Cornell (SUNY Ithaca) (2022-2023)

[wind nimbus]

whats like the significance of one

[tawny prism]

anyways fire answer i would’ve just been like umm it fits there 🙂

[sweet gale]

LOL

[plain chasm]

the last time someone ever bought me jewelry like that was 4th grade when this guy gave me his mom’s amethyst necklace and i gave it away

💀

[wind nimbus]

i mean i got like ring from her and we traded but wouldnt call it a promise ring tbh

[sweet gale]

i waant one 😁

[tawny prism]

it’s a promise that one day they’ll give you an engagement ring

[wind nimbus]

thats foul 😭

[tawny prism]

i think

[wind nimbus]

ah ic

i mean

lowkey sumn similar but not a ring lol

[tawny prism]

cornell megathread has rizz this just in

[sweet gale]

my extended family gets me jewelery bc they dont know what else i like

[plain chasm]

it wasn’t evil, he chased me til 7th grade when he moved but i was never interested 💀

i just felt bad for him one day and startled sitting next to him on the bus because his friend moved away

and then he found me on snapchat years after he moved

never saw him again

[wind nimbus]

icic

[limber granite]

i literally can't push myself to write the supps 😭

i hope they're due today at 11:59

[limpid ocean]

an interesting story lol

[plain chasm]

bro 💀

likelies are coming out too

[thick abyss]

I want one 😭

[plain chasm]

me too! i will submit today :)

💀

[tiny cobalt]

😭 likelies

bruh cornell extending their rd like crazy to decrease that ar since they are alr reading apps

[plain chasm]

nah

dw

[thick abyss]

Def

But the ar was already so low like come on

[tiny cobalt]

bruh it didnt work ed tho

the number of apps for ed was roughly the same as last yr

[plain chasm]

i dont think rd would increase either

[limpid ocean]

really??????????

aint no way

wait

that doesnt make sense lol

does that mean more will apply?

[limpid ocean]

is that fine?

decreasing their acp rate?

[tiny cobalt]

it is fine tho since some schools ed went up by quite a bit this yr

[limpid ocean]

ye fr

schools need to increase their buildings constructions fr

instead of taking more in for themselves or sth lol

[tiny cobalt]

most schools arent going to increase their student body dramatically tho

[thick abyss]

Honestly I think I know why

They didn’t release this info in advance

If they had said months ago that you had to x extended date, people would have thought abt cornell more and been like sure what the hell

[limpid ocean]

ye like a few at a time

[plain chasm]

so lets say

[plain chasm]

my counselor submitted my midyear report with 2 grades not finalized

like not even in

at all

[thick abyss]

for everyone or just you?

[plain chasm]

just me

💀

[night fern]

Wait, how have some of y’all not even writing your supplements? I thought the deadline was over a month ago.

[plain chasm]

due tonight

[night fern]

On common app it says the deadline has passed, or am I tripping?

[plain chasm]

ur tripping

mine says til feb 10

[night fern]

Lmao

[plain chasm]

ib hl english mock paper 1

🙏

bro told me to look at my friend’s intro and then told everyone else who got less than 10 to look at someone else’s

humiliating smh

[wheat dew]

im also applying cas astronomy 😻

[lapis barn]

thats so cool i might minor in astronomy/astrophysics

i applied ece coe

[wheat dew]

ece with minor in astro is rly cool

[lapis barn]

still need to send my supplement though 💀

[wheat dew]

oop well you have like a bit of time left so ur fine

[lapis barn]

im practically done im just scared to hit that submit button

cornell is my dream school

[wheat dew]

lol i feel you feel confident in yourself tho

[lapis barn]

thank you

[plain coral]

🙏 praying for cornell

[lapis barn]

same if i get rejected im gonna cry so hard

lol

[wicked saddle]

Cornell really be surprising me by extending their deadlines so far

[plain coral]

fr

😭 so many more ppl applied later

[wicked saddle]

Is it some strategy to record more number of applicants?? Cuz man, I did a lot work to submit before the deadline

[wheat dew]

honestly maybe

[lapis barn]

fr the night i applied to cornell i literally could not finish it on time so i was blessed for it to be extended

[wheat dew]

there will be somany more applicants

im thinking like maybe +10%

maybe even more

😭

[lapis barn]

so the acceptance rate is gonna drop right

[wheat dew]

yes

[lapis barn]

bro

[wicked saddle]

frfr

[wheat dew]

definitely but there will still be the same number of qualified applicants

so techincally

[lapis barn]

oh okay

[wheat dew]

we should all have the same chance if they didnt

i am coping

[lapis barn]

but still it makes me feel like id get rejected now

[plain coral]

but also like

some ppl couldve added cornell to their list like jan 10th

just to keep shotgunning more ivies

😭

[lapis barn]

yeah fr

[plain coral]

and theyd get the same consideration

[lapis barn]

i should've shotgunned but i was lazy

i only applied to 8 schools

[wicked saddle]

Exactly.. while other get more time to perfect essays

[lapis barn]

im the one perfecting essays

[wheat dew]

i did my essays in 2 hours was happy with it and called it a day

[lapis barn]

lol

[plain coral]

i submitted everything of mine before the original deadline

and it bothers me that i couldve had like a whole month and a half

like 😭

[lapis barn]

i was told the original day it was due that the deadline extended by someone on a2c

[plain coral]

and then ppl out here with everything submitted after feb

[wicked saddle]

😅😅 no offense, at least you submitted the app before right?

