Attention Deferreds! Check my math

Colleges & Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>Seriously I do not know where your numbers come from, but doing this math is neither helping the RD people nor are you getting the right numbers.
I think you need to check this: <a href=“http://cornellsun.com/files/images/Pg-3-Graphic.thumbnail.jpg[/url]”>http://cornellsun.com/files/images/Pg-3-Graphic.thumbnail.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
The thing is, only 1249 people were admitted as Freshman from ED. A normal class size is about 3050. That means 41% of classes are already filled. So that means there are going to be 59% (1800 spots left).
Last year they got 6790 in, meaning that (minus the 1101 EDs = 5689 Acceptance with 1949 spots open (3050 - 1101 ED = 1949 Spots)) they accepted 3 times their “limit” with 2/3 declining.</p>

<p>So… IFFFF you want to be math crazy, with only 1800 spots left THIS YEAR, there may be 5400 spots held open for RD (1800*3). </p>

<p>733 Deferred + 30,054 = 30,787 RD / 5400 spots = 17.5% of acceptance IF it the process was some kind of dice roll.
It doesn’t matter what major you going for. In FACT, you aren’t even considering the people who chose UNDECIDED.
But of course, math forecasting is absolutely never accurate, and anyone believing anything by chance has to be seriously dillusional.</p>