<p>Does ED give significantly greater chance to applicants? I wanted to apply for CAS and I am from New Jersey....My top two choices are NYU and Cornell but I am thinking I should ED to a school that I have a greater chance at....Both are reaches I guess but NYU seems more reasonable than Cornell....
If ED at Cornell would give me much better chances I would 100% ED Cornell... Does anyone have like the average % of acceptance for ED/RD???</p>
<p>For c/o 2008:
ED: 44%
RD: 27%
For the class of 2009: (these are from memory, might be a percent off.)
ED: 41%
RD: 26%</p>
<p>NYU is not in the same caliber as cornell...not many people decide between these two schools. For undergrad, Cornell is far superior and more selective</p>
<p>What if you just compare Stern admissions to Cornell admissions.</p>
<p>true, then its on par</p>
<p>is engineering the hardest to get into?</p>
<p>Engineering has the students with the best statistics (SAT, GPA, rank), but whether it's the hardest to get into depends on your profile. You need to be extraordinary in math and science. If that's your thing, and you're sure engineering is for you, then go for it. It's not that it's "harder," they just look for different things.</p>
<p>what does "extraordinary" exactly mean. I don't mean to give you a hard time, I just honestly want an example.</p>
<p>Lets just say 800SATI Math and 800IIC are rather common scores at cornell engineering...</p>
<p>yeh thats true</p>
<p>what about CR/W? I have the 800M, 8002c but I can't say the same about the CR/W? Are they looking for 700+ in those two sections? I'm lower in both with hopes of getting 700/700 in october.</p>
<p>On the old SAT Verbal you needed about a 630+ for cornell engineering, the average was 680. You don't need over 700, i did get 710, but for engineering, i doubt that got me in or even an advantage. For writing I only got 630 and I was fine. For engineering they only care that you are a good writer, they don't need you to be the best, so for your CR/W, you don't need to have 700/700, more like 630/630. This is also assuming that you are great in math and science, b/c those are what matters most. You need an 800 on 2C. It isn't that hard to get, and if you are applying for a top engineering school like cornell, i don't know how you couldn't get 800 on 2C. Math SAT1 had an average of 740 or 760, i can't remember. So your SATI math needs to be at least 700+, and preferably closer to 750.</p>
<p>Bottomline for engineering if you get 700/700 you will be more than fine. Just remember that SAT's are only one out of many parts of your application, and even if you get 800's on everything, but do not have the other qualities to back it up, you won't get in.</p>
<p>so you want to shoot for 700 on all tests?</p>
<p>psquared: Yeah, I got an 800 on the Math2c and an 800 on SAT1 Math.
neb_nurbel: Yeah I was hoping to get all my scores over 800.
Right now I have:
SAT2s: Math2c: 800, Chem: 780
SAT1: M:800, CR: 640, W:660</p>
<p>confidential: as far as stats go, thoses seem fine, as long as everything else is good you have a good shot</p>
<p>i meant over 700 not 800! k thanks psquared.</p>
<p>you want to shoot for 800...on everyting...i don't understand the confusion here ;) but yes on the non maths 700 would be cool.</p>