<p>perhaps you should consider the fact that there are 14,000 undergraduate students...second, you sound like you don't even know what ivy league means, so go away until you find out what it is</p>
<p>The largest Ivy is bound to have the highest acceptance rate...</p>
<p>there is a pdf on cornell's statistics page showing all ivy acceptance rates most are around 10-15% cornell is very close to 30% .. That is a big difference... their yield is also the lowest.... im not saying its are not a great, top level school but among the ivys cornell is definitely at the very bottom in terms of statistics... also spanks, u have a definite anger managment problem ;-)</p>
<p>I would guess that the high acceptance rate is due to the fact that...
a) Cornell has a lot of space to fill and
b) lots of very qualified applicants.</p>
<p>A high acceptance rate in no way makes Cornell inferior to Princeton, Yale, Harvard, etc.</p>
<p>No, I simply don't have tolerance for people like you</p>
<p>I'm siding with Spanks. (There's a lot of diehard Cornell lovers like us on this board. lol) The acceptance rates definitely have to do with the fact that there are not one, not two, but SEVEN colleges at Cornell.</p>
<p>Cornell is almost twice as big as the next largest Ivy (Penn, 3000 v 1600ish). While not all are the greatest, many of Cornell's fields are the best in the Ivy League, and possibly in the world.</p>
<p>the acceptance rate is higher than at the other ivies, because the average yield is much lower. the yield is worse for the applicants with the highest scores. they go elsewhere. engineering has the worst yield. they all goto berkeley, mit, georgia tech, etc. this is not necessarily a bad thing... it means that cornell is competing for students with the best universities, even if it is as a backup school sometimes.</p>
<p>yields by SAT score:
<a href="http://dpb.cornell.edu/irp/pdf/FactBook/Admissions/Undergraduate/profile.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://dpb.cornell.edu/irp/pdf/FactBook/Admissions/Undergraduate/profile.pdf</a></p>
<p>yields by college:
<a href="http://dpb.cornell.edu/irp/pdf/FactBook/Admissions/Undergraduate/Freshmen/bycoll.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://dpb.cornell.edu/irp/pdf/FactBook/Admissions/Undergraduate/Freshmen/bycoll.pdf</a></p>
<p>there are some mitigating factors such as class size (why on earth doesn't cornell make it smaller? the school is too big. endowment per student is puny. avg lecture class size is huge. they are greedy)</p>
<p>also cornell doesn't use the early admission thing to jack up admission rates, as much as the other ivies.</p>
<p>however in the end, for whatever reasons, the SAT scores for the incoming freshman class at cornell are lower than at the other ivies.
<a href="http://www.admissionsconsultants.com/college/ivy_league_table.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.admissionsconsultants.com/college/ivy_league_table.asp</a></p>
<p>"i cant believe cornell is still ivy level with such high acceptance rates!"</p>
<p>Believe it. The 29% is artificially high, since Cornell almost never uses the waitlist. If it did (as most other schools do), the equivalent reportable acceptance rate would be around 15-20%.</p>
<p>Cornell's grad schools blow away all other Ivies, except maybe Harvard and Princeton. It is much harder to get into Cornell grad schools than the other Ivies.</p>
<p>Reputation of a school is made on the graduate programs, in which Cornell,Harvard and Princeton are the clear top 3 Ivies. That is why Brown and Dartmouth suffer from poor reputation and is the reason why they seem to take it on the chin as the bottom Ivies if you ask the general public!! There's no way anybody would give up Cornell to go to Brown, and that's a fact.</p>
<p>u dont like the high acceptance rate? then dont go there....that simple</p>
<p>but before u start talking trash, get accepted first..... :)</p>
<p>Check out the website</p>
<p>If you are involved with varsity sports. That is who you will compete with.</p>
<p>Have fun where ever you go.</p>
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<p>That's a pretty dumb comment and so incorrect. Golubb_u, I don't even know why you have to spin so much for Cornell considering you are not even accepted yet. Maybe their PR dept has an intern position for you, LOL! I do believe Cornell has great programs (even if they have the highest acceptance rate among ivies) and it doesn't need your BS to prove itself.</p>