<p>Hey guys, I applied to HumEc and wasn't offered an interview. However, today, I got this phone call from a student in HumEc asking me if I had any questions about the college. It was on my answering machine and I deleted it by accident :p. Does this mean anything? I tried to think it out but the "hopeful me" says, "Why would they call everyone who had applied?" and then the more realistic me goes, "It's just a phone call." Did everyone who applied to HumEc get this phone call? if not, does this mean something?</p>
<p>they do that sometimes.. interview/phone call doesnt' really mean acceptance or anything i believe. i know people who were interviewed and rejected. perhaps interviews mean you passed the cutoff or something</p>
<p>HumEC is a small college with few applicants. They can afford to do this.</p>
<p>I would take it as a good sign. The alumni interview happens as a matter of course, but a call from a student means a specific effort is being made on your behalf. At this point, I think the majority of decisions have been made. Good luck!</p>
<p>Hey when my sis was in the college process, she was admitted to carnegie mellon and they called around this time to see if she had any questions ... i would take it as a good sign too...</p>
<p>i think getting the call is better than not getting it so be happy. seems as though most did not so it must be good?</p>
<p>I got a call too, hopefully its a good sign.</p>
<p>Too bad I didn't have any questions and hopefully that won't negatively towards that</p>
<p>I heard that three years ago, for the 2005 applicants, HumEc phone called around March 15th to reveal that the applicant was accepted and also to ask if the applicant had any questions about HumEc. I'm curious if this phone call might be an actual 'likely' phone call since HumEc didn't send out any likely letters so far. But then again, the "acceptance" part is missing from my phone call :-(</p>
<p>and plz excuse my title for this thread. I meant a current Cornell HumEc student had called; not an alumni.</p>
<p>hmmm...current student? interesting...means they got your contact info from admissions....please, please, please don't get your hopes up....but, this could possibly be a good sign :-)</p>
<p>I got the same HumEc call, but I didn't think it meant anything. Hopefully you guys are right and it's a sign of acceptance!</p>
<p>The only reason I think of it as a positive sign is that CALS Ambassadors usually do phone calls to accepted students and we once called a student who hadn't received his acceptance letter yet</p>
<p>D has applied to CHE-no phone call here. Reading these posts makes me feel a rejection will be there the 31st.</p>
<p>For people that received a call-where in the country ( or elsewhere) do you live? Do you think Cornell/CHE is a match or reach?</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>@georgiatwins: I really don't think the phone call meant anything. If it did, not getting one definitely wouldn't mean a rejection.</p>
<p>I live in Utah, I personally feel HumanEc was a reach for me.</p>
<p>yes...now that I think about it, I don't think the phone call would mean much. I think they called me because they never gave me an interview (theoretically, a chance to ask some questions). Or perhaps those who were contacted were randomly selected just cuz. (just like I was never offered an interview despite many of friends at school did). Whatever the case is... decisions come out in less than three weeks. Best of luck to all who are willing!</p>
<p>i got a phone call too, but i wasn;t home to answer it. my brother took down the number and i later found out it was from cornell. i think it's just a phone call to try to answer questions. i'm not going to read into it too much.</p>
<p>i forgot to add, i had an interview with a Cornell alumni, and i also got the phone call so who knows what this means. i think we all just have to wait. other schools in cornell seem to have sent out likely letters and what not, but i didnt see anyone from human ecology that got one... they seem to be very secretive.</p>
<p>Hopefully it means something....Even though I'm telling myself it means nothing</p>
<p>I applied for Policy and Management Analysis major and I guess this is an instance where my curiosity calls upon my analysis skills. So far my reasoning suggests that the calls mean "something", though there is no solid proof.
The given + analysis are: 1. not everyone is contacted despite the HumEc's ability to contact all who had applied. (approx 1300 freshmen applicants per year). 2. No likely letters for HumEc. (so there is a chance that these calls might be substituting the 'likely letter effect', which is basically to encourage the students to come to Cornell.) 3. Cost of these personalized phone calls. Firstly, the financial cost of these calls. I live in the West Coast and I know that long distance calls from NY must have cost something. Of course, they could have asked if applicants "had any questions about the college" cheaply and effortlessly by sending a general email "message" to all who had applied. Yet they chose to personally call. Secondly, there is the personal cost: assuming that the phone call is personal, friendly, and increasing your liking of the school (which these phone-a-thons were supposed to and did in my case), sending these calls to students who would be rejected would only hurt them - perchance even make them feel betrayed. For myself, I think I would be more hurt if I get rejected after getting such a warm call than without one.
My question then is; what is Cornell trying to get from these costs?
Oh and 4. The date of the phone call was March 10-15 ish, which means the decision are pretty much set.</p>
<p>I want to go to HumEc so bad!! :() I am amazed how this is like a romantic relationship... HumEc 'winks' at me with their phone call - or so I think so (because I'm already mad in love!). The next thing is that I desperately want to assure that my lover's luv is true. I try everything I can think of to prove the love is not just a wild dream. I pick up a daisy and count the petals. "HumEc loves me...Loves me not...loves me...loves me not...loves..."</p>
<p>Now that I think about it...I'm going to get my hopes up and say that everyone who received the student ambassador call for HumanEc was accepted.</p>
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<p>So what? Why are some students given interviews and some not? There's not always a rhyme and reason to everything. It most likely depends on the availability of the interviewer (and, in this case, the caller). The HumEC callers are most likely simply student volunteers. They're probably given a list of potential acceptees and told to call as many as they can. Depending on their schedule, they may or may not get to everyone on their list. </p>
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No likely letters for HumEc. (so there is a chance that these calls might be substituting the 'likely letter effect', which is basically to encourage the students to come to Cornell.)
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<p>There's nothing preventing HumEC from sending likely letters so it's unlikely they're using phone calls as a substitute. Keep in mind, likely letters are not sent to all strong or even accepted applicants. They are only sent to URM's, athletes, and female acceptees to the engineering school. Unless you can prove to me that everyone who has received a phone call falls into those categories, then these phone calls are nothing like likely letters.</p>
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Cost of these personalized phone calls.
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<p>Sending out course books or huge viewbooks may not be cost effective either but colleges do it in order to increase their yield. Phone and mailing costs are chump change to a school with a $6 billion endowment. Letters are more personal than emails. Phone calls are more personal than letters. This is why schools sometimes prefer to contact applicants via phone rather than via email.</p>
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<p>What is the point of likely letters? What is the point of giving away key chains? What is the point of hosting local events? What is the point of calling applicants? To increase yield.</p>