Cornell University (2025-2026)

[mild flume]

did you take multivariable calc?

[deft jolt]

But I got the same score on both exams… despite doing E&M in one quarter and Mech being year long basically 💀

[deft jolt]

Not offered xd

I plan to self study that this summer

[mild flume]

me neither-i always thought you needed that

[loud solstice]

bro have yall seen the ap physics C exam cutoffs

you need like a 60% for a 5

[deft jolt]

No I waited because I started Calc 2nd semester

So I had to cram em and yeah didn’t do well 💀

Sameeee

I did not take aps seriously and it cooked me

[mild flume]

that kind of happens when you join an applying to college discord server

but at least you're trying harder than me to make up for it

[deft jolt]

Brooo why did MIT ask for self report of test scores 😭

[loud solstice]

i lowk didnt take my grades seriously until junior year so i had a bunch of B's in 9th and 10th grade

[deft jolt]

actually destroys my app

[deft jolt]

I messed up last year ngl bc I overloaded

Uh, I had 9 hs classes when we’re normally allowed 8 and 4 college classes

[mild flume]

well even if your school doesn't offer calc it means alot if you actively pursue it at your cc

[deft jolt]

And I self-studied (tried) 2 AP exams

Nope I underestimated the workload 👍

[mild flume]

i really hope it is because i have all 5's, even for AP lang where i was given a B-

[deft jolt]

I failed the two college classes in 2nd semester 💀

[mild flume]

but i "only" (compared to everyone else in the server) took 6 AP's so far

[deft jolt]

this year makes 8 for me

[deft jolt]

Holy you’re cracked

3 last year for me, I’ll have 8 after this one

[mild flume]

thank you

[deft jolt]

two 3s, two 4s (one being BC with 5 subscore) 🥀

[mild flume]

you are ahead of me in math tho

[loud solstice]

the funniest thing for APs was i got a 3 on ap chinese even though i was born in china and speak chinese with my parents like every day

[mild flume]

im taking BC right now and i took AB last year

[deft jolt]

It’s a subject I’m good at and enjoy

[deft jolt]

Same

[misty tartan]

@spice thicket were either of these you

I moved it back to confirmed

[deft jolt]

I took AB last year but BC exam bc it’s not much extra

[misty tartan]

Two emails in a half hour

[deft jolt]

No I got a 4 on BC

not a 1, I’d be cooked if that was the case 💔

[mild flume]

that's good, the largest extent of my mathematical studies have been watching 3blue1brown videos for funsies in school since it looks educational enough to not get yelled at but entertaining at the same time

[deft jolt]

They made the exam easy last year tho

Since they switched to online

They did NOT fully cover BC material, I would’ve scored much worse if they did 🙏

[deft jolt]

He’s so entertaining

It can be with the right teacher

AB much easier fs

BC basically assumes you know all AB content and blazes through it

so may or may not be hard for someone

two in states, SBU, UW-Madison, UIUC, and then Cornell + MIT

[loud solstice]

o i applied to uiuc too

[deft jolt]

I may do Princeton or Brown for RD if Cornell or MIT don’t pan out

[loud solstice]

for computer engineering

[deft jolt]

Wbu guys?

[mild flume]

what does uiuc stand for

[deft jolt]

Physics is in engineering college too :)

[loud solstice]

university of illinios urbana champaign

[mild flume]

oooh

[loud solstice]

nah im not smart enough for pure physics

[deft jolt]

It’s not about smarts tbh

I think most subjects are about passion

[mild flume]

it's about how neurodivergent you are

[deft jolt]

I definitely couldn’t do English or a humanities major…

[loud solstice]

i applied to the good stem schools so purdue, uiuc, gtech

[deft jolt]

😭

[mild flume]

targets are most of the universities of california, calpoly, and then the reaches are mit, stanford, yale, cornell

[loud solstice]

damn im not applying to any other ivies except cornell

[mild flume]

oh and caltech but there is no way in hell im getting in there

[loud solstice]

maybe ill apply to yale during RD if it comes to that

[deft jolt]

What are your results? 👀

[deft jolt]

I was thinking abt Stanford but I didn’t want to go to CA tbh

[mild flume]

to be honest... i don't like california either

[deft jolt]

Still good to have all 4, so congrats!

[loud solstice]

congrats!!!

go yellow jackets

[deft jolt]

lol

[loud solstice]

i visited the gt campus in the summer a year ago and nearly collapsed from the heat

ohhh yeah

[mild flume]

dang how hot was it

[loud solstice]

i dont know how yall manage i really hate warm weather

[mild flume]

or was it the humidity

heat i can handle since i live nearly in a desert, but the humidity kills

[deft jolt]

The funny thing is, despite EDing to Cornell, I like the warm and beaches and whatnot XD

[loud solstice]

the snow is the reason im applying to cornell

[deft jolt]

I suffer in the cold here 🙏

[loud solstice]

gotta get as far north as possible

[mild flume]

yeah i absolutely adore the cold

[deft jolt]

I love true winter environments, so I think I’d enjoy Cornell :)

I hate the places that are just cold but no snow and gloomy

[mild flume]

im kinda scared that this is the equivalent of setting your morning alarm to your favorite song though

[deft jolt]

lol

[ionic minnow]

meanwhile los angeles area here never touched snow in my life

[loud solstice]

tim have u been to savannah before

[deft jolt]

Wdym

[mild flume]

like it's new and cool but once you deal with it every day you kind of get sick if it

[deft jolt]

Oh yeah prob

[mild flume]

but hopefully that isnt the case

[deft jolt]

I heard the main campus is on a steep hill too

So we get to work out everyday going to classes XD

[loud solstice]

cool cool i went there for vacation once and its actually such a beautiful town i loved it

[deft jolt]

Fr

[loud solstice]

hmm maybe it does get boring if u live there for a long time.... i was there for a few days soooo

[ionic minnow]

i remember hill repeats on ts shit the day i visited

And on the tour

Well that tour made me choose cornell I was gonna ed to jhu

[deft jolt]

I just realized what JHU was lol

[alpine garden]

lollll

[deft jolt]

yo is Harvard 18th too

Was gonna apply here but decided I didn’t like the city environment

[alpine garden]

yepppppppppp

kms

[deft jolt]

You’re in the same boat as us then 🙏

Also 18th

[alpine garden]

WWW we can be sad/happy together XD

[deft jolt]

nah not really

Well… exceptions can always be made, just like in physics-

[alpine garden]

yoooo what kinda physics do you like?

