<p>I just got a letter in the mail from Cornell, postmarked March 11th. </p>
<p>"Dear ________,
I am writing to tell you that the college's selection committee...has nominated you as a Pauline and Irving Tanner Dean's Scholar.</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>Although the Ivy League will not officially notify students about admission until early April, it may help you with your planning to know that we are very interested in you."</p>
<p>There is more to the letter, talking about the specifics of the scholarship and how I'm part of a select 50 in the incoming class. I am an unhooked white male.</p>
<p>Is this a likely letter for admission?</p>
<p>yes. congratulations. Mr. Tanner will come to campus in the fall to meet with students, also. He likes to hear how they are using thier scholarships.</p>
<p>I also got this letter, but I’m not attending so I hope someone who needs it gets to use it.</p>
<p>I’m afraid I’m in the same situation nyknicksfan93 is. I’m honored, but I already have my heart set on Harvard.</p>
<p>Nyknicksfan-- if you don’t plan on attending then you should let the school know ASAP so they can offer it to another child that really wants to go.
Congrats though on receiving it</p>
<p>Receiving this would be a dream come true. I have my heart set on Cornell, but I doubt I’ll get in anyway.</p>
<p>Congratz! Looks like one to me.</p>
<p>cornellian 2015 - stay optimistic. It can happen. I am a relatively average student and got one, but I will be attending another college. </p>
<p>At Cornell University and several prestigious Universities setting yourself apart is very important. I believe with me it was a unique award and unique essays that made the difference with Cornell and MIT. Admissions are largely about luck, but reading through the postings for whatever they are worth, it does seem that this year cornell, as well as other prestigious schools, are looking at applicants holistically. </p>
<p>You can never be sure, many at my school in NYC (top magnet school) got flat out rejected at Cornell early decision and MIT early action with almost perfect stats, whereas from the looks of things, myself included, some with just average scores, e.g. 2000 sat, 29-30 ACT, “unhooked” are getting in via the regular decision process. My most humble opinion, you need to be super perfect to get accepted through an early program. My own experience supports that as I was deferred at Yale after applying early action. They did call my advisor for my current grades about a week ago, so there is hope, but I am being realistic and expect a rejection. I’m still very happy. I visited MIT today and love it. I sent a post office certified letter letting Cornell know that I am very honored with the acceptance and “Tanner” scholarship, but will not be attending. Someone else who is deserving will get a Tanner Scholarship. I would have loved to be able to take the scholarship and use it at another school. jk</p>
<p>The early programs at MIT and Yale are equally hard or harder than regular. For Cornell, this is not true. I also noticed how Cornell is attracted to hooked students, a little more so than kids with higher scores without hooks.</p>
<p>S received letter about Tanner Scholarship as well. He was also deferred at Yale. Still hoping he’ll make it into Yale, but we’re cautiously optimistic. Nonetheless, this is still a great nomination and we feel very lucky.</p>
<p>Just in case you want more info, there is a description of the Tanner scholarship at Cornell University’s web site.</p>
<p>You can read about Tanner as mentioned above. Do you happen to be the child of immigrants? Are you first generation college?</p>
<p>Responding to jerzgrlmom, no, just an average Asian student, middle income with pretty average qualifications - ACT29, SAT2020, aside from a science award. Parents went to college later in life, but not immigrants. The Tanner scholarship is a nice addition to a resume, but I am sure someone else deserving will have my spot as I am going to MIT, unless Yale comes through.</p>
<p>I think what helped me was my science award and the good luck of not applying through early decision where several kids I know with nearly perfect grades and scores were either denied or deferred at cornell.
