***Official Cornell Class 2016 ED Results Thread***

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<p>Decision: Accepted CAS</p>

<p>Objective: </p>

<p>• SAT I (breakdown): N/A
• ACT: Composite:32, English:35, Math:31, Reading:34, Science: 31 (They score-choice individual sections)<br>
• SAT II: World History-770, Lit-770, US History-760, Math I-700
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.85, Weighted: 4.12
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 16/250
• AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (5), US History (5)
• IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
• Senior Year Course Load: AP Government, AP Physics C, AP English, AP Calculus AB, Honors Spanish IV, Honors Globalization, PE
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Veterans of Foreign Wars Citizenship Award
Subjective: </p>

<p>• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Mock Trial (President); Academic Team (co-captain), 2 years; Rock Climbing Club; FBLA; Multicultural Club; Class Secretary grade 10; 4 years soccer, 2 years Varsity; 2 years of club soccer; 3rd dan black belt in Taekwondo, competed and won in national and international tournaments, assistant instructor; a few other minor ones
• Job/Work Experience:
• Volunteer/Community service: Built houses for the poor in Juarez, Mexico summer after 10th grade; month long service trip to Zambia working in an orphanage summer after 11th
• Summer Activities: the above as well as a month long Mandarin course through my school the summer after 9th grade
• Essays: All were excellent
• Teacher Recommendation: didn’t read but I’m sure it was very good
• Counselor Rec: didn’t read
• Additional Rec: didn’t read
• Interview: Fantastic! It lasted about an hour and a half
Other </p>

<p>• State (if domestic applicant): NJ
• Country (if international applicant):
• School Type: Parochial
• Ethnicity: Caucasian
• Gender: M
• Income Bracket: >$200,000
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
Reflection </p>

<p>• Strengths: Extracurriculars and volunteer work; I spent my summers pretty well
• Weaknesses: GPA, lack of major awards
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Probably my well-roundedness and devotion to volunteer work (I wrote my common app essay on Zambia)</p>

122

<p>Decision: Accepted CALS</p>

<p>Objective:
• SAT I (breakdown): 2200 (700 CR, 760 M, 740 W)
• ACT: 34
• SAT II: 790 Math II, 740 Bio M, 720 Chem, 700 Physics
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/120
• AP (place score in parenthesis): AP USH, Biology, Physics B (5); AP World, English Language (4)
• IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
• Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP Calc AB, AP Chem, AP French, Honors Govt/Economics, Biology & Physics Teacher’s Assistant
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Renssalaer Medal, Dartmouth Book Award, News 12 Scholar-Athlete, National Army Reserve Scholar-Athlete
Subjective:
• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): French Honor Society (President), Math Honor Society (President), National Honor Society, Tri-M Music Honor Society, Crossroads School Newspaper (Editor), Math Team (A-Team), SADD, Key Club, Varsity Softball (captain, 3yrs), Varsity Bowling (Captain), Varsity Field Hockey (Captain)
• Job/Work Experience: Cashier at Barnes & Noble
• Volunteer/Community service: minimal
• Summer Activities: Travel Softball
• Essays: Softball and how I dislocated my finger in the long island championship, and still played
• Teacher Recommendation: both were strong
• Counselor Rec: strong
• Additional Rec: none
• Interview: none
Other
• State (if domestic applicant): New York
• Country (if international applicant):
• School Type: Small Suburban, sends most of top 10% to ivy league
• Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Female
• Income Bracket: idk
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Athlete, recieved likely letter</p>

123

<p>If anyone doesn’t mind posting, can someone post the rejection and deferral letters? I’m curious to see what they said.</p>

124

<p>Officially 25 hours until decision time!</p>

<p>Choose One:</p>

<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): OCT (2190) 680 CR 750 Math 760 Writing NOV 690 CR 780 Math 660 Writing</p>

<p>SAT II: Math 2c 750 , Chem 760
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.838</p>

<p>AP (place score in parenthesis): Chem - 5 Stat - 5 Gov - 3 </p>

<p>Senior Year Course Load: took all ap’s my school offers 3 in Junior, 3 in senior</p>

