<p>shineprateek if you apply early decision there are 3 possible outcomes, accepted, rejected, or deferred. If deferred you are placed into the regular decision pool and your application is reviewed along with the other RD applicants.</p>
<p>i looked at the stats of people who got into cornell, and i’m sad to say that so many are unqualified intellectually…these are going to be my classmates ■■■ -.-</p>
<p>Yeah, early kids have it easy. Plenty of people also have “hooks”. Sucks that you are an ORM, huh? Regular admits for cas and engineering (at least the ones without “hooks”) are very different on the whole. Don’t go judging like that and acting like a snob – SATs don’t guarantee anything, I’m sure you know that well. More than plenty of 2200s+ and 2300s+ got waitlisted or rejected (especially in regular), and others just don’t like to report their stats.
I actually like this “intellectual diversity”. It should make classes easier since grade inflation depends on how everybody does. It also makes life less boring since there is bound to be many different people with different interests.</p>
<p>I’m not so sure ED helps unhooked applicants that much. I applied ED was deferred and then accepted RD. The same thing for 2 of my friends. I think the stats that show ED as a hugh +++ might be misleading as most legacy and athletes apply ED. This has been discussed on several other threads and I for one dismissed them until it happened to me! (lol).</p>
<p>lol antiflamer thanks for the antiflame… you’re right i guess i’ll just advantage of the “noobs” and hope they lower the curve :)</p>
<p>@azndarkvader, If Cornell accepted so many “underqualified people”, why don’t you attend another school where people are more qualified to your liking? It’s somewhat implied that you think you’re more suitable to be a Cornell student than the other applicants whose stats you’ve read. </p>
<p>My point is, just because an applicant’s stats aren’t that great doesn’t mean they won’t perform as well at Cornell. I’m sure their admissions counselors aren’t oblivious to who they’re accepting. Maybe you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. Who knows, one of your “underqualified” classmates will supersede and become valedictorian of your college class.</p>
<p>@anika011 i’m just ****ed off my friends didnt get in over other people.</p>
<p>@azndark: I hear you. Cornell acceptees’ stats do seem lower than those of some other comparable school accepteess, both early and regular rounds. I am kinda stunned.</p>
<p>Students are accepted into specific school based on their special talent rather than their academic stats. Students in architecture need to have extensive portfolio. Students in Hotel need extensive hospitality experience. I am sure many students in A&S or Engineering wouldn’t necessary have those talent. At the sametime, just because thye are in more pre-professional schools, their stats still can’t fall below a certain level.</p>
<p>Our younger daughter who is a junior in high school now, her counselor is pushing her to apply to schools like Yale or Princeton because she may have the stats for it. My question is why? I feel Cornell offers everything those schools have to offer, and plus some. The “plus some” is those other schools within Cornell. My older daughter(a senior at A&S) has taken courses at those other schools, and at parties she has met some very interesting people with different background. You guys all know what happens when people are too smart sometimes, right? Little bit too boring.</p>
<p>NO they are actually smarter than you because they have a life!!! It is not about the grades only. It is about contributing to a community and society. I bet you will learn lots from them!!!</p>
<p>Unless you have the proper hook, having excellent stats is nowhere near a guarantee for getting into any school. This year’s admissions cycle reflected that.</p>
<p>@wannabehappy: What do you (and azndark) base your post #448 (and 447) on (I copied it here)? Are you basing it on the posts here at cc? if yes, it may not be a reliable indicator…</p>
<p>wannabehappy
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@azndark: I hear you. Cornell acceptees’ stats do seem lower than those of some other comparable school accepteess, both early and regular rounds. I am kinda stunned.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t draw any conclusions about admissions from CC - both due to the small sample of posters and the frequent presence of ■■■■■■. Cornell has reported that the median SATs of accepted candidates for the Class of 2015 is 710 verbal and 740 math.</p>
<p>^ behappy7- You consistently make posts that hit the bull’s eye! Thanks.
