<p>smileygerl - if you search the threads on this Cornell forum you may find additional info on past summer sessions - it is a real boost to your student to attend as they acclimate to living at a college campus and get college credits .</p>
<p>Memphismom,</p>
<p>I did not realize that he would get college credit for attending. I was concerned because of the loss of income as he would not be able to work during the summer. Unfortunately money is an issue for us. Thank you for the information. I will search the boards…</p>
<p>are you admitted under H.O.P.E program? If you are, then you are required to attend summer college</p>
<p>No H.O.P.E program. The offer of admission is conditional on required attendance of prefresman summer program.</p>
<p>smiley, don’t worry about it. he’s in. as for money, it’s an issue for most everyone, rich or poor or in-between. if he has to do the summer classes, then he does it and gets credit. not a big deal. I’ve heard of some athletes being required to take summer classes. Still, it’s not a big deal. with work, a lot of students do at every college in the country and there are probably plenty of part time jobs also off campus in Ithaca even if he can’t do his usual job this summer. my dad worked 3 jobs and about 50 hours a week from his freshman year to put himself through college. Just tell your son to make some calls. It is nice for parents to try and get involved and help, but I think it might be best for him to take care of issues like work and summer classes by himself instead of a parent trying to figure it out on cc, which is not the greatest place for some kinds of information. just my opinion. good luck and I’m sure it will all work out. Go big Red!!!</p>
<p>iceyman,</p>
<p>Thanks-
I will try to relax. I am sure all will work out.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): CR 580, MA800, WR700, October 2010 one-sitting
[</em>] TOEFL: 103/120, taken on Jan 2009
[<em>] SAT II: MathI 800, MathII 800, BiologyM 770
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school does not rank, but recognized as valdictorian in both 9th and 10th
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Biology - 4
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Chem, AP ES, American Literature, Contemporary World Issue
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none, just school-level academic recognitions. but I received $1700 scholarship to attend a stock market camp in Scripps College.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Founder and President of Anime Club, Co-President of Microloan, President of Financial Department for Fall Fest, Campus guide
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: venture capital firm summer intern in Beijing
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Soup Kitchen
[</em>] Summer Activities: attended Cornell summer college Hotel Operations Management in 2009, got B+
[<em>] Essays: good
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: good
[</em>] Additional Rec: from general manager of the VC firm I interned, good
[li] Interview: phone interview, went really well[/li][/ul]Other</p>
<p>[<em>] Country (if international applicant): Beijing, China
[</em>] School Type: attend private HS in Maryland since 9th
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: no FA
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I’ve been operating in Chinese stock market since 14 years old, and I sent the stock transaction report and showed calculations which led to an overall 17 % profit; I made this in PDF document and submitted as additional info.</p>
<p>Reflection</p>
<pre><code> [li] Strengths:everything other than CR score[/li] [li] Weaknesses: CR score[/li] [li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I expected to be accepted[/li]</code></pre>
<p>To which school/college did you apply? Your ECs sound like a AEM or Hotel applicant.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted by (CALS)</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I : first time I got a 1870, cried my eyes out and realized I couldn’t jump into the test cold… second time, 2010, decided to keep it.
[</em>] ACT: I procrastinated and didnt take it!
