<p>Okay, my school has data from previous students of our school. You pick a school and it shows you what the applicant's stats were and if he got Accepted, Rejected, Deferred, or Waitlisted. I checked Cornell, and a kid w/ 2.6 UW gpa and a 1020 got in. How is this even possible? Another kid with an 1150 and 3.0 got in as well.</p>
<p>Note to self: Apply to Cornell.</p>
<p>do you live in NY state?</p>
<p>haha Grady..definitely and for Boston University 4 kids with UW 3.3 gpa and 1150 got in.</p>
<p>Jvhowube: Yeah NY</p>
<p>parikhs: that is your reason my friend. Part of cornell is state funded, correct?</p>
<p>i think thats why its cake to get in...</p>
<p>its only partially state funded but the sheer number of students they accept is what makes it easy...its a HUGE school</p>
<p>makes sense...but then explain how a kid with UW 3.3 gpa and 1120 SAT's got into Brown? Its funny looking at the Tufts graph because all these kids with 1400+ SAT's are rejected and a kid with 3.5 and 1150 SAT's got in.</p>
<p>Are you sure it's Cornell University and not Cornell College in Iowa?...</p>
<p>Even if it is, maybe the student was hooked...like, URM, mega-legacy, recruited athlete, or something like that</p>
<p>Nah, it was Cornell U, but I was thinking probably ED along with either legacy,athlete, or donations.</p>
<p>but then explain how a kid with UW 3.3 gpa and 1120 SAT's got into Brown?</p>
<p>haha thats funny...brown apparently has beef with my school, and rejects like 4.0 perfect students with EC's like crazy and ridiculous scores ALL THE TIME!!!! and someone like that got it!</p>
<p>that kid was probably had some special hook. probably an athlete, legacy or whatever.</p>
<p>i know many people who have good stats that didn't get in.</p>
<p>i know a girl like 3.5 1250 who got into columbia on SUPER LEGACY (like both sides of family for like 3 generations)</p>
<p>i know a person who got into Duke RD with a 1210, bad GPA, got rejected from every other top 25 school, but got in there...URM of course</p>
<p>I know of 1100 and 2.8 GPA that got into Princeton....go figure! Ivy admissions are very hard to predict.</p>
<p>yet we have an entire forum filled with kids trying to do it.</p>
<p>ivy admission is based on so many nonstatistical things and so many factors that is why ..... i never understand why only a SAT score and gpa predict a decision ...they are important but not all there is......</p>
<p>They looked beyond and found something gr8 in these acceptances ...</p>
<p>Whatevr it is we all still know that we need superb stats to get in</p>
<p>Cornell has a school of agriculture within the college that is state funded. Although it is still competetive to get in, it is not as nearly as competetive as the rest of the school. Being a Legacy helps alot also!</p>
<p>Cornell hockey player?!</p>
<p>"Cornell has a school of agriculture within the college that is state funded. Although it is still competetive to get in, it is not as nearly as competetive as the rest of the school"</p>
<p>Actually a few of Cornell's undergrad schools are land grant institutes, and i do not think they would be much easier to get into.</p>
<p>There are a number of ways in which this student could have been admitted to cornell.</p>
<p>He could have been admitted into any of the 3 land grant schools</p>
<p>Cornell is a HOLISTIC process and students are evaluated in context of how they used the opportunities they had advailable. You know nothing of this student's back story, as you only see SAT scores and GPA. The process looks as much more than those 2 components.</p>
<p>He could have been admitted through any of the NYS programs HEOP, C-STEP or national EOP.
<a href="http://www.sas.cornell.edu/MEA/ome_program.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.sas.cornell.edu/MEA/ome_program.html</a></p>
<p>My bigger issue is how were you even able to access this students information. There looks as if your GC is not on their job because they have a responsibility to protect students records (to not do so is an ACA and SCA ethic violation subject to having their licensed pulled).</p>
<p>If you work in the GC office or in a capcity where the information is there and you had not right to access it (As I doubt that the keeper of the information would give you access), then one can question your ethics in this.</p>