Cornell (SUNY Ithaca) (2022-2023)

[limpid ocean]

wawt school u go to @tiny cobalt ?

if u dont mind me asking lol

ohh

i guessed it right 🙂

welp good night if ur going to sleep

im finishing my northwestern

[tiny cobalt]

kay gn

[limpid ocean]

night night

[plain chasm]

worthwhile to submit a 32 to cornell or should I go test optional?

arguably would be the weakest part of my application

i’m seeing both 32 and 33 25th percentile which is why i’m asking

[limpid ocean]

idk i have like a crappy 1440 sat lol

[thick abyss]

Which college

Some are test blind

[plain chasm]

dyson

[thick abyss]

They’re test blind lmao

So no it doesn’t matter

[plain chasm]

wait i lied

im applying for astronomy

[limpid ocean]

I ONLY GOT 12 MORE ESSAYS 🙂

and 8 schools lol

[thick abyss]

Which school is that under

[plain chasm]

so that’s CAS

[limpid ocean]

oh nic 🙂

lovely

[thick abyss]

Ah yes cas looks

I wouldn’t do a 32 tho

Below 50th percentile is a gamble

[plain chasm]

forgot dyson was business

okay thanks

[limpid ocean]

lol

i think we fine

aight ima sleep now

good night yall

[crystal nebula]

wooooooo

hype!

a week until cornell is due!

[drowsy glen]

This is a bit late

But to make sure

Im taking calc 3 (basically multivar) and lin alg

I select beyond calc on the commonapp??

[drowsy glen]

This is spring semester at cc so like

In jan lol

But theyre concurrent (unless i dont get off the waitlist for the good calc 3 class in which case i take a shorter option that starts in march but its still the same semester)

[vernal raven]

Dont think so

Beyond calc would be like linear alg i think

[plain chasm]

they said they’re taking linalg i think

[plain chasm]

if your highest math will be linalg select beyond calculus

[drowsy glen]

Okay thank you guys :D

[limpid ocean]

nope

[plain chasm]

no

[plain coral]

we shouldnt rlly be looking to share or acquire this information

[sour blade]

#📜-rules

​Rule 4: Personally Identifying Information

​Do not share any personally identifying information about yourself or others. This includes but is not limited to full names, high schools, photos, social media handles, and specific locations.

[vernal raven]

What was it

[plain coral]

apologies if u intended it just to know if ppl use it rather than inquiring for ppls linkedins

[vernal raven]

Ohh

[thick abyss]

I was asking for this purpose lmao

I don’t add random people on LinkedIn

I just know a lot of people who think it’s a joke and others who have like 500+ connections

[vernal raven]

Make sure u connect with ur AOs on LinkedIn

[tough pebble]

hi everyone :)

[feral wren]

Anyone know anything about what they're looking for on the ILR essay? I've got a second draft but feel like the whole "Your response should show how your interests align with the ILR school" is tripping me up

[compact veldt]

Hey are there any IB students applying to Col. Arts+Sciences here? How did you answer the highest language class question?

I took Chinese B SL

[viral cape]

did you take chinese before ib?

[compact veldt]

Yep

in IGCSEs

[viral cape]

then yea year 3 i think

or above year 3

[compact veldt]

Thanks! Going to put down Year 3 since above Y3 would be HL

[limpid ocean]

wow

i lowkey feel better for taking math aa hl now 🥲

at least now i have sth to write abt

all my blood and sweats doing math

[thick abyss]

How do interviews work at Cornell

Like I know CAAN runs them, but do they make a diff if barely anyone gets them?

[tiny cobalt]

i dont think that it makes much of a different

Since my interviewer really said it is only informative and like they cant tell much to admissions

and also u can only request it when u have ur cornell portal

[crystal nebula]

yeah i’ve heard it’s only informative as well

merry christmas y’all

[plain coral]

We can j check the cds

So basically do it cuz theyll know if u did but content likely wont matter ?

Thats what i gather

[thick abyss]

Kk bet

[wicked saddle]

I think it’s just for demonstrating interest

[thick abyss]

Ugh I like this school sm

Why didn’t I ed

[plain chasm]

test scores very important

👀

[vernal raven]

theyre "very important" at most schools

[limber harbor]

so excited for my acceptance

literally a safety school

[limpid ocean]

congrats

any acceptance counts lol

it gives u that dopamine and the confidence to keep pushing urself

[real skiff]

anyone here applying ILR?

[limpid ocean]

nope

not me at least

[thick abyss]

My friend did

[wind nimbus]

me w my 1500 : (

[vernal raven]

??

1500 is fire

[wind nimbus]

might be low for my major idk

at cornell at least

[vernal raven]

Nah

Send 1500 everywhere

Expect maybe like mit cmu

[wind nimbus]

I had no idea cs wsa this comp goin into this

[wind nimbus]

o yeah for sure

[wind nimbus]

didnt bother with them lmao

[vernal raven]

Yea me either lol

[wind nimbus]

i still need to submit my cornell app smh

[vernal raven]

Same

[thick abyss]

Guys do I submit today

This is like my top school now and I’m so worried

[limpid ocean]

wow

u should lol

i havent done the essay

🥲

[plain chasm]

💀 me still applying to MIT with a 32

i think i’m going test optional for cornell

[limpid ocean]

same

[thick abyss]

For Dyson or sha

[limpid ocean]

dyson

what sha?

[thick abyss]

School of hotel administration

The other part of the business school

[limpid ocean]

ah

ye def dyson

also

should the other school be SOHA

lol

[thick abyss]

they just call it sha

Or the Nolan school

[limpid ocean]

lol

soha sounds cooler

[thick abyss]

Fair

[limpid ocean]

how many essays u got left?

and schools?

[thick abyss]

None thankfully

I only did 15 schools

[plain coral]

I need to redo my cornell essays

😭😭

[rare kettle]

Plural?!

[plain coral]

Yea

Coe

Two 250 words

Not too bad just 💀

[rare kettle]

Dang, I have one 650 word one

I'd trade in a heartbeat

[wet siren]

why do you have to redo them??