[lapis barn]

yeah i submitted the common app

application

now im just gonna submit the supplemental app

[wicked saddle]

Great!

[lapis barn]

and i wrote my cornell essay about nicki minaj too

idk what im thinking

[open glen]

I haven’t submitted 🌽L yet

I’m gonna get rejected anyways

This school is mid anyways

[wicked saddle]

And here I am forgetting shotgunning to all Ivies and went with Cornell, Columbia and Princeton 🥴

[plain coral]

fr

i did yale brown and cornell

[lapis barn]

i went with harvard and cornell

[plain coral]

i shouldve done more jsut for shits n giggles

columbia, penn, princeton arc

[wicked saddle]

That Nikki Minaj essay was lit 🥹🥹 i loved reading it. I'm curious how you fit that for Cornell essays though

[open glen]

I did Columbia Cornell Yale

Im hoping for Columbia

[lapis barn]

i'll let you read it when im done. its not as good as stanford but it's unique

[wicked saddle]

Harvarddd, what major?

[lapis barn]

i applied for coe so i talked about how listening to her music made me want to pursue engineering

[lapis barn]

CS

and math

and physics

i just put whatever interested me

it wasnt really asking for a specific major

i used the same roommate essay for harvard

harvard has a very easy application

[wicked saddle]

Cool, put biology and neuroscience 🥴

[plain coral]

did u do the eng problem prompt or diversity

[lapis barn]

thats actually harvard's specialty

[lapis barn]

diversity

[wicked saddle]

Sureee😭

[plain coral]

ah

i think i did the eng problem

the essay i drafted for diversity was too similar to my why cornell one ngl

😭

[lapis barn]

one of my ec's is helping out refugees in the STEM subjects so i talked about how i would encourage poc and muslim women to pursue an engineering career or something like that

not that good

i'm not the best essay writer if im being honest

[plain coral]

ahh

that fits well

yeah mine was talking abt diversity and thought

[wicked saddle]

Masha Allah, good EC..

[plain coral]

being east asian in eng is not

a plus

😭

[lapis barn]

thank you!

[wicked saddle]

Good essay writers don't always admit it 😭

[lapis barn]

my common app essay was pure dog shit bro

the beginning was really good

the body paragraphs were terrible

ending was okay

i clearly gave up 😭

[wicked saddle]

Me remembering my commonapp essay and I'm like ; I bless the AO who'll spend 5mins on it 🤧

[lapis barn]

FR LOL

literally me

[wicked saddle]

Hopefully AO's will like our other sides and admit us

hopefully, smh

[lapis barn]

inshaAllah

you applied to stanford too right

[open glen]

Me when I’m south Asian in eng so I’m fucked

[wicked saddle]

Insha Allah
Yh, I applied to Leland Stanny

[open glen]

I didn’t do stanny

I live in NYC

It’s opposite coast

[lapis barn]

stanford's application was so stressful i did it in 3 hours

applied at 11:58 💀

[wicked saddle]

Yah 😤 that look when the dots are rolling around at the centre of your screen and it's 11:59

[lapis barn]

did u do the same thing?

applied really late

[wicked saddle]

Yh, I actually decided on applying to Stanny very late because I thought my chances were low but I didn't want to regret so I submitted my app

One of those, "What if they accept someone like me" moments 😭

[lapis barn]

i knew id apply since junior year but i was hesitant when the application deadline was soon

[lapis barn]

literally

same

[wicked saddle]

frfr

[lapis barn]

bc ive seen ppl on yt like arpi park get in with a 3.7

only thing is he had a perfect ACT score

and i applied test optional

but still you never know bc stanford admissions officers like quirky applicants

[wicked saddle]

test optional has its perks too, I think

[lapis barn]

yeah it definitely does

i went test optional for all schools

my sat was dog shit

[wicked saddle]

Ikr, that's what I really considered before submitting my app... " Look at you man, aren't you quirky enough for them to like you"

[lapis barn]

fr same

[wicked saddle]

I'm international, so I had to submit anything I had to boost my chances

[lapis barn]

yeah you're right

sat would boost your chances

did u shotgun?

[wicked saddle]

At Ivies??

[lapis barn]

yeah

or just top schools in general

not just ivies

[wicked saddle]

Nope only Ivies I sent apps to are Cornell, Columbia and Princeton

Oh, then MIT, Stanford, NYU, Williams, Amherst, Colby, Claremont McKenna

Might not be too schools to some but to me, yah

[lapis barn]

they're top schools to me too

colby is amazing

[wicked saddle]

A humble international 😌

[lapis barn]

i only applied to cornell and harvard bc those are the only ivies i genuinely loved

i liked princeton but when they asked for a graded written report

i was like nah

lol

[wicked saddle]

Frfr 😭😭 I don't really love half of the Ivies.

