Cornell University (2023-2024)

[glad siren]

Might as well try

[wintry valve]

tbh i just applied off of vibes

[timid totem]

friend got in for both CMU and Yale for CS

went to yale

[glad siren]

Yea Yale is def better overall

[wintry valve]

yale was my next choice app but i just didnt have the time to submit a quality app along with my others

[glad siren]

T5

while CMU is a t25

Although cmu is insane for cs

I think as an overall college experience

Yale is def better

[prime oxide]

Not for cs tho

[thorny violet]

I lowkey think they're trying to take a smaller class size this year but this is pure speculation, there's no basis to my claim, DO NOT take it as a fact

[ionic belfry]

I wouldn’t be too surprised if this is the case

Would be interested to see abt transfers tho

[glad siren]

Hence the (overall)

[uncut slate]

Or they can’t send likely this year

[thorny violet]

I didn't want to worry the people here applying more than necessary 😭 but that's just what it felt like with the supposed phasing out of triples too

[ionic belfry]

Yeah Cornell is trying to fix housing lmao

[glad siren]

Oh so like specific to Cornell

Not a ivy thing or anything

[last bronze]

likelies come out yet?

[tame viper]

Do Cornell alumni interviews mean anything? I got one and I’m pretty sure they don’t but I’m dululu so wishing

[glad siren]

Availability so no

[tame viper]

Ah darns

[prime oxide]

No ones gotten one

So most likely they’re not coming out

[velvet oak]

most likely no likely

[timid totem]

hm why do you think that?

or is just because of the ed thing

[patent narwhal]

From my understanding I thought they did mean something but maybe that has changed the past few years

[dry summit]

They dont matter at all
Who gets an interview is all just based on the availability of alumni in your area to conduct an interview

[patent narwhal]

Good to know, I remember mine was over the phone but I'm guessing some people have had theirs in person

[thorny violet]

Mostly just the vibe from ED and then also the phasing out of triples

[timid totem]

triples?

[dry summit]

Theyre supposed to be admitting a bigger proportion of their students through rd this year

[timid totem]

Yeah

[ionic belfry]

Housing

[timid totem]

oh damn

[thorny violet]

Dorm rooms which house three people

[dry summit]

Triples are pretty desirable tbh
Like usually on a ranking of preference it would go singles,triples,doubles, and quads

[ionic belfry]

??

Why would u want a triple lmao

Cheaper ig

[dry summit]

I heard theyre massive

[patent narwhal]

Trust me u don't wanna be in a triple

[dry summit]

Actually might depend on the hall

Some are way bigger

Others apparently are double sized

Quads are definitely the worst tho

[patent narwhal]

Maybe the newer buildings like Morrison may have more space

So many ppl my year complained about triples and quads in general

Off campus housing is elite at Cornell imo

[dry summit]

Also how does the housing selection work
Like i want to do eco house and am willing to be in a double if i get in, but if i dont id rather be in a single
Should i rank my preferences as single first then double even though im going for eco house

[patent narwhal]

Isn't there a lottery sometime june for incoming frosh housing preferences?

[patent narwhal]

I'd say single first pref

And then u can always try to request a housing change later if it doesn't work out

[ionic belfry]

No

Most were forced this year

So same size as doubles

[ionic belfry]

May or June I forget

[oblique canyon]

Minimum of 1 most likely would’ve been like 10+ 😂

[ionic hearth]

Phasing out of triples sounds like a dream

[ionic hearth]

That's horrid 😨

[ionic hearth]

Ya Ed was a bloodbath 😭😭

[lavish marlin]

wouldn’t less ed mean sending more likely letters

to make up for the lower yield

or maybe they’re gonna drop hella rd acceptances to make up for it

[blazing stone]

They prob wont even send out likelys 😭

[velvet oak]

told yeah

most likely no likely

[timid totem]

they wouldn't lower RD they would increase RD acceptances

With no likely letters, their yield isn't protected

so they would need to accept more people in order to get a consistant freshman count

this goes along their changes for ED by increasing the RD acceptance and decrease ED acceptance proportions

[ember pawn]

what of the deffered applicants, does the ED decrease RD increase help them

[timid totem]

i have no idea, i'm a deferred applicant too

I mean we are considered RD pool so maybe they deferred more people to push them to RD to accept them more?

[ember pawn]

bro a shit ton of us were deferred, i wonder if it means anything anymore

[timid totem]

ED is a scam tbh

only the athletes and like legacies get in like the percent is bloated

[lavish marlin]

drop hella rd acceptances as in release more acceptances lol

[timid totem]

oh im stupid

lmfao

[ember pawn]

last year i heard deferall was good and some youtube girl called Molly B even got in after being deffered

[lavish marlin]

yea that’s exactly what i said

[ember pawn]

this year since we are many i am just afraid

[timid totem]

well you never know

I mean

It's possible they rejected many more people too ED

like what if they just made ED as a whole more competitive

so less accepted, less deferred, more rejected

they could've also increased deferred to push more people to RD to boost their acceptance rate RD

we don't know tbh

[ember pawn]

are you sure less deferred? cos i know 5 people in my vicinity who were deferred

[timid totem]

