<p>Today I recieved a LITTLE envelope. It was really weird, cuz online it said i was accepted. Well, the little envelope said I was accepted too. Nice trick they played. I guess they can't have next year's course booklet 3 months into the present schoolyear. </p>
<p>My intellectual interests essay was about how I loved Classics and was president of Latin Club and National Latin Honor Society. The second paragraph of that essay connected that to medicine and biology. I'm undecided about my major. I want to be a surgeon. I don't know what to study at Cornell.</p>
<p>How many reccomendations did you who've been accepted (or people who are applying) have... I have the Guidance one (actually written by Principal), two humanities ones(very good), one Math teacher rec (she volunteered to write it), a chemistry teacher one (pretty good), an Anatomy and Physiology teacher's rec (probably gonig to be great, and the guy's daughter was valedictorian at Cornell for her class, haha, geesh, and is still valedictorian at Cornell Vet school), and my X-C coaches one (decent, but not extraordinary). Which ones should I send... all of them maybe? I'm applying to Biology and maybe Biolgy and Society for second choice major at CALS.</p>
<p>I applied ED and had only three recs. If you send in that many they might think you are trying too hard or trying to cover up "weaknesses" in your application.</p>
<p>Yeah, I heard too many recs=pretentiousness. I think I'm gonig to send in the two humanities one, the guidance one (which is manditory), and my anatomy and physiology teacher's rec.s think that's too many? (4)</p>
<p>i think 3 is the right ammount, i had...1 from guidance counselor, 1 from AP comp sci, 1 from ap stat, what more could any others really say about you, 3 seems right</p>
<p>I had five. Do not send frivolous things like your XC coach unless you've been spotted for recruitment. Don't send more than two teacher recommendations. The five I had were</p>
<ol>
<li>guidance counselor</li>
<li>anatomy and physiology teacher</li>
<li>latin teacher</li>
<li>best friend's dad is a Cornell Alum and a surgeon, like i wanna be and he's known me forever. if you know an alumni well who's not related, ask them to send something to the school.</li>
<li>my alumni interviewer. he felt i was strong enough of a candidate that he should write a recommendation.</li>
</ol>
<p>my two school teachers even gave me copies. they were absolutely uplifting.</p>
<p>DON'T send more than two teacher recommendations. I was told by my alum interviewer to request my best friend's dad to write one. And he volunteered to write one. You technically should be fine with three. A word of advice. If you wrote an essay about, say, a wooden footbridge you designed and constructed at Military Camp two summers ago, include original non-scanned pictures. It makes a good impression.</p>
<p>That's my advice. I read 3 out of the 5 recommendations and they were incredible. I think that's what got me in.</p>
<p>I had 5 recommendations also:
1) Guidance Counselor
2) Honors Brit Lit Teacher
3) Honors World History/AP US 2/AP Gov't Teacher
4) Spanish 3/AP Spanish 5 Teacher
5) Employer (I work with a waitressing service, so this was relevant to the Hotel School.)</p>
<p>i originally had 3 recs, cept cornell only recieved 2 of them: precalc teacher and guidance. somehow my english recommendation got lost. however, i also had a rec from a local alumnus whom i interviewed (or vice versa).</p>
<p>On behalf of the class of 2007, I congratulate all of you who were accepted for class of 2009!!! It seems to me that all of you were extremely qualified for acceptance.
This makes me wonder if I would have gotten into Engineering if I had applied for the class of 2009 with my measly 1420/800/760/690. Well, I hope all of you are excited to go. Cornell is a great place.</p>