Cornell

[Anonymous]

The acceptance rates are actually published somewhere online, would be worth it to look, but off the top of my head, yes, the cornell ed acceptance rate is higher than the rd rate, and both vary substantially by school within cornell.

cornell's organisational structure more resembles a state flagship than some of its ivy peers—that's not a dig at all or comment on the academic quality, but you have lots of different colleges, an agriculture school, etc. 3 of the schools are funded by the State of NY and NY students can get in-state tuition, the other cornell colleges are not.

Of them (hardest to easiest admit):

Hardest:
Dyson school of applied economics and management: hardest to get into, low single digits acceptance rate. This is located within college of agriculture and life sciences (CALS), which is NY state funded

Still hard, in no particular order:
College of Engineering
College of Arts and Sciences
College of Architecture, Art and Planning
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (NY State funded)

Easier (to my knowledge and memory):
School of Hotel Administration
College of Human Ecology (state-funded): this includes the Jeb E Brooks school of public policy

*note, these differences in difficulty of admission are nominal, but the admit rates for the easier category might sit in the teens

But seriously, you have to do research on cornell, figure out what you want when you're applying and craft a narrative in your application to support that. Be strategic. It's not a Brown/LAC "major in anything you want" atmosphere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The acceptance rates are actually published somewhere online, would be worth it to look, but off the top of my head, yes, the cornell ed acceptance rate is higher than the rd rate, and both vary substantially by school within cornell.

cornell's organisational structure more resembles a state flagship than some of its ivy peers—that's not a dig at all or comment on the academic quality, but you have lots of different colleges, an agriculture school, etc. 3 of the schools are funded by the State of NY and NY students can get in-state tuition, the other cornell colleges are not.

Of them (hardest to easiest admit):

Hardest:
Dyson school of applied economics and management: hardest to get into, low single digits acceptance rate. This is located within college of agriculture and life sciences (CALS), which is NY state funded

Still hard, in no particular order:
College of Engineering

How about the vet school fool
College of Arts and Sciences
College of Architecture, Art and Planning
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (NY State funded)

Easier (to my knowledge and memory):
School of Hotel Administration
College of Human Ecology (state-funded): this includes the Jeb E Brooks school of public policy

*note, these differences in difficulty of admission are nominal, but the admit rates for the easier category might sit in the teens

But seriously, you have to do research on cornell, figure out what you want when you're applying and craft a narrative in your application to support that. Be strategic. It's not a Brown/LAC "major in anything you want" atmosphere.

[Anonymous]

On this page, https://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/university-factbook/undergraduate-admissions, you can see the admissions data by school if you sort the graph, but you cannot see the difference between ED and RD by school, just overall.

[Anonymous]

The vet school doesn't have an undergraduate program. You could do pre-vet in Ag.

[Anonymous]

What do you need to know my kid is there? She did not ED. She was waitlisted didn't get in and did not get a guaranteed transfer. Went to a top SLAC and got in as a transfer. SLAC might have been a little higher ranked but liked Cornell a lot.

You can back into the admissions by school on the CDS. Bottom line the NY schools are easier e.g. Human Ecology and Labor but there is some slight preference to NY residents. That messed my daughter up so she got waitlisted. So double edged sword.

Worked in End as she is in Arts and Sciences as a transfer. She did not even a guarantee transfer.

I would do Arts and Sciences honestly and make sure you ED. They do like ED. ED rate overall is probably close to 20 percent admit. Let me see if I can found it. Somebody posted in Cornell Parents group.

Good thing about Cornell ED is maybe you get a guaranteed transfer option.

[Anonymous]

I am the PP who said for some schools ED acceptance rate is as high as 50%. Just to clarify, I meant to say some schools in the DMV area, not any specific schools within Cornell. Off course 50% ED acceptance can mean only 2 kids from the school applied and 1 was accepted. My datapoint however is based on actual data for my DC’s school from the previous years (2017 - 2021) where there was at least 10 or more ED applicants each year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On this page, https://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/university-factbook/undergraduate-admissions, you can see the admissions data by school if you sort the graph, but you cannot see the difference between ED and RD by school, just overall.

What graph? Can you link to the specific page? That link goes to a list of many links.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On this page, https://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/university-factbook/undergraduate-admissions, you can see the admissions data by school if you sort the graph, but you cannot see the difference between ED and RD by school, just overall.

What graph? Can you link to the specific page? That link goes to a list of many links.

Here is the link again, but I think it will take you to that same general page. If so, just click on "Facts and Dashboards," and then Undergraduate Admissions, and then you will get to the graphs I was thinking of.

https://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/university-factbook/undergraduate-admissions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On this page, https://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/university-factbook/undergraduate-admissions, you can see the admissions data by school if you sort the graph, but you cannot see the difference between ED and RD by school, just overall.

What graph? Can you link to the specific page? That link goes to a list of many links.

Here is the link again, but I think it will take you to that same general page. If so, just click on "Facts and Dashboards," and then Undergraduate Admissions, and then you will get to the graphs I was thinking of.

https://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/university-factbook/undergraduate-admissions

This link works - thanks!

[Anonymous]

Ok I looked up stats by school for class of 2026. Human Ecology was 15.7 percent. 4.17 percent the same year for Dyson, the business school. Arts and Sciences is 5.14 percent. 18.26 for labor. This is overall but you can imagine ED is higher. You see the NY schools are higher. ED a NY school. Overall university was 7.24 percent but they admit by college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok I looked up stats by school for class of 2026. Human Ecology was 15.7 percent. 4.17 percent the same year for Dyson, the business school. Arts and Sciences is 5.14 percent. 18.26 for labor. This is overall but you can imagine ED is higher. You see the NY schools are higher. ED a NY school. Overall university was 7.24 percent but they admit by college.

Can you take classes at the other schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which college? What major?

It's a shoo in for the Motel 6 school.

[Anonymous]

Looking at the stats the ED rate was 19.16 percent but that is for the whole university for fall 2022. That makes the RD rate 2.5 percent. It doesn’t break down by each college for ED. But can only imagine the New York schools are 30 plus percent ED.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok I looked up stats by school for class of 2026. Human Ecology was 15.7 percent. 4.17 percent the same year for Dyson, the business school. Arts and Sciences is 5.14 percent. 18.26 for labor. This is overall but you can imagine ED is higher. You see the NY schools are higher. ED a NY school. Overall university was 7.24 percent but they admit by college.

Can you take classes at the other schools?

My daughter just texted she said you can take classes at other schools but hard to transfer between schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I suppose ED acceptance rate also vary by school - I know ED acceptance to Cornell last year was close to 50% for one school, other schools probably not as high or could be higher.

According to the most recent CDS for Cornell, 9017 students applied ED and 1930 were accepted (for a 21% acceptance rate). Remember, that includes athletes, legacies, etc. Given this overall rate, it's hard to imagine how any of the schools (or multiple schools) could have an acceptance rate of 50% or higher.

That is so confusing, where is the 50% admission rate posted?

I think that PP was saying that, anecdotally, at some local high schools it seems like 1/2 of the legacies got in ED. 50% isn’t a real admissions rate - just PP’s perception based on a handful of kids.