[plain coral]

cuz theyre ass

[limpid ocean]

still impressive lol

counting uc schools?

[thick abyss]

So. Nice I love it

I didn’t do uc’s

[rare kettle]

Yeah it's just a lot of words :/

I like writing about different things in short spurts

[thick abyss]

Dang idk I like it

It’s like mich kinda

[rare kettle]

Not different things but also the same things that I have to transition in between

[thick abyss]

You get to go rly in depth

[limpid ocean]

wow

i applied to i thinkmb

18

[rare kettle]

Don't get me wrong, if I like something, I'll write about it, but really really liking to write about a college is hard for me

[limpid ocean]

counting all ucs as 1 school

[thick abyss]

Totally fair

I just LOVED cornell sha

Or “soha”

So it worked out

[rare kettle]

I LOVED Harvard, but I don't think I could write more than a few paragraphs without bringing up location and aesthetics

Then again, maybe that's because I'm a math major

There isn't much to talk about

"You have good classes. You have good professors. You have good research. I can get into a good grad school after I go to your school."

[thick abyss]

AH yeah math major makes sense lmao

Idk how u could even do a why major essay

“Numbers yum”

And how you could make it unique

[rare kettle]

It's hard

Here's the thing with math

It's ALL about rankings

Like that's it

No special quirks at one school or anything, it's about the ranking of the school's math program

But that's sUpErFiCiAl

[rare kettle]

Yeah that's hard too. I'm writing mine for Yale right now. It's basically just "math excites me."

[limpid ocean]

lol

[limpid ocean]

u could lol

ig just talk abt why u wanna pursue it and link it to an analogy

[austere pendant]

me also

[plain coral]

Is there no shch thing as math research or math breakthroughs made at cornell

That could be a great why major to tie in

[rare kettle]

💀 I know a guy who's there right now actually

A grad student

But yeah, I agree, no math research

A few famous professors, that's all

[thick abyss]

Then does it matter where you go to college?

Like not hate

But couldn’t you go to a state school and get abt the same program?

[rare kettle]

Not exactly

Funding is a big thing

And course rigor is significantly different across schools

The university I'm dual enrolled at takes four years to teach students what Harvard teaches in one year

So there are echelons

1. T5s
2. T20s
3. T100s
4. Everywhere else (for the most part)

[thick abyss]

Gotcha

[plain chasm]

yeah that’s honestly the issue I’d have with lower tier schools

sure i could take it easy

but i’d be absolutely bored out of my mind

[rare kettle]

Math major?

[plain chasm]

astrophysics

[rare kettle]

Oh yeahhh, we've talked before

[plain chasm]

although i’m on track to start with complex analysis freshman year

[rare kettle]

Yeah exactly it'd be super boring

[plain chasm]

or linalg at least

[rare kettle]

I'd rather have baptism by fire

[plain chasm]

💀

[rare kettle]

Ayy same

[plain chasm]

baptism by fire

[rare kettle]

Never heard that saying?

[plain chasm]

no

[rare kettle]

Oh, maybe that's just for us southern folk

[plain chasm]

regardless there’s no way i’m taking calc 1-3 again 😭

[thick abyss]

Where r u applying

[rare kettle]

FACTS

[thick abyss]

My friend is doing the same major

[rare kettle]

Although I'm reading through Spivak's (I got it for Christmas) so I guess in a way I am... 🗿

[plain chasm]

well I did harvard REA, then I’m applying to northwestern, northeastern (math + phys), princeton, MIT, caltech, yale, cornell

[rare kettle]

Yeah that's a senior-level, optional class at the university I'm DEed at

[plain chasm]

and idk where else tbh that’s pretty much enough

maybe dartmouth too

[plain chasm]

interesting

i’ve taken all the math my cc offers

[rare kettle]

Multivariable Real Analysis isn't even required 🗿

[rare kettle]

Yeah same that's why I'm paying for university classes now

[plain chasm]

i’ve done multivar but idk about the real analysis part

i can’t afford university classes rn

i take all of mine for free

[rare kettle]

Yeah I think they're getting taken out of my college fund

[plain chasm]

☹️ forgot people have college funds

[thick abyss]

Damn no targets or safeties

[plain chasm]

I applied to targets and safeties EA

[rare kettle]

Oh man it gets a lot harder, I was talking to a math major about it... basically, you have to explain every single presupposition

[thick abyss]

Ah gotcha u scared me

Bc I know Georgia tech and ut austin r rly good for aerospace

[plain chasm]

my state school, university of arizona and gatech

all ea

[rare kettle]

I only have mine because of a pretty grim reason so don't feel too bad

[plain chasm]

yup! applied AE for gatech

[plain chasm]

yeah it’s like, I’ve been kinda asking for at least a bank account for years

and i finally have a job

now all of that money is just sitting in checks

which i can’t even deposit

[rare kettle]

What the...

[plain chasm]

😀

[rare kettle]

Why?

[plain chasm]

good question

[thick abyss]

My dad got mad at me abt my job

[plain chasm]

i don’t know

[thick abyss]

Bc I don’t spend money ☠️

[plain chasm]

i have at least 1.5k in earnings so far and it’s just chillin on a bookcase in checks

@rare kettle are you applying to princeton?

[thick abyss]

Can u ask for direct deposit?

[rare kettle]

I only have my college fund because my dad was on disability when he died (I was in 5th grade) and we're able to continue to collect that disability until I'm 18 so we've shoved it in a savings account for college

[plain chasm]

no bank account

[rare kettle]

To what account?

[thick abyss]

Wait why not

[rare kettle]

Not currently... I'm not sure why, I just kinda didn't want to deal with their essays, but I guess that could change. Are you?

[plain chasm]

good question, they said “wait until you’re 18”, so I’ve got about half a year

[plain chasm]

I am

[thick abyss]

Ah dang I’m sorry man

I’ve had a bank account since I was nine

Ur parents r crazy

[plain chasm]

Also I’m sorry for your loss

[rare kettle]

Financially literate parents, amirite?

