<p>Cornell intends to have classes of 3050 incoming students each Fall.
Link to Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Fall 2005 <a href="http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000339.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000339.pdf</a></p>
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The current enrollment planning process focuses intensely on a first-time freshman enrollment target of 3,050 students. It is especially important to be disciplined about first-year enrollment targets given that all freshmen are housed within the North Campus Residential Initiative.
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<p>Up until this year, Fall 2006, they had been doing a relatively good job in hitting their target enrollment.</p>
<p><a href="http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000002.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000002.pdf</a>
Fall 2005 - 3108 students; 46.9% yield
Fall 2004 - 3093 students; 50.4% yield
Fall 2003 - 3202 students; 50.5% yield
Fall 2002 - 3064 students; 49.9% yield
Fall 2001 - 3043 students; 51.2% yield</p>
<p>Fall 2005 - 24452 applicants; admitted 6621; 27.0% admit rate
Fall 2004 - 20822 applicants; admitted 6130; 29.4% admit rate
Fall 2003 - 20441 applicants; admitted 6334; 30.9% admit rate
Fall 2002 - 21502 applicants; admitted 6133; 28.5% admit rate
Fall 2001 - 21519 applicants; admitted 5861; 27.2% admit rate</p>
<p>For Fall of 2004 they reduced the number admitted by 200 to avoid the over enrollment they had in 2003.
Fall of 2005 was Cornell's first year for the use of the common application, so they increased the admitted students assuming yield would drop.</p>
<p>Looking forward, we can expect them to admit fewer in the RD round next year, Fall of 2007, and their using the wait list to fill the class. </p>
<p>Students admitted from Wait List (From Common Data Set <a href="http://dpb.cornell.edu/F_Common_Data_Set.htm%5B/url%5D">http://dpb.cornell.edu/F_Common_Data_Set.htm</a> )
Fall 2005 - 209
Fall 2004 - 171
Fall 2003 - 4
Fall 2002 - 124
Fall 2001 - 55</p>
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A key element of the first-year freshmen enrollment plan was the construction of a conservative admit and yield model and the aggressive use of the waitlist. Students admitted from the waitlist are just as strong as students admitted through regular and early decision based on standard, quantifiable measures. Contrary to conventional wisdom, there has been no dramatic drop-off in academic quality when colleges admit from the waitlist. For an institution like Cornell, this is significant because we have such a large and strong applicant pool.
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