<p>I finished writing my cornell essay, but then I looked at the prompt. Its say specfic qualities of Arts and Sciences…Is it okay if I mention programs that are open to all Cornell Students?..If I mention programs for all of Cornell studnets would it be considered writing off prompt?</p>
<p>Topic----Describe your intellectual interests, their evolution, and what makes them exciting to you. Tell us how you will utilize the academic programs in the College of Arts and Sciences to further explore your interests, intended major, or field of study.</p>
<p>This is my format for my essay
Talked about Cornell being an elite school
Talked about my career goals and major in College of Arts and Science (only 1-2 sentences)
Talked about 1 program that was open to all Cornell students* (1 of cornell tradition programs)
talked about 1 program that was open to only all Cornell Students* (found in all of Cornell’s school)
talked about extracurricular activity that was open to all cornell students<em>(community service activites at Cornell)
Talked about another program open to all Cornell Students</em> (internship, anyone from any of Cornell’s school can apply)
7 . Conclusion.</p>
<p>*=worried if this would be considered off topic…</p>
<p>Well, I think that your first bullet would be your first problem. The ad coms don’t want to know that Cornell is an elite school. They want to know why you are interested in Cornell.</p>
<p>Talk about what interests and motivates you and how you can continue to pursue that passion at Cornell.</p>
<p>^^^^^ I just used the first point as an intro…</p>
<p>Do you think its all right if I used a lot of Programs that are open to all students at Cornell, not just the ones open for students at the College of Arts and Sciences…I talked about the programs that are open to all students at Cornell as being the reasons why Cornell is my top choice…</p>
<p>You would have been better talking about CAS specifically, as the question asked. It may hurt you. IF you think you messed up, perhaps you should write another essay and mail it to them along with an explanation of why you’re sending it: ALL BEFORE THE DUE DATE.</p>
<p>For some reason, the essay prompt is vague for a reason. The theme, or general idea of the essay is suppose to make you sound like you belong to that specific college, like if it’s CAS, then you have to appeal like you are a researcher. I mentioned the school twice.
Here’s the thing, I did not talk about the school or even mention it until the last two paragraphs. I do not know why I didn’t do that, I probably liked talking about myself and pouring my sappy story of the things I accomplished in my life in relation to what I could possibly do at Cornell.
The thing for me is that if you are going to talk about the college so specifically mentioning every bit of it like you know the school (probably acting like you know more than the admission people do), then it’ll sound boring and repetitive if the next person does the same thing.
Just write something interesting about yourself with an overall tone that you would like to be that somebody that closely matches the college you want to be in.
And doing all of this at the last minute is going to hurt you especially not being able to get enough continuous feedback.</p>
<p>My essay probably was the one thing that helped me get accepted.</p>
<p>There had better be something specific to CAS in your essay, or it’s going to look as though you didn’t read the prompt before writing the essay (oops, that’s what happened, isn’t it?). You might want to omit your mention of the Cornell Tradition programs; very few people get into them. And don’t describe Cornell as elite (although you could say that its academic rigor appeals to you). </p>
<p>Find something specific to CAS that you like – it may be your intended major (unless that major is biology or computer science, neither of which is specific to CAS) or the chance to combine interests in two or more fields represented in CAS. My daughter wrote something about CAS being a great place for her to pursue her interests in both the social sciences and music – two areas that she could document her interest in very clearly (social sciences because of a past museum internship and because she did her IB Extended Essay on a history topic; music because she was an all-state musician). I don’t know whether the essay helped, but she got in.</p>