<p>We know that CALS is rolling, so if you were admitted please post your stats and WHEN you were notified and how.</p>
<p>Hahaha it's apfreak. :)</p>
<p>My friend got her acceptance letter in the mail on Feb 19th. </p>
<p>These are her stats:
GPA: 88.9/100
SAT: 1820
Rank: 13/129
600 hours of community service for freshman-senior year (thus far)
Member of Yearbook
1 of several Senior Representatives
Co-founder of a tutoring program
AP Bio: 2, did not submit score
AP Calc: 1, did not submit score
AP Studio Art: Pending
She is Asian, first generation, and low-income. She is NOT a HEOP/EOP etc applicant.
SAT2: 640M, 540 Biology, 800 Chinese w/ Listening, 580 USH</p>
<p>Wow, you can get into Cornell with an 1820 SAT?</p>
<p>wow her stats are low
must of had great essays and recommendations</p>
<p>wow kudos to her. She mustve truly shined on her essays and reccommendations. I tried to do that as much as I could. All I have to say is wow.</p>
<p>I meant the 18th, not the 19th** and haha, yes it was a shocker to us all. :) But it's great either way! I'm not sure about her essay(s), since her writing is not that strong. Her recommendations, however were EXCELLENT. She will not be attending CALS. She was forced to apply by her parents, but has decided against attending, since it was not her choice, and she doesn't feel like going to a school to be miserable. She's going to SUNY Buffalo. :o</p>
<p>So..all you kids on the lower end, don't be discouraged!! If she could do it, you can too. :)</p>
<p>where are u and your friend from emmared718? are u guys from buffalo?</p>
<p>she chose suny buffalo over cornell?</p>
<p>damn</p>
<p>i hope she informs cornell she won't be enrolling so someelse will have the stop</p>
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<p>We're from Queens, NY and yes, she is informing them that she will not be enrolling. She prefers Buffalo because there she has an array of options. whereas at CALS, she only has a few things she can choose from. She also finds that Cornell is "in the middle of nowhere", wherease SUNY Buffalo is...not.</p>
<p>im from buffalo there is nothing in buffalo please make here reconsider really, cornell has mass options. i've worked my whole life to leave buffalo i wouldn't recommend she choose UB over cornell. anyways compared to nyc, all of ny is the middle of nowhere. anyways UB is not in buffalo, its in the suburbs-amherst, where im from</p>
<p>this is a load of you know what if you ask me...no one is getting into Cornell with those scores, even if you are a URM..you guys never know about the validity of posts on these boards ---come on..even strong recs would not get you in with those scores</p>
<p>asians aren't considered urm's</p>
<p>sports684, check out the ED decision thread. Lots of people got into CALS with 1200 SAT's, which just shows that Cornell land grant colleges are lesser than the actual university. They only accept NY residents and they dont care about SAT scores, only grades.</p>
<p>They don't "only" accept NY residents. Just a high percentage of NY residents.</p>
<p>ccrunner123 those are false assumptions. cornell is cornell there is no actual university it is one univeristy.</p>
<p>CALS accepts by major. Biology and AEM are very competitive to gain admission to. It has been published that AEM had a 20% acceptance rate for the class of 2009 year and a 19% acceptance rate for the class of 2008. There are some majors in CALS that are not as competitive from an admissions standpoint. I know someone will ask what majors are easier to get into... but those figures are not public. Anyway, it shouldn't be the criteria for selecting a major.</p>
<p>since some majors aren't popular the applicants to them will be accepted because the college needs students for those programs</p>
<p>have you actually seen the acceptance letter?</p>
<p>a kid in my highschool senior year claimied to have gotten into Cornell and another place like Brown (i forget which school exactly) but decided to choose a SUNY school (for reasons I also forget). At a scholarship reception another parent congratulated this kid's parents on their son's accomplishments of getting into these top schools, to which they responded "oh, you must have misheard or something, he unfortunately didnt get into those schoools. It's quite a dissapointment, but i think he will be happy at SUNY (i forget which school he ended up at)." Not exactly the best note to leave on senior year.</p>