Dartmouth?? Brown?? UPenn?? Naa, I'll pass

[lapis barn]

i really thought about applying to upenn but i was so lazy

fr

and upenn was due the same day as stanford

my priority was stanford all the way

[wicked saddle]

Great choice ♥️ I really love Stanford. I wish they could send me a likely 😫

and I'll be done with the stress and anxiety

[lapis barn]

if they send me a likely letter id finally be at peace

bc id know where to go now

[wicked saddle]

frfr. I haven't heard anyone get one too this cycle

[lapis barn]

yeah

[wicked saddle]

hoping for great news on April 🎨🖌️

[lapis barn]

same

did u apply to safeties

[wicked saddle]

Yeahh. UDelaware and Michigan State - got in at both

[lapis barn]

congrats!

i applied to 1 safety

Georgia state uni

got in

[wicked saddle]

Thank you

Great! Congratulations 🎉

[lapis barn]

thank you

[fierce rivet]

Exact same

[lapis barn]

i literally could not do columbia 💀

asking me what books ive read lol

none

[mystic lintel]

i don’t think i started any of my supplements before the day it was due

[wicked saddle]

😅😅 I love novels and some cringe sci-fi stuff so I wrote them down. Hope Columbia AO's don't cringe 😭

[mystic lintel]

i put down neon genesis evangelion 💀

they should appreciate it fr

[lapis barn]

thats cool

i dont remember what the whole prompt was

did they ask what movies or shows you watched too?

[mystic lintel]

there’s two

[lapis barn]

i just saw books and dipped lol

[tiny cobalt]

W fr

[mystic lintel]

books and the other is like entertainment and media

[lapis barn]

ohh nice

[wicked saddle]

Yhh shows were part too in entertainment or media

[tiny cobalt]

😭tho there might be some negative connotations with nge

If they just ggl it

[mystic lintel]

nah it’s mad biblical

the way i saw NGE was that it was really interesting and a huge breakthrough for it’s time because of their depiction of mental illness

[lapis barn]

this guy i know got into columbia through questbridge

[wicked saddle]

Yhh, gravity falls would have done quite well your dp

Nge is different from many perspectives, I've observed

[mystic lintel]

yeah i think that’s what makes it so good

a guy ik got into columbia ED and he just said as long as you have variety you should be good

[wicked saddle]

How does the whole questbridge thing work? 😭😭

[lapis barn]

i dont watch any shows/movies except for dance moms, modern family, and shark tank

im so boring

[mystic lintel]

it’s just like another type of application

but you need to meet economic requirements

[wicked saddle]

Oh ohh

[lapis barn]

so basically questbridge has their own prompts and whoever has obviously good gpa and essays they move on to be finalists. when theyre finalists they basically rank the colleges that they want to go to and work on the supplements. basically if youre a finalists youre like guaranteed admission to a top school of their choice bc they rank them

i think theyre guaranteed im not so sure

but if theyre a finalists theyre basically set for whatever college they want i believe

[wicked saddle]

Modern family 😭😭 never got pass season 6. Did Claire give Alex the gift

[lapis barn]

what gift im on season 10 rn i forgot lol

im rewatching it

after like 3 times

[wicked saddle]

Not sure, she was thinking of something to give after Jay had offered her a trip to Europe

[lapis barn]

oh yeah

she never gave a gift 😂

lol

[wicked saddle]

That's cool.

Oh noo 😂😂

[lapis barn]

but im confused on how ppl get into ivies without ec's

[wicked saddle]

I should watch it sometime again. I'm stuck rewatching TBBT

[lapis barn]

like the guy i told u about that got into columbia

didnt have ec's

except working

[wicked saddle]

Got in without EC's . That's something

[lapis barn]

i love TBBT

[lapis barn]

he had ec's from 9th grade

but not after that

[wicked saddle]

Ohh come on Ivies 😭😭

[lapis barn]

his essays had to be awesome or he lied to me and tried to be humble

bc yk how ppl are like "no i didnt do much" but in reality did an internship with NASA

[tiny cobalt]

😭

[lapis barn]

he's probably one of those guys lol

[tiny cobalt]

Working is a broad description of what u are doing

[lapis barn]

yeah fr

he works at starbucks

but was probably working as an intern

[wicked saddle]

frfr.. guys doing crazy EC 's and breaking it down for us 😭😭

[lapis barn]

exactly 😭

[plain chasm]

UD!!!

[lapis barn]

my main EC wasnt even impressive lol it was robotics head programmer

[plain chasm]

glad to see UD getting some appreciation

[lapis barn]

everyone applying for eng did robotics

[plain chasm]

i don’t think so

[thick abyss]

Working is a huge deal

[lapis barn]

yeah agreed

[lapis barn]

oh i thought it was at least most

i talked to someone and said robotics isnt all that for coe

[wicked saddle]

But not everyone is quirky like you 😭😭

[lapis barn]

yeah lol

sometimes being quirky isnt a good thing

some ppl find me weird

mostly bc ppl at my school are BORING

[plain chasm]

i’m quirky and hot cornell better chase me

[lapis barn]

lol hoping u get in 🙏

[plain chasm]

fr me too

and good luck to you as well

[wicked saddle]

Yeah.. it's an awesome place

[plain chasm]

it’s my state school

🫶

[thick abyss]

I also got into UD

Home of mr Biden

[lapis barn]

idk what the state school in ga is

UGA

ga tech

yeah its UGA

i didnt apply there

[wicked saddle]

Great! Congrats 🎉

[limpid ocean]

Tell him to send it again lol

And send an email to them

[limpid ocean]

Me vibin with the same 19 but out of 30 in my english sl paper 2 mocks 🕺

[night fern]

The deadline still says January 2 for me

[limpid ocean]

Ye i think

For ppl who alr applied 2nd jan while others who didnt apply on that date

[night fern]

Does anyone know why lol?

