<p>These were stats I got from an associate dean at CAS at cornell days. acceptance rate was for class of 2012 CAS. Thoughts?</p>
<p>it seems a little hard to believe. last year's admit rate for cas was about 17% according to the admit/applicant breakdown per college. yea, dropping 4+% in a single year seems unrealistic</p>
<p>yeah that sounds a little low...i've heard other people come back from cornell days with stats that sounded similarly too difficult. sounds like cornell might be exaggerating a lil</p>
<p>I suspect you are quoting regular decision numbers. Otherwise, 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>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>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%, which is also realistic. This is for RD and ED.</p>
<p>the overall school dropped from about 25% to 18% acceptance rate. </p>
<p>With the big population push surging through college admissions right now, all the top schools dropped their admit rates. 4% isn't that absurd.</p>
<p>It also doesn't say anything about the school. If 400,000 people happened to apply to Cornell, it would have the lowest admit rate in the country based on available spots. Would that change the school itself? Nope.</p>
<p>the overall admit rate dropped only from 20.5% to 20.4% this year</p>
<p>Cornell</a> Early Admissions Numbers Released | The Cornell Daily Sun</p>
<p>^that article was published even before when the RD results came out.</p>
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<li>we're talking about CAS not the whole school w/ all of its niche majors.</li>
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<p>oops i cited that wrong, whatever</p>
<p>Maybe most of the increase in applications was directed towards the College of Arts and Sciences, much of it by people told by their counselors that this is the toughest year to apply to universities and therefore to apply broadly. (so they choose Cornell when they wouldn't have otherwise)</p>
<p>I can imagine a lot of these students choosing to apply to CAS because some students can't research too much about the university when choosing 12+ colleges to apply to and therefore choose the most general college in their Cornell application. </p>
<p>This might partly account for the 12.5% acceptance rate if it is true.</p>
<p>AEM was 11.6 according to the info they supplied at Cornell days.</p>
<p>Don't forget the fact that Cornell also implemented the dual decision program just this year...so many students who didn't get into A&S were bumped over to another college</p>
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<p>I didn't think so either. (Normally schools like WashU and Tufts are known for doing this). But, that all changed when one of my friends got into Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth, but was waitlisted at Cornell. This person actually showed a lot of interest too! (visited twice, local info session, interviewed). So, I'm afraid that the obsessed-about-rankings bug might have possibly just started to infiltrate the school.</p>
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<p>That's disappointing to hear. I could believe getting into one of those schools and not Cornell, but not all three.</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, which college did the student apply to at Cornell?</p>
<p>College of Arts and Sciences. And yes, it is disappointing to hear. But, since this is the ONLY person I have heard of this from, I don't think we can 100% confirm that this is why they waitlisted her. But yes, I agree, I have heard of getting into only one of these schools and not Cornell, but it seems unlikely for all three.</p>
<p>can't read too much into one WL bcos it could be something as simple as a theater or calc class, and/or who the reader is. For example, AdOfficer (I think) said that he favors kids who take calc, whereas one of his admissions colleagues at the same college gives a tip factor to kids who have been in HS theater -- sometimes its just the luck of the (reader) draw.</p>
<p>Arts and Sciences is really funny at Cornell. </p>
<p>At least for my high school, I always feel that there are very qualified students who should get into Cornell CAS -- who would be a notch above a fair number of CAS students that I interacted with -- but get rejected. They end up pretty happy elsewhere -- not at the other Ivies, but at places like Bowdoin or Georgetown. </p>
<p>It's pretty mystifying, and I know that they definitely would have been accepted to most of the other colleges at Cornell in the blink of an eye.</p>
<p>I thought they didn't do interviews for CAS?</p>
<p>Does this mean that other Ivys can stop making fun of Cornell about its (relatively) high acceptance rate? Because Cornell is a great school and I look forward to going there in the fall = )</p>