[humble meteor]

cornell thread so long 💀

[plain chasm]

I mean… they severely underreported their loans on fafsa

[rare kettle]

Thanks, it's fine now thankfully

[plain chasm]

because they didn’t want colleges to see them as poor

😀

[rare kettle]

NO, THEY DO WANT THAT

[thick abyss]

Poor gets more money tho bruh

[plain chasm]

lmfao

my efc is like half of what it should be for people in my income bracket

because of their loans alone

[rare kettle]

And it should be even less?!

Dang.

[plain chasm]

they probably have 100k+ in loans not even including mortgage

[rare kettle]

Holy...

[plain chasm]

but they only put 30k

[thick abyss]

Jesus

Can they afford ur college tuition?

[plain chasm]

um good question

[thick abyss]

If no, don’t underreport loans!!!

[plain chasm]

i’ll be working it off

probably

i’m going to put all of the loans in my name

for college

and then help them pay off their loans

[rare kettle]

Mine is... maybe 3x the average for my income bracket? My mom's a lowly teacher but we have tons of savings from what I mentioned and lots of stocks. So that's unfortunate for me. I'll have to wipe it all out to stay out of debt.

[thick abyss]

I don’t know u too well

But don’t fuck up ur credit at 18

Be careful

[plain chasm]

ah i’m really sorry for that

yeah i think i’d be paying around 5-10k to attend a t10 private college

[rare kettle]

It's all good, thankfully I'll have a good credit score when I turn 18 because I'm co-signed on my mom's credit card

So low interest rate 😃

[plain chasm]

oh that’s amazing

i plan to do that if i have children too tbh that’s awesome

[rare kettle]

Yeah you gotta set your kids up well financially

[thick abyss]

Rn I’ve just been stacking up savings in case economy goes to hell

[plain chasm]

i’m hoping for a smidge of a scholarship to gatech but i probably won’t get one, and if i’m paying $40k i can’t really attend

[rare kettle]

Oh that's not too bad. You could probably work and cut that in half.

[plain chasm]

yep that’s what i intend to do

[rare kettle]

If the economy goes to hell your savings is going with it

[plain chasm]

the economy is perpetually going to hell

[thick abyss]

LMAO

I mean I don’t think 30k would just vanish

[rare kettle]

No like, inflation eats savings for breakfast

[plain chasm]

you should’ve seen the crypto scene a few months ago

even now

[thick abyss]

That’s why I do stocks too

[plain chasm]

inflation is going crazy

[rare kettle]

Oh okay yeah you're good then

[thick abyss]

And I work 30 hrs a week so I hope I beat inflation

[plain chasm]

30h a week jeez

[rare kettle]

Stocks > Savings account with .00000001% yield

[rare kettle]

Dang that's a lot

I wish I had time to work

[thick abyss]

I wanted to do checking account bc 1% intrest

But my dad refused

[rare kettle]

I do some tutoring but that's it

[rare kettle]

That's probably smart, savings accounts have other benefits

@plain chasm Yo you could tutor for REALLY GOOD money in college 👀

I tutor college kids for $60/hr

[thick abyss]

I make 50/hr for highschoolers too

U def could

Honestly serving is RLY smart too

[rare kettle]

Even the math department will pay you like at least $35/hr to tutor

Wherever you go

[plain chasm]

I could probably tutor now, my math teacher tutors for $50/hr

and he does not teach!!

[rare kettle]

Yeah you should get into it, it stacks up quick

Oh, I remember why I didn't apply to Princeton @plain chasm

The graded paper

I thought it was stupid

[plain chasm]

yeah that’s what i’m trying to figure out

i’m uploading a mock hl essay i got an 100% raw score on with like 3 comments, i think it’s pretty demonstrative of my ability although i’m kinda worried about the comments thing lol

the teacher is usually insanely strict

i was the only person last year to ever get an 100% on a mock

[rare kettle]

My teacher has a policy where she doesn't comment on essays so... to hell with Princeton!

[rare kettle]

Oh man that's got to be awful. I've never run into a teacher like that thankfully.

[plain chasm]

i was just going to upload the turnitin essay report but the plagiarism % is 14% and it shows a report of where it comes from

so idk if that’s high or not

it’s primarily just highlighting my quotes

and “and” next to character names

it’s a pretty woke essay too

[rare kettle]

Well there you go, that'll do it 😆

I've written some very not woke essays, so I don't think they'd appreciate that

[plain chasm]

my thesis is “Fugard used ballroom dancing to allude to a morally conscious, idealistically cooperative society without the constraints of the oppressive, inherently capitalistic conflicts during Apartheid, while also attributing the metaphor of dance to a transcendentalist viewpoint on the reality of life”

it’s a mouthful

[rare kettle]

What the hell

[plain chasm]

and it was good too

[rare kettle]

That's amazing

[plain chasm]

that’s the only reason I got an 100 💀

my newer essays are way better

but this is probably the wokeist thing i’ve written

[rare kettle]

Oh man

[plain chasm]

yeah i’m just going to upload the pdf report of it

[rare kettle]

I love writing, I just never get interesting prompts

[plain chasm]

bro we had to create our own prompts 😭

i HATE writing my own prompts

[rare kettle]

Dude I would do that so quick

Talk about religion's place in society psychologically and anthropologically

Would be a banger

Instead, I get "should we get rid of libraries?"

[plain chasm]

💀

oml that’s awful

[rare kettle]

Tell me about it

I got a 1/4/1 (110) on some prompt about the considerations when designing a monument

[plain chasm]

i mean hey at least your grade isn’t suffering

mine is because i’m not consistently insightful enough

😭

i started actually speaking in class this year

like, talking about what i’m interested in

and did the same with my english and tok assignments

and my teacher reached out to me and said my vocabulary was so superior that I risked losing clarity if I went any further because he wouldn’t be able to comprehend it

but that I was in such a sweet spot that i’d kill all of my exams and get easy 7s

[real skiff]

So I heard cornell ILR isnt looking for people into econ and politics in their app process

is this true?