[limpid ocean]

Theyll see the other deadline

[plain chasm]

L

get better

[limpid ocean]

Get faster at submitting ur app bro 🙂

Literally its not that hard to submit sth early and not procrastinate

[plain chasm]

😿

tell me smth i don’t know already

[limpid ocean]

Cats dont have 9 lives cuz mine got ran over

1 shot and he gone

[open glen]

I BSed that so hard lmao

[grim crown]

9 lives doesn’t mean it resets after one death it just used up all of the lives in that one second

[limpid ocean]

Hmm 🤔

True

[night fern]

It still says Jan 2 for me and I just applied.

[limpid ocean]

But im a simple man

[night fern]

Weird

[grim crown]

so if you had 9 lives and i shot you in the brain you would die because the bullet is still there

[limpid ocean]

If i doesnt see it happened

Its not true 🤡

[limpid ocean]

Hmm 🤔

Did it say that u’re late?

[lapis barn]

lmaoo

WAIT WHAT

no im about to check rn im scareddd

okay im able to submit the writing supplement

[night fern]

I didn’t mean for you to freak out. But for some reason, it stills says my application is late.

I’m not able to submit the writing supplement for some reason

[open glen]

Oof

[night fern]

The deadline for the application was Jan 16 though right?

[limpid ocean]

Read textbooks on daddy Abraham Lincoln

[plain chasm]

if you submitted your app by jan 2, your writing sup got extended to feb 10

[daring dragon]

what does matching mean?

[lapis barn]

The highest ranked school the student chose that accepts you means that “you’re matched”

[wind nimbus]

Me wen I was a qb cos but wasn’t a finalist 🥲🥲

(But if y’all got questions Igu)

[indigo moat]

harvard you can cross register with mit tho ryt

[plain chasm]

yes

[thick abyss]

Do we like mit

[indigo moat]

I mean my username checks out

[lapis barn]

i would like it if it were test optional

[plain chasm]

yes

[plain chasm]

mit still gigabased

they make it so easy to contextualize urself

[lapis barn]

whats gigabased

[plain chasm]

very based

MIT

[lapis barn]

oh yeah

did u apply

[plain chasm]

yes

i did

[lapis barn]

whats ur dream school

[plain chasm]

caltech grad, undergrad mit = harvard = caltech

cornell is up there but i forgor to submit writing for awhile

also my midyear was so screwed that i just went ahead and sent all of my update letters while my counselor contacted the colleges to say she made an oopsie

[hollow nova]

mit harvard Caltech might be the worst trio in terms of acceptance rate

[plain chasm]

i know

my general 2nd choice is my safety

but i’m not opposed to going to any of my reaches over my safety if they get me more opportunities

[hollow nova]

which one is that (if you don’t mind)

[plain chasm]

university of arizona

for astro

cornell is fr a joke 💀

NO please don’t give me more time to procrastinate….

please….

they gave me an extra week 😭

[wind nimbus]

WAIT

[plain chasm]

PLEASE

[wind nimbus]

I would’ve like

Not sent it

.

[plain chasm]

💀

[wind nimbus]

I’m bein so dead ass 😂

[plain chasm]

i should wait til i get my midyear fixed

to send my writing sup

[wind nimbus]

They were like mid

[wind nimbus]

Bro

Finish it

[plain chasm]

it’s almost done

i’ll finish it tn

but literally

🗿 i don’t want to submit that with my shitty error ridden midyear rn

i’ll wait til it gets replaced tmr

[daring dragon]

do the schools know the rank they were given?

[lapis barn]

not sure

but im pretty sure they dont know until the person gets matched to that particular school

[wind nimbus]

No

[tame belfry]

💀

[limpid ocean]

If ur ib is better than a 31, u really cant beat urself up

[plain chasm]

we don’t get predicteds D:

but my mocks have been consistently in the high 30s/low 40s

[limpid ocean]

Thats good 🙃

My friend got into penn hunter’s program with 44

A 41 and 44 are pretty much the same so dont need to beat urself over it

Beat urself for not submitting ur app earlier tho 🙂

[plain chasm]

shhhhh

[limpid ocean]

😉

[tulip barn]

there’s no way Cornell hasn’t started reviewing apps yet

they have a month and a half left

[brave root]

no interview yet 😔

is that a bad sign?

[wind nimbus]

no

[hollow nova]

interview literally doesnt matter for cornell

like at all

they dont consider it

[brave root]

good to know

[wet siren]

is this wrong then?

they also sent me an email for the 8th 💀

[limber granite]

I got the same email

[wet siren]

whack

ill just submit by the 10th tbh

will probably get rejected no matter what i do

[wicked saddle]

did anyone from pakistan get a CAAAN request?

[sweet gale]

just submitted

yay,,,

[slate otter]

just got contacted for the cornell 'interview' and the person wrote "Cornell's Undergraduate Admissions Office asked me to contact you to offer the opportunity to schedule an informational meeting to discuss the undergraduate experience" is this a sign

[unborn ivy]

No but this is

Please

This is a PSA to stop

Like the sign!!!!

[slate otter]

sorry wanted my portal astrology moment 💔

[unborn ivy]

Stop! 🤦‍♀️ It looks 👁️ like 💭 you’re 🫵 doing 💃 portal 🌌 astrology 💫. This is not 🙅‍♀️ okay 👎! You 📸 should relax 😮‍💨 and take a break ❤️‍🩹. The only ☝️ sign 🪧 you 🙋‍♂️ need 🥺 is a stop sign 🛑!

