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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a Cornell family and my kid was WL ILR from OOS two years ago.

As you probably have read, Cornell admission rates are quite low now.  The contract colleges are slightly easier but not by a lot, based on intelligent swagging by interested parties. I think I guessed that ILR was maybe 13% for freshmen two years ago (there are undergrad transfer applicants as well).  There is some remaining partiality to in-state students because that is part of Cornell's historic and permanent mission.  Cornell is also sophomore transfer-friendly and gives out transfer options to some diehard freshman waitlisters.  This helps ensure that more of the student body really wants to be at Cornell, in Ithaca.

It's larger than other Ivies so has a lot of seats.  But you need to tailor your application to the specific college you are applying for, and the colleges have some specialized slants to their priorities.  If you are gaming the system, hoping to transfer from one Cornell college to another, it might work out but that's a waste of freshman/sophomore class scheduling options in my opinion.

I can't remember where the relatively new undergrad business major is housed but it is very hard to get into.  I've also read on here that Hotel School students now go into real estate corporate management and finance.  I would expect that any major that gets people access to NYC Ivy grad finance salaries is going to be hard to get into.

I don't think the difference between a 5%, 10%, and 20% chance is very meaningful for the individual student applicant.  I would recommend evaluating how credible the applicant's reasons are for wanting to attend the specific college within Cornell that they are applying to.  Also people who have reservations about the location, weather, or academic grinding are probably best suited to prioritizing other universities.  My family loved it and are very loyal.[/quote]

If you think the difference between a 5%, 10% and 20 % chance at admittance is meaningful to an applicant, clearly you did not study math at Cornell. [/quote]

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