Only we can pray from now on 🙏

[timid totem]

at my school, there were 2 accepted (both had double legacy) and 2 deferred

everyone else was rejected

Whereas for Harvard at my school I only know of 1 acceptance and like 7 deferrals lol

So i think Cornell does still take deferrals seriously

[ember pawn]

i just hope that is the case cos i feel like the more they defer the less the deferral means to the school

like in the case of georgetown

[timid totem]

Yeah

[thorny violet]

You can get an idea of the rates for ED in the post in pinned (please note that these rates are probably already inflated due to the biased sample here)

Here's the post for easy access

[timid totem]

I'm going to do an AP Stats confidence interval on this lol

[mellow crown]

what’s the standard error tho…

[weak valve]

Hi

[devout owl]

bias

[timid totem]

yeah of course

Lmao

its not a random sample

[devout owl]

well actually

[timid totem]

voluntary bias

[devout owl]

can u generalize results to a2c if you just randomly sample a2c?

[timid totem]

a2c is biased too

[devout owl]

i had a stats mock test today not that bad ngl

[timid totem]

mostly overrpresented good applicants on a2c tho

[devout owl]

yes but can u generalize to just a2c if u sample a2c

[timid totem]

true

but idk reddit is

[surreal river]

proceed with a lot of caution

a2c is so biased 😭

i don't think it passes independence either lmao

[ionic hearth]

Beautiful

[ionic hearth]

Yes

[ionic hearth]

it probably does

im guessing we have more than 600 members

oh

act ually

ur right

it would have to be 600 people who applied cornell ed

oh well!

[devout owl]

or 600 who applied?

[ionic hearth]

yea

[devout owl]

can u just decrease sample size then

more variability but still

[ionic hearth]

hmmm

use just 30 responses

randomly take 30 responses

so that u pass central limit

[devout owl]

facts

if you’re really commiter

commited

label all the responses 1 to whatever on a google doc

like 1 - Rejection

2 - Rejection

3 - Acceptance

whatever

and randomly select 30 integers

[ionic hearth]

this is so ap stats core

[devout owl]

i had my mock exam today😭😭

it was not bad at all ngl

[ionic hearth]

actually

tbh

[devout owl]

i think i got a 4 at least

[ionic hearth]

considering generally what we want to calculate

it makes sense forgoing independence

because going to 30 would also keel the standard error

[devout owl]

hmm wdym

can u explain more

[ionic hearth]

cause

dropping to 30

while making it independent

[static prairie]

!cornell

[ionic hearth]

would also make the bounds increase

[devout owl]

mhm

yeah like a higher confidence interval

[ionic hearth]

try ivyday command in #🤖-bot-commands

[devout owl]

because the standard error would increase

[ionic hearth]

so we already have a ridiculous 0.09 to 0.33

[devout owl]

ohhhh

[ionic hearth]

it would be like 0.04 to 0.40 or something

which is like

😭

[devout owl]

we want a lower range

[ionic hearth]

so large to be basically meaningless

yea

[devout owl]

doesn’t tell us shit

i see

ty ty

bro math is so cool

[ionic hearth]

plus we aren't a rigorous statistics firm so we don't really care about bias 😎

[ionic hearth]

i know right 😍

[devout owl]

i wanna do a math minor or double major in college

[ionic hearth]

math major 👀

W

same

math + cs here 💯

[devout owl]

did u take ap statsv

?

[timid totem]

i mean does it have to follow the 10% rule. Like decisions for applications are handled independently from one another.

But the issue is admissions decisions just aren't independent lmao, there is legacy, donations, etc

[ionic hearth]

good point!

[ionic hearth]

random a2c* sampling 😊

[ionic hearth]

im in it right now

here wait

[timid totem]

It was from this poll

#1135691066906001578 message

[ionic hearth]

i need to conjure up my greatest creation

[ionic hearth]

ya

[tardy steppe]

Cornell not doing well in basketball rip

[ionic hearth]

we were about to make march madness

then we flopped

it is what it is

😔

[devout owl]

damn what unit do you do those z calculations wtff

[timid totem]

the z calculations shouldve been something u guys learned a while ago

[ionic hearth]

we did them like a week ago i think

[timid totem]

cause i think everything else is based off it

[devout owl]

all i do is statistic - mean / SD

wait is that what u did

im slow

💀💀💀💀

OOOPS

[timid totem]

It would be SD / sqrt(n) but that is only if you know the population standard deviation

but we don't, so our best option is to use standard error (SE) which uses the t-distribution and degrees of freedom

[devout owl]

hmm is this just for means

[timid totem]

wait tho

im stupid

it should be z

cause its proportions

[devout owl]

he’s doing a proportion calculation

[timid totem]

hold on

let me redo it

[devout owl]

yea

[timid totem]

lmao

[devout owl]

its okay

[timid totem]

Im stupid

[devout owl]

im slow too

its okay

wait @ionic hearth if ur z is 200 do u get the p val from the calculator since the formula sheet dont got allat

[ionic hearth]

we always use calculator

[devout owl]

bet bet

what calculator

i use this one called numworks its sooo good

[ionic hearth]

i use an nspire but my teacher teaches a ti84

[devout owl]

it mogs ti

[ionic hearth]

when i do my homework i use julia distribution library 😭

[devout owl]

https://www.numworks.com/simulator/

go to inference

it does all this shit for you it’s sooo good

[tardy steppe]

We’ll see there’s another half of the game left 🙏

[timid totem]

Parameter: The true proportion of Cornell applicants that were deferred for ED.