[deft jolt]

Theoretical physics in frontier research

I’d love Princeton too 🙏

yeppp

[alpine garden]

that's so cool

[deft jolt]

But they don’t take anyone without Olympiads I swear

Would if it wasn’t Cali 😂

[alpine garden]

did you see the bloodbath of princeton today?

[alpine garden]

u mean at princeton?

[deft jolt]

Nope, but I heard it was bad

[mild flume]

pasadena is a really nice place

[deft jolt]

Yeah

[alpine garden]

there was a girl at my school who got princeton with like purely writing I believe

she's now at harvard

[deft jolt]

Idk, my family passed through when I was younger and it was kinda small but idk how it is now

[mild flume]

but i wouldn't blame you if you didn't want to go to like berkeley

[ionic minnow]

Yeah cornell social life at least strill exists that made me pick cornell even tho jhu is argulably as good or even better for my major. bio and planning on pursuing bme or bio eng

[deft jolt]

DANG congrats to her even though late

[alpine garden]

yeah it was crazy

[ionic minnow]

Cornell if i decide i dont wanna do cals bio anymore i can still have more decent options

[mild flume]

both of our valdictorians (they tied) went to priceton

[deft jolt]

And mostly writing? Like she had super good essays and not much ECs?

[mild flume]

i had to take my ap chem test with one of the kids flaunting his acceptance behind me which was miserable

[alpine garden]

uhhhh not exactly

[deft jolt]

Wow

[alpine garden]

she didn't have like STRONG EC's

but she had one NYT award

which was nuts

[deft jolt]

Not very nice

[ionic minnow]

Exactly. I wasnted to ED to jhu and I visited brown yale jhu cornell cmu during my summer college tour. Decided to not apply yale, apply jhu ed2 and apply cornell ed after i visit

[alpine garden]

to which school

also my condolences

[deft jolt]

I’ve got no awards basically so I really don’t think I’d make Princeton 😭

so sad

[alpine garden]

u miss 100% of the shots u don't take

:))

[mild flume]

princeton, he was chatting up the girl adjacent to me about his acceptance

[deft jolt]

That’s why I’ll RD with reality in mind 💔

[ionic minnow]

btw idk if ts is against rules but are you allowed to ask others to rate orfeedback essays if you alr submitted ed and stuff

[deft jolt]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

I don’t see why that would be bad

[alpine garden]

I mean

yeah probably

[deft jolt]

but maybe ping Chloe

[alpine garden]

do you want some1 to read them?

[deft jolt]

and ask

[mild flume]

i don't see why it's bad at all

[ionic minnow]

I submitted ed i just curious to see how other people think of my essays xd

[deft jolt]

Sameee… it’s been my dream school since I was a kid

[ionic minnow]

only cornell

[deft jolt]

Like I didn’t even know what college was yet

[alpine garden]

ong

I love their rocketry team

and like the work they do

[deft jolt]

yes lol

[ionic minnow]

Ong MIT wouldve been match in heaven if they didnt have like a 3% accept rate. I didnt apply cus i dont fking getting in

[mild flume]

i would just want to throw a piano off the roof because that's funny

[deft jolt]

I just always knew them as a place of lots of super fascinating research and tons of collaboration

[ionic minnow]

Dude my cornell tour guide was one too

[deft jolt]

idk, it was always so amazing to me

[loud solstice]

💀 💀 💀 💀

[deft jolt]

You could still RD 💔

[mild flume]

apparently its a tradition for MIT to chuck a piano off the roof

[deft jolt]

you never know

[ionic minnow]

Like if mit kept its style and tripled its acceptance rate or something I wouldve considered applying or making it my dream

[deft jolt]

Oh guess what

[ionic minnow]

for example

[deft jolt]

One or two dorms allow students to have pet cats :)

I think it’s one per floor tho, so it’s first come first serve type thing

Yep

Dang

Some dogs are really nice

I just didn’t have a good experience with one as a kid and always preferred cats xd

[deft jolt]

Sure!

[deft jolt]

We both got messy rooms 🙏

[mild flume]

there isn't a single thought between his ears

[deft jolt]

lmao

[mild flume]

real

[ionic minnow]

totally nothing to do with me deciding to ed

[deft jolt]

Mhm 👀

guys how would we counter the Cornell blizzards

dang

[alpine garden]

guys I have a question

ik CAS has this question:
At the College of Arts and Sciences, curiosity will be your guide. Discuss how your passion for learning is shaping your academic journey, and what areas of study or majors excite you and why. Your response should convey how your interests align with the College, and how you would take advantage of the opportunities and curriculum in Arts and Sciences. (650 word limit)

for like cornell

but when do you guys submit it?

[deft jolt]

Triple at least

[alpine garden]

bc I've finished the community essay

[mild flume]

3 hours before deadline

[alpine garden]

but like when di you guys submit the CAS question?

[alpine garden]

lollll

where do you submit it?

[deft jolt]

Uhh idk, I thought it was due with the rest of it

I submitted everything at once at least

[alpine garden]

is it in the common app?

[deft jolt]

Yes

[mild flume]

yeah

[alpine garden]

tf?

[deft jolt]

Essay section at the end

[alpine garden]

I don't see it

[deft jolt]

Can you ss the sections?

