<p>according to cornell, there are 939 women and 319 men in HumEc. however, women have a slightly higher acceptance rate so i dont think being a man applying to HumEc is a hook</p>
<p>Cas has 2121 females and 2021 males</p>
<p>Seriously? Wow... that's like 1/3
the odds are good ;)
I'm not banking on that being a hook</p>
<p>CAS has a lot of science/non-artsy majors too</p>
<p>Gumbi-where did you find the information on the gender acceptance rates?</p>
<p>Cornell</a> Factbook</p>
<p>the addmissions section will show you acceptance rates. If you search around under the enrollment section you can find a lot of good info including male/female ratios, middle 50% sat's by college, etc</p>
<p>I assume that this is not about Cornell College in Iowa, but about the various colleges of Cornell University.</p>
<p>You assumed right cold wind. Also it is harder to get into human ec as male and pam is very male oriented correct?</p>
<p>Oh no that's a LOT of women in HumEc!!! Ugh
but wait - PAM is male-oriented you say? I'm applying for PAM...maybe my lack of a ding-dong could be a plus? haha</p>
<p>I don't get something...if there's so many women in HumEc, surely men would have an edge?</p>
<p>my theory is that the university is trying to maintain a certain overall male-female ratio, not one for each individual college. Engineering, architecture and ilr are obviously going to be male heavy so HumEc needs to be very female heavy to achieve the desired total result</p>
<p>I highly doubt HumEc would purposely cut females slack and judge males more harshly... there are a lot of programs in HumEc that are very gender-neutral, like HBHS, B and S, HD
I would say AAP would have a lot of females too: art?
I'm not buying that HumEc would rather accept females than males.</p>
<p>im not saying they judge males more harshly, thats just my theory on why they don't give men an edge</p>
<p>p.s. you got me on the art thing. aap has more girls than guys</p>
<p>Thanks for the data Gumbi- you may be right with your theory. Although on the other hand, because (as a few have said) there are many majors in Humec that may be seen as less traditional majors for men, it may be skewing the numbers a bit. That can be seen in the amount of female applicants vs male applicants, and the yield: there is a slightly lower yield in male applicants than female. </p>
<p>But really, between the admit rate and the yield, it probably all comes out even. And that was how they planned it, I'm sure.</p>
<p>Yeah, the major I'm applying to is HBHS, which is definitely gender-neutral (a lot of pre-meds) and there are a few majors like that in HumEc too.
Design, Fiber Science, etc are definitely female-geared and skew the numbers, as pageturner said.</p>
<p>But I doubt that if I were to be compared with a female applicant who has exactly the same qualifications as me for the HBHS major, she would get accepted and I rejected solely due to her being female.</p>
<p>Also, Chandler, bear in mind that Humec accepted 32% of all applicants last year and 35% the year before-and that is both ED and RD combined (I wonder what it was ED?). That sure beats the total university stats (21% for class of 2012).</p>
<p>That is true, but I'm thinking that HumEc's applicant pool is a lot more self-selected than, say, CAS's since all of its majors are pretty specialized.
HBHS, DEA, and FSAD are pretty unique I'd say. If you're going into Fiber Science, you're probably already a strong applicant for a Fiber Science program if you had the initiative/interest in it already.
But I could be wrong, I'm just a lowly applicant :P</p>
<p>HumEc also gets more internal transfers than any other Cornell school.
I think because as freshman applicants, students aren't always sure what they want to do, so a lot simply apply to CAS under a liberal arts major they enjoyed in HS...like psychology, English, etc...then later they realize they're interested in something more specialized...an Econ major such as myself might realize that PAM is a great fit for me. </p>
<p>Fewer people apply into specialized majors right out of HS. That's probably why schools like the College of Engineering and HumEc have higher acceptance rates...in HS, everyone was like, oh I'm gonna study political sci, English, Economics, Biology...not many people going for specialized fields like Fiber Science or Human Development.</p>
<p>Statistically, being an ILR transfer is the easier way into Cornell:</p>
<p>59.64%</p>
<p>Easiest regular admissions is human ecology: </p>
<p>35.31%</p>
<p>hahah maybe I should transfer into ILR instead? :)
no really, I was debating between HumEc/ILR forever, finally settled on HumEc. yeah I know ILR has a really high external transfer rate...HumEc's is pretty high too though.</p>
<p>I think ILR has a higher transfer rate, HumEc is actually harder to get into as a transfer.
And yeah, stargazer, a lot of kids wouldn't apply to Human Bio, Health, and Society or Policy Analysis and Management right out of HS... I'm lucky that I basically know what I want to do with life (just like a LOT of other kids), so I chose the HBHS program because it seems to fit my interests really well.</p>
<p>60% external transfer applicants do not get accepted to ILR. That is including GT's which inflates it heavily. Cut it in half and it is about what I was told. With that being said, it still may be easier than HumEc since it also has GT's (although I don't know if HumEc has as many).</p>
<p>architecture</p>