<p>Ayanas, congrats to you! Good luck at U of Florida. A great school and very close to home for you. Just let nyu, southeastern & cornell and the others know you are going to U of F.
Good luck to you!!! You seem to have a lot of connections in Florida which will really help when you graduate.</p>
<p>Thank you for the kind words, englandern 
Although everyone around me wants me to go to NYU or Cornell, I’m a lot more comfortable in state and it will be virtually free. I’m sure that I’ll love being a Gator ;)</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted via likely letter to CAS</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I: 2310, M 740, CR 790, W 780 (only took once)
ACT: n/a
SAT II: Math II 800, French w/ listening 800, Chemistry 800
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98
Rank: n/a
AP (place score in parenthesis): Chemistry, French Lang, Econ Macro, Econ Micro, Gov Comp/US, Bio (all 5s)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP World Hist, AP Phys B, AP Engl Lit, Mandarin 4, electives
Major Awards: some science Olympiad semi finalists, one maths award semi-prestigious, not much</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars: varsity rugby/soccer, tutoring at school, MUN (leader)
Job/Work Experience: tutored for company
Volunteer/Community service: started microfinance operation in Vietnam (where I’m from), HFH, random service activities
Summer Activities: said microfinance operation, summer school at Brown
Essays: Cornell-specific one good, the other one all right
Teacher Recommendation: not so good
Counselor Rec: average
Interview: pretty good </p>
<p>Other
State: HONG KONG
School Type: private
Ethnicity: vietnamese frenchcanadian
Gender: female
Income Bracket: no aid
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): not really</p>
<p>Reflection
Strengths: gpa, course rigor, sat
Weaknesses: recs
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: accepted- Mc Gill, U Waterloo, UBC, deferred- Yale scea</p>
<p>ayanas… were you accepted from a likely letter?</p>
<p>how the heck does one show passion for the hotel industry?</p>
<p>^LIKE ME.
Essays weren’t just another bland “i want to go to hotel because it’s easy and fun” essay.
A lot of different experiences, not just work, but outside of work.
Just overall interest in the school. I sent the school 2 extra supplements.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted by CALS via Likely Letter</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 1970 (730 W, 620 CR, 620 M)
[</em>] ACT: 30 (35 E, 30 R, 29 M, 26 S)
[<em>] SAT II: 670 US Hist, 650 English Lit, 610 Math 1 (lol math isn’t my forte. Idt I submitted that one)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): we don’t rank but I fall around #20 of 110
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): American (5), World (4), Language (3)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Gov, AP Lit, College Spanish, Elementary Calculus, Physics Honors & Creative Writing
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar, AP Scholar, QuestBridge Finalist
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Yearbook (Editor In Chief 2 years), Student Council (Senior Class President), SADD, Interact Comm. Service Club, & 12 seasons of sports. (Varsity/JV Soccer, Var. Winter Track [captain], Var. Lacrosse, Var. Badminton, Var Field Hockey, JV Softball)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Camp Counselor (2 years) & CIT (1 year)
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: a lot…I went to Costa Rica and got 50 hours of service for this emersion program. We painted schools, taught the kids English…that kinda stuff. It was an amazing opportunity (will definitely study abroad in college!) Oh and I also volunteer at my local elderly home a few times weekly.
[<em>] Summer Activities: I covered these basically. Camp camp and more camp, & the one summer I went to CR
[</em>] Essays: Very personal/strongpoint. I wrote about 9/11 & my parents divorce, but tried to keep it tasteful.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: My AP Lang & AP US teachers. They both like me & I heard they are very good at what they do
[</em>] Counselor Rec: My counselor and I are really close. I actually read part of the rec after I sent them all out and it was really flattering. He’ll definitely be who I miss most at my school.
[<em>] Additional Rec: Didn’t wanna bombard schools with any excess.
[</em>] Interview: Yes…I was pretty nervous (don’t be… future applicants, it’s really not that bad) He talked a lot about irrelevant things though and was super friendly. I think it went well. He said he could definitely see me at Cornell & said I reminded him of his daughter.
[/ul]Other</p>
<p>[ul][<em>] State (if domestic applicant): New York
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Small Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic (Cuban)
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>]Income Bracket:<$30,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first generation of immediate family, but also legacy (Uncle), status as a NHRP/QuestBridge Finalist[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Reflection
- [<em>] Strengths: probably my essay. It was unique & made my teacher cry. & I’d say my ECs because I balanced leadership w athletics
[</em>] Weaknesses: my stats. Ik I’m on the low end of test scores without a doubt
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Nothing explains it better than the cliche; “You never know what they’re looking for.”