[alpine garden]

yeah

??

continuing just goes to review and submit application

[mild flume]

wait did you select A&S in the general thing

[alpine garden]

uhhhhhhh wait we have to do that?

[mild flume]

yeah when you select it, it will unlock the specific essay response

[deft jolt]

Choose the college and then it shows

I had the same confusion because I wrote my Cornell essay before filling out the rest of the app

Thought I was done then saw the extra supplement 💀

Yep

[alpine garden]

Ohhhh there it is

fuck

[deft jolt]

Only shows when you select a college since it’s college specific

[alpine garden]

my counselor nearly screwed me over

[mild flume]

i kinda just stared at the supplement until the day of deadline

[deft jolt]

GL Xanders 🙏

[alpine garden]

TY charlotte

fucking 650 words T^T

kms

10x over

[deft jolt]

I don’t think it has to be that long

Idk, I always hear very different advice

[mild flume]

don't worry the limit is one word so you just gotta find it

[deft jolt]

Two words: “Accept me.”

Boom.

[alpine garden]

llmfaoooo

boutta repurpose my UW-Madison Essay

they're both 650 words XD

[deft jolt]

I applied to Cornell then repurposed this exact Cornell essay for UW 💀

[alpine garden]

adderall

[alpine garden]

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO

wait r u in-state for UW-Madison/

?

[deft jolt]

Madison or another?

Nah out of state

[alpine garden]

madison

ahhhhhhhh

[deft jolt]

Same

[alpine garden]

can I ask why madison?

out of curiosity

[deft jolt]

At first it was bc of NE, but I do like their physics program as well

They have better research than my in state

[alpine garden]

NE?

[deft jolt]

nuclear engineering

[mild flume]

obligatory stanford thing

[deft jolt]

I was interested in NE first year of hs

[ionic minnow]

hear me out

What three words describe yourself

Will. Donate. Building

[deft jolt]

Princeton has a “choose a song you like” or something

Lemme find it

[mild flume]

all of the correct answers that actually fit me are like absolutely devastating or experimental songs

[deft jolt]

Literal Princeton question this year: “What song represents the soundtrack of your life at this moment?*”

[ionic minnow]

yeah WE ARE GETTING IN with this

strat

[mild flume]

what is an AO going to think about "how to disappear completely" as my favorite song

[ionic minnow]

Brown asks me too

[deft jolt]

I wasn’t interest in Harvard tbh, I know them for business or whatnot

[ionic minnow]

Jk tho Cornell asking us I wrote my actual 3 words

[deft jolt]

I know one called Excessive Funeral

Tim got the same vibes 🙏

Oh I meant that as for why I didn’t apply

[mild flume]

have a good rest

[deft jolt]

Hold on, try Alkan’s Etude from the Encyclopédis du pianiste Compositeur

Good song

Ah good night Tim

[loud solstice]

yall i wrote my community essay for cornell a&s about a minecraft server

stroke of "genius" at 3am writing

[deft jolt]

My community essay was like not community at all xd

Idk maybe I’m underplaying it

I hope so

[mild flume]

mine was about teaching 3d modeling classes and making autistically accurate 3d printed jet plane toys for kids

[deft jolt]

Yo that’s super cool!

I suck at CAD

[mild flume]

i use blender

[deft jolt]

ah okay

[mild flume]

but i "can" use CAD software

[deft jolt]

XD

I need to learn some sort of modeling some day for simulations

I can’t wait 🙏

[mild flume]

its really fun once you get over the learning curve

[deft jolt]

Yeah

[ionic minnow]

mine about sports 💀 except instead of the typical overused sports garbage of game day + taught me perseverance + practice aNd games being so hard tired etc
I tried to talk about how personal growth through being a leader in my community this way and how it taught me to look at defining community differntly

[deft jolt]

I kind of did the same in terms of discussing how I define community differently

Based on my experience of moving around a lot

idk if it painted me as social or a recluse though 💀

[mild flume]

whatever it paints you as, i'm sure they won't hold it against you

[deft jolt]

Hopefully

how do we feel about being called Cornellians

[dim wigeon]

We should be be called Corn instead

[deft jolt]

That’s the CALS students or smth

[mild flume]

i used that word in my essay and all my friends made fun of me for it

[dim wigeon]

I’m corny for Cornell

[deft jolt]

😭

[deft jolt]

Nah that was a fire move

[dim wigeon]

I was going to sneak an American psycho quote into one of the supplementals, but I chickened out

[mild flume]

how were you going to do that lmfao

[deft jolt]

It was a no risk all reward move

They either wouldn’t have noticed or would’ve loved it fr

what quote tho

[mild flume]

my hipster ass started naming off a whole bunch of things in hope that they would resonate with AO's

[dim wigeon]

“The relief washed over me in an awesome wave”

[deft jolt]

see, now I don’t recognize that

[dim wigeon]

It was subtle so I thought I could pull it off, but it also comes up as a quote from the movie if you google it lmao

[deft jolt]

Whatever AO would recognize it obviously loves the film

So they would like your essay

[mild flume]

" I was introduced to the classics-Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Pink Floyd-but I was also encouraged to look towards non-Western music, where I found enjoyment in genres such as reggae, bossa nova, and Japanese jazz fusion, as well as in experimental artists such as Black Midi, Sweet Trip, and Boris."

just praying that some AO is like a huge fan

[deft jolt]

Music is a great topic

Hopefully 🙏

[keen basin]

u can turn it off in settings really easily

[deft jolt]

what if you just restart phone?

[junior kayak]

That defeats the purpose of locking in smh

Forced to lock in so I did

[deft jolt]

how much time do you spend on hw daily?

