a complete crapshoot. There are plenty of more qualified people than I am that didn't get in.</p>
<p>Basically, other than the fact that it really is a crapshoot, you have to remember that college admissions isn't the meritocracy that collegeboard and the colleges themselves try to make it out to be - it's a business.</p>
<p>The guy who got a 2390 never got a 2390...trust me I know him</p>
<p>"There are plenty of more qualified people than I am that didn't get in."</p>
<p>i totally appreciate your modesty, tun, but still...Cornell accepted us because they "liked" us, so to speak. many people are "qualified" to attend any school but it's only the ones that the school "likes" (to put it in simple terms) that get accepted. (passionate about something, can add something unique to the community blah blah) that's why people with 800/800/800 (like thatindiankid or whatever his name was) sometimes don't get in. of course they are very qualified but i think that there is a threshold that, if crossed, makes you qualified period, not more qualified or less qualified. you can simply handle the work or not.</p>
<p>"The guy who got a 2390 never got a 2390...trust me I know him"</p>
<p>haha</p>