<p>In choosing both a first and second choice school, how often do people get accepted at their second choice?</p>
<p>It’s very rare…the percentage was posted somewhere on here…it was in the single digits.</p>
<p>“Ninety-eight percent of all admitted students were accepted to their first choice college, while only two percent were accepted to their second choice.”</p>
<p>[New</a> Policies for Class of 2012 Affect the Admissions Process | The Cornell Daily Sun](<a href=“http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2008/04/11/new-policies-class-2012-affect-admissions-process]New”>http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2008/04/11/new-policies-class-2012-affect-admissions-process)</p>
<p>That sounds like the number I heard…</p>
<p>Which makes sense - if you’re good enough for Cornell, you should be good enough for each college. If you are rejected from your first choice, you probably aren’t qualified for your second choice either, hence the only 2% of cases where that happens.</p>
<p>Notice that the statistic is only two percent of admitted students. So of the 6,730 admits, about 135 were accepted to their 2nd choice. So roughly 0.4% of all applicants to Cornell (135 of 33,011 applicants) were offered admission to their 2nd choice college.</p>