<p>Does anyone know what it is? My interviewer said something about how less than 1 out of 5 ppl (20%) were accepted, but i was wondering if anyone knows the exact numbers.</p>
<p>21% to be exact.</p>
<p>Close. It's actually 21%.</p>
<p>i type faster than you.</p>
<p>How can they publish a number if they waitlist? Or do they not waitlist?</p>
<p>Just curious: Do they do statistical hocus pocus to get a yield figure, or do they just use last year's, or a five year average, or the like?</p>
<p>Edit: I saw a post about how at one school 5 were waitlisted. So Cornell does waitlist, and this "acceptance rate" is hogwash.</p>
<p>the OP asked for the acceptance rate. Cornell said that 21% of the applications to the school were accepted. Seems pretty straight forwards to me.</p>
<p>The 21% projection is pre-waitlist, and is a function of the projected yield rate. If the yield rate ptojection was too optimistic, they will backfill from the waitlist initially, and then again later to counter "summer melt".</p>
<p>I got beat. :(</p>
<p>Thank you Byerly for the explanation. I accept my defeat.</p>
<p>Well then. Congratulations to Cornell for its dramatic improvement. The catch is that acceptance rates by themselves say little. Better to improve the quality of students than have a low(er) acceptance rate.</p>
<p>judging by taking a look at who they admitted from the RD results, looks like they have done alot to admit quality students. </p>
<p>also, lower acceptance rate = bigger "prestige factor" = more qualified students wanting to attend. Seems stupid, but it happens.</p>
<p>Yeah, it's a cycle, so to say. More qualified students who want to attend = even lower admit rate.</p>
<p>i'm seeing some sites reporting the final rate now as 24.7% (6,927 students were admitted out the 28,097 applicants). is this including waitlist/guaranteed xfer or something? </p>
<p><a href="http://ivysuccess.com/cornell_2010.html%5B/url%5D">http://ivysuccess.com/cornell_2010.html</a>
<a href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=32402%5B/url%5D">http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=32402</a></p>
<p>wat r the stats for engineering school?</p>
<p>1) This satistic includes ED acceptance too, which accounted for like 36% of the classes. So in reality the RD acceptance rate was more like 15-18% if not less, which frankly is very good for an univeristy which has 3000 seats!!!</p>
<p>2) backpack, Cornell College of Engineering has a higher acceptance rate than other colleges primarily because it has a self selecting pool. Given the course-load, only focussed candidates apply. This is grossly different from the scene where every want-to-be engineer applies. This is reflected in the fact that Engineering students have one of the highest median SAT scores among all the Colleges.</p>
<p>I'm thinking that the RD acceptance rate was 21 percent, the ED rate was 39 percent (that I'm sure of) and the overall rate was 24 percent. Does anyone have any firm stats?</p>
<p>Assuming ED acceptance rate=36
36% of class filled ED...</p>
<p>RD acceptance Rate= 12.56%</p>
<p>The ED rate was 39 percent. Please refer to the below, from last December:</p>
<p>We received 2836 early decision applications for 2005-2006. This represents an increase of 11% from 2004-2005. The acceptance rate for early decision is 39%, down from last year's rate of 41.7%. </p>
<p>The following information reflects an early picture of the Early Decision applicants for the Class of 2010:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>1106 admitted students (1068 admitted students for 2004-2005)</p></li>
<li><p>47.6% female, 52.4% male (50.8% are female, 49.2% are male for 2004-2005)</p></li>
<li><p>19.1% of those admitted are legacies (19.6% for 2004-2005)</p></li>
<li><p>8.4% of those admitted are Underrepresented Minorities (7.3% for 2004-2005)</p></li>
<li><p>Enrolled approximately 36% of our class through Early Decision (35% in 2004-2005)</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Thank you to all of you who conducted conversations with students during the Early Decision application process. For those of you holding applicant receptions in January and February, thank you for your efforts!</p>
<p>Best wishes from Ithaca,</p>
<p>Jason C. Locke
Director
Undergraduate Admissions Office</p>
<p>Not sure how you got your numbers, Arjun. What I'm missing is the number of slots in the class of 2010. Is it an even 3,000? And how many people applied RD?</p>
<p>ok...its SIMPLE mathematics...</p>
<p>lets use ur stats SuNa...</p>
<p>39% acceptance ED...and this filled 36% of the class</p>
<p>this means 64% of the class was filled RD...</p>
<p>also, overall acceptance rate=21%</p>
<p>Therefore,</p>
<p>((36<em>39)+(x</em>64))/100=21</p>
<p>solving, x=10.875%...</p>
<p>the previous no. was assuming a 36% acceptance..</p>
<p>OK -- ED: 2836 apps 1106 admits 39%
RD: 25,264 apps 4,795 admits 18.9%
Overall: 28,100 apps 5901 admits 21 %</p>
<p>Then U Made A Mistake In The Stats U Posted!!!!!!!</p>
<p>U Said 36% Of The Class Is Ed!!!!
By Ur New Stats!!! Only 18.74% Of The Class Is Ed!!!!!</p>