Cornell ED vs Brown ED

[heady garden]

apparently the other CC at school suggested that I ED brown, apparently I have a decent shot and now that confuses me

[latent ravine]

the ability to stick with a decision is a great one

[latent ravine]

you picked cornell

you ultimately don't know your shot no matter how much you claim

[heady garden]

for brown, i agree yes

i have no idea

[torpid kraken]

Didn't you sign the agreement already?

[latent ravine]

unless your college counselors are best friends with your region's AOs and get the inside scoop on what they think of your application they can't accurantely predict if you'll get in

[heady garden]

for cornell, if we're being real i have a very good chance

yeah.

[latent ravine]

idk bro I would leave chance out of it

[heady garden]

nope i stilll have time

[latent ravine]

unless that AO has seen your application and is like clear admit...

plus you said your dream school is neither of these

[heady garden]

it is brown tbh though

[latent ravine]

so if you ed you potentially have no shot of even applying to it

[heady garden]

i would be really happy

[latent ravine]

you said harvard or mit the other da...

I think you need to figure out what you want first

bc it seems to be you want prestige

so if that is the case pick the school that's prestigious enough for you

[heady garden]

i do, but in terms of fit

its brown

[latent ravine]

ok then ed there

?

[heady garden]

in terms of prestige, yes its harvard mit

[latent ravine]

Every choice has an opportunity cost

I find it hard to believe every single factor of that opportunity cost is equal to you

[heady garden]

what does that mean, sorry?

[latent ravine]

Basically the best alternate option

The second best choice

[heady garden]

that'd be cornell lol

[latent ravine]

So for example EDing brown would have an opportunity cost of losing out on EDing Cornell where you allegedly have a higher chance

[heady garden]

yes

OH

i see what you mean

yeah of course

[latent ravine]

So it really depends

Which decision is more worth it for you

[heady garden]

i think like that's the problem

i don't know...

[latent ravine]

@heady garden

[heady garden]

i hate myself 😍 🔫

i don't know what iwant

LMFAO

[latent ravine]

The indecisiveness stems from not knowing truly what you want

[heady garden]

😢

[latent ravine]

Not school wise

But what you’re expecting from college

[heady garden]

that's brown

perfectly

[latent ravine]

You don’t know what you want

[heady garden]

i do know what i want

[latent ravine]

What about brown

[latent ravine]

100%?

[heady garden]

culture, learning environment

[latent ravine]

Then Ed there

[heady garden]

yes.

if brown is 100%

cornell is like 75%

of what i'm looking for

[latent ravine]

100 > 75

So like

Pretty clear decision to me

[heady garden]

but i have literally twice more

chance

at cornell

which confuses me

twice is the wrong word

but i have a significantly higher chance

[latent ravine]

Does that matter enough to you to sacrifice 100% for 75%

[lone mesa]

twice as likely to end up at a school you like less…

the math ain’t mathin

[heady garden]

i thought it did

[latent ravine]

Does it not

[heady garden]

i'm not sure

i am a prestige whore, as you know

i want to go to an ivy league 💀

[lone mesa]

omg they won’t stop harassing me
they gave me a fee waiver too but it’s not gonna happen

[heady garden]

cornells my shot at that

[latent ravine]

That’s the first thing you need to figure out

[latent ravine]

You have usf in your name 😭

[lone mesa]

south florida

[latent ravine]

Ohh

[heady garden]

oh

[heady garden]

i'm so conflicted

that's the main point ig

[latent ravine]

You need to figure out your priorities

Everyone else here has a slightly different perspective

[heady garden]

yeah

i've been trying for a while

but i can't do it for some reason

[lone mesa]

don’t ed

it’s a commitment

that you don’t seem ready to make

[heady garden]

that's not really an option

and i'd regret it much more

if i don't ED

than ED cornell or brown

[lone mesa]

do you have a safety that you would genuinely enjoy attending

[obsidian python]

if we use this then cornell is the way to go

[heady garden]

kinda?

like i said, prestige whore

[obsidian python]

calculate the expected "gain" with expected value

[heady garden]

sadly

[lone mesa]

well, if you have a good safety/target then i’d apply brown

but if you really don’t see yourself happy anywhere but cornell or brown going with cornell is advantageous

[heady garden]

i would MUCH rather go to cornell

[obsidian python]

yeah

[heady garden]

than any of those safeties

[obsidian python]

thats why

[haughty lily]

if your chances at getting into cornell are high then wouldnt your chances also be high RD or no

[heady garden]

no, not really

[humble horizon]

why

[haughty lily]

and it sounds like you have a decent chance at brown anyway

[obsidian python]

school is a feeder

[heady garden]

to regular

[haughty lily]

oh rip

i thought your chances would be high bc feeder 💀

[heady garden]

for ED, yes

• i'm on the very competitive side for cornell

and i'm applying to human ec

which no one applies to from here

[humble horizon]

ok sure if you apply to like the npc colleges yeah

[obsidian python]

LOL npc colleges

[humble horizon]

but like anyones a compeittive applicant for hotel im sorry

[obsidian python]

hotel management?