Assumptions:

• Simple Random Sample - Lol this wasn't even a random sample so it's going to be super biased (overrepresented). Proceed with extreme caution.
• Independent - Applications are independent from one another.
• Normal - There were 54 people, which support the Central Limit Theorem (must be greater than 30).

Name the Interval: One Sample Z-Interval

Interval
n = 51 (assuming we don't count the initial reaction)
p-hat = 11/51 = 0.2156
z* = 1.960 (95% confidence)
SE = sqrt((p-hat)(1-p-hat)/n) = sqrt(0.2156 * (1-0.2156) / 50)) = 0.058

0.2156 +/- 1.960 * 0.058 = 0.2156 +/- 0.114 = roughly (0.10, 0.33)

Conclusion
We are 95% confident that the true proportion of deferred applicants at Cornell is between 10% and 33% for ED.

[loud hull]

Lmao i just learned hypothesis testing in ap stats

[devout owl]

fat ass range

[devout owl]

twin kinda

[timid totem]

Yeah we can't do much about it lmao

[devout owl]

true

WAIT I HAVE AN IDEA

[timid totem]

Online it does say Cornell's deferred percent hovers around 20% which is true if this is true

[devout owl]

@timid totem

[timid totem]

yea

[velvet oak]

i love doing that

[devout owl]

can u calculate a 2 sample z interval for the difference in proportion accepted ed from this year and last year on a2c

if they even did last year’s results 🤨🤨

[timid totem]

Wait so you want to see if its different?

wait

[loud hull]

It's def possible

[timid totem]

that might be huge brain

to see if deferred percents are different

that is actually MEGA brain

[loud hull]

for the standard error you have to add pq/n for both sets

[devout owl]

YES

[timid totem]

im actually learning about the 2 proportions right now too

Lol

Perfect

[devout owl]

u wont have to do too much work

[ionic hearth]

ooh

interesting

[devout owl]

use this 🤫🤫

[loud hull]

the fact that my last lesson was 2-proportion intervals

but for t not z

[timid totem]

here guys

ill make a google document

lmfao

[devout owl]

https://www.numworks.com/simulator/

would our alt be =\ 0 or <0

for difference

[loud hull]

i meant null would be equal

[devout owl]

oops sorry

[loud hull]

and alternative would be not equal

[devout owl]

i mean alt

[velvet oak]

how did u do this?

[devout owl]

doesnt equal or less than? if we wanna see a decrease

[velvet oak]

im too lazy to conduct one for my research

is there an app?

or website?

[loud hull]

if you want to see a decrease than p1 > p2

p1 is last yr p2 is this year

[ionic hearth]

sadly

we did not do a poll last year

i just scrolled through the old megathread

sorry

:((

[loud hull]

is there one on a2c reddit?

[timid totem]

i did it on my own with just ap stats knwoledge

[velvet oak]

oh

[ionic hearth]

honey was quite active in the old megatrhead i must say 👀

[devout owl]

NOOO

can u randomly sample r/a2c cornell early megathread 👀

i’d put the samples into a doc for u

[timid totem]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QodXRpdlqn9QfKTlYorP_wDC83LVpVhRSuyO67S878U/edit?usp=sharing

You guys can just tell me the proportions if you want for last year

[devout owl]

lemme search

give me some time

[timid totem]

Kk

[devout owl]

holy shit

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/s/KW1Woh4kNS

i’d take like an hour to go through this💀💀💀

1.6K comments….

[timid totem]

i dont think we can really do this lol

[devout owl]

facts

[timid totem]

the results are too biased

[devout owl]

if only we had a poll

[timid totem]

the people who do get accepted post

[devout owl]

true

[devout owl]

exactly

[timid totem]

the people who get rejected dont post

[devout owl]

response

[timid totem]

response bias

Yeah

[devout owl]

we’d have to do a random sample if we wanted it to be somewhat accurate

damn

cornell - 1 statisticians - 0

[timid totem]

lol

[past latch]

things to do in ithaca, ny?

[stray field]

study

[past latch]

i dont go to cornell

[stray field]

neither do i

[past latch]

youre a high school senior

so i would sure hope not

[stray field]

[devout owl]

cry

[ionic belfry]

What r u into

[past latch]

hmm

im into good food

and cute stores

[ionic hearth]

cat cafe

[ionic hearth]

u will

trust

[ionic hearth]

CAT CAFE

[past latch]

whaat

is this a transfer request

[past latch]

and :0

i love cats

[ionic hearth]

yes

[past latch]

and i love cafes

[past latch]

haha well

what are the upsides of going to cornell?

[ionic hearth]

its free if u volunteer 👀

[past latch]

the cafe is free if you volunteer at it?

