Anyone know? I’m thinking a three way tie between Columbia, Cornell, and Dartmouth.
<p>cornell, i believe</p>
<p>Definitely not Columbia. Cornell percentage-wise, I believe, and maybe in general as well.</p>
<p>The most recent book I read had them listed like this:</p>
<p>1-Hardest to get into, 8 is the easiest to get into</p>
<ol>
<li> Harvard</li>
<li> Columbia</li>
<li> Yale</li>
<li> Princeton</li>
<li> Brown</li>
<li> Dartmouth</li>
<li> Penn</li>
<li> Cornell</li>
</ol>
<p>However, pretty much every book/site has them ranked differently.</p>
<p>there's no such thing.</p>
<p>According to the College Board, it's Cornell if you base it percentage wise. And they also have Yale's admit rate at 9% while Harvard's is at 13%.</p>
<p>You should also take into consideration the school you are applying to. Cornell might be further down on the list because they have a program that's affiliated with the SUNY system and those schools tend to be easier to get into than say Cornell Engineering.</p>
<p>The college at Penn is also easier than Wharton, which is up there with HYP.</p>
<p>when will people realize there's no such thing as the "easiest ivy to get into"? if an admit rate for a school is 9%, 13%, or even 20%, it's still incredibly difficult. and there are many people that will get into harvard, yale, etc. but won't get into columbia, cornell, etc.</p>
<p>if you're going to have another thread like this, at least say "less difficult" as opposed to "easiest".</p>
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<p>of course they're all difficult but of all 8 schools, one of them has to be the easiest of the 8.</p>
<p>But it all depends on the college right? I mean, obviously it's going to be more difficult to get into CAS than agriculture.</p>
<p>There is no "easy" Ivy...they all are looking for something different in their applicants.</p>
<p>i thought it would always be brown as the easiest to get in. but isnt cornell one of the hardest for majors like hotel management, engineering and architecture?</p>
<p>If you jump off a twenty story building, what road surface is the softest to land on?</p>
<p>Seriously, the percentage rate is a totally useless number. If you browse through Barron's Profiles of American Colleges, there are a LOT of colleges where the median SAT score is around 1050 and the percentage rate is around 20%. You also see this with the service academies. West Point and the Naval Academy have percentage rates that rival Harvard, but the SAT ranges are not even close. The toughest college to get into each year based on percentage rates is typically the Coast Guard Academy at 7 or 8%. The percentage rate is an indicator of how many people applied, and not the selectivity of the college.</p>
<p>glucose: The idea that different ivies look for different things in the app is used as an explanation of why people are accepted to one but rejected to another, and vice versa. What is there in the app that makes Harvard say that they don't want you because you are more of a Yale person? Is it the test scores, the gpa, the way you fill in the blanks, the stellar EC's, the essay, or the recs? IMO, the fact that they have four/five extremely qualified applicant in the final cut for every open slot explains the apparent randomness of some of the acceptances. This is why it doesn't make sense to linearly rank the ivies in terms of difficulty. It is statistically true that some are easier than others, but this is only statistically, and not meaningful to an individual applicant for planning purposes.</p>
<p>I truly don't think any is the easiest. For example, our valedvictorian was accepted to Brown and Harvard, but waitlisted at cornell.</p>
<p>I think we all acknowledge the fact that Ivies are difficult to get into. However, some of them are definitely easier to get into than others. To answer the OP's question, it's Cornell.</p>
<p>Yes, I agree with gxing. I don't understand why people are getting so worked up and twisting the OP's meaning. He/she never said which ivy is easy to get into. Sure, all the ivies are difficult but because Cornell has the largest campus along with other factors, Cornell would be the easiest ivy to be accepted to.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the input. DOes anyone know if Cornell has a good business and medical school? And what rank it is?</p>
<p>I don't think that the basic question makes sense. If it were a 100% subjective question such as what fruit tastes best, then it would be more obvious that the question has no answer. I think this question is about as meaningless although the use of statistics make it seem more reasonable. Still, statistics still have to be viewed subjectively. You could ask which school has the highest percent accepted and get an answer. You could ask which school has the highest SAT's and get an answer. You could ask which school puts the most emphasis on EC's and maybe get an answer. I don't think there can be an answer to which school is "easiest" because you can't qualify the meaning of "easiest". The size of Cornell's campus doesn't make it easier if more people apply, and it could be the hardest if the people who apply have the higher academic measures (which could be true because of the engineering).</p>
<p>At any rate, what is the purpose of knowing. The randomness of the picks in the final cut between applicants with identical stats masks any statistical trends that you might find.</p>
<p>I think the better question would be which school as a percentage accepts the most students. the answer would be Cornell not because it is the easiest, but becasue it has 3 land grant schools which are part of the SUNY system -which means if you are a NYS resident you have a better chance of being admitted to these schools that a person who is from out of state. Alos take into consideration that the state school of agriculture has one of the largest enrollments (654) . the 2 other largest schools are Arts and sciences with a freshmen enrollment of 998 and the school of engineering with 709 </p>
<p>If one would back out the admissions numbers from the land grant schools, and do an admit rate on the other cornell undergraduate programs they admit rate is probably more aligned with columbia and dartmouth.</p>
<p>I am still trying to wrap my mind around how can a school which rejects almost 80 percent of it's applicants be an "considered" an easy school to get into?</p>
<p>Cornell's UNDERGRADUATE ENROLLMENT TRENDS Fall 2004</p>
<p>go to page 9- competitor comparisons:</p>
<p>*
Cornell enrolls a larger number of undergraduates thanany of our comparators. With a few exceptions, Cornell has twice as many undergraduates as all but three of its primary comparators. Typically, freshmen account for approximately a quarter of the undergraduate
population. Hence, while Cornell admits roughly 3,050 first-time freshmen, our closest Ivy comparator, University of Pennsylvania, has an entering class of approximately 2,400, while Dartmouth, and MIT are admitting closer to 1,000 new freshmen each year.</p>
<p>Cornells admit rate the proportion of students offered admission divided by the total number of applicants increased 1 percent from 27 percent in Fall 2002 to 28 percent for Fall 2003. Of our Ivy comparators plus MIT, in Fall 2003 Cornell and MIT experienced an increase (3 percent and less than 1 percent respectively). Dartmouth experienced a decrease of 3 percent while Yale had a 2 percent decrease. Brown, Columbia, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Harvard experienced a 1 percent or less decrease. The changes depicted are directly and inversely related to the changes in the number of applications displayed in Figure 11 above (an increase in applications typically leads to a decrease in admit rates). As well, the general declines in admit rates are also related to increases in the number of students being admitted via early decision programs.*</p>