<p>I’ve seen that snippet about deferment on Cornell’s website before. I just doubt it applies to ED candidates. I’m just speculating though.</p>
<p>Why would ED candidates be excluded from that?</p>
<p>I dunno, maybe because ED involves such a big committment to attend. It’d be strange if an ED acceptance was met with a request to defer. I’m probably wrong though.</p>
<p>IMO ED is a commitment to attend cornell over anywhere else, but if you want to take a year off to make money for college or do some Comm service or a project you’ve never had time to do before, I don’t see why it’d be so bad in cornell’s eyes. ED may be binding, but I don’t see why they’d have less reason to defer admission an ED student based on these ideas.</p>
<p>Sorry her’e the link</p>
<p><a href=“http://admissions.cornell.edu/apply/firstyear/other.cfm#defer[/url]”>http://admissions.cornell.edu/apply/firstyear/other.cfm#defer</a></p>
<p>I just think this young man will be an even better student one year from now.</p>
<p>I think arjun needs an extra year to mature. I think it would be a good idea to wait a year.</p>
<p>Arjun, I think you’ll enjoy Cornell more when you’re a little older. Having said that, I do think that ED is a commitment to attend in the coming year. However, a look at Cornell admissions statistics shows that about ten or twelve EDers each year do not matriculate.</p>
<p>leave arjun alone guys, you don’t know how business work in india, its a whole different culture…i think you will be very successful arjun. almost all kids there go for coaching in academics because public school teachers cant teach. hes 16, hes mature enough to have a plan to pay for college, leave him alone</p>
<p>1337hax0r , they’re right…one has to be emotionally mature to attend college</p>
<p>A gap-yr ain’t that bad btw…when my cousin took one before she went to PRinceton…she did a whole lotta fun things, which helped her in college both academically and socially</p>
<p>As i said previously: Do u think that parents would send their kids to a 16 yr old who got into Cornell and pay Rs 1000 (approx $22) or send them to a professionnal counsellor who charges Rs7000 (approx $155). Dude, they’re applying to the US. $155 is nothing compared to how much they’ll have to pay for college. I know loads of guys who either dont go to a counsellor or go to the best, even though they’re applying for full (or a large amount of) financial aid.</p>
<p>But then again, your plan could work…</p>
<p>Oh! so that’s what Dubya is…I always wondered what it was.
The things you can learn on the net these days, the mind boggles.</p>
<p>I don’t think Cornell will be to chuffed about the fact that what you did,essentially is that you reserved your place for fall 2007. Sounds a bit arrogant. You might want to give a different explanation. </p>
<p>P.S. Don’t watch Rang de Basanti or you might end up staying back, then they’ll be really ****ed off, savvy?</p>
<p>P.P.S. What do you actually know about American education apart from the SATs and essays? I mean you wouldn’t know anything about applying for Visa, nor about applying for financial aid…in fact one of the most important things for an intel: what’s it like to live in America?
You should advertise yourself as a purely SAT and maybe essay consultant.</p>
<p>god help the people who ask for essay consulting. He might call them “retarted”</p>
<p>^^^^LORL. I’m gonna die laughing. :D</p>
<p>I’m waiting for Arjun to die laughing so he gets his butt of the board :p</p>
<p>Arjun: Cornell will cost you about $200,000 in four years if you have no finaid. I don’t think you will even make $10,000 in one year in india. So why waste one year! You are 16 and i think based on your current age, you are mature enough. You just have to act more mature!</p>
<p>Yea, are you sure you can afford it?
It would really suck if after a year or two you don’t have money to complete your education. How much can this business help you anyway?</p>
<p>And arjun, we’re not trying to put u down. (at least I’m not) But your projected Rs50000 is just over $1100.</p>
<p>“And arjun, we’re not trying to put u down. (at least I’m not) But your projected Rs50000 is just over $1100.”</p>
<p>arjun: sorry big man, but that wont even cover your transportation fees.</p>
<p>back to the original topic of this thread, I go to a private Jewish highschool and usually most of the class defers for a year before college to go spend a year studying in a sort of seminary in Israel. We still apply ED to tons of different schools, and to the best of my knowledge, none has ever given us trouble about deferring. I got in ED to Cornell and I already talked to my college councellors about deffering and they are preparing my canned deferal letter already. I assume they would know from past experience if Cornell didn’t allow EDers to defer.</p>
<p>Arjun…I think you take a year off to mature and lose weight. It would be a year to get a makeover you know…so when you go to Cornell it no longer will be “velcome to cornell arjun” but rather “RJ up in this hizzle”</p>