[keen basin]

i have an app that limited my screentime

and it worked all last year

but this year I learned how to turn it off really easy in settinggs

and i accidentally programmed it into me as a habit

and thats prob part of the reason i was so locked out this sem 💀

[deft jolt]

Oops

I thought the msg I replied to was recent 🥀
-# sorry for ghost ping

[dim wigeon]

Time to physically lock up the phone

I’m going to bed gang, good night :)

[deft jolt]

Gn buddy

[junior kayak]

During the normal academic season like 4-5 hours

Finals season

24/7

[deft jolt]

holy

[junior kayak]

I mean youre a full time student its your job lol

[deft jolt]

I guess so

[junior kayak]

Most of my classes ended at noon this year

Just studied and did hw

[deft jolt]

since when do you pay your job though 🤨

anyway

[junior kayak]

Scholarship pays 🤷‍♂️

[deft jolt]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[junior kayak]

Also research if you get a lab

Some offer credits or pay

99% credits during academic year tho

[deft jolt]

I’ll be pursuing those as much as possible xd

[peak socket]

my friend borrowed me hers adhd meds for my Cornell cram:3

[obtuse jay]

Is it true that the ED decision date is 19th?

[loud solstice]

no

the 18th

read pinned

[obtuse jay]

It's 19th here

[loud solstice]

oh

ig

idk what time zone ur in

[obtuse jay]

I'm in Asia

[loud solstice]

oh yeah

[obtuse jay]

It's later than most schools

[loud solstice]

yeah

it is quite late

[obtuse jay]

I'm so nervous

[loud solstice]

😔

[spice thicket]

how do you see the pinned

[hazy osprey]

there is a pin icon on the top right

next to people/mute logo

[deft jolt]

On mobile, search icon then pins

And someone supposedly emailed admissions and they said it’s the 18th

[spice thicket]

thank you

[grim locust]

Fuck this rock in specific

[deft jolt]

No thanks…

[spice thicket]

LMAO

[deft jolt]

good morning lizards

[next goblet]

well i still have my 40 bucks

lmao

[deft jolt]

😞

Okay

We move onto coping for Tuesday

[next goblet]

no

it's confirmed to be on thursday

@deft jolt

official email confirmed it

[misty tartan]

Proof

Where

Are people going to finally believe me now

[deft jolt]

But do we know it wasn’t fake…

They fr need to make an announcement 🙏

[obtuse jay]

Yeah I'm not receiving anything from them

Except the ED rules

It's Friday night for me

I'm so nervous rn

Why is it so late

[next goblet]

idk

[deft jolt]

I’m bored in study hall

[deft jolt]

They’re being not nice this year ☹️

You… sit in a room

[grim locust]

I’m in comp science

[deft jolt]

If you have work, you do that

[obtuse jay]

Hopefully they can admit more students

3 ppl in my class ED cornell

[deft jolt]

I have to sneak on my phone bc district banned phones in school 💀

Not a credit bearing one but it does replace a class

I have three of them :-;

W

Yeah

[obtuse jay]

Hell no my semester ends in January

[deft jolt]

I only wanted to take 5 classes this year

[obtuse jay]

😭

[deft jolt]

I in fact do this every time

We’re year round

Some online classes are semester only

[misty tartan]

I don’t get this

Why would they give you finals after winter break

Oh lol

I did hear of a person or two here who was U.S. based and had finals after break

I think it may be similar in the uk

[obtuse jay]

Because our winter break is later

I'm not in the US

[deft jolt]

I love online bc I can self pace

But I have no online this year

[deft jolt]

Well except this one college course

[misty tartan]

This was online class

[deft jolt]

💀

At uni??

[misty tartan]

At my university yeah

[deft jolt]

Wow

[misty scroll]

did Cornell send the official email yet or no for the application release date

To students

[misty tartan]

No

[misty scroll]

alright

[deft jolt]

Yeah, that’s why I would only do online for courses I can self study like math

Otherwise I wouldn’t

I tried to do my math online this year but they removed the option

I almost went all of high school without an in person math class lol

I am not disciplined at all I can assure you xd

Well mine usually had notes that you fill in

I just printed them and completed them all, which was enough for me

Yeah

I haven’t had online humanities tho

well I had one philosophy class xd

But it was just discussions based on weekly videos

Basically same for me

We had an online textbook we could use but I never opened it ngl

I wouldn’t be able to stop myself from procrastinating a humanities class… I need a teacher to hold me accountable 😭

So yk

Apparently it’s like that a lot at MIT from what I’ve heard xd

“a trivial procedure”

XD

I was lucky and had a great physics teacher

I feel bad bc I did so poor on the AP exam at the end tho 😭

xd

No…. I’d be happy for a 4….

I only passed

So a 3 yes 😞

What

A 3 is passing

We’re weird

My school only reports weighted gpa

And anyone with 4.0+ is #1

We do only A-F but no +/-

Dang

Could explain in additional info idk

My school does that “for our benefit”

Like ranking thing too

Technically

Yeah xd

I am very thankful for no +/- 🙏

I literally chose to fail a whole project at the end of last year bc I’d still have a 90 overall

😛

[loud solstice]

😭 how do people get straight 4.0s i could never

yall are crazy

[deft jolt]

It’s grade inflation 💔

My school is easy af

Only some classes are hard bc of the teachers

EXACTLY

Yeah

Like, they made a policy that all late work is -10% grade on the assignment… but you have no deadline to turn it in 💀

Good luck!

You’ll have a 1500+ 🙏

xd

I took it once and was like idc enough about this to try again

Should’ve studied but it’s wtv

I did some practice exams through the application thing but my scores were pretty similar after the first try..