<p>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): No major Awards</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):</p>

<p>Musical
Spring play
Ski team
Eagle TV
Track
Forensics
Scinece Olympiad</p>

<p>( Frankly, I dont have big leadership)</p>

<p>Job/Work Experience: no job or work experience</p>

<p>Volunteer/Community service: - not really significant</p>

<p>Summer Activities: I did research about carbon neutrality</p>

<p>Essays:Good
Teacher Recommendation: got one from english teacher and got one from Chem teacher
Counselor Rec: IDK</p>

<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant): MI
Country (if international applicant):
School Type:Religious
Ethnicity: Korean
Gender:Male</p>

<p>Reflection</p>

<p>Strengths: well, i got 2190 as international student?? well i know so many gets 2400 but i was proud of myself. well Research ? I thought of myself different because I loved performing arts as an asian male( i thought it was not common).</p>

<p>Weaknesses: ECs, not good leadership, SAT scores, </p>

<p>General Comments: well i wish cornell tells me why they rejected me. i am over it now. getting results soon from chicago and u of m … i am not really hoping to get in uchicago, but u of m though … after i am applying to LACs. like oberline or colgate. It was bitter rejection but i have to move on. Contratulation others who got in…</p>

125

<p>Well i have more ECs btw. I completed all 10. I wrote Research as my 1st EC. then Musical and forensics and ski…</p>

126

<p>^ hm… my SAT’s were a lot lower then you, but I did a lot of volunteer work and had a lot of leadership.</p>

127

<p>With all due respect to hardworking Asian students being rejected ‘in favor of’ others with lesser objective scores. One thing I’ve picked up admissions officers is that they’re pretty savvy about kids who are applying to schools simply because it’s a status thing. (As one officer of a Top 5 USN&WR-ranked LAC said, “Ask yourself if you’d apply here if our US News ranking dropped down to #12.” One thing that struck me in viewing lots of LAC’s and Ivies this last summer was that you’d see almost no Asian students at the LAC admissions info sessions and tours, but when we got to Penn and Columbia, you’d see whole families of them - sometimes with the oldest kid being maybe 14 and already being groomed to go there, or maybe some other Ivy. My very unscientific sense was that what was important to many of those families (and, of course, it’s not limited to any one group) was that their kid go to “an Ivy League school.”</p>

<p>So, perhaps some of those rejected at Cornell or some other Ivy were not able to articulate a good enough reason for going to that particular school based on something other than its reputation, or somehow fed into that stereotype. Just a thought.</p>

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<p>I’m sure there’re a million and one reasons to rationalize rejections and acceptances. It’s an utter waste of time to argue over it. At the end of the day it’s only the admission officers that know why. I’m an international Asian student, so if anyone gets the ****ty end of the shaft, it’s probably me. But meh, c’est la vie: what is there to do anyway?</p>

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<p>i genuinely wanted to go to cornell, i won’t talk about why because i don’t want people from school to see my post and find out who i am. but hopefully, BBGunt, my next choices will know that i don’t apply to colleges mindlessly just because of reputation.</p>

130

<p>Pick one:
Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Pick one:
Arts & Sciences </p>

<p>Objective:

[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2010 (640R,720M,650W, Essay:8/12)
[</em>] ACT: 31 (E:29,R:29,M:33,S:31, Essay:6/12)
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): 690 BioM, 650 MathII
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.99
[<em>] Grades in AP/IB/honors classes (if applicable): All A’s , one B
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 8/373
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): CompSci(3),Bio(4),EngLang(5)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP EngLit, Band, AP MusTheory, AP EnvSci, AP CalcBC
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None
[/ul]Subjective: [ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership and number of years participated in a certain activity in parenthesis): Lots of Band Stuff (4 years, 2 leadership positions), NHS
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Helping Deaf/Blind
[<em>] EC short answer (subject and personal opinions on it): Band, it was ok
[</em>] General Essay (subject and personal opinions on it): Jazz Band, really good
[<em>] Second Essay (subject - and personal opinions on it): Why I wanted to study Psych
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Both were really good
[<em>] Interview: None
[/ul]Other

