<p>some stats I got from the arts and sciences dean at Cornell days. acceptance rate is for class of 12 for CAS: a little over 16000 applicants, a little over 2000 admits. Thoughts?</p>
<p>Your point?</p>
<p>wooaaa im totally going to cornell now!</p>
<p>2000 admits?
No, that is assuming 100% yield
There are 2000 people per class in CAS.
They likely accepted around 3200 to make for a 50% yield, which would still give a pretty sweet admit rate of 20%.</p>
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2000 admits?
No, that is assuming 100% yield
There are 2000 people per class in CAS.
They likely accepted around 3200 to make for a 50% yield, which would still give a pretty sweet admit rate of 20%.
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They don't have 2000 a class.... their freshman class is a little over 1000</p>
<p>Wow. I just did some research and you're right.. it's only around 1000.</p>
<p>It doesn't say how many applied to CAS though. Given Cornell's popularity, I wouldn't be surprised if 16K people applied to CAS alone.</p>
<p>Lol, but less surprising now that I got wait-listed from CAS last year.</p>
<p>that's before use of the waitlist =p</p>
<p>I find it hard to believe. </p>
<p>Last year CAS accepted 2,600 students and 1,000 students enrolled, out of a pool of 14,600 students. Unless they were extremely aggressive with early decision this year (which they weren't), there is no way that they only accepted 2,000 students. Nor does Cornell play games with admissions and reject students that they think will be accepted elsewhere, so we lose on a lot of common admits to H, Y, and P. This will be especially true this year.</p>
<p>I suspect you are quoting regular decision numbers.</p>
<p>The fact that Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences is the third smallest in the League is correct, however.</p>
<p>But acceptance rates don't tell us anything. They don't tell you anything about the caliber of the student body, nor do the tell you anything about the quality of the undergraduate experience. So there's no reason to dwell on it.</p>
<p>I have the feeling that those troll posters who say bad things about Cornell (aka 'bad' ivy..) were Cornell rejects this year and ranting their hatred toward Cornell. Does anyone have the avg accepted SAT too? BC some people, as I recall, would like to see that. (some students bragging about how much more selective their school is compared to cornell wanted to see CAS sat range)</p>
<p>you're right there is no reason to dwell on it. Its just interesting. No arbiter, there is not point. Again, its an interesting fact. cayuga, the dean did not give me specifics, he just said "a little over 2000 accepted from a pool of a little over 16,000 applicants" Thus, 2,600 may have been the number accepted, in which case the acceptance rate is more like 16.25%. </p>
<p>Perhaps the usefulness of such a statistic lies in its use to those who are out to discredit Cornell as a fine institution, people who feel they must put it down to build themselves up.</p>
<p>btw, this was overall, RD and ED.</p>
<p>SAT averages are not broken down by college, but the general sense is that Cornell CAS has roughly the same statistics as Dartmouth and non-Wharton Penn.</p>
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Nor does Cornell play games with admissions and reject students that they think will be accepted elsewhere, so we lose on a lot of common admits to H, Y, and P. This will be especially true this year.
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Wrong! A friend of mine got into Harvard and MIT, but not Cornell.</p>
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but the general sense is that Cornell CAS has roughly the same statistics as Dartmouth and non-Wharton Penn.
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<p>Wharton students have higher SAT math and lower SAT verbal than CAS students, on average. I don't know if, on net, they are appreciably higher.</p>
<p>These look like RD rates. Penn's RD is about 11%, Brown and Dartmouth are about 9.5% RD.</p>
<p>no the 16.25% rate is total. RD is probably around 12%</p>