This is to give hope to all those people on the reserve, I just got accepted off of it!!!!! I did put in a nominal amount of effort after I found out about being on reserve (btw found out in Dec, accepted June 6); I sent a new letter of recommendation from what I was doing this year, emailed them saying that if they offered me a seat I would accept, and I showed up at the admissions in Ithaca expressing my interest. If you want it bad enough, make moves. Not a guarantee, but there is still hope