<p>thanks everyone who helped and those who ranked and seafood help who picked other colleges.. ill look into it more and decide soon.. thanks</p>
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You need at LEAST a 1450 CR/Math combination (out of 2400) to even have a shot at it. You are two hundred points below that almost.
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<p>Absolutely not true. Don't pay any attention to this idiot.</p>
<p>OH and 2-iron.. u helped a lot too...</p>
<p>I think what I'm doing is... definitely applying to these:
UVA
UNC - Chapel Hill
Johns Hopkins
William and Mary
VCU
Rutgers
VT</p>
<p>and applying to one of(or two if i get my SAT scores a lot higher):
Duke
Cornell
Princeton
UPenn</p>
<p>"This is laughable. I see that you clearly have a personal bias against Cornell, judging from your ridiculous assertions against Cornell from your last 2 posts.</p>
<p>Last year admit rate results:</p>
<p>UNC: 35%
Johns Hopkins: 24%
Duke: 23%
Cornell: 21%
Penn: 16%
Princeton: 10% </p>
<h2>As someone who got into Duke, Cornell, NU, and Dartmouth last year, let me tell you that college admissions at Cornell's level isn't so obvious, as you would like. Cornell's selectivity, it seems like, isn't that far down compared to duke or penn. Only Princeton is noticeably more selective. And, Cornell is more selective than UNC. Do some research b4 posting."</h2>
<p>Competitiveness is not the same as selectivity. Cooper Union has an 11% acceptance rate, but I can assure you the applicants are not nearly as COMPETITIVE as those who apply to Duke, with a 23% acceptance rate. In the same vein, the applicants to Cornell are not nearly as competitive as the applicants to Penn or Duke or Princeton. I'm pretty sure that is a widely accepted fact. So while Cornell may like to think it is as competitive as those other schools, in reality Cornell is by far the easiest one to get into.</p>
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Competitiveness is not the same as selectivity. Cooper Union has an 11% acceptance rate, but I can assure you the applicants are not nearly as COMPETITIVE as those who apply to Duke, with a 23% acceptance rate. In the same vein, the applicants to Cornell are not nearly as competitive as the applicants to Penn or Duke or Princeton. I'm pretty sure that is a widely accepted fact. So while Cornell may like to think it is as competitive as those other schools, in reality Cornell is by far the easiest one to get into.
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<p>Lol. what makes you say that the applicant pool at Cornell is significantly weaker than at Duke? Many people, actually most people I know of, have applied to schools like Duke, NU, Michigan, JHU, Cornell, UPenn, etc. at the same time. Even many HYP candidates apply at Cornell, well bc they don't know if they will get into HYP or not. So, u think that 'smart' students will stay away from applying to Cornell while applying to Duke and other places...you make some outrageous claims there, bud. </p>
<p>I encourage you to go to Cornell's forum, click on the RD admit thread, and read the stats for accepted students. Although a small sample, many students have superior SAT scores as well as h.s. gpas. Some were rejected by Cornell while getting into places like Stanford. Your claims regarding Cornell are naively laughable, what more can I say. Remember, we are talking about Cornell University, not Cornell College.</p>
<p>the point is that cornell is much easier to get into duke, princeton, or penn. anyone that applies to the ivies knows cornell is the easiest one to get into. anyone who isn't the strongest applicant will have much better chance at cornell than at other ivies, or duke. the original claim was the cornell was a "RIDICULOUSLY competitive school" and it is simply not. case closed.</p>
<p>ok. let's see if you get into Cornell and other 'good' schools. I certainly won't shed any tears for you if you happen to encounter 'unlikely' rejection from cornell yourself. Apply there yourself and then tell me. Really, you are spitting at the faces of all the rejected students from Cornell who may be very qualified. Besides, I am shaken by your sheer ignorance lack of ability to comprehend material at constantly making outrageous claims w/o any hard stats or evidences at all. I have provided you reliable evidence that Cornell's applicant pool/selectivity is competitive as any other, esp. more competitive than UNC, my friend.</p>
<p>UNC OOS acceptance rate, douch*bag, is 19%
so for this applicant, i would imagine it probably would be harder to get into UNC than cornell, though they are very close</p>
<p>this thread has nothing to do with me, so my acceptances, though they would disprove your invalid argument, are not part of what is being discussed here</p>
<p>it has to do with the applicant who started the thread
those to got rejected from cornell shouldn't be ashamed...i never said that either...i said cornell isn't a "RIDICULOUSLY competitive school"
just because you don't get into one doesn't mean you're a failure by any means, which you are suggesting is what i am saying
go back to the original post and it was about cornell not being a ridiculously competitive school</p>
<p>and btw, you have not backed up your claim with "reliable evidence" that cornell's applicant pool is as competitive as duke, princeton, or penn's...you have merely claimed it...and the stats you use as evidence of low selectivity at cornell compared to other schools is flawed as well as irrelevant</p>
<p>obviously someone who goes to cornell himself (patless88) would be biased and would look at my ranking of competitiveness with disgust and bitter arrogance</p>
<p>I gave you acceptance rate for Cornell as well as the thread on Cornell board. Besides, as i told you many times now, the applicant pool at top 15 schools don't vary much. You must be retarded to think that applicant pool at Cornell is weaker than Duke or UNC or something. I am aware that Pton is more selective than Cornell, which i agreed upon. You are the dbag for making a good school look like a crap.</p>
<p>since when did i make it look like crap
i said it wasn't nearly as competitive as princeton, penn, and duke
get over it
it's not</p>
<p>duke's admit rate for last year is 20%, not 23%
get your facts straight</p>
<p>i didn't say cornell's applicant pool was weaker than UNC's, either
don't put words in my mouth</p>
<p>I got my stats from collegeboard. Also, even if it was 20%, you are talking about 1 or 2% difference. If you think that is much, you are really slow...</p>
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cornell has the highest suicde rate in the country
i'm pretty sure they aren't too happy
winters are brutal in ithaca
and being isolated on top of a hill and being treated more like a number than a student definitely does not help
choose berkeley if you know what's good for you
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<p>Like this post you wrote, your posts about Cornell are just loads of Crap. Get your fact straight.</p>
<p>haha you aren't too happy either apparently if you've started two threads titled "help: getting out of ithaca" and your location on your profile is "in the middle of nowhere" (aka the isolation i mentioned)</p>
<p>you are such a joke</p>
<p>you also have been proven wrong on just about everything you've said here
nice try</p>
<p>my location is a reflection of a popular joke that goes around within my friends when we are talkinga about Cornell. I am not even sure why you brought this up...this is getting pathetic.</p>
<p>really happy there huh?</p>
<p>need help getting out of ithaca?
it's called a transfer, dumbas*</p>
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you also have been proven wrong on just about everything you've said here
nice try
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<p>Judging from your invalid and illogical rhetoric and your compulsiveness in arguing for things w/ this kind of childish attitude, you seem like you belong to a middle school student or something, in which case I am done posting in this thread arguing w/ someone like you.</p>