<p>I haven't seen this posted yet, so I thought I'd go for it. </p>
<p>Interesting stuff</p>
<p>24.68 percent overall acceptance rate, but only about 20% in AAP and CAS.</p>
<p>the only big surprise was the drop in the yield for ILR, oof! Eh, 1 bad year in 20 is ok (besides, the yield for ilr is still above a few others at Cornell including CAS).</p>
<p>also, another big surprise was the transfer acceptance rate for CAS ... 7%!!</p>
<p>guy, if you haven't realized, the quality of students isn't rising. All that is happening is that Cornell looks artificially more competitive.</p>
<p>Look at the percent of students 700+ on the sat verbal. 39 percent is ridiculously low compared to peer institutions.</p>
<p>This is the class of 2010. I have the profile for the class of 2007 in my folders.</p>
<p>This is how it read</p>
<p>37 percent for 700+ students for verbal and 59 percent for math.</p>
<p>Therefore, within a three year gap, Cornell doesn't seem to be attracting better students.</p>
<p>As much as people will disagree with me, the students around you are essential in a college experience. If Cornell doesn't find a way to attract better kids, it's gonna fall behind. This is precisely why everyone thinks that Cornell is an ivy safety. With these kind of numbers, it is in my mind.</p>
<p>A lower acceptance rate means nothing in my opinion. As a Cornell student and supporter of Cornell, this terribly disappoints me, to see a worldclass school stagnating. You guys can berate me all you want, but realize, what I am saying has some validity to it.</p>
<p>Hrm.
Some significant things.</p>
<p>Huge spike in applicants over the past two years (23,129 in 2004 to 30,577 in 2006), but yield has lowered significantly as well (53.0% in 2004 to 48.8% in 2006).</p>
<p>Transfer decisions were BRUTAL this year... lucky for the GTs!
I cannot believe over 200 people with verbal SATs of less than 550 were accepted (114 for Math). </p>
<p>Does anyone know if they have separate profiles for international students?
I am international student, scored 1550 and was rejected for freshmen (accepted for transfer however), and this data makes me angry. I know, I know, scores don't mean everything (I will be honest in saying that my essays were rushed), but I was also Valedictorian and had pleothora of state-level awards (couple of national level), and my recommendations, while not "best in my career", were certainly glowing (both teachers were candid and let me read the recommendations, despite my protest).</p>
<p>geez people, too much emphasis is put on the SAT here. </p>
<p>also, the % of students in the top 10% of the class has risen. sounds to me like a good indication of an improving student body. </p>
<p>"I have the profile for the class of 2007 in my folders"</p>
<p>why????</p>
<p>so bball- are you staying or going??</p>
<p>" Look at the percent of students 700+ on the sat verbal. 39 percent is ridiculously low compared to peer institutions."
I have a suggestion on how to improve that... Cornell should accept me as part of the class of 2011. That way everyone is happy. :)</p>
<p>lol bball you are semi-trolling. Are you going to accept one of the schools you got into to transfer? I still give Cornell great credit because they are looking beyond just the SATs (yet still staying EXTREMELY competative) which some people seem to be over obsessed with.</p>
<p>Also yield is getting lower because people are applying to MANY more colleges than ever before.</p>
<p>It's funny that 1,114 people didn't put down one of the 7 colleges in their apps and NONE of them got accepted. oy</p>
<p>I was also suprised by ILR yield. Hotel's is HIGH and I was also suprised that Arch's wasn't as high as Hotel's</p>
<p>the yield for the arch. program itslelf is extremely high. But, it's not as high for art and urban planning, which takes up over half the population of the incoming class so it tends to downplay the yield for the specific arch. program.</p>
<p>i dont get why they have 700-800 but then 650-699
they should make it 750-800</p>
<p>actually architecture makes up 1/3 of the entire AAP with around 600-700 students applying to architecture itself...which means the acceptance rate this year must have dropped a lot.</p>
<p>Did anyone else notice that only 57% of Human Ecology students were in the top 10% among ranking high schools? That was a significant drop from the steady 80% range.</p>
<p>Cornell is going up in ranks so stop doubting. If simple stats that probably don't even involve ur specific college worry u that much then it is kinda sad...</p>
<p>Bball I don't get why u r doing this, but you really need to stop trolling. You may not have liked Cornell, but u don't need to rampage the boards with Cornell bashing. I keep finding you bashing Cornell on all of these different threads. Please show some respect. Thank you</p>
<p>i have a ton of respect for Cornell---i just said, they need to do a better job to keep themselves competitive. Just lowering an adcceptance rate means nothing, if the quality of students is slipping. Cornell at this time, has like similar stats with a place like Cal Berk. Is that what you want Cornell to become?</p>
<p>How do you know the quality of students isn't improving? Simply because the avg. SAT score isn't moving up as much as you would like? Cornell is always going to lag behind its Ivy peers in SAT scores because it has two entire schools that heavily deemphasize SAT's (Hotel and Architecture) because great hotel managers and architects don't necessarily have to have 1500 SAT scores. You were whining about the avg. SAT scores of Cornell students before you even came here and now a year later you are still doing the same thing. You are rarely in this forum to answer questions about Cornell. The only times I see you post is to b*tch about Cornell's admissions numbers.</p>
<p>Looks like bball is going to Rice.</p>
<p>What do SAT scores actually mean to you anyway? It doesn't represent someone's potential or worth. I know a lot of people who do well on the SAT's, but don't do very well in school, aren't committed to activities outside of school, and don't really contribute to anything. I don't know what you're obsessing over bball</p>