<p>I heard that in your application, if you register for a not-so-popular department of the college, then you have a higher acceptance rate. Is that rumor worth considering?</p>
<p>if it is, what major is not so popular at cornell?</p>
<p>is this cheating? am I a cheater? </p>
<p>please help.</p>
<p>Your chances are best if you apply for the major for which you are best suited. If you have work experience in local engineering firms, have won science competitions, and have taken every AP math and science at your school, your chances are lessened for the Hotel School.</p>
<p>apply to something random in Ag or HumEc (ie EAS or Plant Pathology)</p>
<p>...if you have the background to support it.</p>
<p>I really don't think major matters at all. After all you are applying to the various colleges not majors.</p>
<p>If that were true than all the A&S people would put down something wierd like ... Africana Studies (i don't even know if that's a major)</p>
<p>You pretty much need to be really suited for the major or they'll see the fraud and reject. Better to go to the one that u have a passion for than either get rejected for another one or "slip" in and have a bad time.</p>
<p>Africana Studies is a major.</p>
<p>it's also in arts, where you apply to the college, not a SUNY.</p>
<p>No portion of Cornell is a part of SUNY.</p>
<p>So not true!!
For Ag, (prob HumEc also) you apply to a specific major. Noone knows how many apply to a specific major, nor how many are accepted. If your interests don't match up to the major, no matter what your scores, you won't get accepted. Trying to second guess where you have the better chance will only backfire on you.</p>
<p>Mercury's post says it best! "Your chances are best if you apply for the major for which you are best suited. If you have work experience in local engineering firms, have won science competitions, and have taken every AP math and science at your school, your chances are lessened for the Hotel School."</p>
<p>"No portion of Cornell is a part of SUNY."</p>
<p>NOT TRUE. Four colleges at Cornell are part of SUNY:</p>
<p>chrism, SUNY just lists them there. They're not a part of the SUNY system. Members of the SUNY governing board HELP Cornell govern the statutory colleges ONLY because Cornell wants MONEY from NY State. If Cornell didn't want that money, Cornell could tell those administrators to leave at any point. SUNY just lists them there to add prestige to the SUNY system.</p>
<p>Cornell receives grants from the state of New York. Many private universities receive state support.</p>
<p>A state university, on the other hand, is operated by the state.</p>
<p>VERY DIFFERENT.</p>
<p>It is operated privately and is not actually a SUNY (just only in "name", which is also isn't really. It pretty much just gets money from NY), do your damn research.</p>
<p>architecture department is very popular nationally but has one of the lowest number of applicants at cornell... it also has the lowest acceptance rate as well! apply to what you're good at.</p>
<p>Hmm...So, speaking as a current Cornell student, I think that the truth is somewhere in between what most of the people on this thread have been saying. Yes, you need to apply for a major that you seem at least somewhat interested in, or Cornell will know what you are up to. At the same time, I've met a fair number of students here at Cornell who applied to random majors that they seemed somewhat interested in as a way to get into Cornell. </p>
<p>It is definitely true that some majors in CALS and HE are more competitive than others. For example, biology and AEM are pretty competitive. However, there are a variety of other majors that few students apply to where there is much less competition. It's also very easy to switch majors/do an internal transfer once you are at Cornell too, so the admissions strategy you are referring to definitely does happens a lot. I'm not necessarily encouraging it, but it would be wrong to say that applying to a bizarre major (within CALS, AARP, or Human Ecology, as Arts and Sciences is a bit different) does not increase your chances, assuming that you can demonstrate at least some interest in the program of your choice.</p>
<p>Cornell has 4 SUNY statutory colleges:</p>
<p>"Bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees are also offered at SUNY's statutory colleges. These colleges, on the campuses of private universities, are publicly supported in part, and are governed cooperatively by SUNY trustees and the governing boards of the parent institutions. Undergraduate enrollments range from approximately 700 to over 3,000. (Ceramics at Alfred University, Agriculture & Life Sciences at Cornell University, Human Ecology at Cornell, Veterinary Medicine at Cornell (graduate studies only), Industrial & Labor Relations at Cornell)."</p>
<p>Holy *****! Forget the SUNY thing. Some cornell colleges may or may not be paid for by or even governed by the state. Big deal either way. But despite your fragile egos, or your strange wills to win this argument, or whatever it is, the issue is completely irrelevant to the thread. Go futz around with it in a thread devoted to it.</p>
<p>Read the pinned FAQ topic.</p>
<p>this has been discussed many times before. NO part of Cornell is SUNY. Do some research, look it up in depth. Cornell does get research money from SUNY, but this does not make it a SUNY school. It has been proven in the past that the governing board at SUNY has almost zero pull when it comes to administration of the schools. </p>
<p>Maybe if people has some real proof that they were SUNY schools it'd be different, but until then get over your little CAS insecurities. We have proved in the past they are not.</p>