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An interviewer asked me how I deal with stress and I told them, "I make charts and graphs." They looked at me like I was a complete dork (maybe with good reason) but I did get accepted at that school!
2013-2014 Weill Cornell Medical College Application Thread
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An interviewer asked me how I deal with stress and I told them, "I make charts and graphs." They looked at me like I was a complete dork (maybe with good reason) but I did get accepted at that school!
You are awesome! I mean that in the best way!
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haha I'm glad after 2.5 years of lurking you used your inaugural post to tell me I am awesome. Thank you!
I know I was thinking the same thing. Lol
So I guess we can start expecting some decisions any day now huh?
I sent mine to [email protected]
I sent mine to [email protected] . They responded the next day acknowledging it was received and added to my file.
[email protected]
This is the update address where you should send updates to. At least that was what we were told on interview day. 🙂
This is the update address where you should send updates to. At least that was what we were told on interview day. 🙂
Oh, it's nice to know. But my update was received just like Amba's was, so I guess it's no biggie 🙂
Thanks guys!
Anybody have any sweet insider info as to when decisions would be sent out?
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Don't know yet! Have not decided but I am from los angeles and I got a full ride to my undergrad university (USC). It's not ranked nearly as high as cornell but for me overall this option would already be a better fit. Also already got into a couple other top ten schools before my scheduled cornell interview date that I really liked. The thing that sucks is when I withdrew from Cornell they wrote back an email just to tell me that because I was withdrawing so late, they wouldn't be able to offer up my interview spot to another applicant. Seems like they were trying to reprimand me for withdrawing!
Usually like 180 or so I think initially, then another like 120 or so off the waitlist?
I don't think they accept as many as 300 from the 800 interviewed applicants. Cornell's class size is small. 102?
For some reason, Cornell has an unusually low matriculation rate vs the number they accept. Check this out, it's from either last year or the year before http://www.medicalschoolsinusa.com/cornell-university-weill-cornell-medical-college/
That's surprising considering that their teaching hospital is built like a hotel.
That would mean ~30% yield, which is about average (if not a bit low). I think Cornell's lack of merit aid hurts them in bringing in the tip top applicants, who are presumably accepted originally in March.
Yeah pretty much everything I've seen corroborates that hypothesis. The tip top applicants are usually pretty unimpressed with the financial aid packages...me on the other hand, I'll take what I can get haha.
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I think because historically like 66% of those accepted outright don't choose Cornell so they over admit to compensate for it. Lots of non-rolling schools over admit, including places like Harvard for instance.
1. Cornell class is actually 101 students (for whatever crazy reason).
2. Many schools overaccept outright, extending the number of acceptances based on their typical yields. This was mentioned by LizzyM not that long ago.
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Yeah I see what you're asking. Maybe it's just a practical matter of how long it takes for people to make decisions. Maybe if only 33 people accept and then 66% of those on the waitlist don't accept it would take a long time to go all the way through the list.
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I second what cinnamoncoffee says. Schools want to fill their seats sooner rather than later.
When I first realized that schools overaccept outright, I was kind of upset that it would take 100+ rather than several people to withdraw before waitlisted candidates could even be considered for acceptance again. But the truth is, no matter how many people the school accepts outright, you still stand where you stand in comparison to all the other candidates, you know what I mean?
I'm really hoping they come out by Monday ... all this waiting is killing me!
I put my bet on Wednesday 😎 No insider information whatsoever, just a guess.
The earlier the better. I've been sleeping like s*** the last couple nights and I'm ready to hear a decision whatever it may be.
I know. But it seems like some schools like to take off the proverbial band-aid slooooooooowly. I'm jus' saying. But I totally feel ya.
Yea, I agree with you. Wednesday or Thursday...just based on past threads. If we're lucky, maybe we'll hear something on Friday...just going off Yale's surprisingly early release of decisions.
Does anyone know what format the decision will come out as? I'm hoping email as I'll be abroad for spring break.
The secondary application site says decisions are released by email. Enjoy your trip 🙂
I called the admissions office to ask for the appropriate email to send an update to and they told me that "it really doesn't matter at this point, but to send it anyways..." (it was a first authorship publication that was just formally accepted yesterday so I had to send it because Weill is my top top choice!) SO that means that all decisions HAVE been made and they are just making us wait. Humph. I can't wait much longer!
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Congrats on you publication!
Chances are, Cornell has already decided to accept you. Or, if you get wait listed, you'll have a nice update to send. (If, G-d forbid, they decided to reject you, I don't think anything would make a difference anyway.) Nothing to lose, as far as I can see 🙂
I didn't mention what the update was when I was on the phone with them, but I doubt that would have changed their response. Regardless of what happens next, we all tried our best!
And Thank you!
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Darn, I recently sent a fairly substantive update as well. I suppose it cannot hurt in the event of getting waitlisted.
To which email address do you guys send updates? I sent one to [email protected] and never got a confirmation email.
I sent it to that email address. I got a confirmation email but it had been sent to my spam folder, so I'd suggest checking there!
Strangely, I feel like I'm rooting for some people in this thread more than I'm rooting for myself 🙂 (I won't give any names, but I will enthusiastically congratulate you once you get accepted 😉)
