<p>College of Arts and Sciences ED right here!
Cornell got all my stuff by mid-October</p>
<p>Here are my stats:</p>
<p>White male from highly competitive NJ high school
Definitely top 5%, possibly top 3% (my school doesn’t believe in class ranks)
GPA - 4.334 weighted
~ 3.8-3.9 unweighted</p>
Computer and Water Cooling Design, Overclocking… (international award won)
Teen Leadership Committee Chosen Member (award won)</p>
<p>I am a first generation immigrant, and speak Russian fluently at home. My parents both graduated from the same Belarusian college with the equivalent of a masters degree in civil engineering.</p>
<p>I posted this same thing in the 2013 thread set, but I got like one response from one of my friends.
Hence the repost
lol, oh well</p>
<p>I wish Cornell took into consideration how many times each applicant checked their applicant status. If they did, I would get in for sure
Good luck to all! May December 15 be a pleasant day, for it is the day that kind-of-sort-of defines us.</p>
<p>I totally disagree with the long resume part. If you have a long resume that contains personal, in-depth descriptions, it only shows your are dedicated about your activities and you wanna tell the adcoms about them. If you just list all out on a page in point form or something, not only do your activities get lost among a blizzard of words, but it just shows you didn’t as much effort into it as the guy who makes a chart and has descriptions.</p>
<p>I’m not saying the information will be useless on the resume. Obviously, should all 4,000 ED students send in 5 page resumes equaling another 20,000 pages for them to file and read?</p>
<p>This is ED only, factor in 35,000 students x 5 = over 100,000 more pages.</p>
<p>You might have forgotten that Cornell has 7 different Admissions committees. </p>
<p>And plus, colleges like AAP, Hotel, and ILR - these guys definitely have more than enough time to look at long resumes. Their applicant pool is smaller and is more concentrated. Heck, ILR even recommends a " ‘comprehensive’ Resume". Is 2-pages comprehensive? I doubt it.</p>
<p>I am not talking about the recommended resumes. I’m talking about attaching a five page report to your application when it is not necessary or recommended.</p>
<p>I had my interview yesterday, it was actually very relaxing and oddly comforting. I didn’t realize that Cornell gives the interviewers no info except for the type of admission the interviewee did, so it worried me a bit when she said things along the lines of, “it’s okay if you don’t get in.” I’m reeeeaally nervous, only a month left! I have a constant feeling of butterflies in my stomach.</p>
<p>plus you can’t just say “oh 2+ pages is bad”</p>
<p>What if someone used font 12 instead of font 8? What if someone organized charts instead of just using point form? There are so many factors to consider. Plus, there are kids who CAN fit their resumes onto 3 pages, but the words will be so small that they may be irritating to the adcoms’ eyes. The layout of the resume affects the length too.</p>
<p>If I’m were an admissions officer, I would prefer to read many pages of well organized, decent size words, instead of trying to squint at ant-sized letters.</p>
<p>I just want to put this out there then I’m done. I worked hard SUMMARIZING my accomplishments/experiences to stick them into a resume of reasonable/expected length while still being “comprehensive” and someone else got to basically write another application essay (a huge advantage in “getting to know the applicant” if the adcoms do read it) and slap the title of resume on it. I’m sorry, I don’t think it would be fair for the adcoms to read their whole five page resume (regardless of font, 5 pages IS TOO LONG to be considered a resume) while I followed the rules and got stuck with a less personal list. I’d like to stick an adcom into my room and tell them my life story. I can’t. Everyone else has to follow the rules too and at the end of the day, a comprehensive resume is still a resume (brief description).</p>
<p>Question: How long does it take for them to mail out acceptance letters? Since decisions come out Dec 12, is it true it takes up to a week or two after online decisions before they arrive?</p>
<p>Well, first off… I didn’t know that my “resume” was too long when I attached it to the additional information section of the CommonApp… Had I known, I wouldn’t have organized it in such a fashion. In addition, it was to my understanding that the additional information section could be used to provide any other information you found relevant that wasn’t necessarily portrayed in other parts of the application… therefore, even though my resume I’m realizing was admittedly too long, I don’t think I stepped outside of any bounds. </p>
<p>Also, malan, it’s great that you worked hard at summarizing your accomplishments, however, what rules? There weren’t any regulations as to what one could attach as “additional information” nor are there any saying that adcoms have to read additional info… </p>
<p>That being said, everyone chill out O_O I didn’t maliciously attach a 5 page resume… I didn’t know any better; and it doesn’t seem like it’s advantageous anyways, since if some previous posters are correct, it’ll probably hurt me. </p>
<p>I agree with NY0rker, let’s talk about Cornell! I hear their application update system will be up any day now…</p>