[real skiff]

basing this assumption off of this

[feral wren]

I am

[rare kettle]

Sorry for disappearing, I went bowling

It's always good to talk in class, yeah

[plain chasm]

lol all good, i’ve just been trying to grind out essays

[rare kettle]

That's what I'm about to do

Bowling was a nice break though

[daring dragon]

I finally finished my Cornell app lol

[thick abyss]

Who did a resume

[limber kestrel]

me

it's just the same thing i gave to my LOR teachers lol

it's not super important tho

[thick abyss]

Could I see it by chance?

My dad is saying that’s it’s the most important thing

[limber kestrel]

nahh it's def not

it's just a repeat of ECs and awards

and some basic stats

[limber kestrel]

with more elaboration/details that what could fit in 150 cars in the common app EC section

[limber kestrel]

well it would dox me and all that so...

you can find formatting online

keep it 1-2 pages, don't go over 3 tho

[thick abyss]

Fair

Ok I found some from Cornell

[thick abyss]

Results and stakes r important tho

Especially for business school

[pearl siren]

Are most people here using LaTeX for Resume?

[limber kestrel]

I just used google docs lol

[thick abyss]

I did docs

[pearl siren]

LaTeX looks clean

[limber kestrel]

latex is overkill tho

[pearl siren]

I did that

[limber kestrel]

also it takes too long imo

[pearl siren]

Yeah true

[thick abyss]

This one is p good

[daring dragon]

is there a point in doing a resume if you say everything that you'd say in the EC section/your application?

[pearl siren]

Yes that's LaTeX

[limber harbor]

That's literally my resume

#1050628377268207676 message

[thick abyss]

Lmao

Yours was wordy but good

[thick abyss]

Business requires it

[daring dragon]

I'm applying to A&S

[thick abyss]

Idk if they do

[dire lily]

imo, no point

I didn’t make a resume anywhere since my common app captures all the important stuff anyways

[daring dragon]

good point

[tawny mural]

People that got accepted into Cornell what were ur stats

[craggy quiver]

college 🙁

[wicked saddle]

folks.. super confused here..
trying to submit my cornell app; ive answered all the questions in general (and its not showing the ✅ )

and now they claim i need to answer all the "questions"

fixed it, cleared cookies

[thick abyss]

LMAO

[topaz aurora]

that happened to me on nov 1

[wicked saddle]

bro i was so lost for like the past hour

🗿

[plain chasm]

Is it like absolutely necessary to do CAAAN?

especially if it won’t be used in the evaluative process

[wicked saddle]

nahh, they tell you its strictly informational

[plain chasm]

so if i click i’m not interested, it won’t impact my application?

[wicked saddle]

i would think not based on what i read on commonapp

[plain chasm]

because i literally don’t think i can’t sit through another interview in the next 2 weeks, i’m probably already going to have 5+

[wicked saddle]

lets check the CDS

jesus man

5

[plain chasm]

yea t10s

[wicked saddle]

ah valid

[thick abyss]

It will slightly

I mean they say they won’t take it into account

But like imaging being the ao and someone just doesn’t want to interview with your school

Idk I feel like it would

[plain chasm]

hmm

[wicked saddle]

@plain chasm

oh wow

its considdered

interesting

[plain chasm]

so it is considered

[wicked saddle]

thats very conflicting with what they claimed

[plain chasm]

alright guess i’ll do it then 🤷‍♀️

[wicked saddle]

yeah

[tepid wagon]

For those of you applying to arts and sciences, what's your essay length?

for the supplemental

[rare kettle]

Yo wtf I've gotten 1 🗿

[wicked saddle]

ok that clarification makes alot of sense thx

[plain chasm]

well, princeton, MIT, columbia, northwestern, yale, and now i guess cornell

oh okay, thank you!

[uncut mauve]

649 words

[plain chasm]

I’ve heard that the time and date of the interview gets sent to the admissions office

so I’m guessing you should still do it

[rare kettle]

i've just gottan northwestern, hmm

[plain chasm]

I don’t have the official dates for the interviews yet bc i haven’t submitted

i’m waiting to finish em all

hopefully princeton + columbia and starting MIT today

I was up at 4am finishing my columbia media lists

and the what brings you joy / soundtrack of your life

[rare kettle]

Oh THAT was dumb 😆

[thick abyss]

Is 630 words okay for business

[plain coral]

Yeah

Word limit is a limit not a goal

[thick abyss]

Bet

I didn’t want to add fluff

[wicked saddle]

500- 650 is honestly a chill range to be in

dont stress it

[austere pendant]

did anyone from here get into coe

ed

[wicked saddle]

its truly non evaluative.

my interviewer told me

[drowsy glen]

Do yall think cs in coe + a math minor is better than cs in cas and double majoring

Bc lowkey ive been struggling with whether i should switch to cas and redo my app bc cs+math or just an independent major at that point bc im mostly interested in how the math could apply to computing

Like im not sure if i should redo my app bc it also means talking to my parents and my dad doesnt see a point in me applying to cornell if its not for coe so like ?????

[plain coral]

its alumni right?

[limber kestrel]

For that Cornell Engineering essay where u talk about an engineering problem and how you would solve it

Would it be too over the top (for the lack of a better term) to include specific statistics to contextualize the problem

[limber kestrel]

Also, how many words out of 250 should be used for the problem and how many for the solutions?

[wicked saddle]

uhhhh i think getting in is more important then you can figure things out if you attend. so i would just pick the school that best aligns with your overall app/profile tbh. sry if that like doesnt help at all😭

[plain coral]

Tbh no, i did 9/11 and used stats of liek how many ppl were affected

Even tho most pol know 9/11

[wicked saddle]

yea

[plain coral]

Id do abt 100 problem and 150 solution depending on how fleshed out the solution is or how hard to explain the problem is

They want to see ur thinking n not just robotic facts and stats tho

[limber kestrel]

yepp that's what im doing too :))

also @plain coral final question sry

would it be fine to not have a conclusion

[plain coral]

Ehh its always good to have a nice closing sentence

[limber kestrel]

my last sentence elaborates on one my solutions

oh

[plain coral]

Dont end abruptly

[limber kestrel]

lol i dont wanna delete some of hte actual content

[plain coral]

Its the last thing they read so its their last impression of ur essays

[limber kestrel]

ok but like what would i say for a conclusion

without it sounding cringey

[plain coral]

Mb tie it to cornell

A program or facility

Or clib

Club

[limber kestrel]

Ok

Tysm 🙂

[wide flare]

https://sha.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2019/04/ResumeGuide2012-13.pdf
Business school kids check this out
They probs want their compulsory resume like this

Alsoo if any alum or anyone who has some experience with resume is open to check mine I'd be delighted to get some feedback on it!

