<p>which school is harder to get accepted, johns hopkins or cornell?</p>
<p>I believe they are about the same. It depends on what school at Cornell you're applying too. . .. Arts and Sciences and Engineering might be slightly more competitive, but I'm just guessing.</p>
<p>Both are great schools. I like Ithaca better than Baltimore though. . . .</p>
<p>is cornell the easiest ivy league to get in?</p>
<p>Probably...</p>
<p>Although, Cornell's colleges each have their own admissions, so I am assuming that getting in CAS during regular decision is probably twice as tough as CALS Early Decision.</p>
<p>(Or at least that is what I would like to convince myslef! ;))</p>
<p>So they say: Easiest Ivy to get into, toughest to get out of ?</p>
<p>i doubt twice as tough but certainly tougher</p>
<p>acceptance rates are kind of BS. Just as an example, look at what a small percentange of the USNWR they make up. It's like, less than alumni donation percentage.</p>
<p>Also, take schools like harvard. Granted, it's an absolutely INCREDIBLE school, and right at the cream of the crop, even among its peers, but they probably get an application boost of kids who would never get in but apply anyway simply because it's the school kids dream about going to in middle school because it's "the best." (which it isn't for everybody :)) Yes it's true that they can also be very selective because of their great applicants, but my SAT scores were almost 1500 and around their published 25th percentile...yet they mailed me a letter saying "your scores indicate you're the kind of student who does well here." You can't say a school isn't trying to lower acceptance rate when they're "recruiting" students in their 25th percentile for SAT based on their knowledge only of the students' SAT scores. :) not saying it's wrong, they're just playing the rankings game.</p>
<p>Cornell has the highest acceptance rate overall of the ivies, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily the easiest to get into. It's the biggest for one, and also has specialized colleges in specific fields. Some schools like engineering have such impressive reputations that the applicant pool is self selective. The kids who are good don't apply, only the ones who are great do, resulting in a smaller pool. Sure there's a 38% acceptance rate, but that 38% is comprised mostly of students with almost perfect math and science SAT Is and IIs.</p>
<p>USNWR 2006 rankings comes out august 1st or something. I suggest you buy a copy for information purposes. The rankings give you an idea of how good a school is, but if schools are like 5, or even more, ranks apart, their virtually equally good. All the schools in that range will bring you incredible opportunities and education. Apply to some in that range you think you will like. Applying to all the ivies for example is weird. Theres almost no way that you could be truely interested in all the ancient 8. The environmental difference between dartmouth and yale is, well...about as big as the distance between cornell and stanford.</p>
<p>I guess the point of this is while looking at acceptance rate can be helpful, it can also be decieving if you're not careful. Look more at the type of education and atmosphere the schools give once you determine the academic range you fall in. Duke, Stanford, Cornell, MIT, JHU, and U Chicago (random list of awesome schools) will give students an equally good education. Just make sure you're the right student for the school's atmosphere. The fact that one's peer assessment is 2/10 out of 5.0 higher or one has a 5% lower acceptance rate or 40 point higher average SAT score than another is pretty unimportant.</p>