<p>Cornell IS awesome. :D</p>
<p>ImmaFly, is it true that Cornell can be depressing at times? The overcast weather, the lonely collegetown?</p>
<p>Cornell campus/ Ithaca is beautiful. Ditto Dartmouth/ NH. But if the cold weather prohibits one such as me from going out too much, the most beautiful place on the earth would be of little pleasure innit?</p>
<p>^Is’nt the supposed loneliness better>?? It’ll be so good to sit in a park bench with overcast skies and chill winds at the top of a hill with no one around. </p>
<p>Hmmm…</p>
<p>There’s something about Cornell that’s depressing. Maybe the workload? Because the suicide thing is really high.</p>
<p>Last year was a bad year for CalTech as well.</p>
<p>THe workload’s tough, take my word for it. And the weather’s not as bad as people make it out to be. Cornell is a wonderful place.</p>
<p>ImmaFly, have you tried Moosewood restaurant in Ithaca? Their cookbooks are well known.</p>
<p>Of the 12 schools that made data available [including Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, University of Michigan, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign], MIT had the highest suicide rate: 10.2 per 100,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The only direct comparison for the 12 could be made counting all students. MIT also provided a breakdown of its undergraduate suicides, where the rate was 20.6. Most other colleges had fewer than 7 suicides per 100,000, closer to the average for all colleges. The rate at Harvard, with total annual enrollment of about 18,500, was 7.4, with 15 suicides since 1990. The rate at Johns Hopkins was 7, and at Cornell, 5.7. At some public universities that compete for students with MIT, incident rates were also lower: The University of Michigan, which enrolls about 37,000 students a year, had a rate of 2.5.</p>
<p>Not cool.</p>
<p>From “Official Indian Stats” to “Official Suicide Rate at Top Colleges Stats”</p>
<p>Talk about digression.</p>
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Not cool at all. And these are the students who had the character and potential to make it to those places. It’s scary.</p>
<p>DECEMBER 1ST IS NEW DEADLINE FOR OVER 40 HIGHLY-SELECTIVE SCHOOLS DUE TO THE FACT THEY RECEIVED RECORD APPLICATIONS ALREADY…ive been hearing rumors are they true??</p>
<p>WHat?? Where did you get that from?
But it’s not really possible.</p>
<p>I heard this from a counseelor of a reputable school…</p>
<p>Sorry for the double post … but i wanted to know if the day we submit our app makes a difference … i.e. would submitting the application on december 1 be better than submitting on december 31??</p>
<p>She’s talking off her hat.
The schools cannot change their deadlines so late into the application season.</p>
<p>And to your above post, of course not. It makes no difference at all. Plus, you shouldn’t be asking this question right? You’re the one who’s saying the deadline’s been shifted.</p>
<p>lol thats what i thought too… these were the exact contents of the mail
- DECEMBER 1ST IS DEADLINE FOR ALL MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS CONSIDERATION</p>
<p>What does this mean? IF you are hoping to attract a Merit Scholarship due to your brilliant GPA + SAT, you need to submit by midnight December 1st</p>
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<li>DECEMBER 1ST IS NEW DEADLINE FOR OVER 40 HIGHLY-SELECTIVE SCHOOLS DUE TO THE FACT THEY RECEIVED RECORD APPLICATIONS ALREADY</li>
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<p>I saw this coming. Check your schools. I’ve been notified of 40+</p>
<p>so ur quite sure that the day we submit dos’nt make any difference??</p>
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<p>Well, I recently read an article in which a Harvard adcom stated that the first 200 essays were more exciting to read than the last 1000. Inference - submit your application as early as possible.</p>
<p>Plus anyway don’t submit on December 31st. No last minute stuff. Get it in by at least 20th of December.</p>
<p>Violator,</p>
<p>1) Well, that’s nothing new; it’s been on their websites for a long time. Merit scholarship applicants have to abide by different deadlines.</p>
<p>2) Could you mention the names of a few of these “Top 40 schools” that you’re talking about?</p>
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True. For the first 1000. Since the first 1000 slots have already been filled, it doesn’t make much of a difference for the rest of the applicantions. I doubt the 2016th applicantion is looked at with a lot more excitement than the 2080th.</p>
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Even though I don’t recommend what I did, I submitted my Yale SCEA at 22:00 hrs EST on Nov 1. It went through all right.</p>
<p>Violator-I think I’m going to have a stroke if the deadlines changed. Which they most certainly haven’t. Like Pixie said, there is no freaking way they’ll change it this late into the application game.
I have one week to finish up all my applications for school. Holy *<strong><em>ey *</em></strong>e.</p>