[ul]
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): TX
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): None
[/ul]</p>

131

<p>Decision: Accepted to CoE</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<pre><code>SAT I (breakdown): 1410 (650 CR, 760M)
ACT: n/a
SAT II: 740 french, 720 physics, 800 math 2c
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7ish
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 4%
AP (place score in parenthesis): none
IB (place score in parenthesis): french (6), HL math (predicted 5), HL chem (predicted 5), HL physics (predicted 6/7), SL bio (predicted 6), HL english (predicted 6), SL history (predicted 5/6)
Senior Year Course Load: all IB (HL math, HL chem, HL physics, HL english, SL bio, SL history)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none
</code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): leader of 4 school clubs, 3 varsity sports (captain of 2), 4 time national cheerleading champion (competed at world championships), national science fair award winner, ontario summer games volleyball athlete
Job/Work Experience: none
Volunteer/Community service: 100ish hours
Essays: quite good, i think
Teacher Recommendation: one was excellent the other was good
Counselor Rec: great
Additional Rec: none
Interview: none
</code></pre>

<p>Other</p>

<pre><code>State (if domestic applicant): n/a
Country (if international applicant): canada (but i am a dual citizen)
School Type: very competitive public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: f
Income Bracket: 300 000+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): i dont think i have any…
</code></pre>

<p>Reflection</p>

<pre><code>Strengths: extra curriculars, class rank, difficulty of course selection, girl applying for engineering, us citizen but non-us resident…
Weaknesses: math mark (in the 80s for IB HL but repeated non-IB over the summer and got a 97)
</code></pre>

<p>General Comments: i used my common app essay to explain my weak math mark</p>

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<p>Yes it sucks as an engineer, in any school, but I feel really badly for you kids feeling giddy about architecture. You will have no idea what hit you. If you love it, you’ll stick with it, but the majority really have to dig deep down into their souls to figure out if its the right path. Plan on very little sleep but a great group of people who are going through the same thing.</p>

133

<p>Decision: Rejected! (AEM, CAS alternate)</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT (Breakdown + Combined): 710M, 720 CR, 740 W (2170 combined; one sitting)
[</em>] SAT IIs (if any): 720 Math II, 770 USH, 770 Chemistry
[<em>] Unweighted GPA: ~3.8
[</em>] Rank (if applicable): N/A
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP English Language and Composition (5), AP US History (5), AP Chemistry (4)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Stats, AP Biology, AP Calc BC, AP Euro, AP Studio Art (the most APs I could fit into my schedule)
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Model UN Outstanding and Distinguished Awards (at different conferences; 10th and 11th), Stamp Design 2nd place (10th), 3rd place in speech competition (regional, 10th), New Jersey Scholars Program Semi-Finalist, AP Scholar, National Merit Commended</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Can’t comment on the quality since I hate reading what I write, but they were different (I use a colloquial style when writing).
[</em>] ECs: Model United Nations (Vice President 11th, President 12th), Debate Team (Captain 11th and 12th), Co-Founder and Captain of Science Olympiad (11th and 12th), National Honors Society (11th and 12th)
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Hospital volunteer (100+ hours)
[</em>] Teacher Recs: I would guess they were good. I waived my right to read, but I get along quite delightfully with the teachers that I requested to write my recs.
[li] Counselor Rec: Probably good since I love my counselor and visit her every day.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: New Jersey
[</em>] School Type: Large public school
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: $200,000+
[</em>] Hook (if any):
[/ul]Reflection:[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Essays, ECs, rigor of course load
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA, test scores (in comparison to other Asians)
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: My low GPA and SAT scores for an Asian.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]General Comments: Took me a while because I didn’t want to post immediately after – it’d be weird to be excited about a rejection. I’m not sure if the alternate schools actually read my application. To be honest, I wasn’t surprised or upset. After 5 minutes of receiving the decision, my life was normal. But it’s for the best! Good luck to everyone who’s going!</p>

<p>Also, from the four school districts I know, only one Asian was accepted this year ED. Very strange. Oh well.</p>