<p>How would you rank the difficulty of getting into each of the 7 Cornell Colleges.</p>
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<p>cornell is kinda weird...</p>
<p>technically, the AAP school has the lowest acceptance rate, but that's only due to architecture. The acceptance rate for this program is around 12-13%. The overall acceptance rate for AAP is 21%, but since the architecture program makes up almost two-thirds of the students, i'd guess that the acceptance rate into the art program is around 40-50%. </p>
<p>Engineering has the highest acceptance rate of all the school at cornell, but also has the highest median sat range (1380-1550 for middle 50%). </p>
<p>So, the school with the lowest average SATs has the lowest acceptance rate, and the school with the highest acceptance rate has the highest average SATs. </p>
<p>The hotel school look at way more than just grades, successful applicants there have a tremendous amount of experience in the business before entering the school. </p>
<p>...i'd have to think about this a little more...</p>
<p>Difficulty in admissions for your average high schooler would put AAP, and hotel at the top, CAS and engineering in the middle, and CALS at the bottom end, IMO. ILR and HE would be in the middle or bottom.</p>
<p>However, obviously someone with a phenomenal ability in art or drawing and SATs in the low 600s could get into AAP no problem but possibly not have a prayer at CALS. Similarly, while most engineering applicants couldn't get into Hotel, neither could most hotel applicants get into engineering.</p>
<p>While it is possible to rank the colleges in terms of difficulty of admission for your average applicant, it's impossibly to say which you should apply to based on difficulty or acceptance rate alone. The match of the applicant to the goals and values of the college/school is much more important than the acceptance rate or general difficulty of admissions.</p>
<p>So as not to offend people in CALS, i put it toward the bottom because we're talking about your typical applicant, not a dumb applicant. Your average HS student who has an interest in some science has a greater chance at CALS than at CAS due to slightly higher admissions standards, but since CALS and CAS have the broadest curriculums, they are the easiest to get into for the "average applicant."</p>
<p>If you're asking this question out of curiosity, fine, but if you're trying to decide which college to apply to, sorting them by general difficulty of admissions is a bad path. The match of you and the college/school is much more important than the acceptance rate/difficulty.</p>
<p>Unless you're interested in biology. Supposedly CALS and CAS have the same bio program but acceptance rate/difficulty is very different for the schools (harder for CAS). In that case maybe CALS is a better option, and if you eventualy want to be in CAS, you can transfer from school to school, which is a ton easier than actually getting in.</p>
<p>This info is all from my alumni interview.</p>
<p>wait, so your saying that agriculture has lower admission standards than human ecology?</p>
<p>I think you guys ought to be able to make your own judgements by looking here:</p>
<p>and here:</p>
<p>and here:</p>
<p>I'm not saying that. I'm saying I am unsure of where ILR and HE fit in, but they are below arts in terms of difficulty of admittance for the average high schooler applicant.</p>
<p>If I had to guess I would say hotel school at the top and all other schools significantly below. They really are just no match and should just give up. Who needs them anyways? :cool:</p>
<p>well, someone needs to be successful enough to stay at your hotels and eat at your restaurants That's what the other colleges are there for :p ooooh burn!!!</p>
<p>haha so true I accept defeat you all are allowed to be in my presence and stay at my hotel chain i guess...... :eek:</p>
<p>heheheh i couldn't resist saying it!</p>
<p>how hard is it to change schools once you are alrady in cornell? Like CALS to CAS?</p>
<p>Easy if it's one of the more general schools. Less easy if it's a more specialized school. Obviously if you're cut out for it it's not hard to transfer to a specialized school, but joe cornell is not going to be able just to transfer into AAP</p>