whitecadillac

i think i have a lot of good and unique ec's to do with filmmaking. i haven't ever submitted my work to any contests or anything though. i just do it cuz i love to do it, not really for awards per se. but will that hurt me majorly? a lot of people have said my work is really good and i think i could have won awards if i had actually submitted it to various film fests and stuff, but i hadn't even been planning to apply to the ivies until this year so i wasn't really concerned with awards.

is not winning any national awards a big detriment to me even if my ec's show long-term passion and dedication?

chendrix

nope, not at all.

whitecadillac

really? some people on other ivy forums were saying it was semi-important. is it less important at cornell for some reason?

chendrix

no, it's just not that important to begin with.

yes it's nice icing on the cake, but it's by no means a necessity.

if something you do is not recognized by the general community, that does not take away your passion for it.

You could say Cornell admissions is much more holistic than most of the other ivies. The ones who try to game the numbers tend to be much more statistics oriented and would rather the High GPA, High SAT, numerous National Awards student so they can add it to their list of "How many of our accepted students are (insert award here, e.g. NMSF)"

whitecadillac

ah i see. would you say brown and cornell are the only ivies that are more holistic?

chendrix

maybe even Dartmouth.

Funny how that coincides with the "worst ivies" bullsh**.

whitecadillac

haha. well i'm not applying to dartmouth but the "holistic" approach is good to know about brown and cornell!