<p>I am positive this question has been posited before (CC has become so expansive now that it can be difficult to track down threads), but I was wondering what the admission stats are like for each individual college at Cornell? I am aware that certain colleges have rather high admission percentages which tends to skew the overall admission stats, but I was wondering specifically what the stats are like for the College of Engineering (and more specifically computer science)?</p>
<p>That lists all the fall 2007 numbers (most recent as of now; new numbers should be coming out within a month or 2 for 2008). </p>
<p>One thing that skews the stats though are guaranteed transfers. GT's are included in those numbers which makes it look much easier for the schools that take a lot of GT's (CALS, ILR, and I think a couple of the others..engineering would not be one of them though). And I have seen it debated on CC as to whether they really include GT's or not, but I have been told directly by Cornell admissions over the phone that they are included which greatly inflates some of the stats.</p>
<p>Thanks, that was a great help. Do you think that it's possible most GT's apply to CALS, as they seem to have the most "skewed" stats of all?</p>
<p>GT's are only able to transfer to whichever school offered the GT. For example, if someone was offered a GT for biology in CALS, that is the only thing they could transfer to for it to be guaranteed.</p>
<p>I am not familiar with CALS on what percentage of external transfers are GT's, but for ILR I have heard it is in the neighborhood of 75% which heavily skewed the acceptance numbers on that PDF.</p>
<p>In addition to college, major selection is another important variable. AEM and biological sciences are relatively difficult to get into, whereas developmental sociology might not be. CALS doesn't seem to like undecided applicants. If you go that route, you should have a well-defined set of reasons why you want to study the subject to which you're applying imo.</p>
<p>how hard is it to transfer into CAS with a major in molecular biology (im not a GT)?</p>
<p>Not sure about that major in particular, but CAS is very difficult in general. According to that pdf i posted, in fall 2007 they only accepted 13.7% of applicants, and I would not be surprised if it was worse this year.</p>