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: I haven’t been rejected yet (crossing my fingers!) but Accepted EA from: Boston College, UMiami, Tulane, Loyola Maryland & Elon
General Comments:</p>
<p>Best of luck to everyone who’s applying, and especially to everyone still waiting until April 1st. Send me a PM if you’d like CORNELL 2015!</p>
<p>9 days…i dont even know why im counting down though, i am 99% sure when i open the computer screen it will say rejected. lol…but its nice to dream that i will get accepted, but highly doubt i will, oh well…</p>
<p>@allnycolleges, I haven’t been on CC long enough to know what the term means…they just sent me a letter letting me know that I will be offered admissions and inviting me to a diversity hosting event.</p>
<p>@ayanas, yes that’s a likely letter so congrats!</p>
<p>Collecting hotel models as a hobby, making spreadsheets, living in a hotel, spending the summer in holiday inn and shadowing room service people, the usual</p>
<p>@ayanas, I liked your background - picking University of Florida over NYU or Cornell, I am sure that UF is a perfect fit for you and what’s nice is that it is close to home for you. Go with your heart.
Good luck Gator!!!</p>
<p>So these likely letters… </p>
<p>So people who are “likely” to get accepted get them, but what about everyone else?
**If I didn’t get a likely letter does that mean I am not getting accepted??!! **</p>
<p>I think someone said the likely letters are to people who will bring diversity to Cornell</p>
<p>Grr… As repeated many times before:
If you did not get a likely letter, it doesn’t mean that you did not get accepted.
Also, it does not mean that you did get accepted (obvious, but just saying this).</p>
<p>There are even those who get the likely letters but are NOT accepted.
They are likely letters, not acceptance letters.</p>
<p>Find out on the 30th for the <em>real</em> letter.</p>
<p>@Supervisor, I’m confused then…someone above said that the letter I received was a “likely,” but it starts out:</p>
<p>Your application has been reviewed by the admissions selection committee and I am writing to let you know that you will be offered admission to Cornell. Although the Ivy League won’t officially notify students of their admissions decision until later this month, we wanted to share the good news with you now.</p>
<p>How would a student receive this letter and not be accepted?</p>
<p>People, this thread is for decisions only. Try to keep your extraneous discussions in other threads.</p>
<p>Now, to put the whole likely letter confusion to rest: “Likely letters” are sent only to the top applicants, minorities invited to DHW, and several top female engineering applicants. If you received a likely letter, you WILL be admitted to Cornell. If you did not receive one, that means nothing. You will find out whether you were accepted on March 30th, along with everyone else.</p>
<p>If I did not receive a likely letter, does that mean I won’t be accepted??</p>
<p>Not receiving a likely letter doesn’t indicate anything at all. You can still be admitted.</p>
<p>As PioneerJones stated above, people who receive likely letters are ADMITTED. Some guy from Cornell posted on here saying that. Why else would they send them?.. They are sent to the strongest applicants, but even if you didn’t get a likely letter, you could still be admitted.</p>
<p>By, “there are even those who get the likely letters but are NOT accepted” I do not mean specifically YOU.</p>
<p>I am going off of this story at my school:
Last year one person at my school received a likely letter from “______” but then when time came, that person got a rejection notification online. Calling to confirm, the person was informed that the computers “accidentally messed up”… yada yada.
So I hear!</p>
<p>Obviously your letter says, “you will be offered admission to Cornell,” so there’s no denying that you have been accepted (yay!).</p>
<p>I will slightly rephrase what I said:
If you did not get a likely letter, it doesn’t mean that you did not get accepted.
If you did get a likely letter, then there’s a 99.9999999999999999999999999% chance that you got accepted (especially when it says so on the likely letter).</p>
<p>**Oh!
Maybe you didn’t get what I was saying with:
“If you did not get a likely letter, it doesn’t mean that you did not get accepted.
Also, it does not mean that you did get accepted (obvious, but just saying this).”</p>
<p>That last sentence I probably should not have tacked in (obvious statement).
We all make mistakes. -.-</p>
<p>“… if you didn’t get a likely letter, you could still be admitted.”
That should have been my last sentence.</p>