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<p>good post behappy7,
I don’t know where “wannabehappy” and azndark" get their info, but it is highly questionable if it has any accuracy at all.
also, admissions are about a lot more than scores
from the looks of things GPA is probably by far the most important factor, but then again, it is hard to know for sure</p>
<p>Wow, i know this is pretty late, buuuuuuuut:</p>
<p>ACCEPTED to CHE Early DEcision (obviously)
-COllege of Human Ecology</p>
<p>Male, African (Nigerian) [might have been my hook, my stats are weak
GPA: 4.3 weighted
3.3 unwieghted
Test Scores:
640 English<br>
630 Math
520 Writing</p>
<p>ACT: 29 COmposite</p>
<p>Subject Tests:
620 in Math II
530 in BIO (SHOULD HAVE STUDIED -_-)
520 in Spanish (i fooled myself into thinking I was un hispanohablante)</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Pathfinders Master Guide, go-to guy for physical labor at my church.
Made Star achievement in Boy Scouting, recruited to work as a Transition counselor at BSR Scouting camp in SoCal.
4 year wrestler, spent upwards of 1500 hours as of applying (now about 2000, almost made it to State >.<)
2 Years in tennis, probably about 200-300 hours.
Rotary Life Scholar (it’s a high-school scholarship experiment that’s only being done in my town, but basically one is interviewed in 8th grade and over the next four years one collaborates with other kids in their grade, do service projects, and learn about humanitarianism).
Im sure I left many things out, but yeah.</p>
<p>hello thanks</p>
[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted**[/color][/size]
School of Hotel Administration 
[ b]Objective:**
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): Critical Reading 750; Writing 760; Math 690
[ *] ACT: N/A
[ *] SAT II: Math L2 720; Chinese with Listening 770; Bio E 740
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.9
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): Chinese (5); Biology (4); Language + Composition (4); US History (5); Spanish Language (4)
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: Orchestra, Honors Physics, AP Calc AB, AP Gov/Econ, ASB, AP Lit, Speech
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, 3rd place California Speech and Debate Invitational; Certificates of Recognition from Congresswoman Judy Chu, Assemblyman Ed Chau, and former Assemblyman Mike Eng; CSF Life Sealbearer; AP Scholar with Distinction, etc
[ /list]
[ b]Subjective:**
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Red Cross (Secretary, Event Coordinator); Cooking Essentials Club (Secretary, Event Planner, Co-President); Mending Kids International (Treasurer); Speech and Debate; Orchestra; piano
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Front desk intern at the Hilton Hotel for several months
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Red Cross, Union Station, public library, misc.
[ *] Summer Activities: Leadership camp; Hotel Ops course at Cornell Summer College
[ *] Essays: I think my Common App essay was pretty strong. definitely unique and a bit risky I guess. Supplement was ok, pretty straightforward
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: Spanish and Math teachers. I’ve had my math teacher for 2 years and he likes me a lot. Spanish teacher loved me, I was like the only person who participated in class lol
[ *] Counselor Rec: solid; I’m very close with my counselor and I talk to him on a weekly basis
[ ] Additional Rec: my front desk manager at the Hilton wrote one for me. i didn’t get to read it but i guess it was good?
[ ] Interview: okay, not the best. My interviewer was very casual which was good, but he was really talkative so he spent more time talking about his experiences than asking me questions haha. I flew to Cornell for my interview so maybe that gave me some brownie points b/c it showed that I was serious about Cornell
[ /list]
[ b]Other
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: Asian
[ *] Gender: Female
[ ]Income Bracket: ~100,000
[ ] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none that I can think of
[ b]Reflection
[ *] Strengths: creative essay, strong letters of rec., pretty good stats. I think the Summer College helped too because the professors Mark and Reneta saw my work ethic and Mark asked me to speak at the graduation ceremony. Internship probably also helped
[ *] Weaknesses: I’m sure some other candidates have had more experience with hospitality
[ ] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: i guess the same as my strengths?
[ ] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted into Penn State, withdrew all my other apps
[ b]General Comments: super excited to be a Cornell hotelie!!! Also can’t wait to go back to Ithaca 
@tweetylam Congratulations! Are you from L.A.?
Old thread @tweetylam. You are class of 2019, right?