<p>That's higher than last year's yield at 49%, resulting in a larger than normal freshman class of 3356. Thankfully they didn't admit anyone from the waitlist, but I wish Cornell had the foresight to admit less people from RD.</p>
<p>FWIW, Rice also has an exceptionally large freshman class (+100), and I just heard that Wesleyan has 300 more freshman this year. I know Rice had more admitted students accept the offer of admission than they expected, and I assume it was a similar situation at Wesleyan. So the issue is not unique to Cornell.</p>
<p>I’m glad Cornell admitted a good proportion of students RD. That’s how my son got in! He just wasn’t ready to commit ED, to Cornell or anywhere else.</p>
<p>Although I’ve heard many schools didn’t go to their wait lists this year, our son has friends who got into Caltech and UVa from the wait list. In previous years, friends got in Harvard and Yale from the wait list.</p>
<p>It is a shame more schools aren’t able to offer spots to students on their wait lists, since there are so many more qualified applicants than most schools can accept.</p>
<p>We are very happy the college application process is over! Good luck to those of you working on applications for next year.</p>
<p>economy is bad. financial aid is the same. therefore need to admit more students to bring in more $$$</p>
<p>Cornell actually admitted fewer students last year (I believe 400) than the year before. It’s just they yielded more.</p>