<p>Is it true Cornell is the easiest IVY to get into? Whats the second easiest IVY?</p>
<p>why is this always asked</p>
<p>u want an answer</p>
<p>MAYBE, will tommorow rain (maybe)</p>
<p>the only thing that isn't a maybe, is ur question, it is an absolute</p>
<p>it is an absolutely retarded question</p>
<p>A friend of mine was accepted to Dartmouth but was rejected from Cornell...what does that tell you?</p>
<p>It tells us that different admissions committees look for different things, but in general Cornell is easiest to get into.</p>
<p>Yes it's because of its large size. And yes it has many programs that are best in the Ivy League including engineering, etc. But it IS the easiest to get into in general. It's okay to say that. It doesn't mar the reputation of the school, unless the audience is misinformed and judges a school based on selectivity only.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuit_Ivy%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuit_Ivy</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ivies%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ivies</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Ivies%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Ivies</a></p>
<p>The easiest? A public Ivy. The second easiest? Another public Ivy. So in your case, I would suggest applying/going to a public Ivy. :P</p>
<p>But seriously. Should you really base where you want to go to college on the premise of a school's... Ivy-ness?</p>
<p>Yes, I know that all of these Ivies are "among the most prestigious and selective schools in the U.S., they consistently place close to the top of college and university rankings; they rank within the top one percent of the world's academic institutions in terms of financial endowment; they attract top-tier students and faculty..." (Wiki's Ivy League article). But are they easy to get into?! And which is the easiest to get into?! You can NOT put an order on that! Furthermore, adding in those adcom decisions completely throws that off as well. (You may want to take a look at this thread: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=174290%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=174290</a> , and read an article like this: <a href="http://www.scfun.net/sceduc-cl-newsweek.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.scfun.net/sceduc-cl-newsweek.pdf</a> ) So unless you are beyond brilliant (few of us are, mind you), all Ivies are hard to get into.</p>
<p>If you have to ask, you probably aren't bright enough.</p>
<p>i have a friend who got in yale and princeton but was rejected from cornell</p>
<p>wow, nice list of public ivies. I can think of about 5 that can be considered "public ivies" in my book</p>
<p>Statistically, Cornell is the easiest of the eight Ivies. But people often get rejected from Cornell and accepted to other Ivies. Also, it depends on which school within Cornell you're applying to.</p>
<p>it's the hardest ivy to get out of
what does that tell you about the academics?</p>
<p>some people value things besides selectivity in determining what an easy ivy is</p>
<p>ROFL! You guys scared him away. . .</p>
<p>At my HS, I was the only one accepted to cornell out of more than 20. Kids that were flat out rejected include 2 that went to princeton, 1 that went to wharton at Penn, and 1 that went to columbia.</p>
<p>it is very easy for cornell or darmouth columbia or penn to sort out applicants who will also get in hyp. if you givr such guys admission then they do not come, your yirld sucks. best thing is to either wait list these guys or reject it out right.
there are no point in becoming safty for these kids. Millburn high in nj( top public school in nj) had data by decile for 200 kids in 2004. they do not have that on website any more. But it was wonderful data;
Top 10%: brown, pton, Duke columbia michigan penn yale harvard
top 10-20% col, penn, williams, pton, penn,rutgers(1) mit
20-30% cornell, cmu, lehigh, georgetown, </p>
<p>So every school knows where their sweet spot is.</p>
<p>ahh. these people make me so MAD. all the ivies have different personalities, if you will, and different atmospheres. people who pick schools based on their ivy status need to be shot. they're. not. all. the. same.</p>
<p>You can't generalize anything about getting into Cornell. There are several different schools within this university and admissions stats and qualities that admins look for in kids may vary quite a bit from school to school. I know for a fact that at least in certain schools such as human ecology, the admissions staff works very hard to ensure that the students they admit have ideals and goals in line with that of the college and their major. It really depends.</p>
<p>I see that you're allowed to apply to just one college at Cornell. I am assuming that A&S has the max number of seats for admissions. Would anyone know if any one of these are easier/harder to get into relative to each other? Thanks.</p>
<p>rajags, it is easiest for any given student to be accepted into the college for which they are best suited.</p>
<p>"rajags, it is easiest for any given student to be accepted into the college for which they are best suited."</p>
<p>Not only the college within Cornell, but out of all colleges. </p>
<p>I have troube with the obsession with the rankings. Not only on this thread, but all over.</p>
<p>There are hundreds of colleges to choose from - does it really matter for example, if 1 is rated #4, and another #10? It's totally meaningless. And what if, for example, a higher rated college is a small rurual college with predominately conservative students, and you want a large urban liberal college that's ranked lower? It's more important to find the place that you think you'll fit in best. It's 4 years of your life, and that's more important than some meaningless ranking.</p>
<p>I too can't stand hearing "cornell is the easiest ivy to get into, but....". I almost wish they wouldn't be an ivy so the saying would die. I would think that people who are intelligent enough to get into schools "ranked higher than the easiest ivy" could reach the obvious conclusion: If the ivies get between 20,000 - 30,000 apps, and Cornell's freshman class alone is almost the same size as (for example) the entire student body at Dartmouth, the acceptance rate is affected. So what?</p>
<p>hah i know cornell kids are gonna have my head for this.. but yeah, i would consider cornell one of the easiest, if not the easiest, ivies to get into. but yeah, i also agree that it probably has to do with its size. i know many people who got into cornell with average stats, extra currics, etc.. and i know many who got rejected from places like rice and got into cornell. that's not to say that cornell is a bad school or anything =] i'd just say that it's not as hard to get into as the others.</p>
<p>heidi!: isn't that just because texans will have a harder time getting into rice since its in-state, and easier into cornell since its out of state?</p>
<p>correct me if i'm wrong lol</p>