[ionic hearth]

• cat cafe
• cornell dairy bar (goated ice cream and choccy milk)
• pretty buildings (of all types of styles) and nature (the botanical garden)
• the best sunsets
• haunted dorms

[violet crescent]

[past latch]

do you go to cornell?

[ionic hearth]

im a prefrosh 😭

[past latch]

but how do you know so much ^-^

[ionic hearth]

i ED so i do mucho research

[violet crescent]

he’s the expert

[ionic hearth]

also i need to indoctrinate ppl into coming here

[past latch]

omg you have the same pfp as my best friend's spotify pfp

[past latch]

unfortunately i love brown way too much to be impacted but

ithaca seems quaint

[violet crescent]

bg is our unofficial cornell admissions officer

[violet crescent]

NO WAY

[ionic hearth]

real 😔

one of my best friends is manifesting brown so i am a brown fan as well

[violet crescent]

i became a columbia fan bc of my bestie

[past latch]

awww well

i hope they get in ^-^

brown is so so lovely

its been a dream

[ionic belfry]

Tons of that

[past latch]

i still cant fully believe how good it is

[ionic belfry]

Visiting a friend?

[ionic hearth]

ya brown students seem really happy

[ionic hearth]

that is true 🔥

[past latch]

yeah! one of my good friends from brown lives in ithaca

[violet crescent]

i wanted to apply but i was scared of the video

[ionic hearth]

jae posts epic food pics

[past latch]

we really are

[ionic hearth]

my brown video

[ionic belfry]

There’s a crap ton of food places

[past latch]

the video is optional

[ionic belfry]

Good amt of decent stores in commons and with car

[ionic hearth]

apparently there are no good indian restaurants though (cannot vet this this is what the 28 server says)

[past latch]

ah i dont drive but i'll gladly be a passenger princess

[ionic hearth]

although ima be real i kind of like white people indian food a little bit

[past latch]

lmfaooooo

me with mexican food

[ionic hearth]

passenger princess twinning fr

[violet crescent]

but i also ran out of space on my common app so i couldn’t apply either way

[past latch]

cuz i wil fuck up a taco bell

[past latch]

dang wtf

how many schools did you apply to

[violet crescent]

are we all passenger princesses here

[ionic hearth]

real

[past latch]

teehee

[violet crescent]

28 in total

[past latch]

bro

[ionic hearth]

😳

[past latch]

thats insane to me

[violet crescent]

8 are UCs and CSUs

LOL

[past latch]

i was literally one and done with brown ED

[ionic hearth]

the best shotgunner

[past latch]

luck was on my side

[ionic hearth]

i was gonna apply to around that many schools too until i got corny

[past latch]

i was rejected from umass amherst and iowa university

[violet crescent]

i would’ve been done at just 12 but then my ED rejection…

[past latch]

so maybe im not one and done

[ionic hearth]

😔

[violet crescent]

[ionic hearth]

we needed u

[violet crescent]

i wanted them too

but they said no

[ionic belfry]

Nah theres a few

[ionic hearth]

oh 👀

[ionic belfry]

Idk which bc I’m a basic white girl but my friends do

[ionic hearth]

tbh

real indian food is a pain to eat at a restaurant anyhow

[past latch]

skill issue

[ionic hearth]

so i dont mind americanized indian food

[past latch]

arent u korean

[ionic hearth]

how do u eat boned fish without looking like a glutton 😔

[ionic hearth]

no i am just learning it 😭

[past latch]

wdym

u just eat it

im confused

u eat it like any food

its a fish

[past latch]

oh

lol

[ionic hearth]

usually u have to like crush the fish to make sure there are no bones

which u can basically only do with ur hand 😭

[past latch]

i know but there are boned fish in other cuisines too

[past latch]

and finger foods in every cuisine

[ionic hearth]

yea

[past latch]

i mean the reason i cant do some indian foods is because im not into spice

[ionic hearth]

i like ordering it to go so that i can eat it to my hearts delight with no one to judge me 😊

[ionic hearth]

ok this is fair

my parents call me white because i can't handle spice either

[past latch]

which is why i was gonna ask if you're korean because there are a lot of spicy korean foods

[past latch]

haha thats real

[past latch]

are you white?

[ionic hearth]

im indian 😭

[past latch]

oh okay

[ionic hearth]

🔥 im learning korean for the food fr

[past latch]

also i like the interstellar quote in ur bio

ik its from an actual poet but

i dont care

[ionic hearth]

LMAO

[past latch]

korean food is good yeah

very healthy

[ionic hearth]

i love both interstellar and the poem

i need to eat healthier at cornell that will indeed be an issue

[past latch]

mhm

freshman 15 is real

dont fight it

[ionic hearth]

its ok we have the slope 😤

brown is also hilly right

[past latch]

wdym

[past latch]

not really

theres one major hill

but most of brown campus is situated on the top of the hill

its the risd students who suffer

[ionic hearth]

ohhh

[past latch]

their campus is on the hill

[ionic hearth]

RISD 🔥

a lot of ppl complain about walking up this hill

but its very pretty during sunset

[past latch]

💀

ok well

at first i was like what hill

but i kinda get it

the problem is that it looks long

[alpine moth]

I’d love walking up that hill

W cardio

[ionic hearth]

exactly

[ionic hearth]

tbh it would be good for me

so i dont' mind

[alpine moth]

Are u committed to Cornell, Jp?

