applying to 2 schools at cornell?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>has any1 here been rejected by their first choice and been accepted by their 2nd choice?
is this common? does it happen in ED as well?</p>

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<p>I bet that it probably happens when people put down let’s say Arts and Sciences as their first choice which has a less than 20% acceptance rate and then put down Human Ecology as their second choice which has a … like 35% acceptance rate. That’s a big difference! =]</p>

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<p>is it common?</p>

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<p>It must be pretty common since the acceptance rates have a large difference between them. Many kids probably try to apply to one of the contract colleges as a second choice because of the higher acceptance rates. =]</p>

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<p>I’ve heard through the grapevine that approximately 2% of admitted students were rejected by their 1st choice and admitted at their 2nd choice.</p>

<p>Few students have their application forwarded to their 2nd choice college. There is a lot of discussion about this policy and if you search the forum, you’ll find it.</p>

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<p>From my experience, a lot of NYS residents apply to a contract college as their first choice and an endowed college as their second (like CALS for bio as primary and CAS for bio as secondary)</p>

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<p>The only time I can actually see this policy favoring someone is if he or she applies to two undergraduate colleges that share the same major.</p>

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<p>the way the system works is that your primary college may accept, reject or waitlist you. The secondary college gets the rejected applicants and can only accept or reject them. </p>

<p>So from this it seems kind of likely that if you are rejected from the 1st college, you will be rejected from the second unless that college sees extraordinary fit…which probably isn’t likely since it was the secondary college to begin with!</p>

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<p>There was a student from NJ this year who applied ED to CALS biology. He was deferred and then in regular decision he was called by CALS and asked if he would consider CAS biology. He said sure, but thought it was the kiss of death. He was accepted regular decision to CAS and will be attending in the fall.</p>

<p>You just never know!</p>