<p>Hey everyone!
Hope all of you gained a couple of pounds this thanks giving!</p>
<p>Well I'm doing my application to apply as an undergraduate but both of the essay kind of over lap each other.</p>
<p>My point is, how does the admission process work?
Do all parts of the application get looked at by one person?
or does School of Industrial and Labor Relations look at only the ILR essay?</p>
<p>i don’t know how it is for freshmen admissions, but for transfers they read all of them. they have 3 people read each application and if they can’t decide on whether or not they’re going to accept you, they call in profs from different departments with ILR to read it and give another opinion. i’m sure there’s a similar system for freshmen; i doubt only one person reads an app. all of your essays need to be good, because they do read them all.</p>
<p>Lets say the essay for CAS and the essay for ILR kind of sound similar, would that hurt me?</p>
<p>Does a copy of my application get sent to each of Cornell’s schools which I apply to and do they only receive the essay for the particular school?</p>
<p>Will my essays for both my primary and alternate choice colleges be read by both colleges?</p>
<p>I think the colleges can read both of your essays. That’s the indication I got from the CALS info session.</p>
<p>they read both essays. they want to make sure you’re not saying one thing for one school and something totally different for another. that said, they should also be two different essays (you should not just copy/paste the essay and change a few words before sending to both schools)</p>
<p>^Uh oh… I reused a whole paragraph on both essays. But it fits well into both colleges and it talks about why I like both colleges =P </p>
<p>Are you sure they read both essays? Do they have that much time? lol</p>
<p>I went to one info session and they said the reason they read both essays is because each individual school wants to make sure their students match. they dont want you to apply to hum ec saying your dream is to study child development and then apply to engineering saying youve always loved that tech stuff.
those are a little extreme, but you get the idea…</p>
<p>now that you have the information, you are probably the only one here who can judge whether or not what you did was ok , because you are the only one who has the essay</p>
<p>I’m actually like borderline between Science and Engineering. The problem is that high school doesn’t give you that many opportunities to explore engineering, whereas there are like 5x more science courses than engineering ones. So I’m guessing that a lot of people, including me, who likes Science likes engineering and vice versa.</p>