<p>What is the easiest school at Cornell to be admitted into?</p>
<p>This gets asked alot, and the answer is whatever school you are most interested in (and best fits you). While ILR may have a higher acceptance rate than arts and sciences, for example, good luck convincing the admissions people you belong in ILR when you love biology. It's not a good idea to apply to one college just because you think you will get in, becuase changes are you won't. If you love biology and want to be premed, you have a better shot at getting into CAS than ILR.</p>
<p>Engineering, if you have the numbers.</p>
<p>CayugaRed2005,
Getting the numbers is the hard part.</p>
<p>Well, it's certainly pretty easy to apply to Cornell Engineering with a 1400 SAT score (preferably with over a 730 math) and get accepted without a lot of additional legwork.</p>
<p>The same can't be said of all of the 1250 SAT applicants to the Hotel, Agriculture, or Architecture programs. They need to prepare extremely well for their interviews and make a convincing case that their high school and life experiences to date mean that they are the type of student who will get the most of of a Cornell education.</p>
<p>You can't just apply to the Hotel or Agriculture programs and expect to get in without a pretty clear devotion to the field.</p>
<p>CALS is a joke. You can go to a NY community college and if you get about a certain GPA you are basically guaranteed into their school. Look at the CALS site its there</p>
<p>A 1400 would still put you towards the lower end of the scale.</p>
<p>What, exactly, is a joke about founding an institution that strives to let an person find instruction in any study?</p>
<p>^ Umm..that's only if you're a guaranteed transfer, CCFanatic. Those are given to a select few who WOULD have been admitted anyway, but didn't quite make it.</p>
<p>Sorry..you're wrong.</p>
<p>Don't fuel the fire...</p>
<p>Personally..I think CALS can be quite difficult to gain admission to (and what I'm about to say can really apply to many of the colleges). There are so many niche majors and the CALS adcom focuses more on your fit to the college and your intended program of study. You can have a perfect GPA and SAT scores, but if you show no interest they will reject you. Sure, the average SAT is lower than the other colleges...but Cornell gave a chance to those students who truly want to study whatever field they applied to and I've found that those students are the ones who truly succeed.</p>
<p>And Engineering has the "highest acceptance rate," but it's so self-selected that the quality standards are the same or better than other colleges at Cornell. Especially since it has the reputation of being, well, impossible, it really discourages people who aren't interested in engineering.</p>
<p>The thing is, there is no "easiest school to get into." It really depends on who you are and what you're looking for, and even then you might not WANT to apply to the "easiest" school for you if it really isn't what you want to do. Apply based on where you want to be, and hope for the best.</p>
<p>If CCFanatic TRULY disliked Cornell he would refrain from posting here. I think he is just jealous or has an extreme lack of confidence.</p>
<p>Honestly, it really does depend. Niche schools like Hotel/Architecture can be ridiculously difficult to get into. But, I dont think you need to be that academically qualified to make it into the hotel or ag school. You just have to show specific interests. But, I truly believe the most academically qualified students will be found in the engineering school. Assess your strengths and interests and apply accordingly.</p>
<p>CALS and Engineering seem really similar, though...</p>
<p>Hotel if you can find a good internship your senior summer.</p>
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<p>CALS admission has always been a mystery to me. I found a number of the aspiring farmers somewhat... lacking academically, shall we say. So, in many cases I would wholeheartedly agree with you for certain niche programs. On the flip side, I studied in 3 different schools at Cornell and never noticed any great difference in academic quality between the students in the programs in which I studied. </p>
<p>One of my good friends who is incredibly smart and graduated from NYU Law had to have his father beg and plead to let him into CALS. The school rejected him, insisting that he could not handle the academic rigor. Somehow, they let him transfer in after a couple years and he took one of the easier majors. So, it's hard to say who was right.</p>
<p>Either way, I wouldn't build false hope that they just let anyone in who demonstrates interest in a field. Like I said, I find their admissions policy somewhat of a mystery.</p>
<p>There is no 'easy' school to get into. Cornell's admissions standards are rigourous. If you want to get into Engineering, you should have 1450+ SATs and near perfect SAT IIs and something impressive on your applications. There are hardly any weak candidates in the Engineering school namely because of Cornell's decentralized admissions procedures.</p>
<p>people often say CALS is a joke for admissions, but the AEM program is in CALS and is the hardest program to get accepted to right now</p>
<p>"people often say CALS is a joke for admissions, but the AEM prograem is in CALS and is the hardest program to get accepted to right now"</p>
<p>how? Based on average stats of the incomming class? Well, no, it's not the hardest in that regard. Based on the sheer % of applicants who were admitted? Again, no. The architecture program accepts a lower percentage (but has lower incomming stats), while engineering accepts a much higher percentage of students (but their stats are sky high).</p>
<p>its a little more holistic than that</p>