[broken sierra]

what do i upload my LOCI as on the portal? "optional supplemental materials"?

[thick abyss]

I used this too!

Keep in mind that’s for their students currently in college

[wide flare]

I was inspired by their format and simplicity
Otherwise most current options wrt volume mightve been those colourful resumes

[thick abyss]

I had a link from their first year applicants if u want

Btw which schoolr u applying to

[wide flare]

Sure, would love to have it

[wide flare]

SC Johnson Business

[thick abyss]

Nolan or Dyson

Kk give me a few to find it

[wide flare]

dyson dyson

[thick abyss]

https://scl.cornell.edu/get-involved/career-services/resumes-and-interview-prep/resumes

[limpid ocean]

is it kinda outdated tho

[thick abyss]

Why won’t common app let me submit 😭

[thick abyss]

How plz

It DIDNT work

Nvm I got it

[dire lily]

clear cache

use new browser

and shiz

[wide flare]

@thick abyss and guys,
Do we submit a CV with the resume?

[thick abyss]

I had to delete every answer in general and redo it

So weird

[thick abyss]

CV?

I forget acronyms

[wide flare]

Cover letter

[thick abyss]

ah

No; it’s optional

[wide flare]

Them paragraphs that give an intro into you
Bunch of writing things

[thick abyss]

But really not needed for a one page resume

[wide flare]

Resume is necessary CV is optional?

[thick abyss]

Yes

They never said to do a CV so I wouldn’t

[wide flare]

Sometimes people get pissed when there's a CV I heard

[wide flare]

Oh so they haven't mentioned its optional?

[thick abyss]

I’d assume so

A CV is abt your life’s work and publications

They don’t expect that (maybe even want that) for seventeen year olds

[wide flare]

Yeah kinda just paragraphs and that

[thick abyss]

And a CV is usually 2+ pages

[wide flare]

hmm

[thick abyss]

They want education, community involvement, skills, work experience and maybe ec’s

Not in that order tho

[wide flare]

Okay, I think I'd skip that then
Makes sense to

[wide flare]

Cool!
I've based mine off the freshman resume thing with a lot more detail

[thick abyss]

Bet

Just try to keep to 1 page

2 max

[limpid ocean]

does anyone know what being a cornell (specifically dyson student) like?

im on the community part for my essay and i dont really know what to write (like do yall have a special event or like sth cool that only you guys know or a tradition passed on through diff student generations?)

[sour summit]

if cornell dyson is test blind why is my sat showing up on my application preview?

[limpid ocean]

did u submit it?

then it should show up ig?

[sour summit]

no not yet

it’s on the review & submit pdf

[limpid ocean]

did u self-submit?

im confused

if u dont mind, can i see what it looks like?

[thick abyss]

It could still show up but they might not look at it

I wouldn’t worry tbh

[wicked saddle]

i can take a look if u want

[wicked saddle]

i didn't put a cv

[wicked saddle]

because you probably put it down on your common app testing

i would change it to no before you submit to dyson. then just put it back on if you wanted to send to other schools

dyson is testblind yes. but afaik there's no mechanism on common app that'll auto remove your score if the school within a college is testblind. i guess cornell just handles it when they receive your common app, but just to be safe id remove it from your submission

[wide flare]

Brilliant thanks

[thick abyss]

How come no one here is a hotel kid 😭

[topaz aurora]

when’s a good time to send an loci?

should i aim to send it before their rd

so jan 2

or can i send it after rd is done, like jan 6/7

[chrome ember]

a lot of kids in my school are hotel kids

2-3 got in ED

[thick abyss]

Bro is there anyway u could hook me up

I’d love to meet some

[chrome ember]

uh i mean lowkey i don’t rlly talk to them too much

but i’ll lyk

[thick abyss]

No worries

That’s crazy tho idk anyone in the program

Only like 500 kids

[limber kestrel]

💀

that looks so weird without context

😭

[clear shuttle]

Hotel school is wackington

[daring dragon]

submitted my app

[dire lily]

nice

[austere pendant]

hi can

someone read my supps

before i submit

[thick abyss]

Sure

[wicked saddle]

why isn't there an option to indicate whether you're test optional or not on the common app?

[plain coral]

Some colleges in Cornell don’t consider it at all

[wicked saddle]

i'll just ignore it ig, saw my test score when I went to submit and got confused

[limber kestrel]

hi can someone please read over one of my cornell engineering supps

its the one about solving an engineering problem

[coral vessel]

sure

[coral vessel]

send it over

[limber kestrel]

ok

i kinda wanted like a prefrosh / college student to read it

LOL

but i trust u

so

[pseudo steeple]

hello 🌽 L thread

[tawny prism]

is anyone who’s finished their CAS supp willing to let me read it over? i’ll give feedback ofc but i’m currently in a rut with my own essay and id love to see how others have approached it

[crystal nebula]

hello bao

[chrome ember]

ok wait so explain the difference to me

prefrosh vs high school

[limber kestrel]

prefrosh would have committed

so they have no reason to plagerize

but prefrosh by definition is someone who already comitted

most likely to their ED school

high school is just anyone that hasn't graduated yet

also basically everyone in the summer before freshman year of college is a prefrosh

[chrome ember]

ah i see

ok so commited vs non commited

makes sense

[viral crest]

anyone still writing essays? 💀

[dusk prairie]

Bread

Yes

[wicked saddle]

nah

boutta submit soon

[crimson vortex]

the cornell supp is my LAST one and i’m so over this 😭😭

[viral crest]

anyone applying to CALS?

