<p>Just curious about this since I believe their student body is around 1/4 from New York solely. =)</p>
<p>I think you answered your own question, yes.</p>
<p>Well your forgetting the contract colleges which are meant to serve the top students in NY as well as the fact so many new yorkers apply. If anything its more difficult to get in from new york.</p>
<p>more people are from new york than elsewhere since Cornell's in new york so more people from new york apply.</p>
<p>at the endowed colleges doubtful. They definitely don't give more favor. I doubt they give less favor either, though they may slightly since they get a lot more applicants from new york than any other state. They do give favor to people applying from parts of the country with few applicants though IIRC. I guess the differential between applying from new york and applying from say kansas would be negative for new york implying less favor for new york residents, however I doubt its significantly different for say a new yorker than for say a new englander or a californian or other places with high volumes of the applicants.</p>
<p>for the contract colleges, impossible to actually know for sure but they claim they don't</p>
<p>Endowed Colleges: No. Being from NY makes no difference.
Contract Colleges: To get funding from NYS, the contract colleges have to take a certain percentage of NYS students. HOWEVER, an enormous amount of NYS students (far more proportionally than those from other states) apply to contract colleges, so the "admissions favor" is little to nonexistent.</p>
<p>The major reasons that Cornell as a whole (endowed + contract) has many NYS students is because as another poster said 1) it's IN New York, so HUGE numbers of NYS students apply and attend, and 2) New York produces a larger-than-average amount proportionally of students at many Ivies/equivalent schools (not just at Cornell).</p>
<p>Cornell gives biggest preference to people from Ithaca/the surrounding areas...Last year something like 90 kids got accepted from my school alone.</p>
<p>Really?!? Do you think that is because everyone at your schools applies? Do a lot of these kids parents work at Cornell? Because they would get fee tuition if they got in right... so I would assume that their parents make them apply.</p>
<p>Cornell definitely does NOT give favor to in-state students. I was deferred ED from HumEc and am an in-state applicant, and I know few people who applied to HumEc from NY and got accepted. If anything, it's harder to stand out in the applicant pool if you're a NY applicant.</p>
<p>For the sake of clearing up the argument, I think that we can all agree that the answer is yes and no. Yes, the contract colleges in theory are committed to admitting a good amount of NYS residents since NYS gives them a lot of $$, but no, the contract colleges in actuality do not have to favor NYS residents because they receive an enormous amount of applications to begin with.</p>
<p>It is impossible to say whether or not an in-state applicant has a harder, easier, or the same chance of getting into a contract college than an OOS applicant. It is possible that in state applicants have a harder chance of getting in, especially with the recent NYS funding cut, or it is possible that based on the percentage of in state vs OOS applicants, it works out such that everyone has the same chance of getting in... i don't know i give up.</p>
<p>I doubt it makes a significant difference. If you're a good enough student you'll get in regardless of where you live.</p>
<p>90 students from one school all got into Cornell? Wow.</p>
<p>Cornelli - Yeah. Tons of people's parents work at CU so they either get free or reduced tuition...I would say on average it's probably around 1/4 of the graduating class that applies each year.</p>
<p>Coolbreeze - Yeah. 90 students from my school alone.</p>