[slate otter]

https://imgur.com/1g4MJIF

[limpid ocean]

https://tenor.com/view/facepalm-really-stressed-mad-angry-gif-16109475

[wicked saddle]

Does the email not say this-

[thick abyss]

Correct

[slate otter]

it does

was just joking around since they only just asked my interviewer to contact me

[limpid ocean]

omg 🥲

just watched all of the vids on cornell blog

and realised how much i missed in my essays

so much at cornell that i didn't know 🥲

is it ok if i send a letter of interest to them around 15th feb or even now (roughly 200 words) to just say what things i've found out recently and my recent academic changes?

also fun fact i just found out, most colleges built in 1800s look kinda the same (with duke and cornell, duke is a place u can lowkey expect a dracula or sth gothic to jump out of nowhere but at cornell it looks still gothic but more colors lol)

[meager kayak]

fun fact: the male computer science at the college engineering acceptance rate is around 3-4%

[naive grove]

How exciting

[grim valve]

they admit by school not major

[short garnet]

yo

anyone else get a financial aid email from cornell diversity nd outreach?

[tawny prism]

yeah

[short garnet]

are u a urm?

[tawny prism]

me? i am

wtf they sent that shit to my dad too

[short garnet]

yeah

i think it means u got passed the cornell intial application review

but only urm’s get the email

[tawny prism]

i dont think it means anything 😭

just a finaid reminder

[short garnet]

i thought that same thing in the beginning

but i did like a deep dive on it in reddit and college confidential 🤷🏾‍♂️

[tawny prism]

what’d you find

[plain chasm]

i was concerned i didn’t get that and then i forgor

[short garnet]

alot of people who got the email got likelies

[short garnet]

but this was 2019 so it might be different

i could be completely wrong though, so i suggest you treat me like i am 😭

[plain chasm]

lemme submit my writing sup tonight

[tawny prism]

interesting… not gonna think too much about it but i mean that would def be nice

i got another one on feb 2nd

[short garnet]

same

i got two

[tawny prism]

they forwarded the other one to my mom too 😭

[short garnet]

if yale has had enough to figure out who gets likelies, cornell probably has 2 🤷🏾‍♂️

[short garnet]

yeah it’s a parent email lmao

[tawny prism]

oh ic

[tawny prism]

im pretty sure some cornell likelies have already been released right

[short garnet]

nahh

they drop like late feb early march

[tawny prism]

ooo ic

fingers crossed hehe

gl to you :)

[plain chasm]

@tawny prism can you check #1052762086658293800 rq?

[tawny prism]

yep

[short garnet]

ill keep doing more research and see what i come up with

[tulip barn]

was gonna freak out ab not getting that email then remembered I’m asian

[short garnet]

it probably doesn’t mean anything anyway tbh

it’s 99% just a finaid reminder 😭

im j a lil desperate

[tawny prism]

yeah i looked myself and see what you mean

idk hesitant to believe it but it gave me a bit of hope… hopefully it isn’t false hope

[tulip barn]

does Cornell do likely letters

[grim valve]

yes

like 15 days before Ivy day

[tulip barn]

rly? I thought they were sent out late feb

[regal python]

early mid march

[grim valve]

well they're not really likely

its more like early notice you got in

[regal python]

first few can be early march but most are mid

i’m pretty sure

[tulip barn]

interesting

lol I’m asking like I’ll get one

i applied to dyson

no way

but who knows!

[vernal raven]

Im p sure it is

Bc i got it also

And im not technically a urm lol

But i am low income so idk

[tawny prism]

STOPP THAT STUPID EMAIL GAVE ME A TINY BIT OF HOPE AND NOW IM TURNING INTO A CORNELL SIMP

i don’t wanna simp for any college bro stoppp

[short garnet]

Yeah that email doesn’t mean shit

[grim valve]

no, simp for cornell

[short garnet]

I just asked alot of the people who commented on that reddit thread and many of them didn’t get in

Sorry for the false alarm ya’ll 😭

[tawny prism]

damn.

ive still started simping tho so now what

[grim valve]

theres no stopping

continue 😉

[tawny prism]

ooo are you a cornell student?

[grim valve]

yah

[tawny prism]

nice do you mind if i ask how the social scene at cornell is besides parties? like student life events etc

idk why i’m worried about it if i haven’t even gotten in but

[grim valve]

are you sure you wanna ask me , im in the engineering school

[tawny prism]

LMAO 😭

[grim valve]

honestly depends on your friend group you put yourself with, there's no single set social scene

you can go party, go study, cook, eat, watch movies, do whatever

[tawny prism]

ooo okay that’s good to hear then

fingers crossed i get in

[grim valve]

gl :3

what college did you apply if you don't mind sharing

[tawny prism]

CAS!

kinda regretting not doing human ecology but oh well

[grim valve]

Arts and science quad is cool 😄

its the oldest part of the school

[short garnet]

how is cornell food?

i heard it was the best out of all the ivies

[grim valve]

honestly

its not bad

but thats all i can say

you get bored of it after a while too

west campus food is definitely better than any other parts

[limpid ocean]

Same as dyson business 🥲

[tiny cobalt]

lol where can u find that

[meager kayak]

https://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/university-factbook/undergraduate-admissions

[tiny cobalt]

so around 5%

for engineering overall

[tiny cobalt]

kay thanks

[tulip barn]

Dyson twins

[plain chasm]

5% for women entering CAS

💀

[tawny prism]

HUH!!!

okay cornell simping over…

[tiny cobalt]

cas and coe is hard to get in just through sheer volume

since cornell ar varies alot across colleges

[plain chasm]

better chance of getting into MIT fr 💀

[limpid ocean]

fr

[fierce rivet]

💀

[limber granite]

fuck it we ball

[lapis barn]

I’m literally almost done I just need it to be perfect

[open glen]

🌽L

[open glen]

Isn’t it due tmrw

[open glen]

What major?

