Cornell RD Class of 2016 Discussion Thread

[UM32194]

I applied to ILR. I've also applied to Yale (deferred), Michigan (admitted), Vassar, Grinnell, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, and some safeties.

[lifeisbeautiful9]

Oh I didn't get an interview and I live by. Should I be worried?
Applying for Engineering as well!

[BlackRose101]

I'm so freakishly scared. I have an interview coming up and I have no idea what to expect.
I applied for their communication program.

[lifeisbeautiful9]

This thread is dying
In an attempt to revive - Do you guys have any midterms?

[lexieam]

I applied CAS! Just got contacted about my interview
I also applied to Brown (deferred), Princeton, Penn, Williams, Duke, Vandy, Wesleyan, Tulane (accepted), Fordham (accepted), and Binghamton (accepted)

[lifeisbeautiful9]

@lexieam, there are interviews for CAS now?

[Dan4980]

Yes, midterms are crap. I managed to maintain an A in Ap calc-my worst subject- all semester and then the final screwed me, and i got bumped down to an A-. Now as pathetic as it sounds whining about an A-, you guys of all people can probably empathize.

Also. What the crap! Our class is so competitive! 37673 applicants.
I crunched the numbers a bit cuz i mean. What else are we gonna do...

Using last year's profile proportions*:
3602 would have been ED apps.
1270 of these^ would have been accepted.
34071 would be RD apps.
~5268 of these^ will be accepted.
-Which gives us a regular decision admit rate of about 15.46%.
*Proportions generated from the class of 2015 profile.

Oh and here's a link to a magic eight ball.
Magic Eight Ball CGI

You know what to do.

[behappy7]

Good luck to all the applicants! Actually I believe the RD admit rate this year will be lower than you project. The Class of 2015 was overenrolled, as yield spiked 3% higher than the prior year. Using the same yield as 2015, about 4900 will be admitted RD, or less than 14.4%.

[mathstarftw]

Yield might be even higher because of Harvard and Princeton's EA programs.

[thdwndk]

i know that getting into Cornell Hotel is veryy hard.
so is there a easiest college to get into?
(i know they say that that's not the case...but i doubt that..)
what do u guys think>?

[Colene]

http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000003.pdf#zoom=100
Have fun

[eartheyes]

My interview was strange. He spent a while telling me that I didn't seem like the type who would want to go that far from home, how I need to make friends since I wouldn't be able to go home for thanksgiving, that I should have applied for a more obscure major, and that I should become a nurse instead of doing what my current plan is. Oh and how all they do is drink but he thinks I'll be fine there.

[Colene]

^okay that is definitely not normal... my interview was not like that at all.

[Drummerdawg]

Had a pretty good interview just now over the phone but was a bit nervous, do they put any weight on these?

[cortana431]

Not really, unless you really bombed it, like you came off as really arrogant/pompous or vulgar, or you really impressed the alumni and connected, like a 1 in a 100 interview, but in almost all cases, they really don't matter.