sad
So does that mean all the astrology on fin portal was a scam?
seems so
Oh lol
Scam? As in someone intentionally tried to trick you? Nah. Portal astrology is just something people engage in to pass the time waiting for decisions. Every year, applicants get lured into thinking they can crack the code. Itās a fruitless endeavor.
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Maybe it will happen on a slightly different schedule, not 2 weeks before Ivy day, but 10 days before, or something else. Hard to think that they abruptly abandoned the likelies letters altogether. Maybe there were too many equal likelies, or too few. Good luck all!
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At least now we can rest on the portal astrology, haha.
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I think thereās no likelies at all, I read online that the ivies agreed to allow likelies until the 15th.
I think that is the rule for athletes LL. But I am not 100% about this.
whereād u read this?
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Iām not entirely sure if Cornell changed their likely letter policy, but according the the ivy league agreement posted on their website here, it says that the letters are only for student-athlete applications. They might have changed that just from starting this year.
a. Likely Letters to Student-Athletes
From October 1 through March 15 of senior year, an admissions office may issue probabilistic communications, in writing, to recruited student-athlete applicants who have submitted all required application materials.
My theory is that since earlier this year they wanted to accept more people RD than ED to make the proportions more balanced (look at the Cornell Sun Article), they are going to take much more people RD so they donāt need likely letters for protecting yield. In other words, they donāt need the letters anymore as their freshman class will be filled enough.
No where does it mention on the ivy league contract that likelies for NON-ATHLETES must be sent before March 15th. In the contract, the likely letters are referred to as āprobabilistic communicationsā. In fact, maybe in the previous years they just sent likelies to non-athletes, and it just happened to be on March 15th for the previous couple years.
Furthermore, early-acceptances and likely letters are different. As on the Ivy League Contract on Cornellās website, the mention:
Common Notification Date: On a common date, usually in late March, applicants to Ivy League institutions will be notified of admission decisions and financial aid awards. (Letters are mailed beginning in February for the Schools of Hotel Administration, and Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell, and beginning in February for the School of Nursing at Penn.)
These are for specific Cornell colleges only of course. So then again, perhaps they wonāt send likelies at all this year anymore. Or maybe they will send them later. Take this with a grain of salt.
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Does everyone get asked by Cornell to submit their documents into IDOC? I filled out the CSS Profile back in December, and I was never asked anything about IDOC, I hadnāt even heard of it. However, I added a few more schools later in early February, and suddenly I got an email from CSS that one college (Williams) was requesting IDOC documents.Meanwhile, Cornell has never asked us for any documents for IDOC. Iām just concerned because Cornell never asked us for IDOC documents, so it makes me think my kid didnāt get in there if they donāt ask for them. Although, U of Rochester was one I did at the same time as Cornell back in Dec. and they never asked either (and he was accepted to U of Roc yesterday). I would just be curious to know if anyone else was asked by CSS to upload documents in IDOC for Cornell specifically, since it tells you exactly which school is requesting it. Thanks to anyone who has any input on this.
Cornell requests docs in IDOC.
U rochester uses both css and fafsa so maybe they did not award aid packages yet? We got an email from Cornell specifically for us on Jan 30 and Feb 21 , with her ID number in there. But I would not read too much into it. We were deferred , did all deferred get an aid email? I would like to know, actually.
Financial aid has a seperate ID number ? I have one in my aid emailā¦ ??? Anyone else?
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Not in all cases, a couple of years ago ā¦ NYU was accurate. I know for Berkeley and Stnaford, the signs were accurate. I know for Yale, some kind of tshirt survey popped up for people who got in. Colleges end up setting up portals differently for students who got in, and those are the signs we see, as we stressed out parents try to pass time before decisions.
I have been wondering all week about CSS and Cornell. After I think that Cornell never pulled from CSS. We did submit CSS to Cornell in mid-December, and itās the only school that is clickable and still bold in the CSS dashboard. For the first time, I also looked into the Cornell financial aid portal this past week (my kid is normally good, keeping us posted with any emails coming from schools, and wants no help from us). No items were listed on the fin aid portal for Cornell, as other school portals show. Donāt know if there ever was a list with items showing in the past. And this has nothing to do with portal astrology for me. Itās more about the process of whether the CSS went through and ended up at Cornell. We could call the school as the last option I guess.
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Just to add to my post. My child did have a Cornell interview. But it was just purely informational as they stated in their email. At least I know that the application was looked at.
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We also had an interview. Even knowing all about the endless reminders on CC that it is ānon-evaluativeā we hold out hope that itās a sign of interest since all but one of the others (in the same school applying to the same Cornell college) did not get one. Like you said, we at least know the application was viewed (and hopefully read, and hopefully cleared some important thresholds).
My child applied to College of Engineering.