Easiest Ivy to get into?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>Is it true? I mean they do have the highest acceptance rate.</p>

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<p>Acceptance rate for people with that kind of mindset is really low.</p>

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<p>I lol’d (10char)</p>

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<p>These threads get old after the same question is asked time and time again. :(</p>

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<p>@ OP:
Yes, the generally consensus is that it’s the easiest to get into.
But saying that is like saying out of the 8 richest people in America, Michael Bloomberg’s the “poorest.” He has a net value of 17, 500 MILLION USD. Cornell is nothing to sneeze at.</p>

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<p>You clearly don’t understand how Cornell works and have obviously disregarded there being 7 undergrad colleges that the acceptance rate is cumulative over. Shoe, ■■■■■.</p>

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<p>Question.
So I see how each college within Cornell has its own acceptance rate. However, when we generally talk about Cornell’s acceptance rate, its not the sum of all the acceptance rates, but the average of all. So i do not see your argument as a valid point.</p>

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<p>yea I got pretty annoyed when ppl in my school talked about that
i mean, this is not the reason why I applied there, and I’m proud to be a big red 2014</p>

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<p>Like HonorsCentaur just posted, it’s ridiculous to say make the assumption that cornell is a “bad” school because it’s the easiest to get into… what a flawed assumption! FIRST OF ALL, there are some schools with higher rankings that have higher acceptance rates than schools of lower ranking (UChicago vs. Brown?.. and not that I’m a proponent of rankings but just using it in this situation). Cornell is an AMAZING school, and much harder than it’s silly acceptance rate insinuates. Um, and I also don’t understand why you would make a thread about this. Isn’t your question incredibly redundant? Asking whether Cornell is the easiest Ivy to get into if it has the highest acceptance rate? Um, duh.</p>

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<p>Several schools, including Cornell, have atypical special purpose colleges.</p>

<p>Someone do me a favor:

  1. post the acceptance rates of each of Cornell’s 7 undergraduate colleges, one at a time
  2. post the acceptance rates of each of Penn’s four undergraduate colleges, individually, one at a time
  3. Post the acceptance rates of each of Columbia’s three undergraduate colleges, individually, one at a time. (I’m excluding its BS Nursing program since I’ve only seen that as part of a combined BS/MS degree)</p>

<p>Then we can all see which is the easiest college to get into. By the % measure anyway.</p>

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<p>Please do us all a favor, and either DIAF or worse, go to Brown.</p>

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<p>I kind of like that Cornell is the “easiest Ivy to get into.” It means that relative to our peer schools, we have far more interesting people. I’d rather keep Cornell’s admission practices the way they are, and consequently stay ranked at the bottom of the Ivy League (as if anyone who matters gives a f**k), rather than being more exclusive at the expense of having to go to school with more violin-playing SAT drones than I already must endure.</p>

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<p>^agreed times 10000. </p>

<p>The thing I love about cornell is the diversity of personalities among students here. One of my good friends is a stereotypical man slut from rio de janiero, another one of my friends is a hipster from albany, another one of my friends is the most stereotypical vermont hippy type kid you can think of, another one of my friends is a piano genius that played at carnegie hall recently. I think that cornell would much rather have an interesting student body, than a student body with high stats.</p>

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<p>I mean, I suppose the OP has answered his own question. Yes, Cornell does have the highest acceptance rate. However, take a look at these stats:</p>

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<p>Cornell’s acceptance rate is the average of all its’ colleges; if you look at the arts and sciences rate, it’s on par with the rest of the ivy league (2722/16288, or 16.7%). However, combined with the rest of the colleges, the rate lowers a little as some other schools’ pools are self selecting, etc. As well, the median SAT is not as high as the rest of the ivy league because, for example, kids who have demonstrated passion for the hospitality industry don’t need high scores to get in to the hotel school.</p>

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<p>^ LOL, that document says over 1,000 kids applied without stating which college. I feel so bad for them.</p>

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<p>I don’t feel bad for them at all. Not even choosing a college shows a pathetic level of effort in the app. And don’t tell me that they might have “just forgotten”, you simply look over your app at least once and you’d notice such a glaring error.</p>

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<p>I’m going to have to agree here. I applied to twenty or so schools throughout this process, devoting a meticulous amount of effort towards making sure my application was in order. Making a glaring error is unforgivable in instances such as this one.</p>

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<p>I hate to say it, but a “sour grapes” kind of response really sounds defensive and insecure.</p>

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<p>I think that’s both an accurate and reasonable answer to the OP’s question.</p>

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<p>“Sounding defensive and insecure” is as much a product of the predispostions/preconceptions of the perceiver “hearing” those sounds as it is of the person who made the statement.</p>

<p>I personally don’t think it sounds that way at all; I know exactly what he is talking about. Whether I agree with him or not is another matter, but still.</p>

<p>My D2 actually didn’t apply to a certain university that might have appealed to her precisely because she felt the student body may not be that compatible with her, precisely along these lines. At that time she didn’t apply to Cornell either, but that’s neither here nor there.</p>

<p>I recall a post on the Columbia sub-forum quite a while ago speculating on the differences between the types of people who were at Columbia when they were there, vs. who might be there now, given its large rise in selectivity. They wondered how comfortable the prior student body would be at today’s version. This was very much in the same spirit as this post, and was not, IMO, defensive or insecure.</p>

<p>Cornell is a very diverse school. It’s got plenty of your violin players, no doubt. But plenty of other types as well. That is a unique aspect of the university that is inherent in the diversity of its various colleges and programs of study. </p>

<p>Nobody has to apologize for preferring that diversity, or some of its aspects at least. In fact people who feel that way belong at Cornell.</p>