<p>OH..I just found it. -___-</p>
<p>Hey obinnadone - What school at Cornell are you applying to? I'm doing ILR.</p>
<p>In our info. sessions last year we were told that applying to 2 colleges might be a possibility for '08 applicants. We are past this process now ourselves, (our S is an '07 h.s. graduate with a 1-year GT to Cornell), but it will be interesting to follow this and learn more about how they plan to run the new application process. I'm curious what they think will be the benefits to the applicants and to the school. They hardly need any <em>more</em> applicants, that's for sure--they had over 30,000 this year for 3000 freshman seats! Flexibility for the applicants is nice, but it seems like each college within the university is going to have even more applicants now to review? Plus, they always encouraged applicants not to strategize their admission chances by playing one college against the other (I'll apply to X college because I think my chances are better there, and hope to move to Y college after I'm in). Won't this encourage that? I hope someone will post when Cornell releases their new info. on this.</p>
<p>any news yet on the admissions for next year? It's July 1st today, I wasn't sure if that means they could release their "official decision" today at the earliest.</p>
<p>yeah i am kind of antsy about everything- i want the common app as well as the cornelll supplemeent and the class of 2011 profile!</p>
<p>It looks like they udated the website!
<a href="http://admissions.cornell.edu/apply/firstyear/index.cfm%5B/url%5D">http://admissions.cornell.edu/apply/firstyear/index.cfm</a><br>
<a href="http://admissions.cornell.edu/resources/faq_answer.cfm?num=18%5B/url%5D">http://admissions.cornell.edu/resources/faq_answer.cfm?num=18</a></p>
<p>nice....but when will they put their supplement up??? egad. I want to finish it now...hahh</p>
<p>is this just for freshmen or for transfers as well?</p>
<p>yousonofatree, i totally agree.</p>
<p>word to the wise - don't apply to 2 colleges.</p>
<p>why is that word to the wise? i think applying to 2 colleges could be good...i mean as long as they are close/similar material...</p>
<p>the problem is much of it isn't that close or similar - only a select few majors. </p>
<p>My eye on the inside says it's not a method to gain easier access into the university. I've taken this to mean if you can't get into your first, you won't get into your second (only truly exceptional students will be considered for their 2nd ... and it'll likely be because their first didn't think they were a good fit for their particular school). </p>
<p>I've also come to learn that a student will gain admission into their 2nd very rarely. </p>
<p>Words given to me: it'll be too difficult to make 2 separate essays sound genuine, do your research on a school, find what fits you best, and apply there and there only. </p>
<p>Sorry if I'm bursting anybody's bubble of hope, I'd much rather see informed applicants.</p>
<p>hmm...the essay part of gomestars explaination does make sense. I know for the hotel school for sure that your interest in the specific field is crucial in the admissions process.</p>
<p>That sounds nice then...it won't inflate the acceptance numbers (and all that comes with it like if the person actually chooses the college) which is good but it will also give great applicants another chance as well as give those higher stats to Cornell in a more general major even if they got rejected from their specific first choice. What I just said was a little jumbled...but it's pretty much saying that that is a pretty interesting and nice thing.</p>
<p>If they treat a person's application to two schools as two separate applications, this might help the acceptance rate go down (i.e. if a guy gets rejected at both schools, that's two rejections instead of one, thus making acceptance rate artifically lower than it actually is). So I agree with what Figgy said about the rate not being inflated, but I dont think Cornell is doing this out of kindness to the great applicants; I think they want to climb those USNews rankings.</p>
<p>US news doesn't count people that apply to more than one school, they count the total # of applicants to a university.</p>
<p>I wonder if their going to make you guys write a supplemental essay for both of the colleges.</p>
<p>Can we apply to the same major at different college...like Biology and Society at CALS and Human Ecology? Or is that stupid?</p>
<p>you can do that, in fact that's one of the only situations where I can see applying to 2 different schools actually working out w/ the backup</p>