[ionic hearth]

i have to walk up a similar hill (not too steep but very long) for school

[ionic hearth]

yea

[alpine moth]

W then

What school

[ionic hearth]

CAS 🔥

cs 💻 and math ➕

[alpine moth]

That’s what’s up

Bro cooked

[alpine moth]

Double major or is there a major called cs and math?

[ionic hearth]

double major

[alpine moth]

If I get in to CAS can I just select cs

[ionic hearth]

ima be real if u do any of the majors ur like halfway into doing the other 😭

[alpine moth]

Or is there a special selection

[ionic hearth]

i believe so

[alpine moth]

Alr

I’m hoping for Cornell on the 28th man

I love this school

[ionic hearth]

🫡

[alpine moth]

Got into CMU and I just don’t really like it, too urban, too crowded, too city-like

Not enough nature around

:(

[ionic hearth]

CMU is great but it sounds really intense

[alpine moth]

Yeaaaaa idk if I fw the culture

[ionic belfry]

Cmu is amazing still

[alpine moth]

Yea just not for me lowkey

I’m grateful but still

[zealous whale]

same for me

[timid totem]

my cmu decision isnt out yet lmao

[alpine moth]

Parents insist I go there, so im praying to god I get another reach that I actually like

[weak valve]

hi

many cute stors

in commons

and ogod

food

lots of nature too

[ashen spruce]

if you got in for math and want to trade spots with me at my cc, i'm down

i just wish they would release

[uncut wolf]

Ngl 3 weeks before the Cornell ED deadline, I was planning to ED CMU for math

then switched

cuz I wanted to do CS in CMU but no way im getting in so did math

[timid totem]

@devout owl for the two sample data

i mean i could technically do my school's previous ED data lmfao

but its not even random at all

there are so many assumptions we would have to make

[lavish marlin]

This aint ap stat 😭

[timid totem]

it wasnt even gonna work tbh anyways cause we needed a random sample and what we got was a voluntary sample lmao

[devout owl]

yes it is

[devout owl]

eh

the sample populations aren’t really comparable

the only thing you’d be able to prove is that either your school or a2c has a higher proportion of ed admits

if you did a2c’s ed results from last year then you could try and show that the proportion of ed admits has risen

idk u can still do it but will it really be interesting😭

i think its just gonna be that a2c has a higher proportion

[devout owl]

facts

wait for ur school data were u gonna use like naviance?

or just ask people

[timid totem]

our school uses scoir instead of naviance

basically the same thing

shows accepts, deferrals, waitlists, rejects, etc for gpas and standarized test scores and stuff

[wind imp]

our school dont have anything

[uncut wolf]

oh same

[devout owl]

fax

[viscid yarrow]

I feel like the things inside checklist switched places but not sure maybe my mind just playing a memory game

[devout owl]

this is a different type of delusion ngl 😭

[prime oxide]

Scoir gang 💪

[normal holly]

I feel you

[ionic hearth]

apparently i was the only person in the entire school to use scoir last year 😭

i actually din't end up submitting forthem other than uchicago funnily enoug

[slender flume]

Does cornell look at your major?

[fluid wasp]

Cornell comes out Ivy day right?

!ivyday

[glad siren]

March 28 7 pm est

[ionic belfry]

Yeah

[slender flume]

Oh

How cooked am I as an international CS applicant

[rugged gull]

"well done"

[ionic belfry]

Idk

[velvet oak]

cornelly

hii yup

lol so essentially for the US, im only looking for a few unis now. Out of those i have wellelsey (got waitlisted) and im waiting on 7 ivies, duke, stanford and duke kunshan (got a likely letter back in jan)

i did apply to some more LACs but won't consider them anymore

yeah

nope national curriculum

lol

did u apply to kunshan too?

it's just the financial aid factor that ill have to consider

nope are u?

oh i see

makes sense

nope indian

economics and management

harvard was the dream lol

forgot to mention that

but was deferred so idk

[prime oxide]

Oh for us it’s built into the system 😭

[timid totem]

but dont they look by college and not major?

[ionic belfry]

Yeah

Some colleges r the major tho

So it depends

[timid totem]

so if i was deferred for cs 💀

actually cooked

at least i talk about also doing music

[ionic belfry]

Ur not cooked

U will see soon

[onyx blade]

!ivyday

[raven hare]

!yale

[potent meteor]

Yale University RD Date

Yale University decisions come out <t:1711666800:F> in your local time
11 days, 9 hours and 17 minutes until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[patent narwhal]

I used my boosted board (before it was stolen) to ride up the slope to my classes 😁

[boreal vessel]

!yale

[timber pagoda]

Wasn’t ivy day like in. 20 days

[severe tundra]

8 days ago, yeah

[haughty crown]

Ikr

Time is kinda picking up tbh

[timber pagoda]

It’s not fun

It’s scary

The next few days gonna determine my life’s worth

[haughty crown]

That’s a little extreme

Let’s reel it in a little

[timber pagoda]

Nah like if I don’t go to America where would I go and what I’d do

A lot depends on my location

[haughty crown]

Did you not apply to any other American schools?