[heady garden]

human ecology

[obsidian python]

LOL

[heady garden]

its the premed school lol

[obsidian python]

i mean if all u want is j to go to cornell then hotel is the way to go lmfao

[heady garden]

def not

i have a way better chance at human ec than hotel

[humble horizon]

the real majors at cornell should be much harder than brown imo

[heady garden]

i can do well at cornell though

[heady garden]

but this is so true

brown will be so easy

[haughty lily]

as a fellow shotgunner thats from a competitive but non feeder school i have no idea but good luck 😭

[heady garden]

which is good for premed

[humble horizon]

r u premed?

[heady garden]

good luck to you too!

[heady garden]

yes

[haughty lily]

yea i had a friend go to brown bc grade inflation lol

[humble horizon]

if ur premed brown will be much less stressful

[heady garden]

yes

• i love the atmosphere

at brown

i can't FUCK

i can't decide

[humble horizon]

i would say if you think your gonna be top of the class come here

if you want a high gpa and dont think your gonna be that go to brown

[heady garden]

i think i will be that

[orchid dawn]

I thought you picked 😭

[haughty lily]

as a fellow brown enjoyer i like brown more but as a brown applier i say you should ed cornell /hj

[humble horizon]

which school?

[heady garden]

OKOK

[heady garden]

no doxx pls LMAO

[humble horizon]

ok

[heady garden]

damn.

i don't know

[heady garden]

I THOUGHT I DID TOO

[obsidian python]

lmao what did u pick b4

[latent ravine]

If you don’t know don’t do it

[obsidian python]

nah go do it

ed chance boost cant be forgotten

(if it actually boosts chances)

[latent ravine]

If they were really ready to commit though they would have picked

[orchid dawn]

Get drunk and pick one on 11/1

[heady garden]

cornell

[heady garden]

HELPPPP

[humble horizon]

if your willing to work rlly hard here yea youd prolly come out on top better here

[heady garden]

for sure

[obsidian python]

ehhhh overstatement tbh

[humble horizon]

but like coasting in ug before premed is very valid

[obsidian python]

idrk

[latent ravine]

Have you seen how long this thread is 😭

[heady garden]

sorry, what's coastin in?

[obsidian python]

nono thats not what i meant

soz

basically

[latent ravine]

They have gone back and forth a million times 😭

[obsidian python]

i mean yeah thats true

[humble horizon]

like doing nothing

brown grade inflation is WILD

[obsidian python]

but like im not sure people are ready to commit either for the RD shcools they got into

[humble horizon]

drop class after final is crazy

[latent ravine]

Plus Harvard is apparently the real dream school

[latent ravine]

Fair

[obsidian python]

LOL

[humble horizon]

drop class whenever is crazy

[heady garden]

I CANT LMAOOO

[orchid dawn]

Brown is easy af freshman year I hear

[heady garden]

it is fr

[latent ravine]

Don’t stress just do it last minute

[obsidian python]

brown doesnt exist

[haughty lily]

i mean i kinda feel that too bc i struggle with emphasizing prestige too much lol. its like mmm what if i get into harvard yk

[orchid dawn]

Which application is better?

Essay wise

[latent ravine]

Yeah I mean it comes down to what’s more important to you

[heady garden]

cornell, solely because it has 2

and brown has 9

[latent ravine]

Personally affordability is one of my top priorities so state schools 😎

Also health

So really decide what your values are

[heady garden]

tbh, those two aren't really factors for me

its more this balance we were talking about earlier

[latent ravine]

I didn’t say they were lol

[heady garden]

yeah yeah

was just thinking out loud

[latent ravine]

You need to pick your values

[heady garden]

or on text

[latent ravine]

You probably have some

Hopefully

[orchid dawn]

9 essays? Jeez

[latent ravine]

Ultimately where you go for premed won’t make or break you

[heady garden]

6

and 3 supps

[latent ravine]

So just pick the school you like most and see yourself spending the next 4 years at more

[orchid dawn]

Damnn

[heady garden]

that's brown...

