<p>haha, that’s good to hear. Good to see that ur a ilr gt too, diehldun and good luck with ur gt application! I really hope that i will be seeing everybody on cc who are gts in Ithaca next fall.</p>
<p>MissFiskeGuide- good luck and I hope everythin works out well in the end!</p>
<p>Thanks! I have my fingers crossed…</p>
<p>Best of luck to all of you as well!</p>
<p>Apparently, the lastest word on the street is that ALL decisions will be made by late April, though GTs who successfully meet all requirements should hear back earlier.</p>
<p>wow…I am pretty anxious about this even if I should be fine…but, at the same time, I am really excited. Within 1 month and a few weeks, I will be hearing from Cornell…</p>
<p>Considering you met all the GT requirements, I think you’re way too stressed out! If anything, I’m the one who should be anxious and worried…</p>
<p>hi all-
i just sent out my last bit of application. its fabulous to know im officially done diggidy done~
anyways, i remember reading figgy’s post saying she called ian to get her gt decision. anybody know when would be the earliest/appropriate time to do that?</p>
<p>also, i sent my transfer supplement about a month ago but i have yet to get a confirmation that some of you got from the processing center. how long did it take before u got the email to check your status? i called CU but they keep insisting that Freshman apps come before transfers… but yo… isn’t it a bit too late to still be processing fresh apps considering it’s march…? </p>
<p>feedback will be appreciated!</p>
<p>32,000 freshman apps…it’s takes a while :-)</p>
<p>Then they have to process stuff for all of the freshman who accept :-)</p>
<p>Don’t worry…you should hear around the end of April</p>
<p>hey fellow ilr gts. Ian told me in an email that he generally calls GTs who completed all the requirements to let them know that everything is set. so u probably don’t have to call them. im also wondering when we will be able to check our status b/c I sent my transcript through my school and I’m not sure how long it will take to get there.</p>
<p>Do you have your login info to check your status online? If you do…you can go online and check any time</p>
<p>i don’t know why…but, I haven’t received anything back from Cornell either, including login access info for tracking our application. And, I sent my supplement form to Cornell like 3 and a half weeks ago. Has anyone gotten anything back from Cornell yet? (ILR) like, applicant log-in or any email from Cornell at all??</p>
<p>I find it honestly surprising how it seems most GTs here are ILR. :)</p>
<p>I have not gotten back anything either from Cornell. I believe the office will send you an e-mail if your GT application is missing any of the required form(s). And correct me if I’m wrong, but I’d imagine they’d forward you the login info/pin once they’re received all the forms, including the midterm grade report?</p>
<p>Urgh, I can’t believe I messed up on that one stupid class; it’d be so relieving to get that phone call from Ian early in April, instead of having to wait it out for most of the month.</p>
<p>lol I’m a guy…</p>
<p>but ya Ian calls u on ur cell phone one random but glorious day haha. He’s the man so have a little convo w/ him if u want n make sure u get to know him when u come to Cornell.</p>
<p>Hi, all–</p>
<p>I just found out that in one of my S’s classes, he only has ONE TEST before midterm. The majority of his midterm grade in that class will be based on his score on that ONE TEST. This is a required course for the GT. </p>
<p>Are any one of you in this situation? He says he has lots of homework grades, but there are no quizzes or other grades in that class, and the homework is not going to count any more than 25% of the midterm grade. That means the midterm exam will count 75% or more!</p>
<p>Talk about pressure on a student for ONE TEST! His whole GT may be riding on the score he receives on one midterm exam. That doesn’t seem fair to me. After all this time and effort?</p>
<p>Have any of the rest of you GTs had this experience? This midterm not only counts a lot, but it will also be the FIRST and ONLY test he will have taken from this professor so far. The professor certainly has the right to structure his class the way he wants, but do you think Cornell will take this situation into consideration in their assessment of the grade requirements (if the score on the ONE TEST–did I mention that I’m talking about ONE TEST for the whole midterm grade? (ha)–is lower than needed)? Yikes! :(</p>
<p>Dr. Mom, what school is he a GT for because I frequently e-mail the assistant director of CALS (met him at Multi-cultural) and he reassures me that it’s a 3.0 cum., and grades under a 3.0 are fine as long as they are passing so maybe this school is the same way.</p>
<p>Dr. Mom…the college doesn’t necessarily need to know that you son only has one grade for the midterm report…especially if he does well. For my Calc class…we had a quiz (which I didn’t do well on) and a midterm…which wasn’t graded before the deadline so I had a chat with the professor and said that with the quiz my grade was a B…but since I knew how badly I wanted to go Cornell and that I was very working very hard he gave a B+ on the grade report.</p>
