<p>Looking at colleges, (I'm not a senior) I was wondering which school was easier to get into. I want to study economics. Thanks!</p>
<p>That sir is a bad question. Don’t be looking for it to be easy because all of the colleges are based off fit and interest. You either fit the bill or you don’t.</p>
<p>Well stated.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice, I really wasn’t looking at it that way. I was looking at Cornell as one big school. Its really easy to get lost in the process and wanting to get in so bad. I will keep your advice though. Thanks!</p>
<p>Really look at what each school at Cornell has to offer course-wise and decide where you feel you fit better. My daughter had the same dilemma and was going to apply to both but finally decided that CAS was a better fit for her and applied only to CAS. You could also look at the Dyson School of Applied Economics in CALS.</p>
<p>You can apply to more then one school? I apologize if my questions seem a little general or basic. I’m coming from a high school that sends most of its kids to community college, so I’m really clueless. AEM was my first choice, but I don’t think my class rank is good enough for that. (Top 20%) Thanks for the input.</p>
<p>You can apply to 2. The only time I’ve heard of that people get into their second choice is when the admissions office think your fit lines up better with the second choice college.</p>
<p>Normally I’d agree with the “fit” factor when it comes to Hotel, Architecture, CALS, CoE, and HuEc schools, but I’m not sure how much passion a high school senior can show for “international labor relations”…and CAS is just general admission for any of the majors.</p>
<p>That is not really true. When my daughter did her research on the various schools at Cornell, she did see “fit” in CAS and ILR. Ultimately, she was more interested in the overall options for majors/minors that CAS offered over ILR. She applied to CAS only and on the supplemental essay she focused on the major she wanted to pursue in CAS and how her high school courses and EC’s made her a “fit” for what CAS had to offer over the other schools. </p>
<p>Here is the essay:
Describe your intellectual interests, their evolution, and what makes them exciting to you. Tell us how you will utilize the academic programs in the College of Arts and Sciences to further explore your interests, intended major, or field of study.</p>
<p>Yeah I agree with cormom, my essay was all about why I loved physics and how I was going to utilize my education at Cornell to attempt to expand humanities knowledge. Overall I think it was that essay that got me in.</p>
<p>By looking at the schools, I really like ILR and CALS…(AEM) I know AEM is really hard to get into…is ILR hard to get into? I know it has like a 24% acceptance rate…but numbers only tell so much.</p>