Is it hard to get into Cornell?

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<p>I don’t have any acceptance rates to back up the article.</p>

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<p>False. </p>

<p>Don’t equate higher acceptance rates with a school being easier to get into-- otherwise Cornell Engineering is easier to get into than many state schools, a claim I think few would make. </p>

<p>Many of these schools are specialized and are thus self-selecting, meaning fewer but more qualified applicants apply. </p>

<p>Also the fact that there is no luck involved in UG admissions is in my opinion ridiculous. My friend got into MIT Engineering and was rejected by Cornell COE. My other friend got into Wharton and was rejected from AEM, while another of mine got into Harvard and was rejected from both Dartmouth and Brown. There are just too many applicants and too many criteria to judge students by for college admissions officers to make accurate measurments of student potential after high school, in my opinion. </p>

<p>However, I feel postgraduate studies are a completely different matter*</p>

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<p>to answer the original question about the difficulty of getting into Cornell: it’s all right.</p>

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<p>roneald— The expression of it being luck makes it sould like admissions is in the room drawing straws during selection. I choose to think of it in terms of creating your own luck. If at the age of 17 or 18 you are lucky enough to have an application that reflects your desire to study in the particular school of the university you are applying to, then call it luck. I think there are so many qualified candidates applying but not everyone is presenting an application in the way that reflects their interests. I still don’t see how luck plays a role in the process. People make their own luck.</p>

<p>My son who attends MIT presented a very different type of application than my sons who applied to Cornell. Could son one have been denied at Cornell…possibly. Each school is so different but I think IMHO that they want to see something in that student that stands out for the particular college they are applying to.</p>

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<p>Someone I know got into the Agriculture & Life school w/ : <1750 SAT and no AP classes (some kids have taken 7-8); while i am happy for him i must say that i was floored that a school w/ the caliber of Cornell could accept him. I’m not sure how Cornell’s general requirements work, but I cannot see how he will stay afloat with kids that have worked their way into the school.</p>

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<p>^you will always get those outliers at any school but because Cornell is so large, you may find more of them around. </p>

<p>OP: I dont think its that hard to get into compared to the other Ivies. But do not equate the fact that because it easy to get into Cornell is a bad school. The caliber of Cornellians are on part with the rest of the Ivies in general</p>

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<p>The fact remains that only 18 percent (+/-) of overall applicants to Cornell got accepted during the most recent admissions period. This means that well more than 8 out of 10 applicants were rejected. On the other hand slightly more than 9 out 10 were rejected from Harvard-- not really all that big of a difference. Try to tell all those 82% of disappointed kids who were rejected from Cornell that that it is “easy” to get into Cornell. Those few people from peer schools who attempt to “one up” Cornellians by claiming that it is not hard to get into Cornell really need to get real.</p>

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<p>boone292929: did he have any significant hooks?</p>

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<p>^ no, no hooks at all. he applied for some landscaping thing i think; either way i don’t see why he should get the privilege of being a Cornell grad over someone who spent all of high school working for it.</p>

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<p>are you kidding me?! cornell rejected roughly 29,500+ kids this year. that’s A LOT! cornell is the biggest and has the means to matriculate the largest number students of all the ivy league schools!!! cornell is going to of course have a higher acceptance rate than the others. duh.</p>

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<p>Because he has an interest in a field that most of applicants don’t? Keep in mind that he wasn’t compared to all of those other applicants you refer to – he was only compared to other horticulture applicants, a program at Cornell that is one of the best in the country. There’s just not that many students interested in horticulture, apparently because they think Wall Street or big law will be a more morally rewarding career.</p>

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<p>lol @ ones’ comment about stuy haha</p>

<p>anyway just have good GPA and SAT (SAT IIs important as well) and you have a shot. even if you get rejected, go to one of the schools around here like Binghamton or NYU or Rochester or something and apply for transfer into cornell.</p>

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<p>Hello everybody, one of my college choices is Cornell, too.
Do you think I can get in ? this is my profile : <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/909747-can-i-get-into-nyu-yale.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/909747-can-i-get-into-nyu-yale.html&lt;/a&gt;
Thank you.</p>

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<p>No not at all. It’s super easy to get into Cornell. You see, Cornell is what we call a ‘fake Ivy league school’. That’s why they accept an ungodly 20 percent of their students. How can they call themselves an Ivy League school when their admissions rate is in the double digits?</p>

<p>/sarcasm</p>

<p>Real answer: it depends on the college you apply to. AFAIK, AAP, cals and humec judge applicants against the competition in their declared major programs. e.g if you apply for the viticulture major in cals (what a cool major huh?), you will be compared to other aspiring wine makers. </p>

<p>The other colleges judge applicants against their whole applicant pool.</p>