<p>Which ivy league school has the most NYCers?
and which is most popular?</p>
<p>Columbia?</p>
<p>Dumb question much?</p>
<p>Would this be most IN NUMBER or most as a % of the class?</p>
<p>Cornell could have half the % of its undergrad body from NYC as Dartmouth and still have more NYCers.</p>
<p>They’re all pretty chock-a-block full of New Yorkers anyway.</p>
<p>I don’t know about the others, but as of Fall 2008 Cornell enrolled 1,061 undergraduate students who lived in NYC proper. (ie not including surrounding suburbs).</p>
<p>I wouldn’t know where to find this data for any of the other universities, perhaps you might ask the question on the repective CC sub-forums.</p>
<p>I don’t know what the #s are like for Columbia College and FU college, they actually seem to accept fewer kids from our close-in suburb than most of the other Ivy league colleges do. But Columbia’s undergraduate College of General Studies enrolls 1,200 students, and I would imagine a substantial majority of these people are already New Yorkers when they apply.</p>
<p>You’ll find a substantial number of NYC people at all the Ivies, though I doubt they break out those numbers from the NYS numbers.</p>
<p>I can report anecdotally that it felt like there were a lot of people from the city at Brown.</p>
<p>“…though I doubt they break out those numbers from the NYS numbers.”</p>
<p>The few schools I’ve looked up had tables detailing enrollment by county, as part of their Institutional Research data. I’ve no idea about which other schools make this data available. But I’ve found it every time I looked, though that was only a few schools.</p>
<p>Isn’t Cornell a state school in NY?</p>
<p>"Isn’t Cornell a state school in NY? "</p>
<p>Three of Cornell’s seven undergraduate colleges are so-called “contract colleges”; not state schools per se, but operated under contract with New York state, pursuant to its land grant mission. New York State residents receive $10,000 tuition breaks, and comprise about half the enrollment, at these three colleges. </p>
<p>The other four undergraduate colleges do not participate in this arrangement and have nowhere near the proportionate in-state enrollment of the contract colleges.</p>
<p>But yes, the presence of the contract colleges substantially boosts the level of NYC , and NYS, enrollment overall at Cornell, no doubt.</p>
<p>As a consequence, the alumni presence in the NYC metro area is very substantial. The area alumni groups, for both old and young alumni, are very active here. If you wind up in NYC area you will have benefit of these resources.</p>
<p>I would be EXTEMELY surprised if Cornell does not have twice as many NYC residents as any other Ivy including Penn which I would expect to be a solid #2.</p>
<p>Just use common sense folks… Cornell is by far the largest Ivy, it is near NYC, and it give a tuition break to a few of its colleges to NYC residents.</p>
<p>noobcake… dumb question much-er?</p>
<p>I’m not so sure about that. There are 1,061 students at Cornell from NYC. As I posted previously there are 1,200 students in Columbia’s College of General Studies. If I am correct that most of these students are probably from NYC, then Columbia as a whole might well have more NYC students than Cornell has.</p>
<p>Cornell is actually kind of far from NYC… 5 hour drive :/</p>
<p>monydad – why would you expect 85% of Columbia’s students to be from NYC? After all Columbia rejects over 88% of its applicants.</p>
<p>I would expect NYC residents to comprise less than 400 of the 1,200 you reference.</p>
<p>OK, did a quick google search… per this link, Columbia University has 28% in-state students. I don’t know how many of those 28% are from NYC proper… maybe 30-40%?? <a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board;
<p>Columbia college rejects 88% of it’s applicants. The general studies program is much less selective. It’s an interesting question, but I think for “normal” undergraduates the answer is Cornell. And Cornell is not what I’d call close to NYC.</p>
<p>I’m not acquainted with the statistics you are citing. Columbia’s College of General Studies does not reject anywhere near 88% of applicants, as far as I understand. But as I understand it the school’s basic constituency is people past the normal college start age who want to complete a degree, often while continuing to work. If they are completing a degree while continuing to work, that kind of means they are already living here. Given this mission, what basis do you have to expect that only 400 for these students would be living here? Or am I mistaken about GS?</p>
<p>If GS had 800 NYC residents, then the other colleges would only need 261 more to surpasss Cornell’s NYC enrollment. That seems possible to me, but I haven’t looked at their enrollment, I leave that to you. because I don’t care.</p>
<p>FWIW, OP did not specify the degree of “normalcy” of the students. But Columbia makes a big deal about GS being taught by same faculty, interchangable courses, and GS students get “real” Columbia University degrees. And there are 1,200 of them, taking largely the same courses as the other students, often in the same classrooms. They have a different admissions process, but they are equally there.</p>
<p>“…it is near NYC…”</p>
<p>Of the 8 Ivy League universities, only Dartmouth is a longer drive from NYC than Cornell is. Columbia is actually in NYC, Princeton is just over an hour away, Penn and Yale are within 2 hours. Even Brown and Harvard are closer than Cornell is.</p>
<p>so, I would say, that’s not it.</p>
<p>"per this link, Columbia University has 28% in-state students. I don’t know how many of those 28% are from NYC proper… maybe 30-40%?? <a href=“http://collegesearch.collegeboard.co…=CollegeSearch%5B/url%5D”>http://collegesearch.collegeboard.co…=CollegeSearch</a> "</p>
<p>If you do the arithmetic, you will see that this data completely excludes the students in Columbia’s College of General Studies. According to that data, 28% of students in SEAS and Columbia College are from NYS, a total of 1,587 students. If only 1/5 of these are from NYC, that would be 317 students. Plus my hypothetical 800 from GS, then Columbia would have more students from NYC than Cornell does.</p>