@hilareolas Yes, this means everything was completed on your end. The Transfer Transcript is something on their end and should be the only thing in your financial aid checklist.
Just out of curiosity, did the IT let you know what the issue was and what was causing it?
@vexed2death for me, it was a browser issue. I was unable to log in through safari and chrome’s normal browsers, but was able to log in through chrome’s incognito browser. Don’t know if that’s the same problem for everyone else though
@hilareolas Strange, I always use Safari and I believe I have even used Google Chrome in the past. I get a “CORS Violation error, Access Denied” every time. Thus, I close the current window and open a new window and I get redirected to the financial aid checklist after searching for it. Like I said, their financial aid checklist website is not the best.
@vexed2death I forgot to mention, but I also got the cors error. Not only did I have to use incognito mode on chrome, but I also had to google “Cornell fin aid” and click “check application status,” which led me to a page where I could click “log in using applicant ID and pin.” Maybe that method would work for you.
@hilareolas Yes, I always Google it as well on Safari, I don’t know how else to get to that page without googling it. I don’t think you necessarily have to use incognito mode, but you should definitely Google it each time because you might have been visiting the wrong website. Have two tabs open so that when you get the CORS error, you can use the other blank tab to get back to the checklist without closing your browser. Regardless, if it works, it works.
Hello! Is anyone here from the Design + Environmental Analysis major at the College of Human Ecology? What is the typical acceptance rate for this major for spring admins?(I know this is a small major) I’m currently a student at a top 30 uni and I’m good with everything except my high school grades, which is around 3.7 unweighted(I don’t have a lot of APs). How big of a role does my high school GPA play in deciding my admissions, especially for a major that requires supplemental materials? Thank you!
@kameikameika The following link has transfer specific stats for each school at Cornell for the Fall 2011 application cycle (the last year they released such data).
https://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000156.pdf
Moreover, you can check how many people they accepted each year, however, it is unknown how big the pool actually was for each of those years and thus, we do not know what the acceptance rate was for each school after 2011.
http://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/university-factbook/freshman-profile-archives
You can also check the following link for more acceptance rate stats but be aware that those stats are only for freshman applicants which may vary greatly from transfer acceptance rate stats.
http://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/university-factbook/undergraduate-admissions
If you look on past threads, you will see that Human Ec is a mixed bag, there are a lot of acceptances and a lot rejections. Human Ec students who received transfer guarantees and completed their requirements were also rejected for some weird reason in Fall 2019. If I recall correctly, I do not believe that issue got resolved (which is strange).
Use all of this with a grain of salt because all this information produces an extremely vague answer to the question we are all wondering.
Either way, as with all schools in Cornell, it is safe to assume that it is competitive.
The weight of your high school stats along with standardized testing depends on how far along you are in your college career. For instance, a Freshman applicant, does not have a lot of college courses under his/her belt and thus, the admissions committee will look more heavily on his/her high school transcript to predict that individual’s success at Cornell. The same cannot really be said for a Junior applicant, since this applicant has a rich transcript of higher learning coursework that allows the admissions committee to use that performance more to predict that individual’s success at Cornell. In short, your success in college outweighs your success in high school, however, if you do not have much experience in college, your high school statistics will be used more heavily as a predictor of your success at Cornell. Hope this helps and good luck!
How do you get the registrar report filled out and sent?
Hello friends,
I applied to CAS for history and my application is completely finished. If anyone needs any help with how to properly fill out documents, I may be able to offer some assistance.
In case you guys were wondering, here are my stats or whatever.
community college student in second semester
4.0 GPA
student gov treasurer
campus newspaper sports editor
honors program student
US military vet
My professional letter of rec is actually pretty sweet as one of my old military bosses who now works in the pentagon as a speechwriter wrote it for me. As for my academic rec, it was one of my cc English teachers so not sure how strong it is.
the application was preeeeeetty confusing and took me forever, but it says I have everything turned in.
Super excited but doing everything in my power to not get my hopes up and am 100% preparing for another semester at community. We’ll see.
Good luck to everyone and keep us posted on your status! If you have questions or just want to talk, hit me on here as I have way too much time on my hands.
@indyextramusic Fill out the applicant portion and bring it to either your college’s admissions office, registrar, or dean of students office. You may have to run around a bit, but you can also call in advance and ask where to turn this form in, prior to heading down there.
@shopclasshero I do not know how competitive history is at Cornell, however, your stats look really good. Unfortunately, a lot of people here have very good stats and are applying for the roughly 10-20 spots available at CAS. Like I said so many times before, CAS is really competitive in the Spring. A lot of seemingly qualified candidates were denied in previous thread.
If you did the best you could and applied to many schools (including safeties), you are likely going to get in somewhere for Spring 2020. Who knows maybe one of those might be Cornell. Moreover, if you did the best you could, then that is the most important thing. Hope this helps and good luck!!
@vexed2death thanks
Also I haven’t sent in my mid-term report yet because my mid-terms are still going on. But how did everyone submit theirs?
@indyextramusic I have not yet for the same reason. The Mid-Term Report is due on November 15, so you are alright for now.
From Cornell’s website it seems that if you don’t have a midterm grade your general record in the class is fine as well. I was glad my professors wrote nice things in the comments.
For the mid-term report do we have to go to each of our professors personally and get it signed?
Yes
@sam577 That is correct, however, some professors are stubborn and for whatever reason (usually they are just cautious) will not use homework/participation grades for the Mid-Term Report. Additionally, some professors do not have homework/participation and will not simply give you an A for showing up to lecture.
These notions vary among different colleges, professor, etc. It also allows cautious professors to unintentionally put a lot of stress on students by delaying the assignment of a midterm grade, which is why this supplemental document has the capacity to be the most irritating and unfair portion of the application process.
Luckily, Cornell has recognized this issue and attempted to make things fair by now allowing you to submit your supplement documents all the way until November 15.
@indyextramusic Absolutely, adding onto what @Congrats said, all your professors have to fill out the “to the instructors” portion of the Mid-Term Report (not just the signature)
@vexed2death got an email from admissions saying that they want all documents by the 20th so I guess they extended their deadline from the 15th?
@indyextramusic As far as what is on the portal, they did not officially extend the deadline. They might have done so on a case by case basis. Additionally, this may be a hard deadline so I would suggest trying your best to meet this deadline. Future requests for extensions may or may not be denied.
Lastly, it goes without saying that you (along with everyone else) might truly have to wait until Christmas for these decisions to come out.
The application portal says, “You will hear from our office in mid-November on a rolling basis about your admission decision”. Can we rely on that or do they say that every year?
@sam577 Unfortunately, they do say that every year and the earliest waves to come out that I have seen in past threads were in late November and those were really rare. I truly doubt they have even started reviewing anybody’s application in mid-November as a good portion of applicants are likely going to take advantage of the November 15 deadline.
I had a chat with an admissions officer about when people usually turn in supplemental documents and he stated that most applicants wait until November/mid-November to submit certain supplemental documents. I suspect this is why they made supplemental application materials due in November 15 for all applicants and why decisions usually come out in December.