<p>Cornell has the highest acceptance rate out of all the ivies but these can be deceiving.
I plan on applying to Cornell undergrad business and I want to know how difficult it is.
Is it on par with Stanford? Or on a Northwestern level? Or a UC Berkeley? Just a general idea of the competitiveness of the admissions process</p>
<p>You need to do some home work. Stanford does not have undergraduate business school. All the information you want is here under each college, just look for it. By the way Cornell is not easy to get into, Don’t ever say that here, you will ruffle some serious feathers. It has happened before.</p>
<p>on a scale of 1 to 10, 15.</p>
<p>AMEN, to that</p>
<p>@fatherofm I’ve never said Cornell was easy. I know that it is a difficult to school to get into–as is every ivy league.
And I wasn’t insinuating that Stanford has a business undergrad, I was simply using Stanford as a general tool of comparison for the competitiveness of the admissions process. In that case, Northwestern also doesn’t have an undergrad business program and Berkeley has Haas which you have to apply to your sophomore year.</p>
<p>I think honestly you need to get off of CC and do some research. When you are talking top 20 schools they are all extremely difficult to get into and also very prestigious. Some have name value (specifically HYPS) and the second you stop look at those four you loose some of the name value. That being said if you are qualified as an applicant for one ivy, you tend to be qualified for all. So if you stats are good then yes it will be slightly easier to get into Cornell (but the difference in acceptance rate is maybe 5 percent), so you should not think of it that way. If you just want competitiveness, look up admission stats, if you want a school that is a perfect fit you need to do more research. Either way you need to do more research.</p>
<p>You will be applying to AEM which is probably the most competitive program in Cornell.</p>
<p>You should have at least a ~1500 SAT (critical reading and math) (high 1400 maybe) and be in at least the top~5% of your class, if you dont have any hooks, and have some business related ECs to back you up.</p>
<p>Then you will be in the running.</p>
<p>Cornell’s acceptance rates also really can’t be compared to most of the other ivies because of Cornells widely different schools and the unique pool of applicants to each school. i.e one applicant may get into the college of engineering but rejected at human ecology.</p>