The decision was made on 10/11/2023 to reduce # of students from ED pool but they never publicly announce it even on its own school website. This is a bad and immoral behavior at the best.
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I also donât like information being disclosed mid cycle.
Unlike some other T20s, Cornell has never filled a large percentage of their class in ED. The trend in the last 10 years of school published data has been a shrinking percentage of students being accepted ED. And, that data has been readily available.
One did ED and was deferred to regular decision but the other did not do ED so was waitlisted RD in March. Then was admitted within a couple of days of the May 1st acceptance date.
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This is the only publicly available discussion of in-state admissions at the contract colleges that Iâm aware of, and it suggests itâs little more than a tie-breaker:
âIn the three contract colleges at Cornell â CALS, Human Ecology and the ILR School â which are partially funded by New York State, being an in-state resident can give the applicant an extra edge. Tan said that when the contract colleges look at two applicants who are both âgreat,â the one from New York âmight get another look.ââ
Enrollment at the contract colleges tends to settle at around 50-50 in-state/OOS, and 25/75 at the others.
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It is possible the decrease in % accepted ED will be marginal, but the school needs to make the equity statement to be current and fashionable.
Expecting other elite schools to make similar statements. Itâs the times we live in.
Parent of an applicant here.
Both my wife and I are cornell grads (wife TWICE, undergrad and grad). NY residents
Son going ED with a 1470 SAT, GPA 101.5, valedictorian, captain of sports team and national HS. Trying for CAS CompSci.
Now one would think the chances are goodâŠyet from my read of past ED threads plus anectodotal comments of various admit officers, its still a crap shoot and I give my boy a 30% chanceâŠwhy?
Because from what I gather, your initial apps are read by grad students who are tasked with weeding outâŠand if you get a grad student who had a bad sleep the night before, or just broke up with their significant other, or is just in an ornery mood, it doesn;t matter your stats. So Iâve tempered my expectations and told my sonâŠapply to as many schools as you like and feel youâd be happy to go, and weâll figure it out. In other words, the application is out and you canât change whats going to happen so why stress. Cornell is just one of PLENTY of wonderful colleges to attend. Its not the name, its what you do in college that countsâŠand this is coming from a Cornell grad. Plenty of extremely succesful people who went to non-ivy schools, and plenty of screw ups who went ivy or second tier. Just be excited youâll be starting the next phase of your life and go from there.
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What a great perspective. Cornell has gotten soooo tough to get in, I liken applying there like entering a lottery. And you got your lottery ticket because you are a super smart rock star of a student. But itâs like a lottery because of the intense competition to get in. So definitely love the school that loves you back.
Has anyone received requests for 1st quarter grades.
my sonâs school sends them in automatically.
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I donât recall 100% but I read it somewhere saying that each application will be reviewed by more than one person (admission officer), it didnât mention a grad student. if you google about the Cornell admission process, there were several posts about it. Well, I do agree that Cornell is just one of the good schools. I just feel that my son has been working hard since kindergarten and mostly by himself. From K to now, all his grades are A or above, and in the high honor roll since. We didnât hire any tutors or extra studies for him. He did it all by himself. He loves teaching younger kids in his school. 2-3 years of volunteering in many school events. I recalled one time that he had a doctor appt after school and he asked me to drive him back after the appt because he loved mentoring the younger kids in tennis even though the session would end in 15 minutes. He ran for student govt and did a lot for his school. The school didnât rank students but the school gave him the Harvard Book Award last year.
Anyway, as a parent, I know that he has been a good kid and tried his best all by his will. I just wanted him to get to a good school that provides him with more opportunities to grow. All good schools are very difficult to get in these days. We already applied 6 EA (3 safety) and 5 more to go. A total of 12. half of them are top 50 schools and half of them are top 100 schools (based on the US news ranking of 2024).
Thatâs all.
No, but my sonâs school sent the transcripts til 11 grade. we asked the school for EA, but they donât send the 1st quarter grades.
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I wonder if you get denied for ED can you reapply to another school within Cornell for regular decision like CAS or ILR.
No. If denied in the ED round, you canât reapply RD.
Ok because I know someone who got denied engineering in the ED round and then reapplied to ILR for regular decision and got in.
I didnât get any idoc requests. Income $350k. Not expecting any aid. May be thatâs the reason no doc requests in idocs.