<p>talked to a person today in the admissions office, said its "unlikely" that they will go to the waitlist.</p>
<p>Sad, Yale has already accessed its wait list.</p>
<p>^ Yeah so has Columbia…</p>
<p>Will that effect Yale and Columbia’s low acceptance rates? Sometimes I think that they go for those single-digit acceptance rates, knowing they’ll have to take some off the wait lists. For the past couple of years, Cornell’s acceptance rate has been higher, but they’ve not had to use the wait list. It seems they do a better job of figuring out how to do admissions.</p>
<p>Dartmouth has accessed it too. On top of that It has been heard that Harvard is taking admits from the waitlist at a single digit basis. It has also been heard that Harvard isn’t using waitlist. Their expected yield was 75%. 77% SIRd</p>
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<p>And cares less about petty, meaningless numbers like admissions rates.</p>
<p>Anyone know Cornell’s yield this year? I am betting it is slightly over 50%, but I’m not sure. My geographical area had a really high yield to Cornell this year; it was about 85%!</p>
<p>My region is yielding over 50 percent (first time in years that this region yielded this high).</p>
<p>Considering the fact Cornell over enrolled last year, I am sort of annoyed they didn’t try to lower their acceptance rate more. Cornell beats every non-Ivy/Stanford/MIT university in yield, yet some of these colleges (at least before they had to use their waitlists) had lower acceptance rates than Cornell. They are certainly playing the game more than Cornell is… </p>
<p>Though, at least these schools (i.e. Wash U, Vanderbilt, etc.) seem (and are) more shallow in their admissions policies than Cornell is.</p>
<p>Cornell could have easily pulled off a 16% admit rate for this year.</p>
<p>But who cares man, admit rate doesn’t affect the quality of education that we’ll get next year, and it won’t be Cornell’s USNWR rating that determines the job we’ll get when we graduate.</p>
<p>^True. And who knows, we may not have gotten in if they had done that lol</p>
<p>From my son’s school all five students that got admission are attending. 2 got in ED and 3 got in RD.</p>
<p>My daughter was on the waitlist in 2009, when they didn’t go to the waitlist she and several others on the list were given guaranteed transfer for the following year. She didn’t use it since she was very happy with the school she attended, but for those of you who really want to go to Cornell, don’t give up hope.</p>
<p>i got that ^ but im not using it- happy where am i too.
plus im deferring a year so i couldnt even use it if i wanted to.</p>
<p>I am on the waiting list this year for the CAS. Would I know by now if I were being offered a guaranteed transfer?</p>
<p>^GT is only an option for the contract schools (so you’re out of luck if you applied to CAS).</p>
<p>Oh, I didn’t realize that. Thank you for the help.</p>
<p>Amory122- don’t worry, if you get in off the wait list, and cornell is what you want, then great. if you don’t get in, don’t get upset. There are a lot of great colleges out there. Many people, especially from NY, go to a SUNY school over Cornell - and the reason is not always financial. Even many students from states like Michigan and California select their state schools over Cornell - about 1/2 the time according to the survey that was done. A lot of colleges out there with a lot of great programs. Cornell is a very good school. I’m going. But unless it is someting like HYPS, there are probably hundreds every year that take their state school over Cornell. Wherever you go, good luck and you will do just fine!</p>