<p>Does your secondary choice college even see your app if you get accepted by the first choice college? What if you get deferred? I'd much rather get an acceptance by my secondary college than a deferral from my first.</p>
<p>you app will not be seen by the secondary college if you get ADMITTED to your primary college (so choose the primary as the one you really want to go)</p>
<p>usually when your app to primary is rejected, it gets sent to secondary college’s admission office; when you get deferred in ED for primary college, you just get a defer, secondary will NOT look at your app, unless you are really outstanding; if you get rejected by both, you are done</p>
<p>I heard that the chance of the secondary school even looking at your appplication is very very low</p>
<p>^That is what I heard as well.</p>
<p>The second school only looks at it if you’re an extreme fit for the second school, and that you’re a good enough student that Cornell really wants you to go.</p>
<p>I was wonder if there are any stats for how many people who did primary and secondary were viewed by the secondary.</p>
<p>Wow really? I thought they definitely looked at it if you got rejected from the first</p>
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<p>Nope…very few students have their application forwarded to their second choice college. I thought I saw somewhere in the Cornell Sun that the number of students accepted to Cornell via the primary/alternate option was around 2%, but I can’t seem to find the article.</p>
<p>This primary/alternate thing is not meant to be two cracks at an acceptance. It’s designed for the rare occasions where the students’ EC’s/essays clearly fit a school other than the one he applied to. You shouldn’t be thinking “Oh, I have a 20% chance of getting into CAS and if I’m rejected, I have a 25% chance of getting into the Hotel School so if I apply to both, I have a 40% chance of getting into Cornell.” um no. Only 5% of applications are even read by the secondary school.</p>
<p>^ How would a student’s ECs and essays clearly fit the College of Arts & Sciences…? I’m applying to CALS AEM as my primary choice, and most likely still putting down CAS Econ as a second choice. Is there virtually no chance of the CAS admissions committee reading my application if I’m rejected from CALS?</p>
<p>Its pretty easy to do an internal transfer when you are already in (except I heard getting into AEM as an internal transfer is harder), so it would be somewhat silly if all people rejected the first time got a second shot, as many would just try to transfer once they were already in.</p>
<p><a href=“http://admissions.cornell.edu/downloads/PrimaryAlternateAdmission.pdf[/url]”>http://admissions.cornell.edu/downloads/PrimaryAlternateAdmission.pdf</a>
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<p>Applicants should be very careful about picking primary and secondary. They should some how be connected, or it may actually hurt your chance (this is purely my own deduction). If you couldn’t find similar majors in primary and secondary, you would be better off in just picking one.</p>
<p>^ I think Applied Econ & Management in CALS and Economics in CAS would fit the bill, no? I’ve got a 2 business/economics related ECs too and my academic stats are very competitive for Cornell.</p>
<p>^^^agreed, that’s a good example.</p>