I scored the same as my last two practice attempts lol

Erm, 1440 🥀

I lost out on time I swear 🙏

I’d rather have the motivation and discipline to study 😭

You’re gonna have great score now and see your effort payoff :)

[obtuse jay]

I got 1570 first time

Because the requirement for international students is just ridiculous

[loud solstice]

what country ru from

just curious

[obtuse jay]

China

[loud solstice]

oh shi i was born in shanghai

what part of china

[obtuse jay]

Oh shit I'm in Shanghai

Wth

[loud solstice]

oh my goat

pudong or puxi

[obtuse jay]

puxi now

Used to live in pudong

[loud solstice]

W

[obtuse jay]

Wow

I've been to hunan

[deft jolt]

1570 first try is wild

[obtuse jay]

I took a 1-month class

[deft jolt]

Still good

[obtuse jay]

对

[deft jolt]

Insane

[grim locust]

I could only get to 1540 before my act went higher

[obtuse jay]

Still it is so hard for international students to get admitted

[deft jolt]

I should leave if you’re outclassed 💀

[loud solstice]

i got a 1550 first try

[obtuse jay]

You guys still have a better chance than me

[grim locust]

Int standards r way crazier

I’m in state sorry

[obtuse jay]

Yeah

[deft jolt]

I believe in you 🙏

[grim locust]

Espically china so my apologies

[obtuse jay]

Thank you

[grim locust]

I hope to see all of us at school next year

[obtuse jay]

True

[obtuse jay]

Hopefully

[grim locust]

I’d be so down to meet up if y’all gotin w me

Fun stuff

[loud solstice]

oh yeah ofc

[grim locust]

Pose with the admission rock

LMAOO

[obtuse jay]

Your ED is MIT?

Wow

REA

Oh ok

But it's like in 1 or two days no?

[loud solstice]

utd of the north 🎉 /j

[wicked coyote]

both of us hopefully 🙏

[obtuse jay]

The top 1 in our class just got deferred by Princeton this morning

[deft jolt]

Let’s do it 🔥

[obtuse jay]

That's true, but schools admit very few students so everybody has to try very hard

Class, but probably top 1 in school as well

Princeton admitted 2 whole people from China lol

[loud solstice]

thats crazy

[obtuse jay]

Wow

[loud solstice]

axtr1d ru gonna take the gaokao or smth too?

[obtuse jay]

I'm in an international school as well

[loud solstice]

oh

[obtuse jay]

no

I do IB

[loud solstice]

ohh okok

[obtuse jay]

One of my classmates applied to rice for ed

Rice is like tmr

A lot of ppl got admitted to NYU today

WashU as well

Yeah true

[grim locust]

Same for our school

I mean different scenario but ykw I mean

[deft jolt]

Think I’ll have to go in a few mins, so see you all later

[obtuse jay]

NYU has a top business college

stern

I need to write RD essays tmr

😭

bye

[severe tide]

why is corn so late smh

[severe tide]

same from my school as well

[spice thicket]

real

[severe tide]

asdlfds i emailed one of their students

and found that the college im applying to

[spice thicket]

Lowkey don’t trust this email so I emailed them

[severe tide]

has 2/108 intl students

so screwed 😭

[spice thicket]

you’ll make it 3/108

[severe tide]

lol hopefully.. that was last freshman year

[spice thicket]

you got ts easy

anyone here applying to rice? I got lowkey no idea what to put in the rice box

I’ll send them wait

https://irp.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Profile2020_first-year.pdf

[deft jolt]

Fr same

[spice thicket]

I don’t have a more recent one than that sorry

[spice thicket]

how much money they say “it isn’t public yet”

ofc

[severe tide]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FmkDaqmDp-gHuVjUdEp9cBT72bW2vQ9I/view?usp=sharing
2025 one but its in chinese lol

[spice thicket]

Instead of acceptance rate we should do a rejection rate

[spice thicket]

can you translate which school is which pls

oh nvm I managed

here I’ll send

[severe tide]

nice

[spice thicket]

yeah the other one split it up but they don’t publish it by school anymore

only overall

[deft jolt]

$0
-# I’m broke

But they will say it isn’t public yet 😔

[spice thicket]

Lmao

[deft jolt]

You can calculate Cornell’s ED AR since their CDS report number of ED apps and number of ED acceptances

Just to the uni

Last year’s ED AR was 11.64%

[severe tide]

? that was last last year no

last year was 19%

[spice thicket]

hopefully they buff early decision this year

[severe tide]

https://www.ivywise.com/blog/college-early-admission-rates/

its very weird the rate spiked 8%

[spice thicket]

Hmmm

[deft jolt]

Not according to their latest CDS

Where did you find 19%

[severe tide]

https://irp.cornell.edu/university-factbook/undergraduate-admissions/first-year-admissions
division

[mighty sedge]

isn’t class of 2025 2021

[deft jolt]

Unless I’m misinterpreting the 24-25 CDS as being last year

Is it the year before?

[mighty sedge]

2025 cds is for applicants in Fall 2024

wait

[mighty sedge]

i forgot but it doesn’t matter the stats here are most accurate

[severe tide]

their website says "entering 2025", data updated sept 26th thi syear

[mighty sedge]

yeah common data set 24-25 is for fall applicants in 2023

so they haven’t released last year’s applicants CDS

but the stats on the site tim sent are all you need to look at for last years applicants

[deft jolt]

Ah okay

If last year’s was 19%, I hope it’s the same or higher this year

[next goblet]

confirmed dec 18

[deft jolt]

Where

[next goblet]

my counselor

got an email

dude

it's 100% dec 18

[deft jolt]

bro no way

stop 😭

I’ll get mine on Tuesday fr 🥀

I’m just coping

xd

You have to wait until march, crazy

Best of luck to us!

tyty

nope

Rikka

From smth

Ah idk

Cya

[grim locust]

SBU is making me crash out

[deft jolt]

Why, what’s up?

Do they come out soon?

