How to Apply to Cornell University | Study Abroad Guide for International Students

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Today, we're going to look at how to apply to Cornell University in New York State

It's one of the best universities in the world being an Ivy League Research University

Cornell also has amazing architecture in the middle of stunning natural landscape

And it's just a few hours away from New York City, where it also has two satellite campuses

Now, this is a great opportunity because Cornell has a financial aid program that you can apply to right now

And if you missed it, don't worry because it's open every year. As always, for more information, visit our website at global scourshops.com

So let's get to it. Okay, guys, so the first thing we're going to do is to go and get some information from the university's website

And here in the university's website, we go to admissions, and then under undergraduate, we click on apply

And then we have different options here. We'll click on apply as a first year applicant

And here, as you can see, they laid out the timeline of application

for early decision and regular decision let's click on regular and as you can see the common

application has opened in august now you can take a quick look at these and as you can see

the common application and Cornell writing supplement is open until January the 2nd

there is an $80 application fee and in late March admission decisions and financial aid awards are

announced now as you can see the Cornell University accept application from common application so the next step is to go to common application and here we

are now to be able to apply to Cornell University we're going to need to create an

account and I'm going to do that quickly and cut to the end because this is not a

tutorial on how to create a common app account and if you would like to see that just

let us know and we will create a tutorial on that too so I'll just quickly create an

account here so now as you can see I have created an account now common app if you do not know is a great app that lets you apply to many

universities and we can see which universities you can apply to by going to college search now as you

can see there are a lot of universities here more than a thousand universities that you can apply to

using common app now we're going to go and search for Cornell university and let's add it to

our colleges now let's go to my colleges and here Here, as you can see, that we have this page that shows the universities that we edit

Now let's go to Cornell University and click. Now here, as you can see, there is college information, like for example, contact info

and links to the website and the application deadlines here. Then the application information, as you can see first year international fee, first year domestic

fee, and standard test policy and standardized test policy, recommendations, additional information

about the university and we have writing requirements here. As you can see there is a requirement for common at personal essay

and college questions and a writing supplement. First as you can see there is under the application questions Now we have this set of questions that we need to answer so that we can apply First of all general questions

Student status. Degree seeking student. Preferred start term. Let's say fall 2024

Preferred admission plan. Regular decision. Have you previously applied to Cornell University

Now, do you intend to apply for a need-based financial aid from Cornell University

For financial aid information, please visit Finale. 8cournell.edu. Now of course as always you can have more in-depth information on these financial aid by going to global scholarships.com. We're going to click on yes here

Are you enrolled in a federally recognized American Indian tribe? Not that I'm aware of. Are you eligible for an application fee waiver? Let's click on not applicable. I plan to pay the application fee. Or interested in having a conversation with a member of the Cornell alumni admissions ambassadors network? Sure. Let's have

Yes and let's click on continue. Now as you can see there is a green tick on general questions tab. So now let's go on to academics. College or school to which you are applying? Well, let's say arts and sciences. Anticipated major within the college school you've chosen. I'm going to choose economics because that's my major. You may also select a second choice major within the College of Arts and Sciences. I will choose history

The Minesstain program in technology and humanity is a highly selective cross-discipline program in collaboration with Cornell Tech

If you would like to be considered for the program, please indicate your interest by checking this box

Sure, let's just say, yes. What is the highest math class that you will have completed by high school graduation

Let's say the equivalent of one calculus class. Is English the main language of instruction at your high school? No

What is the highest language class that you will have completed by high school graduation

Let's say I have taken no foreign language courses. And click on continue

Now, as you can see, activities, military, and contacts tabs already have green ticks on them

