<p>Why is there such a big difference between the stats provided by the school and the people applying to cornell in this site?</p>
<p>All the people who are applying to cornell at cc seem to have 2200+ as a basis
but according to the common app</p>
<p>mid50% low/avg/high
SAT I Verbal: 630 | 680 | 730
SAT I Math: 670 | 720 | 770
SAT Combined: 1,300 | 1,400 | 1,500</p>
<p>i know that this is only the mid50% but still, i think the difference is quite big...?</p>
<p>One does not apply to “Cornell”, one applies to one of its particular colleges. Each of these individual colleges has its own individual applicant pool, with individual SAT mid-ranges, and admit %s, and other unique admissions profile considerations. They are not all the same as each other. Consequently using some aggregate called “Cornell” will quite likely to give you a misleading notion as to your actual odds at the college there that you will really be applying to.</p>
<p>Here is some data applicable to the individual colleges there, I suggest you use these as your guide, and not any university-wide aggregated data.</p>
<p><a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000003.pdf[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000003.pdf</a>
<a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000176.pdf[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000176.pdf</a>
<a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000177.pdf[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000177.pdf</a></p>
<p>A nuance to this is that certain majors in the contract colleges (eg the business program in CALS) must be pre-specified and are known to have more selective admissions than the overall college, however I haven’t seen numbers for these individual majors broken out.</p>
<p>It may be that the majority of CC posters whose stats you are noticing are applying to one of the colleges and/or programs there that have higher medians than the university average.</p>
<p>SATs aside, each of the specialty colleges at Cornell is the best or near the best of its type in the country. Someone with a strong affinity for the particular program of studies that a particular college there offers will be hard pressed to find a stronger program to pursue such studies, So they may choose to apply, even if their stats appear a bit on the high side for that school, due to its unique curriculum and excellence in that field. </p>
<p>Moreover, most of the specialty colleges are more selective than their SAT medians would suggest. An applicant’s fit with the particular college’s program of studies is a factor in admissions, quite aside from SATs.</p>
<p>Finally,the “contract colleges” there are cost-advantaged for NYS residents, some people undoubtedly apply to one of these for financial reasons. Some of such applicants may be a little high on stats but a little low on $$.</p>
<p>
You do realize this is out of 2400?
And this is out of 1600?</p>
<p>CC.com is also a self-selecting group that more than likely has higher than average SAT scores. Those who are that serious about it to look up on an internet forum an ddisucss it and post their stats probably care more where they go. Those that care more will generally work harder than average in school.</p>
<p>do you also have the data for the SAT scores from each college at johns hopkins ?because i couldnt find it…</p>
<p>Why wouldn’t you ask on the Johns Hopkins page?</p>
<p>-morrismm
um, obviously i do know that those stats are out of 1600
i’m not that stupid</p>
<p>and monydad
thanks
that helped a lot :)</p>
<p>Really? You were comparing 2200 out of 2400 to scores based on 1600. Shouldn’t you be comparing Cornell’s averages based on 2400 to the cc averages you observed based on 2400?</p>
<p>hey
apparently cornell doesn’t publish its writing average scores (at least i couldn’t find it)</p>
<p>and i wasn’t really comparing the ‘absolute’ values of the two scores;i was just indicating that the score range ‘seems’ to be higher than it seemed in the stats</p>
<p>i don’t get why you’re fussing so much about it</p>