<p>My friend just got rejected from Columbia and in the rejection letter they said they had a very high number of ED applicants, 2400. My friend said this was double the usual (I'm not sure, I couldn't find the statistic myself). Do you think something like this will happen at Cornell? Or is this just a weird year for Columbia?</p>
<p>Oh I think this will definately happen at Cornell. Just look at all the junior and new members flooding the CC board this year - this indicates higher interest, and therefore higher applicant numbers. I think this is the tendency that is going trough all the colleges - there is a real revolution right before our eyes.</p>
<p>Well, this really helped to calm me down......</p>
<p>We are the revolution! Well, be remembered the day, when our children curse us for making college admissions almost impossible.</p>
<p>actually, i believe yale had less applicants this year EA, and maybe brown too ED..ohhhh yea no it was penn that had quite a few less. and yale. but yea i bet Cornell will have more. but don't worry guys, you knew it was competitive coming into this. you still have a good shot!</p>
<p>Actually, I was able to find the statistic. It wasn't even 200 more ED applicants for Columbia. His rejection letter said there were 2400. It was just over 150 more applicants. A little more than 400 more if when they said 2400, they didn't include the engineering school.</p>
<p>yea see, that's not even a big deal. don't worry!!!!!</p>
<p>although for some reason i would think that Cornell would have more applicants this year relative to others. that's just a guess.</p>
<p>Yeah, i think columbia's went up by 8%. Some schools even went down (yale down 13%!). I haven't heard of cornell's, but i would guess it probably went up but only by 2 or 3 %.</p>
<p>You can expect plaaces to go up. This is supposedly the year in which the 2nd most students will be applying to college, due to generation ripples from WWII babyboomers. That's why the competition is the worst these days.</p>
<p>That said, you've still got no reason to feel sorry for yourself and have no excuse for whatever it is you'll do just because a rejection letter says the pool was competitive and big. Haven't you ever attempted to write a generic essay before? This is the college's way of bull*****ting you into believing you were __ College material. Don't be naïve. They are simply being nice; not stating that this year was "terribly competitive and you should've gotten in."</p>
<p>In terms of this 50% acceptence rate you guys are talking about...you might wanna recheck that *****. While an embarassingly high ED rate might be the reason cornell releases info about pretty much all rates but the ED ones, I highly doubt the rates are that favorable to you. Expect more realistically 38-43% for "easier" colleges and high 20's and low 30's for "harder" ones.</p>
<p>I would love to hear that the rates are that high. But I refuse to believe they are unless you cite something official...and not a convo u had with someone at cornell. I know 2 people who took a trip to cornell and spoke to adcoms about the ED notification date. They both heard 2 diff. dates...both of which were not the 14th. And that was very recent.</p>
<p>no meanness intended if the tone came off that way...just rantin :P</p>
<p>cornell's definitely went up... the admissions office was flooded this year</p>