<p>If you and your son really are concerned that this will affect his application…I suggest you have a chat with the admission department at your son’s intended college.</p>
<p>Thanks, grantortue, for sharing your experience–I’ve kept my S’s college of choice off the boards to honor his privacy, since it’s me who participates here and not him. I do feel comfortable sharing, though, that his requirements include an overall GPA + certain grades in certain classes that are required by Cornell. Also, he is not trying to get in to ILR.</p>
<p>dewdrop–He doesn’t know the grade yet on either the test or what it will be on the midterm grade report (they are just taking midterm exams now at his school). If it becomes a concern, he will go from there with Cornell, I’m sure. I was just wondering if anyone found themselves in this situation with only one major grade counting toward the midterm and what they did about it if it turned out that this one major grade was lower than Cornell’s grade requirement. Sounds like you talked about it with your professor, and he helped you, knowing your capabilities and the way the class was structured, etc. Thank you for sharing that.</p>
<p>I’ll be so glad when this GT process is over!</p>
<p>Hi Dr_Mom,</p>
<p>Does your son have a “gut feeling” as to how he’ll do on this midterm exam? I definitely agree with the others here; I’d start talking with the professor; you never know if he/she might be understanding of your son’s situation…</p>
<p>Hang in there! I think as decision-time looms ahead, we’re all getting more anxious and nervous. From my own personal experience, I can also only imagine what your son (and you, it seems!) must be going through as well.</p>
<p>Dr. Mom,</p>
<p>I’m also an ILR GT, and I could say I have a similar situation. The only grade this quarter that’s real tentative around the B area is introductory economics (one of the highlighted requirements, ouch), and I have to do well on the upcoming final to get a decent grade. As far as your son is concerned, if he has just that one test to worry about I’d advise that he concentrate his focus on that one test, day and night. That’s my course of action for my situation. </p>
<p>diehldun, </p>
<p>I posted earlier in this thread, I think I’m in the same boat as you. I have a B- in a fall semester course I took called “World Music”, I’m just praying that they still let me keep my GT status because it’s my lowest grade by far and because it’s such an irrelevant course for ILR! I’m very nervous too, but we’ll have to see how it goes.</p>
<p>Thanks so much, all!</p>
<p>My S just called last night and let me know he did very well on the midterm I was worried about! I am so relieved–this test was in a very hard class! Hallelujah! Just 2 more midterms to go now, but he has other grades in those classes, he says, so the pressure’s not <em>quite</em> as intense.</p>
<p>Thanks, again, for all of your support. This board has been a lot of help to me as a mom of a GT! (I also pass along to my S any news we share here, so it helps him vicariously as well–thanks so much!).</p>
<p>chrisfk–Thanks for your post. I think you have a good chance with that music class. I think they’ll look over the whole picture, you know, and that one won’t matter a whole lot to them. Hang in there!</p>
<p>diehldun–Thanks for your post, too! You sound determined, and it’s been a pleasure interacting with you here on the GT board. I have only the best wishes for a successful outcome for your GT process!</p>
<p>A word on talking with professors–I’ll speak here as a professor myself. I <em>always</em> advocate that students talk with their professors, just as a matter of course. As many of you know, I used to teach college English (still do part-time & online now, a couple of classes a year). I used to have as many as 100+ students a semester when I taught in the classroom. When I had trouble remembering their names, I finally came to the conclusion that it was as much incumbent upon <em>them</em> to make sure I knew them by name as it was on me to try to learn 100-125 names. If I saw and talked with a student outside of class, I was more likely to remember him/her. Don’t let yourself just be a face in the 3rd row from the back in a lecture hall. Get the most out of your education by getting to know your professors. Go touch base with them in their office hours. Ask them about anything–what to expect on the midterm; how to study better; how to improve your grade; something about the material you’re going over. Something you read about that relates to the class. Anything. They don’t bite! So, yep; you’d better believe I counseled my S in this a long time ago.</p>
<p>I hope you’ll all post whenever you hear anything about your midterm grades and/or from Cornell. I keep telling my S it will be a different feeling to have reached his goal at midterm and then just have to <em>hold onto</em> it for the rest of the term than it has all year this far getting to the goal. Do you know what I mean?</p>
<p>Alas, I ramble, but at least today it’s a happy ramble (2 more midterm exams to go)… :)</p>
<p>A little inspiration for you hard-working Cornell GTs! </p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Cornell Chimes 2007](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg2ccJYaqCY]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg2ccJYaqCY)</p>