<p>I submitted my application RD because I wanted to receive a priority alumni interview (the deadline was 12/10), but after being rejected by Cornell ED I had a major epiphany, overhauled my entire personal statement, and made significant updates to my resume. </p>
<p>I want to contact the admissions office and be honest with them (tell them I had this epiphany and simply wanted to reserve a spot for the interview, which is the reason for my premature submission), but I’m not sure if its worth drawing this unnecessary attention to my application. They might think I’m shifty or irresponsible. But on the other hand I think that my old essay is very bad compared to my newly updated one. </p>
<p>Do you think I should try to contact them? If so, how? By phone or by email?</p>
<p>Thank you so much for all of your help everyone!</p>
<p>Sticky situation but it doesn’t hurt to contact them. An enhancement to your application in my opinion, should always be pursued.</p>
<p>I would definitely contact your admissions officer. If your new essay is much better than your old one, you definitely want to make the change. </p>
<p>Furthermore, I don’t know what you have heard, but interviews carry basically no weight in college admissions. The main purpose of an interview is for you to ask questions about the school and for the school to make sure that you can carry on a decently intelligent conversation. I am a freshman at Duke and did not have an interview.</p>
<p>I’d be hesitant about this, especially if the new resume is really just a rewording of the old one and there’s no new activities awards etc. Maybe contact the admissions officer first and ask in an email which does not include the new versions, and then if asked for you could send a second email with it all. Or call instead.</p>
<p>I think I’m just going to call anonymously and ask. If the rep says it won’t hurt to re-submit, then I’ll re-submit and disclose my name. If she says that it will, then I wont resubmit</p>
<p>Ah yes, the anonymous call.</p>
<p>By the way, about interviews: good interviews certainly can’t get someone accepted, but bad ones can certainly keep people out. That’s the point of the interview, to weed out the good from the bad on the level of a different dimension than the scores and grades. </p>
<p>I’m just a little curious, was your epiphany as a result of being rejected from Cornell ED? Is there any causality or are they two mutually exclusive events? If not, if would seem a bit odd to intertwine them in a personal statement that invokes the admissions process itself. I would have assumed the personal statement calls upon different types of past experiences, but that’s just me.</p>
<p>Did you call and get a response? I’m in a similar situation</p>