Cornell ED Class of 2025 Discussion Thread

@katespade3333

Are you an international or US applicant? If US where are you from?

No one asks someone flat out their stats, and if you haven’t noticed, I’m a parent.

I don’t share my son’s stats as I don’t think that’s proper, but he is more than qualified to apply to Cornell. If he wasn’t, he wouldn’t be wasting his time or their time with his application. Maybe he will get in, maybe he won’t. He is fortunate to be going to one of the top public high schools in our state as well as the country and we don’t take that for granted for a second. We know there are people in this country and the world that don’t have those opportunities. While he has to sit home all year on a computer to take classes remotely which is less than ideal, we know there are some students who are home that do not even have access to computers or have internet access. But even with all those advantages, a great test score (because he took it early junior year), excellent grades and rigor, EC’s, work, etc. it still may not be enough and that is ok. Life goes on. He may have a 36 and a 4.0 or not, but at the end of the day, that still may not be a good enough fit for Cornell. In 2 days we will all know.

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Follow-up-question: Are internatinal students judged with American/NYC applicants or are they judged seperately. If yes, are they judged based on their country?

ED apps are up 36% not 50%. No need to freak everyone out with that number.

6615 last year, 9000 this year.

Increase % = (9000-6615)/6615 = 36%

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International students will be compared with other applicants from their country or region.

International applicants are evaluated in the context of their region.

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Do we think that they’ll admit more kids ED due to more applications, or admit the same amount as usual and get a lower acceptance rate?

A Cornell’s Provost of Enrollment saying this and parents and others hearing it is not speculation. This was posted by many sourced. But again, it is irrelevant.

All that matters is you and your application. It will drive you crazy trying to guess what they want and if it was good or not that someone submitted a score.

Cornell already announced that they were not increasing enrollment. Since ED is binding and they don’t need to worry about yield, I would expect them to admit the same as usual.

I think RD in the spring may look different because of yield forecasting/management.

I figured they don’t want to raise enrollment. I meant do we think that they’ll accept a higher percent of the class ED?

For the last year they have said they had planned to have a bigger freshman class because they are building 5 new dorms. 2 to open this fall, and 3 for fall 2023. The ones for this fall however, are for sophomores. They now have said they plan to use those for freshman. They did not however have a smaller class of freshmen this year, but have still said they expect to enroll a bigger freshman class. The goal ultimately was to require all freshman and sophs to live on campus (which includes sororities and fraternities). Right now only freshman are required.

It is also expected but not confirmed that they plan to take a larger ED class as this is what other schools have said and are doing and has been the trend of Cornell over the past few years anyway.

One problem with a larger freshman class however, is course registration is an ongoing problem. Students continuously can’t get into their courses and there are not enough sections. Not sure how they expect to fix this if they don’t have enough staff or space to hold these classes. Their registration is a mess and how they haven’t figured out a better system is beyond me. It is a free for all and ridiculous. Every class (all freshman for instance) register at the same time. No preference is given to the number of hours you have, etc. So if you are actually a sophomore by hours, you still register with freshmen, which can really mess someone up who is on a faster track.

If you get in, make sure you plan your courses accordingly for these kinds of things. It can really be a nightmare.

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I said almost 50 percent.

The quote from admissions is over 9000. So yes if the final number of ED applications is exactly 9000 it is up 36 %. And if the total is 9999, then it is up 51 percent.

My guess is it is somewhere in the middle.

Either way ED applications are up enormously from last year.

And @srparent15 I was not referring to your posts as gossipy or implying they were not fact based. I was speaking in general about the posts on this site (if you need an example–the 23% figure, which if true, has not been sourced to my knowledge).

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I’m an international applicant from India applying to CoE. Hahaha I figured you were a parent. I’m more than happy to share my stats tho:

1520 SAT
42/45 minimum predicted IB
IGCSE: 8 A* 1 A

Don’t worry, you will see tons of stats from domestic and international students after decisions come out. Just check last year’s forums to see what happens.

oh ok then!

ohh never mind then

which major??

mine: BME

I haven’t seen the 23% stat anywhere… but I will say that I know many kids, including my son, who submitted scores and their schools at Cornell (SHA and Dyson) have said they will not look at them. I assume the 23% is most likely much higher. The submission rate is probably similar to in most years as opposed to the “look at” rate. It’s all very interesting this year.

just regular mechanical engineering

Yes if that figure were available, I would only be interested in the percentage of students who submitted scores to test optional Cornell colleges.

For the Cornell schools that said they are not considering scores, I would hope the percentage that submitted them is completely irrelevant as they should not be considering any regardless of whether they were submitted.

I am A&S which is scores optional and submitted my scores.

Does anyone know what % of applicants are international? I heard it was around 10% but I’m unsure.