[timber pagoda]

Ofc I did

[haughty crown]

And what do you want to do?

[timber pagoda]

Med

[haughty crown]

Sick

[timber pagoda]

But that’s complicated in America

If not America New Zealand maybe

[haughty crown]

Hm interesting

[timber pagoda]

Ye

[ionic hearth]

do !ibyday in the bot comand

[ionic hearth]

😨

it is what you do that determines who u are

and u are incredible

no matter what happens

[haughty crown]

Is there not a Cornell one

!cornell

😦

[velvet oak]

!ivyday

try this

[haughty crown]

How can they have a Yale one but not a Cornell one 😔

I have a countdown widget anyway lol

[velvet oak]

😔

[haughty crown]

[velvet oak]

how is life?

in deferral land?

[haughty crown]

It sucks

But I’ve gotten used to it

I’ve accepted my lack of acceptance

[rustic mantle]

does the financial aid office work separately from admissions?

[velvet oak]

[velvet oak]

that's what they all say

[devout owl]

bro college is just 4 years

you didn’t say all this when u were going to high school💀💀

[devout owl]

fax

[ionic belfry]

Goes by too fast

[brave sinew]

WAITTT yeah wtf

11 days is too soon...

[haughty crown]

I just want to get it over with, in or not

[split fable]

Just found out someone in my class got waitlisted to Cornell ED through my school's group chat

[stray field]

r u sure they meant waitlisted? not deferred or postponed?

[weak valve]

Deferred

They said ED

[split fable]

Bruh, yeah they said deferred

i knew it sounded wrong

[ionic hearth]

its for ivyday

in general

do it bot commands

[prime oxide]

I see the bot command done so much

[ionic hearth]

indeed

[lavish marlin]

Did they not release likely letters this year💀

That’s wild

[ionic hearth]

what if everyone's apps were so bad that they didn't send out likelies because no one deserved it

[lavish marlin]

✨✨✨

[prime oxide]

They did, it’s just that no one got one

[haughty crown]

What

Youve seen someone get one?

[lavish marlin]

If true that’s a crazy shift

[prime oxide]

No, no one got one

[haughty crown]

Then they didn’t release them

[prime oxide]

That is probably true

I was kidding but bad joke

[haughty crown]

Oh

[ionic hearth]

Good joke

[prime oxide]

Sorry 😭

[ionic hearth]

yea its probably just they didn't release them

[haughty crown]

I thought you meant like “nobody in the server got them” or something

[prime oxide]

Ohhh

Yeah I realize I implied that

[ionic hearth]

we were speculating earlier that since they are underenrolling, they would not do likelies but tbh no one knows anything

[prime oxide]

YEP

I just think it’s somehow related to the ed nerf

[haughty crown]

You think they are underenrolling?

[prime oxide]

I have no clue personally

They’re extremely uncommunicative

[white plume]

is there any intl applying rd here?

[ionic hearth]

well for ED at least

[haughty crown]

What makes you think this?

[ionic hearth]

they directly said that for ED let me find it

[haughty crown]

Woah

[ionic hearth]

https://cornellsun.com/2023/11/30/cornell-reduces-proportion-of-students-admitted-through-early-decision-track/

[haughty crown]

OMG I remembered this

And everyone freaked out

[pseudo tartan]

Lmao nice meme 😄
The fish is a nice touch

[weak valve]

Me when i realize

The housing shortage at cornell has been bad since the late 1940s

LMAO

[dense ore]

guys why does this school get so much hate 😭

subreddit is mad funny and community seems hella chill

more chill than any other ivy

[weak valve]

Subreddit hates me for asking to many questions

[weak valve]

Latest ivy to join

Easiest to pick on bc its half public

Etc

[dense ore]

i think the only thing i wouldnt like abt cornell rn is the lack of double majors across colleges but otherwise i think its just as good as the other ivies (except hyp)

theres probably more stuff i wouldnt like but idk enough abt the school

[devout owl]

half public?

[weak valve]

Half publicly endowed

[devout owl]

ohhh

ok ty

[weak valve]

I also dislike the no double majoring and i also dislike housing crisis (prolly an issue with multiple unis tho) and i also dislike the size(also issue elsewhere but not rlly otjer ivies)

[vocal ivy]

wait you cant double major?

[weak valve]

Not between colleges

Like if i major in psych in cas i cant double in health policy in brooks

[vocal ivy]

ohh damn okay

[prime oxide]

Yeah it’s kinda annoying

Otherwise I might consider smth like econ/math but nope

[lavish marlin]

Yeah aside from money, one thing that broke me with Cornell is that they wouldn’t let me double major in cs and meteorology

I think it’s the fact that they’re cross college

Which cross college always makes double stuff difficult

@haughty crown this is so random but your pfp is so funny i love it

[rugged gull]

!ivyday

[haughty crown]

Lmao thank you

I think it’s really funny too

[weak valve]

econ and math is possible in cas

😭

[weak valve]

isnt this also possible in cas

meteorology lowkey aint even a major but i mean with respect to our "equivalent" which i assume is earth+atmos sciences

