<p>Now my post is lonely</p>
<p>I wanna find out how BigRed2010 knows all about Duke’s admission process… hum… There’s a book on this? Also, how does cornell do it?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312284055/002-4522060-2857639?v=glance&n=283155[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312284055/002-4522060-2857639?v=glance&n=283155</a>
The book is actually called admissions confidential, sorry</p>
<p>it’s an ok book, i just got it from the library (def. not worth buying). I have no
idea how cornell works, i’m thinking mostly based on gpa, and test scores as a sort of qualifier.</p>
<p>thats a really impersonal admissions process. Well, in my cover letter I just wrote about how thrilled and happy I would be to be admitted and how enthusiastic I was about the school. They wanna feel like you’re passionate about the school so it could only be a positive thing.</p>
<p>i agree with litagee the great, thats exactly what i included (along with a checklist of items i was sending to them). </p>
<p>and yes that book was kinda boring outside of the duke admissions process, which was what i was really looking for, so only refer it to students who want to get into duke i guess. as for cornell’s process, there must be a factor they look at first to gauge the app pool considering how many apps they get each year but who knows…</p>
<p>levelone is probably right because of the size of the applicant pool as i mentioned before. for some this is better than for others, but obviously the essays and such play a role too.</p>
<p>haha u just called me litagee the great</p>
<p>I included a cover letter, since my English teacher, a former admissions officer for Drew University, said it was a good idea. I’ve had friends, however, who asked the admissions staff for their respective schools, whether a cover letter was appropriate and they said it wasn’t necessary. So basically, a cover letter just gives them a different feel to your application, but there’s nothing that says if you don’t put one, you won’t get in.</p>