Cornell University
History
RejectedPhDAmerican
Application Details
- Institution
- Cornell University
- Program
- History
- Degree Type
- PhD
- Degree's Country of Origin
- American
- Decision
- Rejected
- Notification
- on 03/03/2026 via Other
- Undergrad GPA
- 4.00
- GRE General
- Not provided
- GRE Verbal
- Not provided
- Analytical Writing
- 0.00
- Notes
- I presume it's a rejection, anyway, because surely "hmm we're struggling to figure out how to make the system display the details ... check tomorrow" is not what they'd choose for acceptances and waitlists. I feel for the person I'm in email contact with, who sounds unsupported in their job (which perhaps also happened in 2024 if you look back in these results?). I emailed asking when I might get my decision because it seems late. They emailed back very promptly saying it should be in the portal. I responded that when I log in to ApplyWeb, on the page where I can see all the universities that used ApplyWeb, there is a "decision letter" button above the "checklist" button but this doesn't appear for Cornell. They responded that perhaps it needs to process overnight, but let them know if I still didn't see it tomorrow. I talked to the tech support bot which suggests (Interesting to know!) that universities load a bunch of decision letters and then have to add a date and time and give permission for the student to view it (so if the college says it's there and I say it's not, they probably didn't give permission yet). I sent that info to the kind administrative person at Cornell's History Graduate program, who thanked me for it and said it gave them an idea of a few things to go check. Sounds like the funding cuts really hit a lot of areas -- my home department has had a lot of cuts and it's our admin person who is bearing the brunt of a lot of it. Anyway. Still can't see a decision in the portal, but it's apparent my application is just an administrative loose end, and this cycle has taught me that my research niche is "weird" and difficult for programs to find space for. 1a/7r/3p is I think the current tally, one pending is a Public Policy program.
Institution Statistics
Acceptance Rate
31.2%
Avg. Notification Date
March 14
This data is estimated based on applicant submissions at The GradCafe.
Timeline
Received notification of Rejection