^ however, ur point remains valid even if it is possible bc cs major is so dense

so u might not even be able to grad on time if u tried to

[prime oxide]

I mean in addition to my engineering major oops 😭

[alpine moth]

Just read my Cornell essay and realized I completely omitted one sentence when copy-pasting and now the paragraph doesn’t make sense

Am I cooked chat

Should I withdraw

[smoky storm]

Nah

[weak valve]

ohh like econ or math my bad

lol ik someone who was cs in eng and internal transfered to cas to do cs + math

[prime oxide]

Yeah that’s kinda smart

[weak valve]

yolo

[alpine moth]

Nah ur right, I paid them like $80, they WILL read my shitty essay

[lavish marlin]

!ivyday

[haughty crown]

Rate the whole essay

Give it to us straight

[rocky prism]

Ivy day gon go hard

[lavish marlin]

It’s essentially atmospheric sciences

I I just use the two interchangeably lol

[alpine moth]

Why is a Princeton 27 in the Cornell chat

[lavish marlin]

Because I chose to be

[alpine moth]

Bro has infiltrated the frontlines

[lavish marlin]

Basically, my top five schools last year I’m in those chats

[weak valve]

ic, i was j saying the double major is possible

only less possible given the weight of a cs major

[alpine moth]

I wanted to apply to Princeton then I got to that annoying ass service supp the night before it was due

[weak valve]

lol i wasnt gonna apply to pton and the essay submission solidified my decision

[alpine moth]

That was the easy part

[lavish marlin]

Was it 400 word

[alpine moth]

You didn’t even have to write anything new

[lavish marlin]

Frankly, I don’t even remember that essay lol

I probably copied and pasted or something

[weak valve]

my hs was liba rts and i never got an A on a paper in jr or sr year and my essays were always creatively quirky in a way i didnt want admissions reading

and the few essays

i woudlve submitted

from jr year

the teacher had fucking quirky comments

like "heh"

😭

i aint submitting that fr

[uncut wolf]

I thought no, they care about which college

[crisp urchin]

Should one try and send in third quarter grades before RD decisions?

[timid totem]

No there’s no point

They probably don’t even look at those

It’s a week before decision comes out so it probably won’t help

[crisp urchin]

I guess decsions are pretty much taken by now? We are only 10 days away

[uncut wolf]

Bascially

[weak valve]

they do

look at major somewhat

they dont want a class of just cs majros

[weak valve]

doesnt hurt to try but like

prolly wotn be considered

[crisp urchin]

Thanks.

[opaque pike]

is there still a possibility they drop likelies though

[mild oyster]

yes I read the likely policy and the 3/15 deadline is only for athletes

[timid totem]

possible but like

i dont think they'd drop them 11 days before decision release

tbh doesnt matter, maybe it was for the best they didn't release likely letters

[severe tundra]

Duke used to send them out rly late

[timid totem]

they increase anxiety for people who didn't get them which is like 90% of the accepted students

[timid totem]

dont they send them on the week of?

[uncut slate]

ya

Doesn’t duke send them this week

[mild oyster]

@severe tundra

[severe tundra]

Duke only really sent likelies for diversity programs and merit scholarship notifs

Since both of those changed this year, I’m not sure if they’ll be sent

diversity bc of AA
merit scholarships are now announced may/june post enrollment

nah

only Robertson but that’s unchanged

mostly service/civic engagement

and geographic residence

[dusk basin]

yall if this is my sister's senior schedule is she cooked for cornell design

[vocal ivy]

13 classes???

[ionic belfry]

No

[weak valve]

why would she be

she may be cooked for like

mental state

[dusk basin]

probably idk

im just jealous yall get cool classes

for me its just maths more maths physics and chemistry

[raven hare]

Stem kid tings 😭

[fluid moth]

what is covered in philosophy

[dusk basin]

dont you do bio dawg

[dusk basin]

bible shit she goes to a christian school

[raven hare]

Yea

So im in sort of the same boat 😭

[ionic hearth]

just do orie

and cs

or orie and ce

i think

and then u can go full quantie

[potent meteor]

Ding!

Looks like someone's brought up quant again!

I think it’d be better if you analyzed some grass instead.

Used 1231 times.

[weak valve]

orie and ece idk how possible that is

ece and cs lowkey the only knowable doable double major in engineering

as in knowable i mean commonly done

lowkey have not yet heard of another combo working

[uncut wolf]

What’s ece

[timber inlet]

electrical engineering

[jaunty schooner]

whats the C then

[timber inlet]

sorry it's electrical and computer engineering*

[jaunty schooner]

ahhhhh

[dusk basin]

What’s orie

[ionic belfry]

Op research

[weak valve]

electrical/computer engineering

[tiny violet]

Hi

Did anyone get a likely or is Cornell not going to do one this year

[timid totem]

cornell's not doing likelies this year

[weak valve]

AMA abt cornell thanks

[severe tundra]

How close is it to Columbia?

