Is it hard to get into Cornell?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>More specifically, college of Arts and Science.</p>

<p>Did anyone received an acceptance letter form the college yet?</p>

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<p>Cornell in general is the easiest Ivy to get into, but that still doesn’t make it easy to get into. It depends on your stats and luck I guess. I got into Arts and Sciences, got the letter already.</p>

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<p>okay. here’s another question. people keep saying luck.
What do you mean by “Luck”?</p>

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<p>Luck is when you get into HYP but still get rejected by less prestigious colleges. College admissions, no matter how good you are, is a chance game. Of course the better your stats, the higher your chances, but you’re still not guaranteed anything.</p>

<p>I got into Dartmouth with a likely letter, which is perhaps due to luck on my part cause I got waitlisted at JHU and UChicago, which are less competitive colleges generally (but very competitive nonetheless).</p>

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<p>I never expected to do so well on my SAT’s (not as good as a lot of you guys, though!)
Math-770 CR-720 Writing-710</p>

<p>Is there any chance of getting into Cornell without AP courses? I have a 3.9ish GPA, honors classes, no AP. My school only ranks decile, I"m in the top 10%.</p>

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<p>goingmyway, how are your extracurriculars, recommendations, essays going to be? You have the numbers I guess.</p>

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<p>EC are OK, I volunteer every summer, chess club, Italian club, essay I can make good.</p>

<p>Do we get to see the recommendations? Just curious. I have a couple of teachers that like me.</p>

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<p>Recommendations you don’t see unless your teacher lets you see it. If they like you, then you’ll have good recs.</p>

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<p>You sound very solid - apply early decision - best way to go, especially at Cornell</p>

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<p>If it helps the acceptance rate this year was 18%, but its a lot lower for RD applicants. I would say 16% to 15% chance for RD applicants.</p>

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<p>not if people like you are hard to find…</p>

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<p>It is a given that Cornell expects to see high scores and grades but they want to see more than that. There is no luck involved as many posters make it seem. They are putting a class together and with that said, they are looking for an interesting student body. Cornell is comprised of so many students from so many different backrounds coming with such a wide variety of accomplishments and interests. I hope that helps in answering your question.</p>

<p>By the way, don’t be fooled by the acceptance rate. It is the largest and most diverse Ivy in terms of schools and majors. The engineer type will not make it into the hotel school and the math type may not make it into a humanities based school. It really depends on the student. As far as it being the “easist Ivy to get into” the numbers may make it look that way but you must realize that the size of the school (the largest Ivy) is what affects these numbers.</p>

<p>My advice to any prospective student is to choose your college within Cornell carefully. That is what is meant by fit and luck. If you are lucky enough to know where you are headed, and that has been portrayed in your EC’s and course selections throughout your highschool career, than you will have a better chance of gaining admission.</p>

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<p>If you apply to the state schools, they are much easier to get into. The private ones are much harder.</p>

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<p>This is great news and will help my application very much, thank you!!!</p>

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<p>It will help you get in, but it wont be that great once you graduate from that college. The most job recruits are from engineering. State schools are just sunys. And from what I hear, lots of the private students from cornell don’t hang around with the state kids and they think they’re all stupid.</p>

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this concerns me. I think I want to be in banking, but I don’t know if any BB would ever consider a candidate from the State Schools.

hmmmm, I was hoping for Human Ecology since the human development major looks cool, but I’ll probably just go Chem E instead. Or, maybe I’ll also try for a minor in econ so I can be double recruited by companies for CAS AND engineering.

I wouldn’t want to hang out with state schoolers either. I was a friend with a Mexican once, but I ended that as soon as I found out (he had very light skin).</p>

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<p>Sorry. Try again.</p>

<p>No. Actually on second thought, you’re right. They are clearly no natural resource, environmental design, resource economics, business or communication majors on Cornell’s award-winning Solar Decathlon team. Clearly nobody in any of the contract colleges can even have a conversation with anybody in the endowed colleges.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cusd.cornell.edu/ourteam.php[/url]”>http://www.cusd.cornell.edu/ourteam.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Where the heck do these kids get their information from? I have never heard anything so rediculus as post #16. Visit Cornell and you will find out for yourself.</p>

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<p>I do not know why the person posting #16 is on the Cornell thread. S/he is clearly very ignorant about the school. Someone so misinformed should not apply to or attend the school w/o more accurate information. Let’s hope that is what s/he is trying to do.</p>

<p>Or, maybe s/he is just trying to get folks riled.</p>