@vexed2death yes that’s exactly what I see, the error thing. Okay this helps, thank you again!
Did any of the things on the financial aid list disappear for anyone too?
@indyextramusic not for me but my application materials checklist has been updated. They got all my documents except the application fee which I qualified for a waiver on the CommonApp so I’m not sure why it says required.
What major is everyone applying to
Government
@indyextramusic If items begin to disappear from your financial aid checklist, that means that they have recieved those items. In the end, you should only have the Transfer Transcript as all other items need to be completed by you.
@Sam577 I would contact the admissions office about this ASAP. If you check the Fall 2019 thread, you will see that many people had their waivers rejected for some reason and were only notified about this over a month after they submitted their application. This would mean that they would not be able to review your application until they approve the waiver or receive payment for the $80.
@M_51222 ILR
@vexed2death thanks. Called and they needed an additional affirmation from a counselor. They waived it now that I sent that.
When should we expected to hear back? I applied to physics major, and how is this major’s possibility to get in comparing to other major?
I was expecting around mid or late November, but one of the dudes above said Cornell apparently became a regular decision cycle, and we should be expecting at least December. CANT WAIT
From the previous threads it seems that decisions came out in December
Just saw a comment from UMich saying his/her friend applying for Cornell got notified that the decisions will come out only in December. SUCKS
@WWWayne @Congrats I believe “that dude” was me and yes, if you check the Common App, you will see that Cornell’s admission cycle is listed as regular instead of rolling. As I said before, none of us are entirely sure what that means. They might say they are regular but still release decisions on a rolling basis (and frankly they would not be the only university to do so).
Cornell is likely not going to release decisions in mid-November as the supplemental documents are only due on November 15. Meaning, they will likely not even start truly reviewing apps until then.
As @Sam577 stated, the decisions are usually released in early December based on previous threads. Cornell’s website always says that they will release decisions in November, however, even the first waves very rarely get released that quickly in past years.
I believe this is also the first year that they are allowing people to submit supplemental decisions all the way until mid-November (as opposed to just telling people to “get those documents in ASAP”), thus, naturally applicants might take their time getting their supplemental documents in. Additionally, we may have to wait for everybody’s decision to be made (even the people who took their time to submit their supplemental documents) as Cornell may have transitioned to the regular admission cycle as mentioned above.
In short, strap in, we may have to wait for a long time for those decisions to be released, thus, we should expect decisions to come out by Christmas (that way we won’t be disappointed when they don’t come out after Thanksgiving, early December, etc.). Look on the bright side, most people who apply in the Fall have to wait over two months for their decisions to be released, which is hopefully longer than we have to wait.
I would be sooo annoyed if the decisions are not out by my final dates lol. I wanna go back to my home country in the winter and chill with family and friends KNOWING that I got accpeted!!!
@Congrats I love your confidence!!! I think I speak for everyone here when I say that we all want to go home in the winter and chill with our families with an acceptance letter in hand. Like I said, we are all in this together, whether any of that comes true or not. Lastly, that acceptance will be a lot more satisfying the longer we wait, you’re an economist you should know ?.
By the way, does anyone have access to the financial aid checklist? Whenever I try to log in, I get an “access denied” message
Applying to CAS, thought I’d share my stats and scope out the competition haha.
HS GPA: 2.8 UW, 3.14 W
Sat (not submitting)
Current schoo
College GPA: 4.0, 56 units completed, 70 expected by end of fall 2019; third year biology major (pre med)
Hook: poor (>$20k in San Francisco), gay, student of color in San Francisco
ECs:
- Clinical experience, shadowing RNs and doctors
- Political advocacy (garnered attention of Jill Stein and Katy Perry)
- Community advocacy
- Research assistant (biology, avian malaria)
- Attended dermatology grand rounds at UCSF med school
- Attended philosophy conferences (discussing ethical/political philosophy)
- Conflict mediator in HS
- Writer (named top 30% of poets by big publishing company)
- Boys and girls club volunteer for five years
- Familial responsibilities (handling a bulk of financial situations)
- Peer resources (class in HS I’m still involved in, focuses on social issues and advocacy for HS community)
- Photography (recreational)
- Linguistic research (interpretation of sarcastic emojis)
Awards (all by sf state)
- Deans list
- Kenneth Fong scholarship in biology
- Beckman scholars program 3rd place
- Rise scholarship
- Genentech scholarship
- Ira grant for research
- University scholarship
Reason for transferring: messed up in HS bc of a terrible living and financial situation (approx 14k/year in San Francisco in 2014-2017, similar today); redeemed myself in college and want a second chance at a higher education. Current school also doesn’t challenge me and provide opportunities I’m looking for in science
Recommendations: from a chemistry and bio teacher, as well as a PI from the lab I worked in. Pretty strong imo
Essays: both are narratives describing my faults and living/financial situation and how that affected my HS grades, as well as how I’ve regained my drive for education and what I plan to pursue (dermatology) and how I have done/will do to do so.
@hilareolas To summarize what I have said in my previous post, this seems to be a common issue. When you login to the financial aid checklist, close your current tab and open a new tab and go to the checklist, your checklist should appear automatically. If you did not apply for financial aid, you will never have access to your financial aid checklist.
Nice to see someone else from SF applying. Your stats look good, but your essays need to directly convey your passion and how specifically Cornell will help you pursue your passion. I am not going to get into the details of that here, however, if you want to know more, visit the Cornell Admissions Instagram account, there you will find four short videos in which the Deputy Director of Undergraduate Admissions talks about what they would like to see in your essays and you can use that as a point of comparison. Please note, your essays do not have to be 100% like the Deputy Director explained in the video, your essays merely have to resemble that structure (don’t let that stress you out too much)
Since you have been in college for so long, Cornell does not really care about high school, thus your can rest assured that your HS GPA will not bring you down too much. Additionally, it was probably a good call not to submit your SAT (unless it was really good), however, I doubt that it would have mattered too much either way.
CAS is really competitive (just look at how many people are applying to CAS in this thread alone), however, if your did best then that is all that counts. Best of luck!!!
@vexed2death Thanks! I just tried that method and still got redirected to the “access denied” page. I also applied for financial aid and submitted all necessary documents
@hilareolas In my previous post, I also mentioned trying other troubleshooting strategies such as logging in on a different computer, using a different web browser, clearing your web cache, etc., etc. If truly nothing works, my guess is that they are still processing your account and/or your documents. You can certainly contact the Cornell financial aid office and let them know that you do not have access to your checklist. The financial aid office can also tell the status of the documents you submitted.
@vexed2death finally got on the phone with cornell’s IT department and got access to the page, but the only thing on the list is the “transfer transcript” with a due date of 3/15/19. Is this what you’re getting too?