[latent ravine]

Ed brown

[orchid dawn]

Apply brown then

[latent ravine]

It’s clearly your dream

Your “perfect” fit

Great premed

[haughty lily]

also brown is more urban than cornell which is really rural, like for me i cannot stand being that much in the middle of nowhere

[heady garden]

i LOVE urban

[latent ravine]

It’s ok if you don’t get in like that part is not in your hands

[heady garden]

love

[heady garden]

well, it kidna is here

[latent ravine]

Brown is more of a suburb tbh

[heady garden]

sadly

[orchid dawn]

It’s not bad at all imo

[latent ravine]

Like at least to me

[orchid dawn]

And I’m from chicago

[latent ravine]

It felt more suburban

[orchid dawn]

Depends on the person

[heady garden]

i love providence

so much

its like boston

[orchid dawn]

Apply brown

[heady garden]

kinda

[haughty lily]

yeah i didnt know how to describe it for a moment lol

[latent ravine]

All good it’s like a slow city

Cute though

[haughty lily]

the drive was 💀 but also i drove from my midwest home so it was tiring anyway

[latent ravine]

I would have so done Ed brown if my parents let me

[heady garden]

the thing is, no one with my GPA has gotten in brown ED in the past four years

they have for cornell

[latent ravine]

What did your parents say btw

Like in terms of your Ed

[heady garden]

they're leaving it to me

[latent ravine]

Did they offer any input

You should ask them where they see you

[heady garden]

they said they have no idea

but they see me at brown more

[latent ravine]

Oh lol

There you go

[heady garden]

cornell is def an option too thoug

[orchid dawn]

The drive sucks ass tbh

[heady garden]

but this...

[latent ravine]

All fingers are pointing at brown 🤷‍♀️

[latent ravine]

You can be the first one

[heady garden]

my GPA woudl be in range if not for a singular bad grade

[heady garden]

really??

[haughty lily]

your ecs are strong tho

[heady garden]

yeah

[latent ravine]

Yeah

[orchid dawn]

A singular grade won’t change anything

[haughty lily]

i dont think gpa is THAT important if you have cracked ecs and essays

[heady garden]

lowers my gpa A LOT

[heady garden]

but look at the past

[latent ravine]

Do you have a reason for it

[heady garden]

yes

[latent ravine]

Past ≠ present

[errant goblet]

you also have not applied to brown ED in the past four years 🙃

[latent ravine]

Ok there you go

Please add a tw

[heady garden]

THATS SO TRUE OMG

😭

[heady garden]

sorry!

[latent ravine]

Don’t let the past scare you in the present

[latent ravine]

All good

[heady garden]

do you really think so?

[orchid dawn]

Yes

[heady garden]

like they will view it ok?

[orchid dawn]

Especially if not junior or senior year

Maybe if it’s like a C or D

[heady garden]

sophmore 3rd term

[orchid dawn]

With no explanation

[heady garden]

🙂

[orchid dawn]

Like a 60%?

[errant goblet]

i dont think they’ll see it as “okay” but it wont seem as bad as lower grades in all classes since that means ur able to handle the school’s rigor, u just had a bad experience in one class for some reason

[heady garden]

my college counselor will explain it

[orchid dawn]

What’s your explanation for adl info?

[heady garden]

with the friend trauma

[orchid dawn]

That’ll impact both schools

[heady garden]

yeah

[orchid dawn]

Ohh ok

Be careful how you phrase that

[heady garden]

i won't say it

[orchid dawn]

But I wouldn’t worry abt it impacting cornell vs grown

Brown

It’ll impact both

[heady garden]

it will

[orchid dawn]

Just hope it’s fine for both

[heady garden]

but i still have a much better chance

for cornell

[latent ravine]

You keep saying this but I don’t really understand how you know

[obsidian python]

based

[heady garden]

i think its pretty clear...

[obsidian python]

im in chicago

[latent ravine]

Your gpa?

[heady garden]

but none for cornell

[latent ravine]

They’re not copy and pastes of you

[heady garden]

just with that

[haughty lily]

be the first 🗣️

wait i shouldnt be encouraging this then ill have more competition /j (but do what you're happiest with)

[obsidian python]

cornell 👍

[heady garden]

DAMN

[heady garden]

maybe i can be the first...

