<p>Right so first off, I have been a longtime CC lurker but never really bothered to create an account, until today. Which is when I submitted an essay for Cornell (it was the one for School of Engineering). I have two engineering essays on my computer, one for Cornell and one for Princeton. So I accidently submitted the wrong essay on my computer and pressed send, and was too tired/drowsy/finally relaxed at being done with college apps to realize this. This essay contained "Princeton" in two places where it should've been "Cornell."</p>
<p>So my question is, Is there even a slight chance that admissions officers will take pity on me and ignore it? Or am I just automatically rejected from Cornell now, and wasted 70 bucks? I am a moderately strong applicant.</p>
<p>Sigh...I'm also pretty ****ed off cause I don't even want to go to Princeton anyway, its just that my asian parents made me apply there, just for the prestige...Cornell was one of my top choices for colleges :(</p>
<p>Is there anything I can do? Anyone heard of anybody else getting into a situation like this?</p>
<p>A guy over at the Columbia forum did the same thing, he placed MIT in place of Columbia.</p>
<p>One of the members suggested that he call the College up, tell them that it was an error in uploading, or you accidentally uploaded the wrong essay.</p>
<p>But now you have to send a thoroughly revised essay so that they don't see you recycling essays.</p>
<p>Yeah I'd go with what Shadow of Intent quoted, that's really the only way you have of clearing this up. I'd get started on writing a totally revised essay right away though, since you can't call until monday to fix it.</p>
<p>THANKS for the advice guys, it is greatly appreciated. Cayuga, I must admit I am guilty of recycling a bit of my essays from Cornell for Princeton, but in my case I wrote the essay for Cornell originally, then my parents told me they wanted me to apply to Princeton so I had it changed for Princeton :P</p>
<p>Thanks for the tip Shadow of Intent, I will try doing that.</p>
<p>Does anybody know if different people look at your essays for at Cornell? Cause my alternate school was CAS and I did that essay perfectly - is there a chance I could be admitted to Cornell that way? I like Cornell so much...loads better than Princeton anyway... :S</p>
<p>Cornell and Princeton have very different engineering programs. So either one school or the other is going to be confused. Shadow has the right strategy.</p>
<p>"If all you did was replace the words Princeton with Cornell in your essays, you probably were not going to be accepted anyways."</p>
<p>I did just this for both of my essays, and I was accepted. It's no biggie. I don't really think Cornell focuses on essays/personal traits -- there's just too many freaking applications. Admissions are more stats/extracurricular based.</p>
<p>Brown man, I actually think it's more the opposite... If it were THAT simple, they would just feed our stats into a computer and have it spit out the "best" applicants... But instead you have tons of 1900 SAT kids being accepted over 2300 SAT kids :)</p>
<p>Yeah... just hope for the best.
But I would call the admission office at cornell and try to explain what had happened (and explain how you REALLY want to go there... and not princeton)</p>
<p>You could tell them that you had very personal information in the essay, and could ask them to delete it before anyone can read it. This way no one would have read the essay, and you could give them another one...</p>
<p>I think you can tell them that you uploaded the wrong essay. I am sue they will understand. They have seen thousands of students like you and me. However, if your essay contained Princeton in one place and Cornell in another place in the same essay, I think you have a major problem. Anyways, Hope things get sorted out for you, it sucks if the rest of your application is great and you get rejected because of this.</p>
<p>"But instead you have tons of 1900 SAT kids being accepted over 2300 SAT kids"</p>
<p>Not true at all... I haven't met a single person with less than a 2000 at Cornell-- maybe it's because I don't know many kids in the contract schools, but I can sure as hell tell you that they rarely accept 1900 SAT kids over 2300 SAT kids. I've found the Cornell admissions process to be fair and predictable; if you have good stats, good grades/class rank, and good extracurriculars/leadership, you will get in.</p>
<p>^ i agree. there are plenty of kids who have high SAT scores who are rejected from contract colleges because they aren't deemed to have enough "fit". </p>
<p>SAT scores mean absolutely nothing by the time you get into college and anyone who still measures other people's worth because of their SAT scores needs to reevaluate their priorities.</p>
<p>Brown Man, for someone who goes to Cornell, you are very ignorant about the school. Many of the the kids I know in those low-quality contract colleges are just as smart as if not smarter than those I know in CAS and even engineering (gasp).</p>
<p>What is this supposed to mean? It's not like I avoid meeting people from contract schools, I just rarely take classes with them, and many of my friends are engineers. Thus I do not know many kids in the contract schools. </p>
<p>"Brown Man, for someone who goes to Cornell, you are very ignorant about the school. Many of the the kids I know in those low-quality contract colleges are just as smart as if not smarter than those I know in CAS and even engineering (gasp)."</p>
<p>Who said these kids are not as smart as those in other colleges? Who said they were low quality? Stop putting words into my mouth. </p>
<p>Almost everyone on this thread states that these schools are more "fit-oriented".... Seriously, CC is full of enormous insecure tools like you who attack others at any opportunity possible. I didn't say any of the things you implied I said</p>
<p>"^ i agree. there are plenty of kids who have high SAT scores who are rejected from contract colleges because they aren't deemed to have enough "fit"."</p>
<p>This is exactly what I was trying to imply. </p>
<p>"SAT scores mean absolutely nothing by the time you get into college and anyone who still measures other people's worth because of their SAT scores needs to reevaluate their priorities."</p>