Official Cornell ED 2017 Results

lowdenf23c
Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:59:22 +0000

Hello Dipali,
I read with interest your earlier post in this string about your conflicted feelings surrounding the colleges your daughter applied to or, more accurately, the colleges she didn’t apply to.
My take….for the sake of context, my daughter just finished her 1st semester at Cornell, so the college search from last year is still very fresh in my memory. Her stats were very comparable to your daughter (I saw where you posted her stats in another string)…my daughter had the same AP scores, virtually the same GPA, slightly higher SATs. Her first (and second, for that matter) choice was a small, very selective Liberal Arts college. Since her stats placed her comfortably above the 75% percentile as per previous Common Data Set info, she thought that she had a good chance of acceptance. Long story short…no dice. Deferred in ED.
As it turned out, she was rejected and Wait Listed in RD at Amherst and Williams respectively. Disappointment ensued. Especially when she read “acceptance” posts from other students with lower aggregate scores on those CC strings. The rest of her applications were a mixed bag of acceptances and waitlists (really, Tufts?). As many times as we hear it from others, be they parents or professionals, that admissions to such colleges are ultimately a crap-shoot, it’s tough to internalize it when it comes to your own loved one.
My D accepted Cornell’s offer of admission and am happy to say that she has had a remarkably positive experience. The academics are extremely challenging, as one would suspect, but she made the Dean’s List. She has made friends, joined the APO service fraternity and made a very nice transition to the next phase of her life.
I strongly suspect that your daughter will do the same. Second guessing the college application process is a natural thing for a parent to do, but Cornell has laid those feelings to rest in our case. There’s no reason to think that your experience will be different.

Best regards,
Lowdenf23c