<p>Type A we are... sigh..</p>
<p>I don't think the fall in Cornell's acceptance rate says anything except that their applicants have gone up (I could be wrong). Whether they accept 30% or 21% it's still a great school that I hope to go to next fall (ED, those low rates scare me). :)</p>
<p>OK -- the ED acceptance rate was 39 percent and the overall rate is 21 percent, so what was the RD acceptance rate?</p>
<p>?</p>
<p>Assuming that they take around 36% ED, then RD accept rate would be around 11%, yet I doubt that it can be that low, since I'm assuming that they would take more during RD since yield rates will be lower, so RD acceptance rates should be around 18%. Still, that seems quite low and I dunno how I got in.</p>
<p>I'm sure your application was as impressive as any other person's. Perhaps they are all-seeing, and know you better than you know yourself . . .!</p>
<p>I'm thinking maybe the RD rate was 21 percent and the overall rate is 24%.</p>
<p>Assuming ED acceptance rate=36
36% of class filled ED...</p>
<p>RD acceptance Rate= 12.56%</p>
<p>There is now way the RD Acceptance rate was that low...I would say around 18 or 20%...but it varies for each school. And because 98% or so of ED admitties attend, the acceptance rate for RD has to be high (mid-teens at least) because of the yield factor, like meestasi noted. </p>
<p>Only Yale and Harvard have acceptance rates arouns 10%. Cornell is so much bigger that 35000+ would have had to applied for it to be that low.</p>
<p>the fault in the calculation is that i assumed a 100% yield.</p>
<p>The actual RD rate is 18.9%.</p>