<p>Its 36%, the same as last year roughly. This seems a bit high for an Ivy. Is Cornell that competative then? It seems easy to get into, easier than lets say Georgetown and Carnegie Mellon, both of which my bro got into will <2100.</p>
<p>First of all u have to figure the competitiveness of the applicant pool and that admit rate is fine for ED...a lot of people get in ED...it's just a fact of life lol</p>
<p>Cornell has 14,000 undergrads.....ALOT more seats to fill</p>
<p>Georgetown has 6,853
Carnegie Mellon....5,669</p>
<p>Columbia has an ED acceptance rate around 26%, which is pretty high also. That doesn't mean its not competitive.</p>
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<p>Half of the class were admitted during EA....not competitive? Like figgy said you have to look at the competitiveness of the applicant...</p>
<p>yea and didn't dartmouth have an ED admit rate of 29.7%, and upenn have an ED rate of 29% (class of 2011 oe 2012--not sure).</p>
<p>"Half of the class were admitted during EA....not competitive?"</p>
<p>that means half of the freshmen class at Harvard got in through ED ... not the ED acceptance rate was 50%. </p>
<p>The other ivies tend to admit a much higher percentage of their class ED, unlike Cornell. This allows the other ivies to admit fewer RD and boast the "well, we admitted only 8% RD" and disregard to mention that 55% of the people at their school got in ED with a 30% admit rate.</p>
<p>Its crazy how much these unis mess around with the statistics just so they end up with a low acceptance rate.......yeesh.</p>
<p>Columbia actually admits over 40% ED and then has a low admit rate. All the schools state that the ED application pool is the strongest which is why the admit rate is so high. They don't want to loose good candidates to other schools so they make sure to take the ones that they feel are good candidates.</p>
<p>i don't think columbia admits 40% ED. i think they probably fill up over 40 percent of their incoming class during ED, but i'm almost certain that Columbia's ED admit rate is nowhere near 40%.</p>
<p>Right....44% of the Columbia College class was admitted through Early Decision...sorry about the confusion. Columbia's engineering school had an ED acceptance rate of 34% and the college was 23% last year. Those are still high numbers considering the RD which was 18.6 for engineering and 9.1 for the college. Bottom line...I think it is a huge advantage to apply ED if you know it's your first choice.</p>
<p>I'm confused about the percentages given in this thread. It seems like there are two things being discussed: the percentage of the class that gets filled from ED applicants; and the percentage of ED applicants that gets accepted. The OP said that Cornell's ED rate was 36%, what does this mean? 36% of the incoming class is filled by ED applicants or 36% of the ED applicants were accepted?</p>
<p>36.6% of the applicant pool were accepted.</p>
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While the admissions office is still counting the applications for regular decision into the University, we've received the numbers for early decision. 3,110 students applied, an increase of 3 percent from last year's 3,015 applicants, according to a report released by the undergraduate admissions office. This year, 1,139 applicants were offered admission, with an acceptance rate of 36.6 percent, down from 38.9 percent two years ago but the same rate as last year.
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<p>Just noticed a correction at the bottom of the article:</p>
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Update: I incorrectly identified that 38.9 percent was the early admissions acceptance rate for the class of 2011. In fact the rate was 36.6 percent for both the class of 2011 as well as the pending class of 2012. Correction appended.
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