@mattmckenney7 Can you actually PM me? It’s my first time using College Confidential and I don’t know how to PM someone.
Long time lurker here, gonna try to give back to y’all–this forum’s been super helpful this past year, so thanks 
Accepted - Mechanical Engineering
Previous College: Purdue University - Physics Honors
High School:
GPA - 3.4 unweighted; 3.6 weighted
ACT: 33
Most Prominent Extracurriculars: Interned at NASA, worked at a non-profit crowdfunding campaign, interned at Naturebridge
College:
GPA: 3.7–B in Chem and E&M Honors
Founder and President of Guitar Club
Finalist in Ironhacks Coding Competition
Honors College
Participated in the Soybean Innovation Competition–didn’t win though 
Recommendations were alright, one was from my physics advisor and the other came from my mechanics teacher, whose class I did quite well in.
I believe the essays were where I gave my best impression. I wrote about my internship with NASA and the research I did on near-earth asteroids, and how that connects to wanting to be an astronaut one day. I tied that with Cornell by mentioning specific professors and research topics I wanted to get involved with, as well as mentioning how the specific engineering program’s ideals and values matched up with my own. In the main essay, I talked a lot about my high school past, explaining where things went wrong and how I worked harder than ever to change myself for the better. To tie that in with transferring, I also explained a lot about how I am currently struggling to change majors at Purdue and the many loops I had to jump through to even get a chance at switching.
If you guys are looking for some sign that you’re being considered: I got a request for my grades and questions about my transcripts about a week prior to today, and so if y’all get something like that, then it probably means they’re not outright rejecting you, otherwise they wouldn’t bother contacting you. I don’t know how much financial aid I’m getting though, that’s apparently coming at a later date so I just gotta keep hoping lol
To my fellow engineering applicants who are still awaiting a decision: Don’t lose hope! I was rejected by four other colleges already and I was really not expecting this turn of events so keep those fingers crossed everyone!
Good Luck!
@futur3clssof2o2o i got waitlisted CALS bio i haven’t read anyone on this thread who got in non-GT
@zintergalatic Thank you so much to hear your story. Love that you did NASA seems like a cool essay I would like to read. Appreciate the heads up and enjoy the acceptances with your family. We applicants stay waiting.
So I was checking my financial aid because I’m still submitting documents from IDOC, I checked to see the due date for me has changed from March 15/2018 to March 15/ 2019 for the deadline. Does this give an indication that I’m being accepted and they moving in the process or I’m just being played to waste more time so I get rejected.
I got accepted in Mechanical Engineering yesterday!
@zintergalactic Do you start as Sophomore and Junior student?
@redtoma Have a great time and best of school BTW
@redtoma I just finished my freshman year, so I will start as a sophomore at Cornell
@ChadisWack Thanks! Best of luck to you! And I’m not too sure about the financial aid, because my portal changed to a login site, and I didn’t actually keep track of the dates 
sorry
Applied for Dyson, still haven’t heard back. Anyone else in the same boat?
Accepted into Cornell-mechanical engineering junior transfer.
College GPA
4.0/4.0
SAT 2070
SAT Math II- 800
SAT physics- 780
Decent Recommendations
Good research experience
I feel I wrote some strong essays.
@BBBBSSSS congratulations, enjoy my fellow engineer. I got a question, were you notify by the head of the department before your decision was posted on tuesday?
@CoveredCalls Yep im still waiting. I wish theyd just tell us bc I have other offers on the table I need to commit to before June 1st!
@ChadisWack I was accepted to Mech E this Tuesday and had received an email from the head of mechanical engineering admissions a week prior.
Yeah I remember you telling me that @shermama96 , just wanted to see consistency in that so every engineer gets a heads up
@BotanyandMed Thank you for much!
@zintergalactic @BBBBSSSS Are you guys Citizen and Did you get any Financial Aid?
@mattmckenney7 Hey, I replied back to your message! I wasn’t sure if you check this website often or not.
anyone waitlisted at CALS hear anything?
anyone who applied to SHA still waiting?
@dogluvr99 Yea me. I applied SHA and still have not got a decision. Are you applying to SHA as well?
Do you think that getting a decision late is a good sign (since a few SHA ppl who got their decisions earlier were rejected/WL)?
@hihi02 nope looking at past threads no one has gotten off of it either