Cornell Admission Data 2012 Released

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<p>Admissions Data for Class of 2012 Released
April 3, 2008 - 12:00am
By Jasmine Marcus
<a href="http://www.cornellsun.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.cornellsun.com&lt;/a>
On Monday, the official mailing date for the Ivy League, the undergraduate admissions selection process for Cornell’s Class of 2012 was finished.</p>

<p>Cornell received 33,011 applications for freshman admission, an all-time high. This number represents a 9-percent increase over last year’s class, and a 17-percent increase over the past two years. Overall, there was a 20.4 percent admit rate for both Early Decision and Regular Decision applicants combined, a decrease from last year’s 20.5 percent rate.
In addition, 3,432 students were offered a place on the waitlist, an increase from last year’s 3,223 waitlisted students. There were also 19,305 students who were denied admission, up from 18,419 students last year.</p>

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<p>thanks starbound4444!</p>

<p>Hm...20.5% to 20.4%. Not much of a difference compared to the 4% drop in 2007</p>

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<p>This means cornell admitted 6730 students this year vs 6210 last year, that's extra 500 admits. Cornell is probably expecting yield to go down due to Princeton and Harvard's change of ED/EA policies. But if Cornell's prediction is wrong, then where are they going to put those extra students.</p>

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<p>Cornell has plenty of dumpsters behind the dorms.</p>

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<p>Wowwwwwwwwww...compared to Harvard, Yale and Princeton, we're pretty good. It's too bad that our grade is just so incredibly stacked and the grades after us are getting smaller and stupider.</p>

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<p>Probably bad news for waitlisters.</p>

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<p>More info here:</p>

<p>Presumably this is due to the fact that some schools have started foregoing early admission as well as concerns that the University will not be able to offer competitive financial aid packages.</p>

<p>The other thing to consider is how the adoption of the primary/secondary application system will affect the results. It's possible that a fair number of students were rejected from their primary college (e.g. Arts) but accepted by their secondary college (e.g. Human Ecology?), but the Human Ecology admissions committee is expecting a low yield on these applicants. So naturally the overall expected yield on regular decision students would decrease.</p>

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It's too bad that our grade is just so incredibly stacked and the grades after us are getting smaller and stupider.

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<p>I thought the current junior class (aka seniors 09) was supposed to be the most competitive class..? is this true?</p>

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<p>It is, interruptingcow.</p>

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<p>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (I'm a current junior) only if i were born 6 years later...why didnt my rents use a glove</p>

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<p>wow, i probably don't have to tell you that last part was TMI</p>

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<p>yeah the RD admit rate this year was around 18%, less than 1 in 5....
which should technically make those that got in feel better and those not to get in not feel as bad.....</p>