<p>if ur not from new york state, there is no reason to apply to CALS unless u have some burning fascination with plants or perhaps, the business school</p>
<p>CAS is just so much flexible and can accomodate changing interests</p>
<p>Your a ny state resident so you would a slight advantage in admission.</p>
<p>or if the major you want is in CALS.</p>
<p>abike-- i thought this made more sense... massive numbers of new yorkers will be allured by the lower tuition and therefore an increased number of applicants will be from new york and adcom will favor geographically diverse students and cut back on the number of new yorker acceptances by a bit.</p>
<p>i dont think there's any big advantage for in-staters any more ... it used to be much different but times have changed. the larger percentage of NY state residents in the statutory colleges is a representation of the fact that many more nys residents apply than out of staters.</p>
<p>I go to a magnet school in NY where many students go to big name universities</p>
<p>For the last two years, at least, CAS had higher acceptance rate percentage wise than CALS. Im sure there's many factors involved so I don't know why it is</p>
<p>ok all the post after mine make sense. i was just suggesting what i thought would be more helpful for you snowgirl. there are many factors in the admission process to consider.</p>
<p>i would have def. thought that the acceptance rate for the statutory schools would have been much higher for NYS residents, but the statistics are rather surprising. I had to research it to believe it.</p>
<p>the statutory colleges have more new york students, but proportionally more new york applicants. it's not that they go easier on NY residents, it's just that NY residents make up a large portion of the applicant pool. The only place students really get an admissions break from is Ithaca HS.</p>
<p>Not really, because a lot of the students from IHS are sons and duaghters of professors.</p>
<p>fudgemaster that is an advantage, i met one guy who's dad was a bio professor at cornell, and he went to IHS</p>
<p>The post made it sound as if going to IHS would give you an advantage, as if there were a cause and effect relationship. Obviously if you have a professor from Cornell as a dad/mom, it'll be an advantage no matter which high school you attend.</p>
<p>Fudgemaster - Judge for yourself</p>
<p>Ithaca High School's - Cornell Admissions Decisions for 2000 - 2004</p>
<p>Decile...Acceptance Rate...Applicants..Admitted....Attended...Yield
1st..........97.10%.............138...........134. .............75.........56%
2nd.........69.57%..............115............80. .............60.........75%
3rd..........45.98%...............87............40 ..............31.........77%
4th..........31.34%...............67............21 ..............17.........81%
5th..........13.33%...............30.............4 ................4........100%
6th............0.00%...............13............. 0
7th............0.00%................8............. 0
8th............0.00%................1............. 0</p>
<p>Looks like Cornell wants to maintain good "Town-Gown" relations. The Average per year is about 56 students admitted with about 37 choosing to attend, about 1% of the Cornell's Target class of 3100 students.</p>
<p>What do the deciles indicate?</p>
<p>1st Decile - 1% to 10% of Class Rank
2nd Decile - 11% thru 20% of Class Rank
3rd Decile - 21% thru 30% of Class Rank
4th Decile - 31% thru 40% of Class Rank
etc ....</p>
<p>About 40% (75 out of 187) of IHS graduates attending Cornell are in the top 10% of their Class.
Contrast the above with the percentage of Cornell's Entering Freshman Class in the top 10% of their High School Class. (82% overall for HS's that rank.) <a href="http://dpb.cornell.edu/irp/pdf/FactBook/Admissions/Undergraduate/Freshmen/top10.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://dpb.cornell.edu/irp/pdf/FactBook/Admissions/Undergraduate/Freshmen/top10.pdf</a></p>
<p>yeah; this is very common. In princeton for example, usually 15-25 students from the public highschool get acceptances.</p>
<p>do any statistics or information prove that their is or isnt an advantage for NYS residents applying to statutory schools, or is everyone just making assumptions.</p>
<p>assumptions, to my knowledge</p>
<p>Hmm, I didn't know there were that many students from Ithaca High School here. I only know a couple. Anyway, I think it's cool that admit a lot of local students.</p>
<p>before it's brought up, those who applied should not be concerned about a Ithaca high school student "stealing" their spot when it comes to admission. There's like 3,500 total in the freshmen class. The odds of creating a crappy application are much greater than having your spot taken by a IHS student.</p>