[spice thicket]

CORNELL CONFIRMED IT

EMAIL

wait

I’ll send

[deft jolt]

😞

ok

thank you erk 🙏

[spice thicket]

what was that guys name on TikTok that had the same email

[spice thicket]

ofc I was so surprised when they told me

[deft jolt]

Maybe this

[spice thicket]

YES THANJ YOU

[deft jolt]

Fr idk why they aren’t making an announcement if they’re ok to tell people via email

Maybe I’ll ask them to move it to Tuesday 😛

[spice thicket]

yes

[deft jolt]

“It would be an early Christmas gift to all of us”

[spice thicket]

LMAOOO

[grim locust]

Just says this. Mo descsion no nothing

[deft jolt]

Dang

I saw that they’re set for today idk what time tho

But I think you’ll get your acceptance today!

[mental osprey]

why did I not get this

oh I thought it was sent to everyone

[spice thicket]

yes

so like

email them if you want it confirmed!

[deft jolt]

Have the whole applicant pool email them 😎

[spice thicket]

but I have 100 percent faith now @misty tartan

you were right the whole time @misty tartan I’m so sorry I sent an email all that time ago

[spice thicket]

Lmao

[versed helm]

is this for a cs class?

[misty tartan]

Yesn’t

It was basically a cs class but for whatever reason it was listed under the communications department and one of the options for a requirement for communications majors

[loud solstice]

communications majors coding 💔

[misty tartan]

It’s sorta like how if you’re a computer engineering major at my school you are required to take either CMN 1 (public speaking) or ENG 3 (intro to engineering design)

But when you look at ENG 3 it’s basically just CMN 1 in disguise

[spice thicket]

lmao

[next goblet]

6 days

🥀🥀🥀

[spice thicket]

I cannot believe they actually told me on email

i wonder when they'll send the annnouncement email to everyone

[deft jolt]

Hopefully soon

[wicked coyote]

everybody in this thread is lowkey delulu bc ts was confirmed like over a week ago and people have been in denial 💔

[spice thicket]

not officially!!! but now it is so all good

[deft jolt]

🤫

[loud solstice]

thats what ive been saying for the past few days

[deft jolt]

highly likely ≠ confirmed 😞

[deft parrot]

I swear every single email is answered by the same person 😭

Theres no way Lyn J is answering every single one themselves

[tranquil belfry]

all of NY lol

[tranquil belfry]

mine all get answered by Jocelyne Chin maybe its major specific?

[deft jolt]

Maybe they put her on ED question duty

and that’s all she’s tasked with

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[deft parrot]

thats so sad

[deft jolt]

xd

[stiff oyster]

its actually quite normal to have 1 person in charge of email

and they do just that

[deft jolt]

yeah

[stiff oyster]

bc that ensures you know what youre doing well

vs having like a one size fits all employee

[deft parrot]

but like thats gotta be so boring

[stiff oyster]

eitherway good luck from all the student workers in admissions as well

[deft jolt]

how do you like Cornell? :0

[stiff oyster]

beautiful place, insane opportunity + sets you up for a better life

comparatively worse culturally in some areas but im biased bc im an international

but overall def worth it

[next goblet]

guys it's official lmao

dec 18

counselors received the email

[stiff oyster]

ngl it was very funny to see yall argue over the date

even tho it was literally on qb

[grim locust]

Oh god

[deft jolt]

No one’s ever said QB and ED date must match, so how are we meant to know 😞

and the 18th is soooo late

[mellow dragon]

i got an email

after asking

its the 18th

[bitter summit]

But like why wouldn’t it match lol it would be weird if qb got their letters sent before or after everyone else who did ed

[deft jolt]

It doesn’t match for some other universities

so idk

[raw jetty]

did cornell send an email when decisions are releasing for ed?

[wild viper]

why even have a waitlist lmfao

[spice thicket]

REAL lol

24 peeps

[potent pond]

The finals aesthetic

[spice thicket]

Looks lovely

[deft jolt]

why are you testing in a some big storage looking room 💀

[potent pond]

Its the gym

Its for bigger exams

[deft jolt]

ah

when do finals end

[junior kayak]

Dos you have a final tonight

[junior kayak]

The 20th

[warm elm]

Guys im so scared for cornell ed

[frozen cape]

me too but tbh if we r applying to cornell there's no way we won't get in somewhere awesome right

😭

[warm elm]

Fair point

But like cornell is 😍😍 my true love

[raw jetty]

cornell sux nyu best new york school 😻

[frozen cape]

SAME i need to be drowning in snow and never see the sun again

if its over like 65 degrees i crash out ngl

😭

[warm elm]

Righttt

Which state r u in rn

[frozen cape]

new york

💀

but where i live its not cold enough

so i need to go to ithaca instead

[warm elm]

Oh instate

[frozen cape]

💜

[warm elm]

U got really solid chances

[weary orchid]

its so cold in ny rn…

im freezing

[frozen cape]

yeah but no snow thats the worst type of cold

[weary orchid]

😭😭😭

[frozen cape]

i want it to be snowing relentlessly and constantly

[weary orchid]

sunday snowing

[frozen cape]

yeah lowkey ive been counting myself out cuz i got a 3.8 gpa and 1440 sat but i have multiple hooks 😭

[warm elm]

Alumni donor 👀 no way u gettjng rejected

[frozen cape]

NOT AN ALUMNI DONOR

im first gen / low income / urm 😭

the trifecta of "life should have fucked u over"

[warm elm]

Lmaooo 😭😭😭

Ig thise hooks give u a boost

I dont have any hooks at all

[raw jetty]

chat in a third gen double legacy and still got cooked by cornell like it’s HARD AF

[warm elm]

And im really avg applicant like every other student nothing special in my app

[frozen cape]

yeah honestly i have no idea what my chances are

[tall marsh]

100%

[frozen cape]

because my academics are not up to par at all with the average admit but my circumstances are super extensive

[raw jetty]

i applied ed and got deferred and i did end up getting the guaranteed transfer option so i guess i could have gone after a year at another school but it’s too cold and lonely there

[warm elm]

Nah i thjnk u have solid chances depends on ur ecs and essays

[raw jetty]

yes yes essays r so important

[warm elm]

Well u got into nyu which is pretty good

[frozen cape]

yeah i lowkey was cooking with gas on my personal statement

my english teacher read it and said she was proud of me bruh

💀

[raw jetty]

oh yes i’m very glad i chose nyu overall it’s a much better fit !!

