<p>I'd like to hear gomestar's opinion on how this will affect prospective ILR transfers.</p>
<p>Hotel is a bamf! No doubt sounds like one of the more interesting colleges.</p>
<p>GL everyone! Get onto the train before it chugs up the rankings because of this! ;)</p>
<p>CHOO CHOO!</p>
<p>hahaha jp around</p>
<p>While it might make for a more statistically elite class, I think Cornell's acceptance rate will ultimately go up and its yield rate will go down. It will be harder to get into a first choice major as there's more applicants for the same major, but applicants will have a higher chance of getting into Cornell itself, thus increasing Cornell's acceptance rate (they have two chances of getting into the university).
Yield rate might go down too. Think about it; if a kid who wants to be an engineer gets rejected from the CoE but accepted into a different school at Cornell, he's better off going to a different university if he really wants to be an engineer. Cornell has so many specialized schools, which might cause the yield rate to go down. I don't think this will help to improve Cornell's prestige, yield,selectivity, etc. as they intend it to.</p>
<p>Wait so does it apply to rising seniors? (high school class of 2008 and college class of 2012)</p>
<p>yep. this is the first year. im going to cornell tomorrow so ill ask around</p>
<p>yea i agree with brownman. carnegie mellon does something similar to this and has a high acceptance and very low yield. if anything this is good for the applicants. you guys can apply to a selective program and then have a backup. but i feel like this is going to make cornell less elite.</p>
<p>"I'd like to hear gomestar's opinion on how this will affect prospective ILR transfers."</p>
<p>i dont foresee any effect in the immediate enrolling transfer class - I'm not really sure about future classes. I'll have to talk to some people to figure out what they expect, I'm not certain what the immediate/long term effects will really be. </p>
<p>on to brownmans's point - if somebody is truly interested in engineering, why would they apply to arts and sciences as a backup? </p>
<p>In any case, I'm sure Cornell will be picky about what they will consider for students aplying to 2 majors - i doubt they'll really consider an applicant who applies to both architecture and biology .. maybe something like AEM and ILR or AEM and econ.</p>
<p>Hm now that those people mention it I do think it'll hurt Cornell. Everyone will have two chances of getting accepted, which will be bad for the acceptance rate. The yield will also suffer because getting into a second choice school is...well...second choice. Crap...</p>
<p>the only way that it will lower the acceptance rate is if cornell anticipates a lower yield. y would they make this change to deliberately lower their yield. the school isnt studpid. This change woudl only be made if it has positive effects. But u guys sound like there are no benefits which cant possibly be tru. I think we're just gunnna have to wait untill the info is put on the website in a week or 2 because we're proabbly misssing something.</p>
<p>Well Cornell is "any person, any study" so maybe they are trying to give more kids a chance. </p>
<p>But ya...let's wait and see. I doubt they would do something that simply hurt them.</p>
<p>yup what we're saying is pure speculation. im curious to see what actually happens. i sort of wish i was applying this year though.</p>
<p>I wonder how this would work with Early Decision. Like what if you wanted to go to Cornell Engineering and put like CALS as your second choice school next to that. So suppose you don't get in engineering-- does that mean you are bound to CALS if you get into that? Then what if you wanted to go to another school for engineering, does that mean you wouldn't put a second choice school? I guess we'll just have to wait to find out...</p>
<p>8dbordel that exactly my main problem with it (although not for engineering). I mean im not sure if i would definitely want to be bound to a 2nd chioce major although only applying to 1 puts u at a big disadvantage.</p>
<p>yeah. I'm actually not thinking of engineering. I'm planning on applying to CALS for communication and then either ILR or human ecology. but like ILR is so different so it'd be a completely different evaluation and it's confusing to think about how it's going to work</p>
<p>its probably going to be like if you get into 1st choice you have to go if you get 2nd choice your free to decide. at least thats how other colleges with similar addmisions process works.</p>
<p>I just came back from an info session TODAY from the Hotel School. One of the admissions director said that there is a chance they might not even consider the people who put hotel as they're second choice, mainly because of the time and deadline issues as well as other reasons.</p>
<p>I'm not sure how it is for the other colleges, but the Hotel schol does require passion and experience. If you put it as a second choice...its kinda saying something about the passion part...right?</p>
<p>this is crazy...</p>
<p>the year i leave...</p>
<p>admission is definitely going to be tougher for transfers.</p>
<p>Does anyone know when the the 2008 application is going to be released cause i want to know the details (and get started lol).</p>
<p>Admissions officers told me mid-July at latest.</p>
<p>sorry this must be the DUMBEST question ever, but what does AEM stand for? -___-</p>