[weak valve]

4ish hrs

maybe 6 if ur taking the bus

[severe tundra]

Good far far away

[uncut slate]

💀

[weak valve]

i agree

their ugly ass school color hurts my eyes

even from 200 miles away

like goddamn

/j their color is so pretty 😭

[ionic hearth]

i dont like columbia blue

ans blue is my favorite color

😤

[ionic belfry]

Fr

[ionic hearth]

best restaurant thats cheap in ithaca

[ionic belfry]

Jacks imo

Jae u answer too

[weak valve]

my friend said so poong is good

havent had it yet

but its cheap

next to kft

fusia bento also cheap for a lot of food

or oishi

i think oishi

idr one of the two

[ionic hearth]

yay

[ionic hearth]

best library for studying

also do they let u go into empty classrooms a

and use the whiteboard

[weak valve]

yeah

but there r white boards in study rooms

and empty conference rooms

and study lounges

[weak valve]

ive only been in a few

cocktail is good for social llocking in

imo

like w friends

or if u dont mind an interruption

or r with someone else

the uris study area like2 floors above cocktail is nice for locking in

olin is like

suffocatingly quiet

quieter as u go up the floors

inthe stacks

asia room in olin is popular too

i dont like ti tho

id like to check out ad white tho

seems small

and pretty

so many quiet places u can lock in in

oh mann is also nice

huge as fuck

many diff kinds of study areas and such

[outer jolt]

luh yap sesh

[ionic belfry]

Nah

Too many yappers

Best lib is law/mann/uris or Statler for fun

[weak valve]

yeah social locking in

like if u body double

[ionic belfry]

😭

[weak valve]

or want to still tock

talk*

the fuck

"tock"

..

[ionic belfry]

Tbh I’m not a big library person

Finals week tho hits there

[weak valve]

eyah

[alpine moth]

Best and worst thing about Ithaca?

I fear that since it’s a small town, it won’t have many diverse restaurants and stores and stuff

Shopping malls and whatnot

[tiny violet]

😭

[alpine moth]

Why is bro in EVERY CHAT

😭😭

I see this mf everywhere

[tiny violet]

Funny though

[fluid moth]

I am too

[alpine moth]

Nahhhhh

[tiny violet]

I’m on 4

💀

[lavish marlin]

wait if they aren’t dropping likely letters how are they going to notify milstein finalists

[fluid moth]

The stem pipeline

[mild oyster]

probably after decisions

[lavish marlin]

mfs trolling

[fluid moth]

College admissions this year is trolling

[tiny violet]

Yes like the new cmu portal

[tiny violet]

🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

[fluid moth]

I think ucla trolled me with the waitlist 😅😅😅

They definitely meant to accept me

Just a miss input

[tiny violet]

UCSD waitlist

UCLA reject

Hustlers university accept

[fluid moth]

Berkeley needs to clutch

[fluid moth]

Real

I got accepted to mogwarts

[tiny violet]

ThE rEaL WoRLD

thE wAr rOoM gUys

🤓🤓

[pseudo tartan]

What’s the new portal?

[tribal horizon]

11 days

[haughty crown]

Not even

[tribal horizon]

an nth amount of days

[haughty crown]

Almost 9!

[tiny violet]

To make pie from scratch one must first create the universe

[haughty crown]

I and some change 😁😁😁😁

I can’t stop checking the countdown

[ionic hearth]

true

[weak valve]

how often r u gonna go shopping

[ionic hearth]

like once a month 😭

[weak valve]

when midterm season lasts mid-sept to the end of finals

😭

ppl to weekend trips to nyc

no big deal

[ionic hearth]

i feel like u could go to new york like twice or three times per semester and get ur fancy schmancy shopping done

or like

syracuse

[weak valve]

yeah

def

we have our 2-4 shopping centers that are easily accessible by bus

[ionic hearth]

isn't there a mini mall

[weak valve]

for me personally
worst: walking distances in combination w the weather/hills. would not mind the walking if it were 60-80 degrees everyday w no precipitation
best: i find everything i need to do accessible tbh

[weak valve]

?

the best buy place?

yeah

target

[ionic hearth]

yeah

it looks lkind of good considering

[weak valve]

thats why i said

2-4 shopping centers

theres the target one, the wegmans one, the walmart one and i think theres another like parallel to the walmart one

[stray field]

wegmansss

[ionic hearth]

wegman

[weak valve]

and there are random stores scattered thru out like asian markets (Green castle, rens) and memorabilia (all over commons)

like

idk how much yall got out in hs

[ionic hearth]

i didn't 🔥

[weak valve]

but

i never felt the desire to

in hs

and i dont rlly feel it now

either

like how tf u gon get bored

if ur bored look at ur grades

u wont be bored anymore

💀

[past latch]

humbled me so fast

my heads been in the clouds recently

i need to LOCK the fuck in

[weak valve]

cant u p/f anything u want at brown

😭

[past latch]

what?

wdym

[weak valve]

pass fail

[past latch]

oh pass/fail? of course

but im not

i want a 4.0

[weak valve]

isnt brown inflated tho

[past latch]

most people here dont pass fail/pass fail once a semester

[weak valve]

mb not in the way yale and harvard are

but in a diff way

[past latch]

idk? im not sure why thats relevant

struggle is still the struggle

[weak valve]

fair

[past latch]

the classes are hard