<p>Ok, now I recently found out a few people at my high school who are applying early decision to Cornell, as I am. I am worried because these students are of similar academic merit as me, or possibly slightly higher. Will it affect my application if they notice that these students at my high school are slightly better than me? Or will it not make a difference at all? I am asking this because Cornell has fairly consistently accepted about 50% from my school for Early Decision, and I feel it might affect my chances. Thanks.</p>
<p>I'd like to know this as well. Any answers?</p>
<p>It's really hard to say. Most admissions offices do not sort out the apps by school and compare the candidates to each other. Just doesn't work that way. My son's school has many, many kids applying to Cornell. You could go nuts trying to figure out where you stand among the bunch. There are 7 (?) schools at Cornell, and you really can't compare a candidate to one over the other. According to his school's stats my son should have gotten into hotel management. He was not a strong candidate for his second choice, human ec. Well, he got into Human EC and not into hotel management. A kid with higher grades, similar, slightly lower SATs did not get into hotel mgmt. I certainly cannot make the picks. It did not seem to be a disadvantage to the many kids in our area who apply to Cornell from the same schools. Cornell seems to take a lot of those kids.</p>
<p>Looking for some more responses. One other thing as noted above, I think I am the only one applying to CALS at Cornell, will that make a difference? Thanks.</p>
<p>D's small HS grad class sent multiple students to school. 7 or so to Penn, 4 to Princeton, and others, I just don't remember. So there is no set answer.</p>
<p>Cornell is a pretty big school. I can't imagine that it will be too much of a problem.</p>
<p>I can only speak for the private schools my kids went to. At their schools, who else was applying from the high school was a major issue. These are schools where many, many kids applied to and end up at ivies and the like.</p>
<p>The schools knew well that the top colleges would only accept so many and tried to manage the process to some degree. There is no doubt that higher ranked students, minorities, athletes, legacies and other hooked candidates will make it harder for others.</p>
<p>I asked that of a Carleton admissions rep and was told they group apps by state and not by school. Don't know how it might differ at Cornell since it's so much bigger, but it's another data point for you and others.</p>
<p>Pretty much, you won't be in the same applicant pool as the other people since you're applying to CALS and no one else is. And even better, I don't know about the other schools, but I know (I'm applying ED there too) that CALS chooses a rough number of kids per major, since all applicants declare their major on their applications, so if you're a Food Sci major let's say, you won't really be in the same pool as someone applying to AEM. Basically.</p>
<p>There's like 8 kids from my school applying ED to Cornell too, so I completely empathize with you.</p>
<p>i don't think it has much affect, I know at my old school one year 5 people out of a class of 55 got into stanford, also at my current school one year like 4 people got into stanford out of 200, so I mean don't worry. A lot of people will get in, they are going to admit based on the overall quality and not try to single out certain schools. I mean look at Phillips Exeter, they have like 30 kids going to Harvard and another 30 going to MIT.</p>
<p>Five people applied to Cornell from my school last year, and four got in (one ED, the rest RD). I don't think they set quotas or even pin you against other people from your high school.</p>
<p>haha...i posted a crazy rant about this same thing a while back
this girl i know is applying to 20 schools
and she is applying to all my top choices.....i really regret telling her where i was applying three months ago. cause like all of a sudden her list is like exactly the same as mine.
like....i asked her why she was applying to my #1 school and all she had to say was "the campus is pretty"
its really annoying because she got like a 35 on the ACT...which is higher than me...so that looks better on paper.
whatever....i cant do anything
i think that it just creates more competition....because of they want geographic diversity they are going to make that a factor and because of that....unless both students at one school are outstanding applicants...i think chances are they wont accept both</p>
<p>At my school, I know 6 people who are applying early action to Yale</p>
<ol>
<li> A 2380 guy who is very involved with drama/arts productions and the sort</li>
<li> A nationally ranked fencer with legacy status and solid (2100+, 3.9GPA) stats</li>
<li> Another very solid academic student (2250+, 4.0) who placed 3rd in the Yale high school debate tournament</li>
<li> A very qualified Hispanic girl with great stats</li>
<li> A captain of the hockey and cross country teams with great (2250, 4.0) stats</li>
<li> A guy with double legacy and decent stats</li>
</ol>
<p>Now- I'm not an expert, but it seems to me that all of these people are not going to get in. I know the colleges say that they don't limit the number of people from a given school, but I would imagine that it occurs sometimes.</p>
<p>fox, look at it mathematically.</p>
<p>these schools receive tens of thousands of applications. one more person will not make a difference, honestly. maybe it will lower your chances by .000001 percent, but come on. don't be so obsessive comulsive about it!</p>
<p>Lol, I'm still trying to convince the kids applying ED to Cornell to apply to Engineering/Arts and Science...</p>
<p>Six kids from S2's competitive public high school, out of a class of 500, are attending Cornell as freshman.</p>