[<em>] SAT II: bio:780, french 670, spanish 800
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.3 out of 4.5
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5% out of 120 students (no rankings)
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): bio 5, spanish 5
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics B, Honors Calc, Honors French IV, Honors Art History, Studio Arts, AP Literature
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Hispanic Recognition Award, Hudson County Science Fair silver medal in animal science, several NJ Envirothon awards, The National French Exam 3 times (4th in the country), First place in 2 major science competitions in school (biopardy and zoovival), a grant approval for river monitoring the Hackensack…
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): PHAT (Protecting Habitats Animals and Trees) Club (Vice President), Envirothon (Veteran’s team captain), Science league, French Theatre, Internship at school 2ice, National science league, National Honor Society, French Honor Society, Student Council (Class President and student rep), i’ve played tennis, soccer, and now judo this year since the cut all other sports, holiday band when i was an underclassman but i actually didn’t count that in my application…
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: CVS pharmacy, Chili’s hostess
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Liberty Humane Society (animal shelter), Arts Echo Galleria Model (non-profit, artist supporting organization), French tutor, SGI Buddhist MC
[<em>] Summer Activities: Conservation lab research on red pandas (what I won the silver medal for, lots of working at the restaurant… I always took a course in the summer, anatomy, ap physics prep…
[</em>] Essays: My common app essay was about how my nostalgia for Colombia once Imoved to this country turned into a thirst for knowledge on South America and Colombia especifically… I speak about my growing love for latin American Literature and how I learned so much about my own roots through the literature…</p>
<p>My cornell essay was about an animal activism group that I created when I was a freshman. It promoted awareness against the Canadian Seal Slaughter. It had a lot of imagery and it was very personal.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: I had 3, actually. One from my chemistry and Designing Concepts teacher, in which she talked about how she tought i was an “elite” student and also an artist and what not… She’s an artist so it was very creative and not boring. Another was from my bio, AP bio, zoology, and conservation lab teacher (yeah… i had a lot of this teacher!) and it was really good, he was very very specific and it sounded very genuine… And my favorite one was from my Philosophy and AP Literature teacher and it was just amazing. I loved it.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: It was pretty good. Nice and short, not generic, not boring.
[<em>] Additional Rec: I had too many as is, haha
[</em>] Interview: It went well.
[/ul]Other</p>
<p>[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): New Jersey
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Technical School
[</em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>]Income Bracket: under 60 k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation</p>[/li]
<p>Reflection</p>
<p>[<em>] Strengths: Essay, GPA, top %, credits probably…? I have too many.
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT probably?
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Well I have some pretty unusual qualities that probably stood out, my essays very very genuine and so were my recomendations…
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: I probably got accepted to Miami U and Forham but I dont think i’m supposed to find out until tomorrow… And to Rutgers. </p>
<p>General Comments: none</p>
<p>does anybody have any advice on getting off the waitlist, and for human ecology specifically? I’m calling tomorrow just to see if I can fix anything. thanks guys:)</p>
<p>sorry this is soo totally late but here it is…</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED!!! (sorry, couldn’t figure out how to do the big green letter thing 
School applied to: CAS </p>
<p>Objective:</p>
<p>SAT I (breakdown): 2120
ACT: 30
SAT II: Math I: 710, Math II: 720, Biology: 740
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 6/372
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calculus AB/BC (5), Biology (5), Psychology (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lang, AP Statistics, AP US History, AP Environmental Science
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NONE</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): President of 3 clubs this year, member of 3-4 more school clubs…<br>
Job/Work Experience: summer job
Volunteer/Community service: volunteer at local hospital, religious community, soup kitchen, etc. Had over like 500 hours of volunteer work. </p>
<p>Essays: AMAZING:) i definitely think this is what really worked for me and made them see past my not-so-great SAT score. lol.