[drowsy glen]

Lowkey need to write all the essays

Like ik WHAT to write but i spew actual garbage whenever i open the google doc so i just close the tab

[limpid ocean]

i finished lol

editing my resume

[wicked saddle]

I have the 650 worder, thankfully could reuse something for the 300 worder

Then I have to fix my LinkedIn profile before I submit as well

[hollow willow]

ooh theres an rd megathread now
i didnt realize
i was just hanging out in the ed one before even though im doing rd
since this one didnt exist before lol

anyway, how is everyone?

i think im gonna submit today

[thick abyss]

You got this!

What major?

[wind nimbus]

i think cs idk

[hollow willow]

cs

[hollow willow]

thank you :)
you got this too 👍

[wind nimbus]

currently debating between applying to cs or math. Im probs going to double major or major/minor but cs is wut i actually want to do but im not sure if getting into the math program then adding/switching to cs is a better plan. Need help pls

[thick abyss]

Dang I feel like everyone is cs here

[thick abyss]

What math experience do u have

I feel like u need a lot of ec’s and stuff to stick out

[wind nimbus]

i used to live in nigeria so not much in terms of competitions and all that

but for courses took Additional Mathematics and AP Calc AB, BC, Stat and CSA wen i moved here

[tawny prism]

CAS?

[wind nimbus]

plus mu alpha theta (math honors), tutoring and stuff

but like

idk

[thick abyss]

Hmm idk

I feel like u need some experience besides just courses

Otherwise why us will be hard

[wind nimbus]

ye thats the thing

[hollow willow]

Yeah 😭

[wind nimbus]

ive written the why us for cs and honestly it was rly easy and found professors, programs etc that really align with what i want to do long term but everyones tellin me cs is way too comp rn

[hollow willow]

No COE

[wind nimbus]

and i should try math cuz im good at it but its like i dont even know what i can do with a math degree xD

[hollow willow]

Yeah I decided to include stuff like clubs and research programs in mine

[thick abyss]

Not insanely much

Also @wind nimbus it feels pretty hard to change majors

Bc entirely diff schools

[wind nimbus]

im doin arts and sciences regardless

[thick abyss]

They’re both arts and sciences? Nice

U could def do math and then switch

[wind nimbus]

ye its like that in most schools

[thick abyss]

But idk if it’s an easy major to get into

[hollow willow]

Yeah and you can’t double major across schools, but you can minor

[thick abyss]

Wait @wind nimbus

[wind nimbus]

my main thing is for cs my essay is better, more focused ecs and more interest but its hella competitive. Math no real interest and my essay is a struggle (650 words of something i dont care for) but i guess easier

[thick abyss]

Couldn’t you do math and a concentration in cs

[wind nimbus]

um

can u

[thick abyss]

Yeah!

http://pi.math.cornell.edu/files/Undergraduate/Major/worksheets/u-mathmajor-cs.pdf

[wind nimbus]

well shi been sat on the cornell math page all day and somehow i didnt see tha t

thank you

that makes it like 10x easier

[thick abyss]

Sometimes it just takes a person who knows much less math lmao

Ofc

[wind nimbus]

ill just tweak my cs essay to be like math with a focus on cs

[daring dragon]

anyone else applying as a cs major at the arts and sciences school?

[thick abyss]

@hollow willow

[hollow willow]

No I’m doing coe

[hollow willow]

I’m doing college of engineering

[thick abyss]

Ur profile says cs sorry

[daring dragon]

ah

[thick abyss]

And ur about me section lmao

[hollow willow]

Oh yeah I meant CS major in college of engineering

[daring dragon]

I meet like no reqs for coe

[thick abyss]

Ahhh gotcha my bad

[hollow willow]

Bc that college also has a CS major

[daring dragon]

so I applied for A&S

[hollow willow]

Yeah you’re good it can be confusing

[daring dragon]

is this your guys' first choice

[thick abyss]

Rn it’s def in my top 3

[daring dragon]

ooo nice, what're the other 2?

[plain coral]

My essays r so ass

[wind nimbus]

Brown, Cornell, Georgia tech in that order

[daring dragon]

for what school

[plain coral]

This school

[hollow willow]

Yeah it’s my #1

[plain coral]

Oh

[daring dragon]

ah nice

[plain coral]

Coe

[daring dragon]

what college*

[daring dragon]

ah

[plain coral]

😭

[wind nimbus]

man this been the hardest one behind duke

[daring dragon]

I meet like NO requirements for coe it sucks lmao

[plain coral]

Nah cuz my duke essays were so good

[wind nimbus]

what r the reqs

[plain coral]

Tell me why cornell is just kicking my ass

[hollow willow]

Which requirements specifically?

[wind nimbus]

its my only one left apart from cornell lmfao

[daring dragon]

physics, chem, bio, and at least pre-calc by the time you graduate

at least I think those are the reqs

[plain coral]

And math teacher rec

[hollow willow]

Oh I see

[daring dragon]

I meet precalc that's it lol

[plain coral]

Ignore me using my physics teacher

[wind nimbus]

the thing is i took 3 years of all 3 sciences in my old school cuz it wass a diff system but didnt take ap physics/chem wen i came here cuz i didnt like them anymore lol

so idk how theyd view it cuz it wasnt in my jr/sr yeat

[plain coral]

I took ap chem but chose ap phys

[daring dragon]

maybe explain that in the additional information section? idk

[plain coral]

Since our school makes us choose between ap bio and ap phys

[wind nimbus]

ye i explained me moving and shi

[daring dragon]

forcing yall to do aps? good school jeez

[wind nimbus]

probs a bit too long but idk

[plain coral]

Nah not forcing us to do them

[daring dragon]

I moved as well all I put was "I moved to a different country." LOL

[plain coral]

But its just u cant do both

Cuz theyre both hard af curriculum wise

[wind nimbus]

had to explain cuz my school translated my gpa from there but weighted everything as low as possible smh

[hollow willow]