[latent ravine]

I’d Ed brown

You know you want to

[obsidian python]

ok tbf

[latent ravine]

You can

[obsidian python]

no one in my school has gotten in uchicago and im the first

[latent ravine]

W

[heady garden]

ZAMMNNN

[errant goblet]

not really. past admitted students stats dont apply here since theyre completely different scenarios

[errant goblet]

im the first for penn too

[obsidian python]

zamn

W

[heady garden]

well, do you think my school being an ivy feeder

[heady garden]

changes this?

[latent ravine]

Did you ask your college counselor

[heady garden]

yeah

he said i do have a better chance for cornell

[latent ravine]

What did they say

[heady garden]

than brown

but its up to me

to decide

because both choices are reasonable

I CANT DECIDE

[errant goblet]

bc of past data which doesnt apply since ur in a unique circumstance lol

[heady garden]

yeah...

he said ONLY based on numbers

[errant goblet]

i meant no oops

[heady garden]

cornell is a strategic choice

but we don't know my chances for brown at all

because i'm such a strange case

[errant goblet]

but it’s not only based on numbers at all 😭

the numbers mean basically nothing here

[heady garden]

well, they kinda do

brown might be like

oh.

this kid, even though he did REALLY well in junior year

still messed up in sophmore

deny.

or they might overlook it

my CC said that grade is really the big problemf for why i might not get into brown

[errant goblet]

basically the same scenario with cornell

gpa alone isn’t indicative of acceptance/rejection

and correlation doesnt mean causation

[heady garden]

defintiely not

but i'm in range for them

which makes it MUCH more likely

they will not care

people with even lower GPAs have gotten in for cornell

[orchid dawn]

There’s no I’m in range with them

They’re just as hard to get into

Ur sample size is so small

[heady garden]

so i think its relatively large

[orchid dawn]

40 kids out of tens of thousands of applicants

We’ve given you countless advice man

[heady garden]

but they look at my school differently

[latent ravine]

^^^

[heady garden]

yeah

[errant goblet]

correlation not causation

[orchid dawn]

Do cornell if you’re scared and somehow think it’s easier

[latent ravine]

Your college counselor can tell you more

[orchid dawn]

Do brown if you want to try your dream

[latent ravine]

Than us

[heady garden]

yes

but he doesn't have an opinion

[orchid dawn]

He won’t

[heady garden]

because both are more than reasonable

[orchid dawn]

You have to make a choice

[heady garden]

and i can't decide for some reason

[orchid dawn]

First lesson of being an adult

[latent ravine]

Ultimately it matters a lot less than you think

It’s not the end of your life

[heady garden]

i think i've exhausted all my resources

[obsidian python]

thats just how the real world works

[orchid dawn]

You’re the last resource

[heady garden]

i know that

[orchid dawn]

You have to make this decision

What are you gonna do if you get into neither? Evaluate other options

And you’d have to be able to decide then

[heady garden]

i've done all that

uchicago EDII

if not that then georgetown rd

or tufts

[errant goblet]

just ED brown and start praying 😁👍

[heady garden]

i WILL have to make a decision

[heady garden]

maybe it'll be this one

i need to be prepared to go to uchicago

if i ED brown

i don't know if i'm prepared to do that

[latent ravine]

Do you like any other schools…

[heady garden]

i LIKE uchicago

but i care about prestige

[obsidian python]

👀

oh

ok.

[latent ravine]

UChicago is a prestigious school?

[haughty lily]

isnt uchicago prestigious tho 😭

[obsidian python]

as a uchicago student i can confirm outsiders arent very aware of us 🫥

what im saying is

if ur goal is to impress aunties and random ppl u meet by saying "i go to uchicago", it wont work

[haughty lily]

the midwest mindset is getting to me

[heady garden]

IT IS

[haughty lily]

still its t20

[heady garden]

that's not it, really

[latent ravine]

😭

[obsidian python]

😭 😭😭

[heady garden]

i wanna go to harvard med 🤡

[obsidian python]

lol

ic

[latent ravine]

Long short regardless

[errant goblet]

no its not

umidago

[haughty lily]

uc hicago 🤓

[orchid dawn]

Uchicago is a t10 still lmao

[heady garden]

uchicago is still really good

i'm going to do cornell

[errant goblet]

no its not 😑

[heady garden]

thank y'all

[heady garden]

very much

[heady garden]

i have decided

on cornell 🙂

it took 2.4K

but yes

[obsidian python]

noice

gl!

[heady garden]

thanks!

i really hope i get in

[haughty lily]

DECISIONS HAVE BEEN MADE

🎉

[heady garden]

i had a moment of delulu

BUT YA!!!!

🌽

[orchid dawn]

NICE!!

[robust goblet]

finally lmao

good luck hope u get in and hope you dont regret it later as well