CS?

[lapis barn]

Tonight at 11:59

[open glen]

Wait

Today is 10th?

Oh shut

It is

I thought it was the 9th

[lapis barn]

Yeah I’m gonna work on it in class and submit

[grim valve]

ye

[limpid ocean]

lol

she be living on the edge lol

[plain chasm]

nope feb 14

BUT

i would get it done tonight 💀

i think def get it done tonight

[limpid ocean]

ah

ye def lol

they could be in process of checking them apps alr

cuz the deadline is 1st april like all Ivys?

[limpid ocean]

also calypso

wth

ur color changed lol

[plain coral]

march 30

is ivy day

as announced by yale

[limpid ocean]

ah

well close enough lol

[plain chasm]

no it didnt

ive always been orange

[plain chasm]

yup

i think its always march 30

[lapis barn]

Oh Fr on common app it says feb 10th and apparently someone tried to submit and the common app said it was too late for them 💀

[plain chasm]

DAMN

ah shit then

yeah ill do it tonight

mine says feb 10

ive got a 3h discrete math test tonight but im literally clutching

ive got an A+

[thick abyss]

You still haven’t 😭

[lapis barn]

Discrete math????

[plain chasm]

LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN

inmm getting to it

[lapis barn]

Same

[plain chasm]

i had to fix some things yesterday

and had my princeton interview + HW

[plain chasm]

yes

im literally clutching

I ended with an A+ in calc 1 and calc 2 but calc 3 I died and got an A

i must complete my transition to analysis

with an A+

[thick abyss]

Oh dear

[limpid ocean]

im blind 🥲

was it purple or sth b4?

[plain chasm]

awhile ago

[lapis barn]

You’re most likely getting into Cornell

I’m just now doing calc 1

I’m actually in class rn

[plain chasm]

not til i submit my app LMAO

[lapis barn]

Lol Fr

[plain chasm]

also i got a B+ in analysis and approaches last quarter because i got crushed by stats

do not recommend taking multiple math classes simutaneously

[lapis barn]

What’s your major btw

And how did you end up doing all that higher level math

[thick abyss]

Stats is so funny

[plain chasm]

astro!!

[plain chasm]

started dual enrolling at my local college in 8th grade

[lapis barn]

That’s incredible

[plain chasm]

tested out of alg 1 and took alg 2 in 8th from there just been chugging to get to analysis

and im finally there

it's all free and i'm very grateful for it

[lapis barn]

Yeah I just did the standard

Nothing impressive

[plain chasm]

i think taking calc at all in hs is impressive, and this is all based on resources around you

[lapis barn]

Yeah that’s true

[plain chasm]

i lucked out with course offerings outside of my school, but i'm in an area with very limited opportunity for ecs since i go to a rural title i HS

so that kinda sucks

[limpid ocean]

ah

[lapis barn]

same for both lol

my grades are suffering due to senioritis

i really need to step up my game

[plain chasm]

same

[lapis barn]

theyre actually bad lol

74 in ap calc already 😭

[plain chasm]

rippppp

[lapis barn]

if i get a C would i get rescinded from a college

a prestigious school

[plain coral]

my 2nd tri grades are gdly

[lapis barn]

does that mean that they were good

[plain coral]

idk yeet cuz the trimester isnt

over

but yeah

they feel good

😭

[plain chasm]

nah

is this 2nd or 1st semester

[lapis barn]

2nd

[plain chasm]

ur good

[lapis barn]

1st semester i got an A lol

[plain chasm]

especially if its only 1

[lapis barn]

yeah

[plain chasm]

thats good

is your school cumulative

for me all 4 quarters are averaged

[plain coral]

depending on how

selective the sfchool is

they might ask for an explanation

for the bad grade

[plain chasm]

meh

my midyear grades weren't phenomenal

but i think theyre good enough to go without explanation

[plain coral]

i mean if u drop from an A to a C

lol

[plain chasm]

ok def yeah you might need to explain

[plain coral]

if u had a C to begin with

they drc

[plain chasm]

but A -> B+ or A -> B is typically fine

[plain coral]

ya

100%

[lapis barn]

i think so

it's not averaged out

just 1st semester grades and 2nd semester grades

[lapis barn]

I'm going to aim for a B

[plain chasm]

oh rip

yeah my school is cumulative

[humble meteor]

does cornell send likelies?

[tall seal]

Yes!!!

[vernal raven]

I dont think so

Wait nvm they do i think

But very very few

[humble meteor]

dang

are they alr out?

[thick abyss]

Sadly yeah

Less than 100 kids tho

[wind nimbus]

Why ppl holding on to likelies 💀?

If u that elite you know you’ll be fine regardless

[humble meteor]

dang

[tawny prism]

i thought people were saying cornell likelies don’t come out till march?

[plain chasm]

i don’t think they come out til march if they literally just started reading apps?

