<p>then your head is in the clouds</p>
<p>hahahah. it can be a match but nobody can call it a safety.</p>
<p>The point is it's never a sure thing. If match = 50/50 or something around that then sure...it can be that. But admissions is INSANE now-a-days so EVER calling an Ivy League school a safety is just...not smart at all. I just watched a show about this one genius (True Life: I'm A Genius [MTV]) and he didn't get into Stanford <a href="obviously%20not%20an%20Ivy,%20but%20it's%20on%20the%20same%20level">ED is all he had gotten back so far</a>. Even if ur a genius there are no sure things!</p>
<p>lol yup, totally saw that!
and I think it said it only proves that grades aren't everything (kid had photographic memory, but apparently no stellar ECs or the likes)</p>
<p>Yeah, that was Myles Jeffrey. He's uber cool -- I saw him on Jeopardy a few weeks prior to watching him on True Life.</p>
<p>That fourteen-year old though, he was absoltely insane!
And he goes to Roslyn High School (Long Island representation<3).</p>
<p>Ya it sounded like he had like no ec's at all. It was cool that he got to be a normal kid...but he needed to do things outside of being smart and not having to even work for his grades. It just shows that top colleges want smart kids who actually WORK and not just float by w/o a care. </p>
<p>It seemed like that younger kid was reallllly smart. That party he went to was HILARIOUS. I was watching it w/ my roomates and we were all laughing so hard. The girls were all grinding on eachother and him and it looked like he was so out of place. I liked how he played flipcup w/ coke too haha.</p>
<p>"no, Cornell admits around double that ... 3,000 enrolled isn't 3,000 admitted (unless yield is 100%). "</p>
<p>It's always semantics with you ILR business types. </p>
<p>"generally, stronger students apply to Cornell than USC."</p>
<p>I beg to differ, most people at Cornell can't bench more than 200lbs. (and I need a spotter)</p>
<p>Cornell's application numbers increased 7-8% this year relative to the previous year. And since this year's freshman class is bigger than usual, I have a feeling that the acceptance rate is going to drop again this year. I don't think it necessarily makes it any harder for people to get in though.</p>
<p>I applied to USC as a safety and Cornell as a reach. I'm sure other people who applied to both schools feel the same way.</p>
<p>Cornell's applicant pool is self-selective, like U of Chicago's. Chicago has an even higher acceptance rate than Cornell because only especially qualified students apply there in the first place. Also, since Cornell's yield rate is probably lower than HYP (given HYP hopefuls apply there as a safety :/), they have to have a higher acceptance rate to accommodate that. But that doesn't mean their applicant pool is less talented, necessarily. </p>
<p>So looking at acceptance rate alone isn't going to tell you much about how difficult it is to get into that school. Plus, Cornell happens to put a much greater focus on subjective criteria, such as the essay (the admissions officers read this before anything else!), so applicants with specific strengths will get admitted over those with different strengths.</p>
<p>its wierd that no one considers cornell a safety. i ve always felt that it's really hard to get in, but my school's stats differ and makes me think otherwise (and it's not THAT good of a school; maybe top 10 in vancouver district). 4/4 for cornell (1 ea and 3 likelies) and 1/1 for harvard (ea) right now. i'm thinking that perhaps this year's pool is worse than the last few years cuz some of the people that got in are not like mindblowing or stellar.</p>
<p>or maybe its just we're so lucky and cornell loves us ;)</p>
<p>U have to remember that the 25% rate does not pertain to a single school, it is rather a compilation of all of the Undergad schools. So say you applied to some school in Cornell where the acceptance rate is high due to a lack of copetition, and CAS where its acceptance rate is really low, it all probably averages out to 25%... so no.. its not easy to get in</p>
<p>interesting... we all applied for CAS. whats the % again?</p>
<p>Which schools would have higher acceptance rates?</p>
<p>Engineering, CALS, ILR, Human Ecology have generally had SLIGHTLY higher acceptance rates--maybe a little bit above 25%. .</p>
<p>engineering applicants are self selecting</p>
<p>all the schools except for cas are self selecting.</p>
<p>I think CAS has the lowest, I remember reading it was something lke 14.9% last year</p>
<p>Hope this is helpful. It's just a link to last years acceptance rates broken down by number of applications, acceptances, matriculation, individual colleges, and gender. <a href="http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000003.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000003.pdf</a> </p>
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<p>Based on above data (interesting data, thanks for the link mikey!):</p>
<p>Human ecology acceptance: 34.6%
Architecture, Art & Planning: 19.9%
CAS: 20.1%
ILR: 36%
University: 24.7%</p>
<p>What's the "no college designated" column mean? Due those applicants get accepted into a college later on?</p>
<p>lol, those people are the ones stupid enough not to have designated a specific college...suckers</p>