Also, likely major is Biology. My own humble opinion is that the applicants which were admitted early at Cornell CAS would have likely had a very good chance of admission at most any college, even the top ivy league institutions, but probably wanted cornell because of a special program or its rural location.</p>
<p>Looking at the posts of students receiving likely letters from Cornell CAS and other colleges at Cornell this year, the numbers make it seemingly much easier to get admitted regular as opposed to early, but that could just be for this year. For regular, Cornell is very holistic and seemingly takes many unhooked kids with just average test scores, …</p>
<p>In hindsight, I wish I had waited to apply to Yale as a regular decision applicant.</p>
<p>Responding to antiflamer, maybe that helped. but I was only one of many people involved in that project. Skimming through the results thread, it seems to me that so many average applicants are getting admitted to cornell’s college of arts and science and other colleges via the regular process, whereas so many highly qualified applicants unfortunately did not gain admission through early. I am no expert on college admission and just happy to have been deferred by Yale and accepted the Mass. Inst. of Technology, yet from the results so far at Stuyvesant (a NY magnet school) it does seem that the few kids that got in early to cornell had a very strong chance at a school as strong as Harvard or Princeton. We had 2 kids (asian) this year, get denied Cornell early only to be fortunate enough to get into Harvard (likely letter) and Caltech. That would seem to indicate to get into Cornell CAS early, you need to be super strong; the kind of applicant that could have a good chance at even Stanford or Yale or that level of institution.</p>
<p>Good luck, MIT bio major. I noticed how you didn’t post your results in the MIT section, but only here on Cornell section, and how you restated word for word what a funny fellow named englandern so vehemently argued earlier even when everyone argued against you.</p>
<p>Englandern, about your conspiracy theory about how Cornell early is actually harder than Cornell reg, it’s pretty ridiculous. Why would anyone bind themselves by applying in early decision if admissions is even harder. That 36.7 % admission rate sure looks tougher than 18%. </p>
<p>I’d like to see you restate all the points you said earlier.</p>
<p>Thanks for the good luck, I will need it for sure. Not positive on Bio. A little nervous about that, in particular after seeing some posts about admitted students and the schools they are choosing. For me it was Yale first, then MIT, then it would have been a very close call between nyu and cornell and maybe Boston U.</p>
<p>In terms of what I am looking for MIT is amazing and I just visited and love the place. Yale just called for my current grades, but I think it is very unlikely that I will get in, but I am hopeful. At this point, MIT will be home, along with the great cities of Cambridge and Boston which offer everything from about 20 hospitals, major research labs, and so much to do outside of campus. </p>
<p>I like the MIT “campus” and area as much as the school because you are still a part of city life. I also like how MIT handles grades for freshman.</p>
<p>Uh huh. Makes total sense.
I liked how you deflected my accusation with a total tangent and how much you post considering you just very very recently signed up for cc.</p>
<p>You also have a funny habit of repeating everything you said over and over again across several threads, all of them being pretty irrelevant to whatever you say. Pretty much like that kid England, who just humorously congratulated an applicant for picking USF over cornell in two separate posts in the same thread. </p>
<p>Like this one (where you repeated yourself twice) and the one i am linking</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/1076762-official-cornell-university-class-2015-rd-results-7.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/1076762-official-cornell-university-class-2015-rd-results-7.html</a></p>
<p>Really, nobody could care that much about your story except for me (who talked to you via pm until you annoyed me to such an unbearable extent), especially since you supposedly got in by making an organization in NYC and raising over 700k and getting into newspaper for it… How come i’ve never heard of you? :(</p>
<p>oh, and for the record – i don’t like you. get off cc please</p>
<p>I mean, come on. Who else would argue cornell ed is harder than rd to such an extent over several topics, then compare cornell w/ nyu and boston u. just for the purpose of showing off, and backing up everything englandern says since day one? pretty funny kid.</p>
<p>Why do you like misguiding interested applicants for a hobby? 
What has Cornell done to you to make you apply ED for engineering, then spread false news and slander Cornell after getting in (if you even got in?) If it’s just for the sake of spiting me because i love the school so much then i’m honored but seriously, isn’t this kind of stupid?</p>
<p>^^^you are not living up to your name. let it go. it is just the way the admissions process goes…and once things go well for someone who was very worried, they tend to puff up…you are not gonna see this kid…</p>
<p>Hey, who is this?</p>
<p>I think it is John W from Stuy - got ya, busted!!!</p>
<p>If this is not John W, then who is this because I don’t know what you are talking about.</p>
<p>That post you are talking about, I said it was what I said before, just trying to afford some optimistic advice to an applicant.</p>
<p>OK, John, tell me this so I will know it is you, what did Beth’s shirt say today - that you joked about?</p>
<p>If you can’t answer, you are not John.</p>
<p>If you are not John, then I really don’t know why the person is taking Florida over Cornell, but that is their decision. And if you don’t think I was accepted by MIT and Cornell, (and deferred by Yale) I would be more than happy to send it to you. But John, come on, you know. Stop bustin my …</p>
<p>Hey dude, I like your name of antiflamer, but you certainly have a flame going most every weekend, but I can’t say more here, you know what I mean bud.</p>
<p>Text me right now or I’m going to walk over to 54th myself even in this lousy weather!!</p>
<p>:P sorry but this kid you have been ■■■■■■■■ with is not john w from your school.
I am sure that this John W kid and I would make very good friends though if you thought i was him this easily, but at least now I know why you posted the things you did. If I were John W, I’d be pretty embarrassed and suspicious around school the day after seeing this though. It would have been a nice one but you got the wrong person.</p>
<p>JW, meet me at Pinkberry or Jamba in 15 minutes. I’m going with KB in a few minutes when he gets here.</p>
<p>You are paying the bill for both of us for bustin on me like that, and I’m ordering a large!</p>
<p>There is no way this is not you so just answer my texts now.</p>