I recently received an engineering likely letter from Cornell and I am beyond ecstatic. But at the same time, I’m so stressed. My email never said that I will be accepted to Cornell, rather it said I am very likely to be admitted, which is why I’m worried.
I’m doing terrible in Calc 2 right now (dual-enrolling at a local community college) and I’m actually about to fail this class. A mixture of senioritis and college application related stress made me lose motivation to study for this class. I’m doing absolutely fine in every single other class, but the professor of this class is just a jerk and is making my life really difficult.
I’m not sure what I should do anymore. Should I contact admissions and tell them I’m going to be withdrawing from Calc 2 (there’s going to be a W on my transcript) and make up an excuse? I’m not really sure what I would tell them. Please, any help is appreciated. Thank you.
A fail may indeed trigger rescinding. No way to know for sure. If I were you I’d strongly consider withdrawing from that class if possible. A “W” may still raise eyebrows but it’s less likely to totally hose you.
definitely withdraw from the class if you are going to get below a C. I would wait to tell them until after you get your official admissions letter though.
Senioritis part of your comment would not be a good indicator of success as an engineer.
Engineering is a grind at most colleges, worse than most at Cornell.
Certain classes can take over all your time, and you still need to get things done in other classes.
You will likely have more bad profs, you need to be able to learn other ways, and succeed despite a bad prof.
Chem prof at Cornell starting teaching organic chem in intro class last 2 weeks of semester.
This is a subject few majors would seek to learn, and not part of the curriculum for this class.
When asked by students if it would be on final, answer was “I dont know”.
When asked about office hours for help on this difficult topic, answer was “No I am traveling
until finals” (meaning during the study period). This is not all Cornell profs, but there is little regard for
undergrads in cornell engineering. I have a son at another engineering college, also a grind, but better profs
who are more helpful. You need to consider if Cornell Engineering is right for you, it’s for hard working people
who make no excuses and overcome adversity with little help from profs. Not true of all profs, but in some
required classes this will happen.