<p>Yes, I did use online status.</p>
<p>Junior transfer
CCC 3.86 GPA
Honors credit
Phi Theta Kappa
ECs: Volunteer work, ESL tutor
Decent essays
Excellent Recs
...nothing real special.</p>
<p>VERY mediocre HS stats that I'd rather not post ^^;</p>
<p>If you are a non-traditional student, HS stats would not matter. I am also assuming that non-traditional students were notified early, as a Texan non-traditional student also alerted us to his acceptance.</p>
<p>Congratulations, though:)</p>
<p>what is the definition of non-traditional student?</p>
<p>Older students who, for whatever reason, have spent a significant time out of school.</p>
<p>Shinkun, did you find out your Cornell decision online?
I knew they release some of the decisions starting early in the April, but never expected to be this early...
Ahhhhhhhhhh!! Does this mean my decision could be online tomorrow?
<em>going insane</em></p>
<p>Yes,</p>
<p>Here is the message.</p>
<p>We are providing you with our decision on your application to transfer to Cornell University. We regret to have to tell you that we are unable to offer you admission to Cornell. </p>
<p>This electronic message is not your official notification. You should be receiving an official letter from us in the mail shortly. </p>
<p>We understand that this is not the news you were hoping to hear from Cornell. Given our large and competitive transfer applicant pool, it is not possible to offer admission to all candidates who would benefit from a Cornell education. </p>
<p>We wish you the best. </p>
<p>Sincerely, </p>
<p>Jason Locke
Director
Undergraduate Admissions Office
Cornell University</p>
<p>Concerning GPA's, it should also be acknowledged that is there is substantial variation among institutions, thus making any kind of accurate, categorical evaluation of them impossible. I cannot but believe that institutions do not see them as apple-to-apple comparisons, and it seems imprudent to me to think of them in this way. From my "ethnographic" "research," I've determined that GPA's are only vague indicators of academic ability, and I believe that most admissions committees have made similar deductions. I have been in classes where not a single student received an A (a reality not touted by the professor, but realized only when I inquired about how my A- fit into the context of the class). In contrast, many other schools give out A's for even the most basic participation. It seems that they are hardly comparable. I know a number of students who have recently transferred, and most have found the grading rubrics between them to be of extreme disparity. One student was able to maintain a 3.9 GPA at his first institution with only minimal effort. Once he transferred, he found himself working by his account ten-times harder to scrap by with a 3.0. I would thus encourage all anxious applicants to avoid numerical comparisons, or to at least take them with a grain of salt. I am confident that your applications will be evaluated with this discrepancy in mind, and that as long as you have done well in your academic program, your merits will be evaluated qualitatively, not merely quantitatively.</p>
<p>calipharius, what is truly unfair, is such a disparatiy with in an insitution. such disparity does exist between different professors in my school. I took only the toughest classes though.</p>
<p>Very valid observation. Unfortunately, I do not think this disparity is fairly accounted for by adcoms, as they have no basis for seeing these differences. From the Dean's report and from the reputation of one's school, the adcoms can get a sense for how hard it is on average to get an A at the school (on average seems to me a fallacious concept in this respect). Variation among professors' grading within an institution is certainly universal. However, many universities have requirements and grade quotas which perpetuate either grade inflation or deflation. These are more likely to be in the conciousness of the adcoms, and I think more likely to influence admissions decisions. Again, these are merely my deductions, and I am the first to acknowledge that they may be far from the way things work in admissions offices.</p>
<p>there is also a difference between grading at different institutions that you have to be aware of. So a 4.0 at one school could be attainable which the same at another college would be almost impossible.</p>
<p>damn i wish harvard had rolling admissions...</p>
<p>-Annie</p>
<p>Yeah, I already wrote about this at some length....</p>
<p>CNCL!!!</p>
<p>I just checked, the little message disappeared!!! I think...that means my decision is near....</p>
<p>Pardon my ignorance, but which message is the one that dissapears? The one that says "Your application has been forwarded to (Department) for review."</p>
<p>Thank you and GOOD LUCK!</p>
<p>-Eddie-</p>
<p>Eddie: It's the message at the bottom of the screen when you log in to the online status page. When this sentence disappears, usually it foreshadows that the decision is being uploaded and thus will shortly be available online. Mine still says, "Cornell has not yet made a decision on your application. Please continue to check this site for decision information. Thank you!"</p>
<p>kkl230: good luck to you! hope you get you acceptance really soon!</p>
<p>All these happenings are way too early than I expected...</p>
<p>Hey Shinkun,
I've applied to UPENN as well, and I was wondering how you received your decision so fast, because according to them, the decisions start coming after May 1st.</p>
<p>do other ivies notify early like penn?</p>
<p>hm... I applied to UPenn too! :O</p>
<p>Can't wait until May 1st. I'm going insane... can't stop thinking about colleges.
Which school within UPenn are you guys applying to?</p>
<p>i applied transfer to upenn for SEAS, still waiting to hear as well</p>
<p>Found the message... thanks. Now I'll have something to base my insanity on. Good luck to everyone with their "earlier than expected" decisions, hopefully the news is of the positive variety.</p>
<p>-Eddie-</p>
<p>I applied to the College at Penn (Physics).</p>
<p>I'm eagerly waiting, but I'm also very hesitant to click and check. arghh</p>