[warm elm]

My essays actually suck so i might be cooked (im like super scared)

[frozen cape]

im ngl i just leaned super heavily into my culture / heritage for my essay

[raw jetty]

no no i doubt you’re cooked

[warm elm]

I cant think of anything else other than cornell i might just be fried

[frozen cape]

yeah ngl ive been having a hard time with that too

[warm elm]

I wrote about my religion in my community essay

[frozen cape]

i think yale is too much of a reach for me so i was prolly just going to look at boston schools to ed2 at

tufts northeastern type shit

[warm elm]

Yea

If cornell doesnt works out i m planning to ed2 at jhu

[frozen cape]

theyd give me pretty much a full ride so like why hold out for yale when they'd really want to admit me

rd is too risky for northeastern

[warm elm]

Yeah most of their class is from ed

40% acceptance rate ed is crazy compared to their rd

[frozen cape]

yeah i also need full aid so i think id just get rejected w/o a 4.0 in rd

[warm elm]

Yea

[frozen cape]

i have more leeway with my grades in ed rounds honestly

[warm elm]

College process is so unfair

[frozen cape]

yeah it def isnt fair

ill honestly just go to any school that'll pay for me tho

i really need to get out of the house

[warm elm]

Lol valid

[frozen cape]

yeah my community kind of sucks

people are really weird here

i'm around a lot of wealthy kids and ughhh it just feels like ppl can tell im broke lol

[warm elm]

Do u think my my sat and gpa is good enough for cornell: 1520 and 4.37 W (we dont do unweighted but its like 3.98)

[frozen cape]

i managed to get a few leadership positions and invited to some writing conferences despite it all but man i feel like i could have done so much better if there were actually supportive people here

[warm elm]

Yeah

[frozen cape]

yeah ull get past the initial check honestly

if you dont get admitted its not bc of your stats

[warm elm]

No one is supportive these days theres so much competition

[frozen cape]

that mught be the killer for me

[warm elm]

Everyone gatekeeps everything

[frozen cape]

yeah my closest friends are applying to schools like siena

[warm elm]

U will be fine u have reasons

[frozen cape]

yeah im ngl my circumstances are crazy

😭😭😭

my school forced me to give up my disability plan to take ap classes

(i have autism)

so that went as well as u would expect

i had a sharp increase in course rigor

honors english fresh / sophomore, 2 aps junior and now 5 aps senior

[frozen cape]

honestly ur stats are mad impressive

prolly not for a top school but u could get serious merit aid

at less selective schools

[stiff oyster]

which college

[warm elm]

Coe

[stiff oyster]

and are u from ny

ok nvm

coe is very selective

its a matter of luck rn

[frozen cape]

im doing government for arts and sciences 😭

[warm elm]

Thats good i think rigor is more important than grades

[frozen cape]

the issue is my school offers 20+ APs and i'm not even top 10% in my class

[warm elm]

Yea im lowk scared

[warm elm]

Nope 😭😭

[stiff oyster]

i mean im not qualified to speak on behalf of coe

but ur gpa and sat are def enough to get u considered imo

[warm elm]

Which college did u apply to?

[stiff oyster]

ilr (out-of-state full aid)

[warm elm]

I feel i have strong recs (1/4 from a college prof) and she sent it to me and its really strong

[frozen cape]

yeah ilr was my second choice but lowkey i think im like a perfect fit for arts and sciences

[stiff oyster]

4 recs?

[warm elm]

My ecs/honors are kinda mid

And my essays might just be average if not below average

[frozen cape]

i lowkey used my community essay to expand on one of my ECs and its def my weakest essay but i figured it could help anyway

[warm elm]

Yeah 1 from counselor, 1 from englihs 10 teacher, 1 from ap csa, 1 from stats and 1 from professor so in total 5 recs lmao

And i made sure eacb one says smth different in my brag sheets

So there are minimal repeats

[stiff oyster]

ngl

2 recs

are better

than more

[frozen cape]

yeah i got 2 recs

😭

[stiff oyster]

the more the not merrier in case of college apps

unless they add a significantly different pov

[warm elm]

But its good to have more if they can say different things right?

[frozen cape]

yeah for sure

just has to be impactful prob

[stiff oyster]

just keep in mind that ur app is going to be read in a very quick timeframe

interpret that as u see fit

[warm elm]

Well i cant guarantee if teachers followed my brag sheet but they all had diff stuff

[warm elm]

Icic

I heard cornell likes sustainability

And im president of my schools env club and i have noticeable impact

[frozen cape]

good for u lol

my school's green team wanted their entire mission for the year to be replacing the school's trash cans so i dropped out

💀

instead i just got low impact leadership positions in 3 clubs bc i couldnt do anything else ngl

historian for art honor society, treasurer for digital film and editing, senior editor for literary magazine

my junior year lowkey saved me from going to community college 😭

i pray

[warm elm]

Lmaoo thats nice

[frozen cape]

my average grade jumped from a 90 with 2 Bs to a 96 with all As

💀

lowkeyy like

im excited for ed results because i feel like i might have some semblance of a chance idk

i genuinely believe a deferral is more likely than a rejection 😭

id be soo upset

[tranquil belfry]

2 stanfords from my school just now 😭

[frozen cape]

your school kinda cracked ngl

i only know one kid at my school who's getting into an ivy and he got recruited for track at dartmouth

[stiff oyster]

ah yes athletes

[frozen cape]

he's smart as shit tho so honestly good for him

im just worried about myself rn

do yall think i would have a shot since i got invited to like writer's conferences with my teacher that only get 2 students attending per school a year

[deft jolt]

Initial check 😰

[deft jolt]

That sounds super impressive!

