<p>“If not outright acceptance, she’ll easily be offered a Guaranteed Transfer Option…” </p>
<p>…Assuming she applied to one of the contract colleges there that uses GT. I have never heard of a Guaranteed Transfer at the endowed colleges, if any of them do use GT it must be pretty rare.</p>
<p>“Not dissing her qualifications; I don’t know anything about Cornell admissions and am wondering where she’d fit into the mix.”</p>
<p>It varies by college there:</p>
<p><a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000003.pdf[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000003.pdf</a>
<a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000176.pdf[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000176.pdf</a>
<a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000177.pdf[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000177.pdf</a></p>
<p>But these stats don’t break out people from IHS. Or 5 generation legacies with buildings named after them.</p>
<p>They don’t list Writing section scores, IIRC they treat this section like another subject test.</p>
<p>“The point of that article was to signal to alumni that they should be nervous about their kids getting in. If that girl is nervous, everybody should be nervous.”</p>
<p>That may indeed have been the intent of the article, but the message would have been more powerful if the same candidate had 2250 + saluditorian. Someone with her stats might reasonably be nervous. a bit anyway.</p>