by the way, no disrespect to tufts. that’s just urban dictionary lingo
We have to be so diplomatic all the time lest a snowflake have a meltdown.
How many people does Cornell CALS accept every year?
@ivydreamer2021, ~800 students are admitted every year (high deviation).
@nuttyprofessor Can you estimate my chances and did you apply to CALS?
@ivydreamer2021 come on man. decisions are on thursday lol.
@mdchang I understand that, but I would like some other opinions as well.
Waiting anxiously on CALS too, hopefully we all get in!
@victorialugo wait what other financial aid things did they request?
@ivydreamer2021 i mean i got into hopkins with my stats that are similar to yours. I think we’re competitive for cals.
Waiting on CALS too.
@chrchill Highly debatable. Johns Hopkins acceptance rate is last year 11.4 percent. Cornell acceptance rate 14.1 percent. That’s hardly different leagues. Any school with a sub 20 percent acceptance rate becomes somewhat unpredictable due to the minimal statistical differences between applicants. What one school admits is another schools reject.
@spemmar1 agreed.Rankings are really subjective. I think if you ask any non-applicant/academic about Cornell and JHU, nobody is really regurgitating rankings from their heads
@spemmar1
True, but you need to look at the individual admit rates for each of cornells colleges. Overall, they total about 14 percent of applicants. However, in the case of CALS ( which is in question here ) that number is closer to 20%, around 19.2 I believe as of 2015. I would say if you manage to get into Hopkins, and can stave off Tufts (demonstrated interest and etc), you have a good shot of an admit
@realperson2990, are you saying that the admit rate for CALS is 20%? That doesn’t sound right.
@elise303
https://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000003.pdf
It’s a little outdated, but I did see a more accurate document with similar number, I’ll keep digging
I just looked at that .pdf and it’s interesting that over a thousand applicants didn’t pick a college to apply to; were those accidental/errors? Weird.
@realperson2990, well yes, those are the stats. I bet though that they are wildly different stats from more recently. I would love to know how many of those acceptances are from NY state, but I know this info will not be released. I am not from NY.
Is it true that students from New York state have a higher admit rate? or is this just a myth.
@realperson2990 Looking at each individual college with Cornell in terms of acceptance rates is equally irrelevant when you are talking single digit percentage rate differences between Cornell or JHU. For example, Dyson which is within CALs is expected to have slightly less than a 7percent acceptance rate this year. However it’s also a small very competitive business program. Again, my point is that most schools with under 20 percent overall acceptance rates are considered peer institutions. None of them are in completely different leagues from one another. While Stanfords 5 percent acceptance rate sounds significantly more intimidating than Cornells 13-14 percent acceptance rate. In the real world your talking about one school denying 95 out of 100 applicants versus another school denying 87 out of 100 applicants. I doubt there are too many gamblers that would want to play either schools admissions games with those sad odds.