[thick abyss]

Some kid on Reddit got it

[vernal raven]

Coulda been lying tho

[vestal parcel]

Nice are you attending the zoom meeting

[tall seal]

I think I will!

Congrats to us 🙏

Just look what it says tho @vestal parcel Topic: Meeting with Prof James Spinazzola and current Cornell students 😎

[vestal parcel]

Yeah I'm not trying to get my hopes up Lmfao😭

But it surely is a good sign

[tall seal]

definitely, same here! i’m still happy we got recognized and that our skillz were fwded to admissions :)

[vestal parcel]

Do you know anyone else who got it

I've seen like three people on Reddit n that's it

[tall seal]

I don’t know anyone else, but I also don’t know anyone who submitted an arts supplement to any school 🤣

[vestal parcel]

Yeah true it's probably relatively rare

What instrument do u play btw

[tall seal]

Clarinet, sax, flute, piano

Didn’t submit flute because I am bad at flute

Wbu?

[vestal parcel]

Trumpet

My guess is this prof doesn't have enough music majors to make a full ensemble

So he's "recruiting"

Ina sense

[tall seal]

Just looking at the symphony orchestra like there’s only a few music majors

[tall seal]

I was thinking the same thing

Finally recruiting that isn’t athletic recruiting haha

[grim valve]

yes that is correct, at least for last year

it was something like this

[plain chasm]

i am writing my essay rn

🙏

gonna get it done before i take my discrete test

[hollow nova]

did u get this?

[thick abyss]

Wrong year

Friend from past

[hollow nova]

no i mean i know hes a college freshman

but like was this his

from last year

[timber lagoon]

i got one!

[timber lagoon]

woah what is this

i got one for piano

from prof. Bjerken

which instrument did you get athena?

[plain chasm]

damnnnn

did y’all apply for music?

[timber lagoon]

no, i applied CS in arts and sciences

music just happens to be a big part of my app

[plain chasm]

😭 bro maybe i should’ve submitted a music sup then

[grim valve]

i didnt get it but 3 of my friends did

[vestal parcel]

Got invited to zoom meeting

[vestal parcel]

I applied physics

[open glen]

Rizzics

[plain chasm]

didn’t apply physics but am doing astrophysics through astro

[vestal parcel]

Tough

[wicked saddle]

They need to send me that likely✨✨

Oh wait thay was march

Wow what's even the point 😭😭 they'll know in 15 days anyways

[tall seal]

i submitted for jazz sax classical clarinet and classical piano but i’m pretty sure my message is just for classical clarinet!

[tall seal]

same, i applied civil engineering

[plain chasm]

jesus

now i’m regretting not submitting a sup

fr solidifying my rejection

[craggy folio]

u dont need to regret it lol, u have to be p good to even have it make an impact

and if its bad/not that good it makes ur app worse

[plain chasm]

rip

i feel like i kinda left it ambiguous tho

i didn’t have the time to get an actual piano to record music supplementals on bc mine is so out of tune 💀

piano was 5-6 for me bc of my awards

[craggy folio]

i mean for me it's like sm ppl here (bay area) won national and state awards for piano n played in carnegie hall or toured in europe, even since middle school, so piano is super hardest to stand out so dw abt it, it wont really hurt u (esp since chances are that they probably have a person for piano already, j cuz of how popular piano is, so they wont need someone for it aka won't make a significant boost)

[plain chasm]

ic ic

yeah i have 9y of national awards but they prob def wouldn’t be taking me for piano

haven’t done carnegie or europe tour tho that sounds so cool

[plain chasm]

anyone down to give my cornell sup a quick read before i submit?

[craggy folio]

yeah i was kinda jealous LOL it seemed v fun

yea i can read if u need help!

[plain chasm]

thank you!!

[timber lagoon]

ah nice!

it's interesting i got one because normally there's nothing to recruit for piano

since we're not an orchestral instrument

[timber lagoon]

naw you're good, the supps don't help a lot, my prof literally said his feedback is "small part of a larger process"

[timber lagoon]

😳 das me

although

carnegie hall is a massive misconception for nonmusicians

most big performance venues are pay to win

like competitions where you pay $500 or so to get a performance opportunity

[plain chasm]

dmed!

[timber lagoon]

so i guess a fairer judgment of soloists is # of times they've played with orch (although it still depends)

[timber lagoon]

ooh do you do classical?

what's ur rep

[plain chasm]

yeah, I do but i’m rlly short on time rn and i know if i start talking about piano i’m going to sit here for 3h and not do my test and submit cornell sup

i’ll raincheck this convo and reply in 3h

🥲

should cornell’s sup be heavy on DI?

i talked a lot abt myself and how i connect to cornell was more secondary

[craggy folio]

yep, but they were solo (for a vvvv prestigious music program) but my school is having a performacne there next year LOL

[plain chasm]

few things i talked about were:

• RPIF and getting involved in planetary dynamics research
• double majoring in astro + gov
• connecting to cornell’s mission
• continuing my research in connection to cornell’s research at a specific facility

is this enough or should i add more?

it’s v heavy on me because i didn’t explain a lot of this in my CA

[wicked saddle]

Mine was definitely like a 40/60 split

[plain chasm]

agh so this isn’t good

😩

fuck it at this point i don’t think i have time to revise again

mine was like 80:20

I addressed cornell in every paragraph but i’m at 650 exact

[wicked saddle]

