<p>Yea, this is kinda sad. And ironically, for many other schools like Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, this is virtually the best year to get taken off waitlists. Why isn't the trickling down effect reaching Cornell Engineering? This is so stupid.</p>
<p>But nevertheless, I am still waiting for the miracle. XD</p>
<p>Checked the mail yesterday, and got the final notice that I was not accepted off the wait-list.....</p>
<p>What?!?!? How is that possible? I thought Cornell's not closing its waitlists until mid-July. Which school were u wait-listed at?</p>
<p>Ophelia1- How did you hear that Cornell was waiting until mid-July to decide if they will go to the waitlist? Was that for all schools or a particular school?</p>
<p>@Ophelia1</p>
<p>Cornell Engineering might not get all that affected by HYP's waitlist because HY's engineering programs are not that strong (Princeton is fairly good). People getting into Harvard or Yale Engineering might turn them down for Cornell Engineering. One of my closest friends turned down Harvard for Cornell ECE.</p>
<p>PhiBetaKappa - I phoned Engineering Admissions and the lady said "probably by mid-July." But then just yesterday, I phoned them again and apparently they have closed off the waitlist already.</p>
<p>Kyt - I totally agree, and I was thinking that too.</p>
<p>so i guess yall are going to harvard/princeton? :<</p>
<p>Yea, I applied to the School of Engineering.. Bummer!</p>
<p>Did anyone else who was waitlisted for ILR get a letter today offering them a guaranteed transfer optionfor fall 2009? This makes things pretty complicated because i am taking summer courses at washu in st.louis right now since i was offered january admission at washu. now i have to decide: washu in januray 09 or cornell in all 09?!</p>
<p>wash u is a great school too! what major would you be doing there?</p>
<p>i would be a political science major and probably psychology minor. i think i'll probably end up staying at washu, but the ILR program does look pretty amazing.</p>
<p>Hey guys, I just wanted to give you a little bit of news. It sucks, but hopefully it will make your walks to the mailbox less frequent. I'll be starting at Cornell in the fall and I've had a lot of issues with my housing. I was placed in Ujamaa (the African Program House) and wanted to switch out terribly. I finally did get switched but it was so difficult and I'm now in another (awesome) program house, not in a regular residence hall. In her most recent e-mail to me, the housing lady said that because of this class's enormous size, they are having to place some people in temporary housing. This would indicated (at least to me) that they will not be accepting anyone off the waitlist, unless you desire to sleep somewhere on the grass on North Campus, or possibly in a trailer somewhere. Best of luck either at Cornell or another university!!</p>
<p>washU will give you a more traditional program...</p>
<p>ILR is traditional in the sense that it is grounded in the social sciences, but has an emphasis on the world of work (labor unions, hr, and organizations)</p>
<p>I was waitlisted to CALS (atmospheric science).
My dad called me this afternoon to tell me that I'm now being offered a guaranteed transfer! Right now I don't think I'm gonna take it, but I thought I'd let you all know that there is still hope!</p>
<p>Wow, if Cornell's over-enrolled right now, what are the chances that it will take transfer students? I know Cornell takes like hundreds of transfers each year, but then how does it find place for them? Do hundreds of ppl transfer out after first year?</p>
<p>One of Cornell's main limitations to the incoming freshman class is the number of beds available on North Campus. Since transfers are not required to live on North, there is more of a leeway in terms of how many more non-freshman students they can take</p>
<p>But Cornell takes like 700 transfers each year! Why not just add 700 beds to the North campus and take 700 more freshmen??...</p>
<p>The number of students admitted also has to do with the number of available seats in the academic departments. Increasing that would also pose a challenge because student/faculty ratios need to be kept at appropriate levels.</p>
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Undergraduate Enrollment Objectives
For several years, Cornell has had an operational maximum total on-campus undergraduate enrollment target of 13,000 students. While the on-campus undergraduate enrollment has declined from 13,508 in Fall 2001 to 13,213 in Fall 2007, this still exceeds the desired oncampus enrollment of 13,000. Having more than 13,000 undergraduates enrolled on-campus at any one time taxes the physical and human resources of the institution. In addition, significant year-to-year fluctuations create difficulties for both our teaching and infrastructure resources.
The current enrollment planning process focuses intensely on a first-time freshman enrollment target of 3,050 students. It is especially important to be disciplined about first-year enrollment targets given that all freshmen are housed within the North Campus Residential Initiative.
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External transfers offer another option for maintaining a stable enrollment. Although the enrollment management process for external transfer students is not as regulated as it is for freshman students, there is still careful monitoring of external transfer enrollments. The majority of external transfers to Cornell arrive as sophomores or juniors. It is important to note that Cornell has always had a tradition of enrolling transfer students, particularly in the Contract Colleges; however, Arts & Sciences has also enrolled a significant number of new external transfers. Cornells tradition in this regard sets us apart from our Ivy peers, some of whom enroll a more modest number of external transfer students or none at all. These students add a rich dimension to the classroom experience and their contributions to undergraduate life at Cornell are deep and varied.
From Fall 1997 to Fall 2007, between 35 and 44 percent of all incoming external transfers annually enroll in Agriculture & Life Sciences. In Fall 1997, this amounted to 209 out of 492 external transfers (42 percent) and in Fall 2007, 238 out of 547 external transfers (44 percent).
For the other colleges (see Figure 6) the number of external transfers fluctuates from year to year.
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