Legacy chances at Cornell

monydad
Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:30:27 +0000

“Only your GC from your school would know what your 3.3 means in applying to Cornell.”

Possibly not. The school undoubtedly has applicants to Cornell every year, and based on those people Cornell may also know what the GPA means. And if they don’t already kow, the GC might have actual relations with admissions people there and tell them. The school wants to get their kids in, but on the other hand it doesn’t want to be sending them duds; it can reflect back.

“I would add a couple more to that “elite” list”

Perhaps at least we can agree it probably needs to be one of these:

Regis, Horace Mann, Collegiate, Brearly,Trinity, Fieldston, Spence, Dalton, Saint Ann’s, Friends, Riverdale, Ramaz, Columbia Grammar, Chapin, Poly Prep, Nightingale-Bamford, Elizabeth Irwin, Packer Collegiate, Rudolph Steiner, UNIS.

That’s ignoring Hunter and Stuyvesant.