<p>Just looking at the overall SAT scores of Cornell admits and the greater percentage of admits points to Cornell being less selective than the other Ivy League schools.</p>
<p>I can attribute to this to Cornell being a huge school, but since its colleges are pretty much independent in admissions I was wonder what the actual selectivity was for individual colleges.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any insight into the selectivity of Cornell's College of Engineering?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Yesterday, at the engineering information session, they said that of the approx. 750 admitted engineering students, about 1/3 are from EDcision (~300 of ~800), and then the rest come from regular decision (but out of about 8000 applications). So the rate for ED is almost 40% usually, but that RD is only around 12% or so. Hope that helps</p>
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<p>damn. didn’t know applying ED would be that much of a boost.</p>
<p>According to the Cornell Daily Sun there was an overall ED admit rate of 35.2 percent for the incoming class of 2010. Since engineering is consistently one of the more selective colleges at Cornell, the ED admit rate is surely much less than 35%.</p>
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Actually engineering’s overall acceptance rate is 22%, which is above the overall for Cornell. It’s common for engineering schools to have high average SAT’s, but also higher acceptance rates than other types of schools at universities.</p>
<p>^ Yes countryheart; the engineering college is nevertheless a bit more selective than a couple of others despite the “self-selective” nature of rigorous engineering programs. I was just highlighting the fact that the ED admissions figure that was initially listed in this thread is incorrect. It’s less than 35%; not 40% as was listed in post #2.</p>
<p>^I understand. I’m saying that the 40% ED figure is likely correct. If the engineering acceptance rat is 4% over the Cornell average, then it doesn’t seem unreasonable to believe that the ED acceptance rate for engineering is 4-5% above the Cornell ED average as well.</p>
<p>^ Although I doubt that engineering’s ED admit rate is anywhere close to that 40% figure I admit that I can’t prove it, since I haven’t been able to track down the data, which may not have been made public. Also, I am not as sure as you that regular decision college-to-college differentials correlate to ED ones.</p>
<p>Big discrepency between male & female admit rates. Male admit rate is 17% female is 35%. Average scores are:</p>
<pre><code> 25th percentile 75th percentile
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<p>SAT CR 650 720
SAT M 720 800</p>
<p>ACT 31 34</p>
<p>^ But what’s the ED admission rate for males at cornell engineering? anyone know?</p>
<p>And would cornell admissions find a 35 math ACT and/or 35 science ACT comparable to a 770-790 math SAT?</p>
<p>and do you think cornell considers the math II sat II more than the SAT I Math since it is much harder?</p>
<p>Just to point out a common trend among all highly selective universities - early admission rate tend to be higher because more qualified applicants apply early. I would take the “boost” ED with a grain of salt, though compared to EA it probably does give you a better shot.</p>
<p>In addition it does appear that the majority of legacies (15%) & recruited athletes (6% of incoming freshman class) are in the ED pool.</p>
<p>Some universities state that ED has an advantage over RD, like Johns Hopkins. I believe that it should get a little advantage for EA since the students have clearly demonstrated the interest to the university and the university gets a better yield.</p>
<p>As others have said, I would take into consideration the self-selecting nature of the ED applicant pool, as well as the legacies and recruited athletes… ED is probably a minor advantage, if that - the biggest benefit may simply be that you get to know your result by mid-Dec.</p>
The following are the acceptance rates in 2014 for the various Cornell colleges.
Architecture - 1050 15.8
Arts & Sciences - 18592 13.5
Ag & Life Sciences - 7017 14.6
Engineering - 11893 13.0
Hotel Admin - 823 24.7
Human Ecology - 1948 21.9
Industrial Labor - 1661 13.9
reference http://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/tableau_visual/admissions.
Great info, I don’t think Cornell has made this info available since approx. 2011. In addition, I believe that the female acceptance rate for COE is significantly higher than male rate, at least it has been in the past