<p>Or has it ever happened?</p>
<p>I’m sure it’s happened- admissions can be strange, e.g., I have a friend who graduated Harvard, but only went because she didn’t get in to Brown or Yale, the schools she really wanted the most.</p>
<p>I’d say, though, that if the ED was to any Cornell college other than Arts and Sciences, probably not.</p>
<p>Admissions is impossible to predict. </p>
<p>I’m certain that there are people who got rejected at Cornell ED but accepted to NU RD (by the way, we usually call it NU, not NW). I’m equally sure that there are people who get rejected at NU ED but accepted at Cornell RD.</p>
<p>There are people rejected at NU but accepted at places like HYP too. And to complete the thought, there are people who are accepted at NU but rejected at schools that would be largely viewed as easier to get into.</p>
<p>this is one of the stupidest questions I have ever seen. It is an automatic ding if you apply but got rejected from Cornell ED. Nobody who has been rejected from Cornell ED has EVER, and I mean never in the history of Northwestern applications, been accepted to Northwestern.</p>
<p>^jerry, sarcasm should be noted.</p>
<p>Also, I think that Cornell would be more numbers based (not sure on that, but just something that I’ve heard from some people) and NU is way more holistic. Maybe that’s not true, but either way, it’s definitely happened to someone out there.</p>
<p>I have a friend who was rejected at Cornell (CAS) RD but accepted to Northwestern’s highly selective MMSS program RD. Not exactly fitting your hypothetical perfectly, but he was rejected from a statistically less selective college than the one he is now at (when you weigh in the additional selectivity of MMSS). There’s just no saying, as both schools are highly selective and I would say it is not beyond the realm of possibility to see a Cornell ED reject/defer get into NU RD, or vice versa.</p>