<p>Does anyone know if Cornell has released the number of ED applicants who applied and the number accepted for 2010? Is there ever any information that breaks down these numbers by college/major? Also, is it possible to find the current number of students in specific majors from prior years?</p>
<p>I think the info is in the Admissions Statistics sticky . . .</p>
<p>I meant mainly for this year. My friend got into Brown and he already knows how many applicants there were ED and how many were accepted. Also, I can't find numbers of students per major/department for the students after sophmore year. I was trying to gauge the size of my department. I know its small, but I really like numbers.</p>
<p>This was the post from the Admissions Statistics Thread:</p>
<p>Below, I've provided some information about our Early Decision process. Please note that these are not final statistics; rather they are a snapshot of where we stood as of Friday, December 16. </p>
<p>Early Decision Update</p>
<p>We received 2836 early decision applications for 2005-2006. This represents an increase of 11% from 2004-2005. The acceptance rate for early decision is 39%, down from last year's rate of 41.7%. </p>
<p>The following information reflects an early picture of the Early Decision applicants for the Class of 2010:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>1106 admitted students (1068 admitted students for 2004-2005)</p></li>
<li><p>47.6% female, 52.4% male (50.8% are female, 49.2% are male for 2004-2005)</p></li>
<li><p>19.1% of those admitted are legacies (19.6% for 2004-2005)</p></li>
<li><p>8.4% of those admitted are Underrepresented Minorities (7.3% for 2004-2005)</p></li>
<li><p>Enrolled approximately 36% of our class through Early Decision (35% in 2004-2005)</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Thank you to all of you who conducted conversations with students during the Early Decision application process. For those of you holding applicant receptions in January and February, thank you for your efforts!</p>
<p>Best wishes from Ithaca,</p>
<p>Jason C. Locke
Director
Undergraduate Admissions Office</p>
<p>I know, but what I was wondering is if there was a link out there I missed that goes into the statistics more deeply, like the one with the registrar.</p>
<p>wow, this is gonna be a hell of a year for regular decision kids. from the ED pool there were more overall applicants (+11%), more qualified applicants accepted ED (+3.5%), yet, at the same time, a lower acceptance rate.....(-2%)</p>
<p>Yeah, I am so glad that I applied ED!</p>
<p>guys i hope u all realize it's becomin more and more difficult for ur ordinary citizen to get asccepted
" 19.1% of those admitted are legacies (19.6% for 2004-2005)</p>
<ul>
<li>8.4% of those admitted are Underrepresented Minorities (7.3% for 2004-2005)"</li>
</ul>
<p>which means for ordinarioes, its lwer
if ur an international...the core of the earth's the limit wrt to acceptance rates</p>
<p>Also, filling a larger percentage of the class ED leaves fewer spots open, which means they can lower the regular acceptance rate and get a higher overall yield (ED yield = 100%). Smart.</p>
<p>it would be sweet if the RD acceptance rate was lower than 25%.</p>
<p>sweet for us and our egos hahaha</p>
<p>Overall acceptance rate < 25% and overall yield > 50% would be nice.</p>
<p>Ya they're definitely thinking about all of that. They even have CHARTS! <a href="http://dpb.cornell.edu/irp/pdf/Reports/UG_Enroll_Trends_2004.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://dpb.cornell.edu/irp/pdf/Reports/UG_Enroll_Trends_2004.pdf</a></p>
<p>It would make us look better, but I think if there is enough room they should take as many students as possible. But I was wondering if there was any way to figure out how many students are in each major. How much better are the research opportunities for a smaller major?</p>
<p>We're already huge. More students would just increase class sizes, make housing more difficult, and make buses more crowded. I think the freshmen class size should be made 2500...</p>
<p>Increasing class sizes would only result if the other facilities and faculty remain stagnant. If you increase the size of the faculty and build more resources then it is possible to both allow more students and lower class sizes. This is especially true because you will be bringing in more sources of revenue with more students.</p>
<p>Keeping the faculty size the same while reducing the number of students would reduce the acceptance rate, increase the endowment-per-student, and decrease the student:faculty ratio. These would improve Cornell's U.S. News ranking dramatically. This would create serious momentum to increase the number of applicants and raise the yield rate for years to come.</p>
<p>I know that would improve the selectivity stats and rankings, but would reducing the students cause a future gap in the amount of money Cornell would be able to bring in? Unless you decrease the amount of students so that the total net loss in money in the future has a negligible effect because the population trend of children maturing in the future drops. But even then, you have so many children applying to the college you would probably be able to maintain current numbers.</p>