I did ap phys c and ap chem, didn’t get to do bio tho bc no space in schedule

[wind nimbus]

so i got 3.8 unweighted but a 3.9 weighted

[wind nimbus]

bio was alright ig got a 4

[daring dragon]

insane

[wind nimbus]

i cared more bout math and cs

[hollow willow]

I mean colleges weight your gpa by their own standards right
So they’ll take your unweighted and use that with their weights

[thick abyss]

Emory and duke

[hollow willow]

Yeah that’s fair

I’m clutching on APs this year bc I didn’t take as many in the past

[plain coral]

Do colleges do conditional acceptance like (if u get a 5 on this exam or if u end the year with an A) even if ur not an athlete or scholarship kid

[wind nimbus]

the .1 is cuz i took 3 ap classes and 2 honors but hard to bring that up with 20 "basic" classes

[daring dragon]

yeah I'm applying with the Israeli school system and my adviser said that colleges will do it themselves

[thick abyss]

I have a 5.1 weighted thankfully

Coming in clutch

[daring dragon]

I think this is only a thing in England lmao

[hollow willow]

Yeah makes sense

[wind nimbus]

3 last year 4 this year ig didnt even know aps existed before moving

[hollow willow]

Wait what
It can go above 5?

[thick abyss]

Yeah

[daring dragon]

it depends on your school

[hollow willow]

Good amount tbh

[thick abyss]

Mine is a 4.8 on the 5 scale

[wind nimbus]

only if u use the british system (like a levels)

[thick abyss]

We use a 5.33 scale tho

[plain coral]

Conditional acceptances r in the us but i think its inly for athletics

Oh

[hollow willow]

Damn

[daring dragon]

saying your weighted gpa doesnt rly mean much since it's different in like every school like im pretty sure that in some part of North Carolina it goes up to like 13

[plain coral]

My school doesnt even do gpa

[hollow willow]

My school uses a 0-100 unweighted scale and then literally doesn’t have weighted gpa

[thick abyss]

True, I have a 3.93 UW

so it’s not horrible

[wind nimbus]

mines dumb cuz our #1 took only 1 ap class and got all As in honors classes and jus sat there

meanwhile some kid who took 15 is barely in the top 10

[hollow willow]

Honors classes are good too tho

[daring dragon]

bruh

[wind nimbus]

not wen we hv hella ap and dual enrollment

[daring dragon]

I have the max rigor in my school besides math which is the second highest possible

[wind nimbus]

i leap frogged trig so i could take ab last year

lets just say the start was not great lmao

[thick abyss]

JESUS

Why didn’t u take it over the summer or smth

[wind nimbus]

cuz i technically did it

my old school jus put math all together so since i took a course called additional mathematics i knew some trig

[hollow willow]

Ah I see

[plain coral]

My school is on smth

I asked my teacher how to describe it on apps

[wind nimbus]

but it was weird cuz its like i could calculate integrals but didnt know how to do more advanced trig

[wind nimbus]

so jus said gimme calc and ill fig the rest out

[plain coral]

My counselor*

[wind nimbus]

thats... interesting

[thick abyss]

Y’all don’t have any AP history or English courses?

[plain coral]

No

🤡

[thick abyss]

Dang why not

[wind nimbus]

bruh

[plain coral]

I took the lit and lang exams tho

[hollow willow]

Oh damn interesting

[thick abyss]

Apush is like a rly popular exam

Gov too I’d expect to at least offer

[hollow willow]

I wish I took ap lang last year
I tried to switch into it at the start of the year bc regular English was easy but there were schedule conflicts

[wind nimbus]

u have to take gov here and most jus do ap cuz y not

[hollow willow]

There’s no way in hell I’m taking ap lit though

[wind nimbus]

its a good course tbh

[thick abyss]

Ap lit is hell

So was lang

[wind nimbus]

😭

[thick abyss]

But I got the 5 in lang so it’s ok

[hollow willow]

Yeah, and I heard the exam wasn’t bad
So I kinda regret not taking it
But it is what it is I guess

[wind nimbus]

i already knew how to analyze from a lit course i took before so it was free tbh

[wind nimbus]

ye same

[thick abyss]

I won’t be a douche but my teacher had a stroke and people were happy

[wind nimbus]

i took a nap cuz i finished so fast

[thick abyss]

It was THAT rough

[hollow willow]

Yeah I liked apush (the exam)

[wind nimbus]

ffs 😭

[thick abyss]

We had a 15 page paper due the day of the lang exam

[plain coral]

We have US History as the required course in 10th grade but no1 here takes apush exam. We also have econ, psych, gov and some more humanities courses but they dont fit ap curriculum

[thick abyss]

He was harshhh

[wind nimbus]

sum bs

[thick abyss]

How do they not fit the curriculum?

[wind nimbus]

i mean this aint ur fault so youll be fine tbh

[plain coral]

Cuz ap exams have specific like

Topics

The courses we offer dont rush to fit all the ap topics in

And dont review

And tend to deviate

Like i remember when i took apcsa she kept telling us i hate this exam bc u never use this knowledge elsewhere but u need to know it for the ap

😭

[thick abyss]

LMAO

So they’re probably just honors level

Won’t hurt you but weird

[plain coral]

We dont have any honors courses

💀

LOL

Our administration considers every course as an honors course in comparison to other schools but they dont rlly tell colleges that

[hollow willow]

Hand writing code lmao

Honestly the apcsa exam was easy this year and probably one of my favorite ap exams so far (although I’ve only taken 3 up until now so I can’t really say much)

[plain coral]

I took 7 exams last yr

[hollow willow]

I got 6 exams this year tho so that’s gonna be hell

[hollow willow]

Holy shit

[plain coral]

Cuz i panicked when i realized that senior ye wouldnt count in apps

And panicked cuz i had none in 9th and 10th due to prereqs and grad requirements

[hollow willow]

Yeah I’m just hoping they see the ap classes and count it as rigor

[thick abyss]

LMAO now it does for rd

I’m taking six exams this year

[hollow willow]

Bc the exam scores can be submitted alter

[thick abyss]

But idc anymore

[plain coral]

But by may ur alrdy accepted

[thick abyss]

True but they see on transcript

[hollow willow]

Yeah

[plain coral]

Ah, i meant external ones

[hollow willow]

They don’t use ap scores for admissions though right?

