<p>Well, they're wrong. According to Cornell at <a href="http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000001.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000001.pdf</a> it was 28%</p>
<p>Those stats don't make sense to me. Shouldn't the yield rate improve as the stats of admitted become less desireable? According to those figures, the top students are the ones who are most likely to enroll. But shouldn't the top students be the ones who are less likely to enroll because Cornell has to compete with other comparable schools?</p>
<p>The percentages are the percentage of the class, not the percentage of those admitted who decided to enroll.</p>
<p>Lol.. you are silly... that's not the yield rate... it's the percentage of the class of 2090. Note how it says: may not add up to 100%. That means it's a percentage of the entering class, not yield. (yield doesn't add up to 100%)</p>
<p>Now that I look at it, the post I was responding to said that admissions rates are 25% of US News' ranking, not that US News claimed Cornell had a 25% admissions rate, so I withdraw my criticism.</p>
<p>Handscoring, if you are reponding to me, I divided 7,323 acceptances by 26,463 applications. I didn't use any of their percentages.</p>
<p>hold on a second there...ur talking abt 2009 class, right? just confirming.</p>
<p>yeah, but to the best of my knowledge, all the current rankings are also using that data.</p>
<p>Class of 2010 Stats
ED: 2836 apps 1106 admits 39%
RD: 25,264 apps 4,795 admits 18.9%
Overall: 28,100 apps 5901 admits 21 %</p>
<p>Now thats a VERY steep fall.
You couls expect Cornell's rankings to climb a lot this year.</p>
<p>Oh ok, my mistake.</p>
<p>Arjun, you are wrong there... the rate for 2010 is 25%, not 21%. They made that error because they overestimated their yield rate, check the front page of cornell 2010 website. As it stands now, RD is 23 percnet, resulting in a total of 25% acceptance rate. And anyway, you guys are hypocrites. When Cornell didn't rank well on US News, you said rankings are crap and don't mean anything. And now you grab hold of it, along with the times ranking and th china ranking (which ranked well for cornell), just because you think cornell's ranking will go up.</p>
<p>hmm...when eactly did any one of us say we like these rankings? We said and we stil do say that rankings are crap...just because we indulged in a conversation about it makes us fans of Rankings? do u have a historuy of misinterpretaions cuz u first misinterpreted the admittancs rate thing...and now this.</p>
<p>I agree with handscoring....but everyone likes to feel special. If the rankings foster that feeling, let it be. It's human nature.</p>
<p>hey, hold on a second,,, u guysare talking as if we said,"Hey, all of a sudden we LOVE rankings...lets celebrate"...and after re-reading the last 2 pages of this thread (yes...i'm that bored), i can find nothing to hint that we suddenly embrace rankings.</p>
<p>very good article indeed.</p>
<p>Great article. Cornell is much more than the rankings....it is a great lifestyle of success and brilliance, and it's wonderful to know that that is starting to be reflected rankings.</p>
<p>It's nice to see someone finally point out that Cornell's large class size is the only reason we have a higher admit rate. Good editorial.</p>
<p>I agree. The most important point, I think, is that Cornell is not full of people who wish they were somewhere else. Nearly everyone you ask here is very happy with Cornell, and, importantly, would not transfer to Harvard or Yale or Princeton (or Columbia or Penn or...) even if that were offered to them. But it's frustrating to see Cornell, the "Ivy and more," not getting the attention or respect it deserves among the nation's top high-schoolers just because glancing at magazine ratings encourages them to look elsewhere.</p>
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<p>Who cares a rat's ass as long as recruiters know we are the best around. I fthats what high-schoolers think, its they who just lost the best opp they could get tostraighten their lives.</p>