[ashen warren]

are u from bay area

[deft jolt]

I think we all have a shot

It’s just a matter of whether they have space for us tbh..

[frozen cape]

yeah the issue is its purely based on who my english teacher wanted to go

no application process i just asked and i was in

[tranquil belfry]

no ny

[deft jolt]

Well, I think she’d only let you go if she believe you had good writing ability but idk

[frozen cape]

shes a former lawyer who wrote my lor so honestly that might be a huge factor in getting me in

[mild flume]

those lors are big

[ashen warren]

i see

[frozen cape]

yeah im very happy with the 2 teachers i asked i think theyd 100% go to bat for me

[mild flume]

all of my teachers dont really want anything to do with my autistic ass so my only good lor is the administrator at the library i work at

like the teachers i asked-i've talked to them about something non class related like twice

[deft jolt]

I’m very worried about my lors but not because of my teachers

[frozen cape]

😭 im autistic but ive steadily gotten more popular with my teachers the more ive masked my stimming and that appears as "growth" ig so they like me

[deft jolt]

I think my recommenders are great, but I’m like super introverted and a loner, so I don’t think they have much to say about me…

idk though

[mild flume]

they just don't have anything to say about me since i dont really talk lol

[frozen cape]

i kinda forced myself out of my shell junior year and it lowkey paid off

[deft jolt]

🙏

same boat

[mild flume]

good on you, doing much more than i am lol

[deft jolt]

fr

[frozen cape]

yeah im ngl i realized if i wanted to get out of my bum ass house i was going to need cracked lors and ecs so i just did everything under the sun

😭

[deft jolt]

Any motivation is good

I’m sure your effort will pay off!

[mild flume]

one way or another it will

[deft parrot]

Do prestige of lor even matter

[frozen cape]

whats funny is all i wanted for my sat score was above a 700 on both sections cuz cornell said it would be good to submit scores like that and i got a 700 on the math exactly

😭

[mild flume]

i dozed off through 3 mins of my english portion lmfao

[deft jolt]

you met your goal, that’s what matters ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[mild flume]

if they made the sat at like 11:00AM then my score would unironically increase by 30 or so, but im not complaining since i did well anyways

[deft jolt]

I didn’t doze off during the SAT, but I legit slept the last 40 mins of both sections on an AP exam

[frozen cape]

even if i dont get into cornell i beat a lot of the statistics working against me so honestly im happy either way

[deft jolt]

I was finished and had nothing to do 😭

[mild flume]

real

[frozen cape]

my entire life has been defying expectations ngl

😭

[deft jolt]

That’s actually so fire

[dim wigeon]

What ECs? I kind of feel similarly about mine lol

[wind stump]

help which one

[frozen cape]

i feel like for my demographic my ECs are reasonable

[deft jolt]

APWHM

[dim wigeon]

I think mine are unique but I didn’t make a big impact or demonstrate leadership

[void kernel]

guys do college care about your senior grade after you got admitted during the ed or ea?

[deft jolt]

I think I might’ve done the same on c mech for the frq but only like 20m before it ended…

[dim wigeon]

Which is what I see a lot of people going for, but TBF those people are all doing similar competitions usually

[frozen cape]

yes you can get rescinded if your grades dip significantly

[mild flume]

not as long as you don't do anything like silly

[deft jolt]

Not too much as long as you aren’t failing/getting Cs

[frozen cape]

if they defer me they get to see my senior grades which are all As so honestly i think i have a real shot of admission even if i get deferred

[deft jolt]

Something seriously drastic would have to happen for them to rescind their offer

[wind stump]

thats crazy i was going to the last minute for all of mine😭😭

still got those fives

[deft jolt]

I was done and had nothing to change

I didn’t want to mess anything up but I tried thinking…

[void kernel]

is 9.6->8.8 for example is significant?

[deft jolt]

I just froze ig lol

[mild flume]

i almost got caught during my AB exam playing tetris on my calculator

[frozen cape]

im not sure about that grading scale

[deft jolt]

💀

How was the AB exam

[wind stump]

nah thats fair

[frozen cape]

im having flashbacks to my ap lang exam where i did a practice test and got 44/45 mc and a perfect 6/6 on one of the essays from my teacher so i lowkey just didnt study at all 😭

[mild flume]

i got a 5, but i was worried that my handwriting was so bad that i would get a bad score

[deft jolt]

I had so many looks during apwhm bc of that lol

[mild flume]

i'm almost sure that my test went through multiple people to decipher my handwriting

[deft jolt]

Dang, well congrats!

[frozen cape]

ap us history test was lowkey scary cuz i was nervous id get a 4

[deft jolt]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[deft jolt]

Nervous for a 4…?

[frozen cape]

yeah gang like i wanted that 5

[deft jolt]

Yeah I feel that

[frozen cape]

and i got it in the end but gang it was close

[deft jolt]

Gz

[frozen cape]

almost nobody else got a 5

[mild flume]

i remember my apush test was absolute cinema

[frozen cape]

but 97% of my class got a 3 or above so W

[deft jolt]

My class struggled because our teacher didn’t… teach

[mild flume]

i started my last LEQ with 17 mins left and ran out of time as i typed the very last period

[deft jolt]

He didn’t go through the notes and just made us do it on our own

And we skipped like the last three units

Everyone made it through tho bc they used Heimler

[dim wigeon]

Shout out to heimler

[frozen cape]

i legit hate the way my geometry / ap stats teacher teaches like shes not a bad teacher but it just doesnt work for me

[deft jolt]

I fr should’ve used him, he’s goated

[deft jolt]

yeah, math teachers are always hit or miss

[mild flume]

i feel like at my school there's always a trade off between quality of teaching and quality of person

all the teachers that didn't know what they were doing were super nice and friendly, but all the teachers that did what they were supposed to do just hated kids

[dim wigeon]

ABSOLUTELY

My calc teacher is so strict 🫩😭