<p>I got cornell’s app in the mail.
I have some questions.</p>
<p>Are AP/IB scores optional?</p>
<p>can I get recs from any teacher?</p>
<p>Is it better to get rec from a junior teacher to whom I may not have shown my best side or from a senior teacher who I might get to know well? (the question is, would adcoms put into consideration how long a teacher has known me)</p>
<p>Is Cornell need blind?</p>
<p>All questions that google could answer…
Those scores are optional.
For recs, last I checked you could get anyone.
Get the recs from the teachers that know you best.
Cornell is need blind.</p>
<p>my teacher once said to mix it up. Like get recs from teachers of the core subjects, math, science, english and history. If you want your art teacher or music or whatever to put in a rec add that as an extra one and it’ll be nice if they really knew you as a leader. </p>
<p>Also if you put that you want to do engineering don’t just ask your math and physics teacher for a rec, pick one and have the other one your english or history teacher to show you’re well rounded.</p>
<p>Some people think it’s best to have junior or sophmore year teachers for recs, that’s what they reccommended at Cornell when I talked to the admissions officers, but they said that only b/c your senior year teachers might not know you as well yet. Whatever floats you boat just make sure your recs are good, persausive writers</p>
<p>great tips!
thanks sooo much!</p>
<p>what classifies as an intl student btw?</p>
<p>I’m not permanent resident or u.s. citizen
but I do live here and will be graduating from US high school.
been here for like 4 years or so</p>
<p>am I an intl student?</p>
<p>You’re an international student.</p>
<p>No an international student is one that came from a different country, graduated high school there and whose address would be in a different country.</p>
<p>thats not true TrackBabi. If you look at the app, there will be 3 choices for nationality:</p>
<p>US citizen
Permanent resident
International student</p>
<p>Since he’s not the first two, he has to be the last one. I don’t know what else he can be. The process of elimination is powerful…</p>
<p>lightuh is right. I’ve lived in the US for 10 years but because I am a Mexican citizen I was considered an international student.</p>
<p>thanx!</p>
<p>I have another question</p>
<p>Cornell supplement has a spot for AP/IB scores. I know that if I do not report the scores the adcoms will kinda frown on that, but would not reporting AP/IB scores hurt my chances?</p>
<p>I would say if you got at least a 3 you should report them. If you don’t report adcoms will assume you got a 1 or a 2. Just my personal opinion though.</p>
<p>So I guess adcoms assume that everyone in the U.S. can afford a $90 for each exam… </p>
<p>polo1A, I have 1,2,2,3 for 4 APs I took. what should I do?</p>
<p>umm I’d say definitely don’t report the one you got 1 on. Also, maybe you can let your counselor explain why you didn’t do so well. Like, because English wasn’t your first language, etc.</p>
<p>so you’re suggesting I report </p>
<p>world his 3
eng 2
bio 2</p>
<p>but NOT euro his 1, right?
and ask GC to explain why i didn’t do so well on eng? but there is no like excuse for bio I just sucked at it.</p>
<p>that’s why I didn’t want to report them AT ALL so that I wouldn’t seem excuse making loser.</p>
<p>maybe just report the 3? actually, I think your biology grade can be affected by your English. I took AP bio in my third year in the US, and there were a lot of memorizing like hell. (ahh don’t want to go back to that class…) So I think you can still explain it a bit and don’t feel bad about yourself too much! ;)</p>
<p>dog, like wont it be hard to succeed at a place like cornell if you can’t do well on ap exams? maybe the question isnt can you get in, but can you survive once there…</p>
<p>I guess…
I just never thought AP exams to really reflect whether you’ll do well in college or not. The whole point of admission process is to see if an applicant has what it takes to be in that college so the fact that AP exam scores are optional and really don’t take a big part in the process seems like that they really don’t tell people if you will do well in colleges.
Of course that’s just me talking, but I don’t know</p>
<p>Three hour exam consisting of 1 hour multiple choice and 2 hours essays doesn’t seem the best measurement of how well a student can do at school just as high SAT score doesn’t mean high GPA and vice versa.</p>
<p>So you guys think if I don’t report the scores that will hurt me?</p>
<p>well, I have to say that not doing well on an exam that you “supposedly can do well if you think colleges cared” also reflect something about you.</p>
<p>People who cannot afford the AP exam fees may get fee waivers. I think you should send your score report anyway so they knew you tried. AP exams are meant to reflect how much you know on a given subject, rather than how well you will do in college. Did your scores accurately represent your knowledge on those subjects?</p>
<p>Keep in mind, there’s a $10 for each college you withhold a score from.</p>
<p>“So I guess adcoms assume that everyone in the U.S. can afford a $90 for each exam”</p>
<p>If you cant afford the test you obviously get a fee waiver, Ive taken 3 tests and only paid $5 each.</p>