Teacher Recommendation: one was good but the usual, basic stuff. the other was INCREDIBLE. getting a reccomendation from that teacher was one of the best things i did lol…
Counselor Rec: nothing special at all. he wrote recs for like 100 students…seems like he wrote it in 3 minutes. didn’t even spell my name right 
Additional Rec: great rec from boss and great rec from mentor at internship…they say only send 2 teacher recs, but extra recs really do make a difference and tell them more about you. i sent 1 counselor, 2 teacher, and 2 extra, for a total of 5 recs. don’t be scared to. but i wouldn’t advise any more than that…i was really pushing it with 5 lol.<br>
Interview: didn’t have one </p>
<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant): Maryland
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: public
Ethnicity: south Asian
Gender: female
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): NONE AT ALL. </p>
<p>Reflection
Strengths: ESSAYS and recomendation letters, great leadership in school activities, and lots of extracirriculars (both related to my major and just volunteer work in my community!)<br>
Weaknesses: SAT score DEFINITELY was not as good as other applicants.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: i’ve done A LOT of volunteer work in my community and showed passion for it in essays. essays showed perfect fit with the college…and showed how much i wanted to go there.<br>
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: cancelled all other applications…:D</p>
<p>General Comments: SOO FREAKIN EXCITEDD!!! cornell was my top choice and i was soo surprised i got in:) while applying, i felt like my SAT score and my subject test scores were NOTHING compared to scores other applicants would have, and i am sure my scores ARE much lower than some other applicants scores. but i really put my heart into my essays…i talked about something personal i was passionate about and showed my love for cornell in my supplement (for which i did a lot of research about cornell). my advice is WRITE A UNIQUE ESSAY! something that makes you stand out! and write about whatever is important to you as a person, what you want to tell them, NOT what they want to hear. i don’t mean to write like 5 pages here but my story into the ivy league (lol) is very atypical, 2010 especially was FULL of struggles but i had this dream in mind and kept faith in God and thanks to Him it all worked out:) i don’t mean to make this religious here…but never lose hope in God because He knows whats best for us and wow this is a miracle…still can’t believe it. can’t wait for Cornell Days!!!
all those rejected/deferred, BEST OF LUCK!!! just remember everything will work out and i hope everyone is happy wherever they choose to go:)
to those accepted, CONGRATULATIONS and see ya’ll in Ithaca!!! :D</p>
<p>^I’m applying to CAS at Cornell this year (RD)! I really hope I get in, but I’m international, so we’ll see how that goes.</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Kinetics & One Love - Graduation (ft. Wynter Gordon)](<a href=“Kinetics & One Love - Graduation (ft. Wynter Gordon) - YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhAOAvy0daE)</p>
<p>Amazing rap about cornell, get pumped</p>
<p>awww how nice 
I listened to it and read the comment haha everyone was like “I miss Cornell” and “Class of '14 REPRESENT”! I love the positivity.</p>
<p>im more like a math and finance combined person, so ORIE</p>
<p>this is so late… but i finally rememebred to post it
hope this helps for whoever wants to get in RD</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted to CoE</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): CR 670, M 770, WR 800, single sit Oct 2010
TOEFL: N/A
SAT II: MathII 800, Chem 770
Unweighted GPA (out of 100): 93.5 or so… 96.7 weighted
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 54/837
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Chem - 5 (only one i reported)
Senior Year Course Load: AP BC calc, AP Macro, AP Micro, AP English Lit, Honors Government, AP CompSci, Required Guitar, PE male
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): some leadership award it wasn’t major or even minor
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): key club 4 yrs, track 2 yrs, french club 2 yrs, science newsletter 3 yrs, etc
Job/Work Experience: political campaign for summer, working for business managing account receivables, etc
Volunteer/Community service: hospital volunteering 2 yrs
Summer Activities: forgot
Essays: AWESOME with a capital A
Teacher Recommendation: almost great
Counselor Rec: GREAT
Additional Rec: none
Interview: none
Other
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: shady high school[li] [/li]Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: male
Income Bracket: low
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</p>
<p>Reflection
[<em>] Strengths:essays and recs… that’s about it
[</em>] Weaknesses: my grades
[*] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: my essays and recs</p>
<p>who here applied to or is applying to CAS this year? (besides the one person who got into CAS) :)</p>
<p>Ordered a Cornell hoodie for my son for xmas. I know it will put a smile on his face.</p>
<p>Congrats to all those that got in! You’ll love it here just as I do. Feel free to message me if you have any questions.</p>
<p>Mind commenting on how the rooms are?
Well, you should comment on the proper thread…
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/1050984-ed-housing-2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/1050984-ed-housing-2.html</a>
Thanks!</p>