I wouldn’t try to back track at this point

[plain chasm]

i’m probably not going to get in anyway

[wicked saddle]

In that case you’re probably still in that ball park just different formatting

[plain chasm]

maybe

i did try to connect everything

[wicked saddle]

never know man I didn’t rly think I was either but here I am

[plain chasm]

if I don’t give myself 2 1/2 hrs for this test it’s literally not going to get done 😶

i should’ve done this sooner

[wicked saddle]

Yeh this is definitely late in the game so something better than nothing lol

[plain chasm]

very true

[open glen]

Cornell is mid

Anyways

[plain chasm]

idt it’s bad and the fact that it’s getting sent with my update letter is good

[wicked saddle]

Lol

[open glen]

Bro so many people from my school got in ED

20

[plain chasm]

but i literally can’t fail this discrete math test 😭

[open glen]

😭

[open glen]

🤓

[wicked saddle]

you from NY?

[open glen]

Ye

NYC

[wicked saddle]

Makes sense. That’s fire tho

[plain chasm]

shush

[open glen]

Imagine taking the math class meant for CS majors as an astrophysics major

🤣

[plain chasm]

i think i can def speedrun most of this shit but idk if it’s gonna suffice imma cry

[plain chasm]

WHAT

ok and

[open glen]

Did you do multi linear Diff eq already

😭

Holy fuck

[plain chasm]

yes

🫶

ok time to speedrun this test

[open glen]

😭

[plain chasm]

i’m at a 97 in discrete rn

i can’t drop

😩

[thick abyss]

Heck yeah

[tulip barn]

Nah fuck calculus

That’s why I’m a business major

Pre corporate law track 😘

[thick abyss]

Twins fr

[plain chasm]

good lord this test review is 70 questions

[thick abyss]

Love you bae

[plain chasm]

if the test is 70 questions and as hard as this i’m fucking screwed

[tulip barn]

😘

[mystic lintel]

just starting my supp

hope it’s not terrible!

[thick abyss]

What is with y’all and waiting until the LAST last min

😭 gl dude

[mystic lintel]

all of mine have been last minute

praying to god rn

i feel like i work best under pressure maybe that’s it??

[thick abyss]

Lmao touché

[plain chasm]

alright it is time

😩

this test boutta be 70 questions

i’ll kms

it’s ok let’s go

✨

[open glen]

I’m gonna ChatGPT the supp/j

[open glen]

Anyone wanna help me with the Cornell Eng why us

I can’t think of a good serious reason for why I wanna go

[thick abyss]

What made you want to apply

[open glen]

Wanted to continue the trend of applying to schools with C in the name

Columbia Carnegie Mellon case western

[vernal raven]

There u go

[open glen]

Cooper Union

[vernal raven]

A good reason

[jagged canyon]

excellent

[vernal raven]

Now relate the letter c to something else in ur life that relates to engineering

[jagged canyon]

computer

[open glen]

So real

Thanks gamers

Y’all are great

But honestly

My favorite letter is S

Bc I’m sam

[open glen]

C is computer and sea

Green tech

[lapis barn]

YAY

[open glen]

YAY

I’m gonna be done by 10:45

I did the second supp already

[lapis barn]

i did the diversity supp it was lowkey easy

only bc im both black and muslim

my first essay was mid but still okay

[open glen]

I had no clue what I could have written

I’m brown muslim but like

[lapis barn]

still good

[open glen]

There’s a million of those going into eng/CS

[lapis barn]

oh yeah true

i think that what makes it easy is that im muslim female

not many go into eng

you can always do question A

seems easier

[open glen]

I did do that

[mystic lintel]

i’m so scared that i didn’t see an other essay

[lapis barn]

okay nice

[mystic lintel]

i’m applying for arts and sciences

[open glen]

Yeah

[mystic lintel]

please someone confirm it’s only the one

please

[lapis barn]

yeah u only have to do 1 essay

[thick abyss]

Yes

[open glen]

There’s the big 650 one

[lapis barn]

650 words

[mystic lintel]

thank god

[open glen]

L

Imagine

Eng total word count is less

[lapis barn]

engineering is two 250

[mystic lintel]

it’s so broad too

i had the hardest time trying to structure it

[jagged canyon]

i’m also a sam

[open glen]

Do I write C can stand for ap rizzics C

@lapis barn

[lapis barn]

LOL

[open glen]

Yes or no

[lapis barn]

yes

i actually havent taken ap physics 😢

[open glen]

I don’t care if I don’t get in or not

[lapis barn]

my school doesnt offer

[open glen]

So I will write

Ap rizzics C

[lapis barn]

LMAO

they might not understand

when i imagine an AO office

[open glen]

We balling 🥱

[lapis barn]

i imagine old white men

i hope its different for cornell

[open glen]

What’s one more word that starts with C related to eng

CAD computer sea

[thick abyss]

Cry

[open glen]

Real

😭

I will be failing statics first semester let’s gooo

[wooden atlas]

PSA deadline extensions on the common app are in EST

[open glen]

Oh shit

[wooden atlas]

So no waiting until your timezone

[open glen]

Can’t change it to PST if I wanted to

😔

[wooden atlas]

yeah whenever the college gives u extensions the portal typically auto closes after EST

[open glen]

Or their time zone

[wooden atlas]

eh

stanford extended the deadline for my friend and it was in EST

the new deadline

[lapis barn]

when was the stanford extended deadline

[wooden atlas]

it wasn't for everyone