[thick abyss]

Also my school forbids ap exams for freshman and sophomores

[hollow willow]

Or do they

[thick abyss]

So I had to load up later

[plain coral]

I rlly wanted to take a course on ap psych outside (that wouldnt show on transcript)

But realized it wouldnt matter

[thick abyss]

Wait jae

U have 10 essays and 2 days?

Off discord i command u

[plain coral]

These r apps

[hollow willow]

Oh damn that really sucks
Mine doesn’t have any for freshman but they have 1 for sophomores (2-3 if you’re more ahead)

[plain coral]

of apps

[thick abyss]

Even worse lmao

[plain coral]

I😭

[hollow willow]

Wait that’s even worse

[plain coral]

I need to rewrite cornell completely

I hate life

[thick abyss]

Off discord

Now

[hollow willow]

I might just do 15 colleges instead of 16

[plain coral]

Idk how to cornell supp

[thick abyss]

What major again

[plain coral]

Yeah imma toss penn i think

Upenn

[plain coral]

Bme

[thick abyss]

Fancy

[wind nimbus]

i removed it the second columbia told me to f off lmao

[thick abyss]

Penn is stupid

[plain coral]

I need to see more examples of the engineering problem essay

[thick abyss]

People will always think that you’re going to penn stats

State

[hollow willow]

Yeah I was deciding between Columbia and Penn for my 16th one, was leaning towards Penn before but now am leaning towards Columbia
But I think I’ll remove both of them entirely

[plain coral]

Collegeessayguy’s example is some bullshit

[wind nimbus]

Im still applying to ivies but princeton harvard etc i said ye not wasting my time

[plain coral]

Its from jsc

Usc

And its like 500 words

[thick abyss]

Cornell is my only ivy for rd

Debating Columbia

But my parents don’t want to spend more money

[wind nimbus]

mine made me make a list and wen i sent 12 they told me to max out and go 20

so

[thick abyss]

LUCKYYY

[wind nimbus]

im on 18/20

[thick abyss]

mine said 15 max

[wind nimbus]

well yes and no

[daring dragon]

you never know like $70 might change the next 4+ years of your life

[wind nimbus]

its nice to have options but its consumed life for the past couple months and idk how many rejections i can take

[daring dragon]

I say go for it if possible

[wind nimbus]

but i only need one from my top 10 if im being honest

[wicked saddle]

bio prospective here, dont worry bud

[wind nimbus]

hell anything outside of my bottom 3

[thick abyss]

Our pipes just burst

[daring dragon]

premed?

[thick abyss]

So the money might matter lmao

[wicked saddle]

nope

computational biology

[daring dragon]

good point lmao

[wind nimbus]

wait for the cs kids is it bc of how its been recently or its always been the plan

[thick abyss]

im good at gaslighting tho

I might try

[daring dragon]

no youre not you've never gaslit

in your life

[thick abyss]

Correct sorry

Im perfect

[hollow willow]

damn
my parents are saying to not do more than 15-16

and i honestly might drop the 16th and just stick with the 15 since honestly thats a solid number

[dusk prairie]

what the heck is wrong with you all

15????

I chose 10

how can you make yourself write more essays

there torture

[austere pendant]

this ^

[wicked saddle]

its simple

https://tenor.com/view/recycle-rotation-green-gif-19651637

[hollow willow]

recycling

[thick abyss]

Deep dive on school

Fall in love

And then essays are easier

[wicked saddle]

i have 6 schools with the keyword "lived experiences" and can use the same essay for each

things like that

[hollow willow]

you can use the same essay for different prompts at different colleges
sometimes the prompts are so similar that you dont need to change anything
and sometimes you just need to change one or two paragraphs and youre all set

[hollow willow]

same, i used a few versions of the same essays for 6 schools (under prompts like ecs/learning experiences/learning opportunitioes)

[hollow willow]

thats a normal healthy amount

a2c is just skewed towards people who do a lot of apps

[thick abyss]

8-16 is good in my opinion

[wicked saddle]

i started off with this as well, i added more due to no app fees, no supps or similar prompts and thought they were good fits w/aid

[hollow willow]

i initially had 20+ in my list and then cut down from there
plus i added other ones that i didnt have before
so my current list looks way different from what it looked like in july

cornell was always my #1 though

i would have done ed but i decided not to do ed anywhere for certain reasons

[wind nimbus]

valid

i did ed cuz i thought itd give me a better chance for columbia

dk if it did but that rejection being the only school ik bout got me thinking like what if i hv to go through cc

even tho im not realistically getting rejected by every school shi still sucked

[hollow willow]

makes sense

[hollow willow]

thats valid
and im sure youll get a lot of good acceptances
hopefully cornell 💪

[wind nimbus]

prayin xD

although i rly hate the cold ithica would be sth else

[hollow willow]

yeah i love ithaca

and i dont mind the cold (im from upstate ny so im used to it)

[wind nimbus]

im from ghana i got yall in the summer lmfao

[hollow willow]

ah i see, thats really cool

[hollow willow]

hmm i think i'll stick with all 16 for now
since im done with 5/6 of my supps for the last one anyway

[wind nimbus]

might as well tbh

i got 23 in total

cuz ucs + literally jus panic applied to penn state lmao

[hollow willow]

damn

[hollow willow]

i see

[tawny prism]

same

CAS?

[plain coral]

Cor

Coe

😔

[tawny prism]

oh damn

[hollow willow]

which supp?

[tawny prism]

im so stuck on CAS supp

[plain coral]

I have a friend who got in cas to psych if u want to see their supp

Theyre like class of ‘25

[tawny prism]

wait holy shit yes please

[plain coral]

Literally both

[hollow willow]

which choice are you doing for the second one?

[plain coral]

Okok ill dm u the ss lol

[plain coral]

Idk yet im between two