So we do not need to do anything. We can just say continue

Military. Continue. And contacts. Continue. family or any siblings also applying for undergraduate admission to Cornell University this year

now have any of your parents or grandparents ever attended Cornell University no

do you have relatives currently working as faculty or staff members at Cornell

University no and I guess that's it additional family information how many

parents step-parents and or guardians do you have let's say one because then we do not

have to answer a lot of questions parents step-paren't parent or guardian one relationship mother parent step parent or guardian

first name let's say Jenny last name dough birth country let's say turkey

parent step parent or guardian number one primary occupation well let say elementary school teacher Parents step or guardian one primary job or position title

Um, teacher? Parents, step-parent or guardian number one? Employment status. Let's say retired

Highest degree of level of school completed. Let's say, bachelor's degree. Now we have other information

Have we ever been adjudicated, guilty or convicted of a misdemeanor or

felony note that you are not required to answer yes to this question or provide an

explanation if the criminal adjudication or conviction has been expunged sealed an old pardon destroyed erased impounded or otherwise required by law or

ordered by a court to be kept confidential let's say now now as you can see

before we can continue we need to complete education section in our Common App

account if you have already completed all the sections when you created your

account then you will not see this let's go and finish that quickly now that

we have completed our questions in education section you can see the green tick

and now we can continue our application to Cornell University recommenders are people who will submit forms to colleges on your behalf this

page shows which recommender types this college needs each coach will have

different requirements before we can do that though We need to complete the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act release authorization process

It's actually quite simple. Complete release authorization and then we need to read this

It's basically a law that lets you review confidential recommendation letters that your recommenders sent to university

But university asks you to give up on that right so that they can be sure that letters are truthful

Let's say, I read and understood the effect. your peer release authorization explanation above and let's click on continue I

acknowledge that every school that I have attended may release all request

records and recommendations to colleges to which I am applying for admission

I also understand that employees at these colleges may confidentially contact my current and former schools should they have questions about the

information submitted on my behalf let's click on that and then we have two

options either to waive our right to review all recommendations or not. But if we say no, then we have to click on, I have chosen not to waive my right to review my recommendations and supporting documents. I understand that my decision may lead my counselors or teachers to decline to write recommendations on my behalf. Let's click on that. I understand that my waiver or no waiver selection above pertains to all colleges to which I apply and that my selections on this page cannot be changed after any recommendation or application submission, which means that

if you choose to waive your right to review the recommendations, you cannot later change your mind after sending recommendations

because that would be fair to teachers who sent our recommendations. So let's click on that

Our signature and today date Save and close So this part is done Now we have recommenders part For Cornell University we need to invite a school counselor and two teachers Let

just give some random information here and then and then two teachers. Would you

like this teacher to complete an evaluation for your Cornell University application? Yes

Let's invite another teacher. Okay, so we have one counselor and two teachers

So we can click on continue. And we are done with the recommenders part

So now to be able to finish our submission, we need to complete all the section in our account and write a common app personal essay again if you

completed all these steps when you create your account you will not see this so

let's get that done all right so that's all right so that's done

we have completed all the sections in our account and have written a personal essay

Of course, if you want to write a killer personal essay, do not forget to check our tutorial

on global scholarships.com on how to write a killer personal essay. Okay, let's go on

Application submission. You are ready to review and submit your application to Cornell University

The submission process includes the following steps. So we're going to review a PDF preview of our application

And then we're going to pay the application fee. And after that, finally, we will be able to submit our application

So let's review and submit. First of all, it gives us this PDF that we can download and review that has all the information that we provided

That's all good. Let's continue. Oh, sorry. I reviewed the PDF copy of my application and wished to proceed with my submission

Of course. Now we have the application fee, which is $80 for first year international fee

So when we click on continue, it will direct us to a third party

that lets us pay our application fee. For payment methods, we have international payment

For international payment option, we have flywire. And then we can click here, our payment

The payment will come from, let's say, Turkey. And the amount is $80

Let's click on next. Okay, here it shows you the amount in your local currency

So let's select that. And we have our review page. And if everything's in order

click on pay and then we get to the page where we can complete our payment and finalize our submission

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