Anonymous
04/20/2026 13:43
Subject: Hopkins or Cornell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The people picking Cornell are prestige hunters. Hopkins is the undisputed king of pre-med. I also know so many boring, unacademic kids at Cornell who ED’d there looking for instant prestige. Hopkins will not admit someone like that.
How?
Cornell admits 30% of the class ED. Hopkins admits 60% of the class ED, and has ED2.
Cornell admits a ton from waitlist (over 10% of class with 388 students waitlisted students admitted out of 3500 freshman enrolled) and also offers guaranteed transfer. It's worse than Hopkins and less selective from an acceptance rate and freshman profile perspective. https://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CDS-2024-2025-v6-print.pdf
Meanwhile Hopkins admitted 30 people from waitlist out of 1390 enrolled freshman.
Hopkins has always been a tougher admit.
825 out of 1390 comes from ED binding for JHU. While for Cornell 1161 out of 3500 is from ED. 60% vs 33%. Plus the school size is 2.5 times larger for Cornell. If you are worried about over enrollment, strategy might be to take a little less in RD and access the waitlist. The schools are different and to each to their own reason behind choosing.
to take 11% of your class from WL is quite divergent from almost every other private. Meanwhile there are other ivies taking 50%+ ED. Different strategies for sure
Anonymous
04/20/2026 13:40
Subject: Hopkins or Cornell
Anonymous wrote:I respect Cornell as an institution immensely but I don’t know a single Cornell alum who views it fondly
Not a single one.
Say you're a loner without saying you're a loner.
LOL!!!
Anonymous
04/20/2026 05:15
Subject: Hopkins or Cornell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The people picking Cornell are prestige hunters. Hopkins is the undisputed king of pre-med. I also know so many boring, unacademic kids at Cornell who ED’d there looking for instant prestige. Hopkins will not admit someone like that.
How?
Cornell admits 30% of the class ED. Hopkins admits 60% of the class ED, and has ED2.
Cornell admits a ton from waitlist (over 10% of class with 388 students waitlisted students admitted out of 3500 freshman enrolled) and also offers guaranteed transfer. It's worse than Hopkins and less selective from an acceptance rate and freshman profile perspective. https://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CDS-2024-2025-v6-print.pdf
Meanwhile Hopkins admitted 30 people from waitlist out of 1390 enrolled freshman.
Hopkins has always been a tougher admit.
825 out of 1390 comes from ED binding for JHU. While for Cornell 1161 out of 3500 is from ED. 60% vs 33%. Plus the school size is 2.5 times larger for Cornell. If you are worried about over enrollment, strategy might be to take a little less in RD and access the waitlist. The schools are different and to each to their own reason behind choosing.
Anonymous
04/20/2026 04:02
Subject: Hopkins or Cornell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The people picking Cornell are prestige hunters. Hopkins is the undisputed king of pre-med. I also know so many boring, unacademic kids at Cornell who ED’d there looking for instant prestige. Hopkins will not admit someone like that.
How?
Cornell admits 30% of the class ED. Hopkins admits 60% of the class ED, and has ED2.
Cornell admits a ton from waitlist (over 10% of class with 388 students waitlisted students admitted out of 3500 freshman enrolled) and also offers guaranteed transfer. It's worse than Hopkins and less selective from an acceptance rate and freshman profile perspective. https://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CDS-2024-2025-v6-print.pdf
Meanwhile Hopkins admitted 30 people from waitlist out of 1390 enrolled freshman.
Hopkins has always been a tougher admit.
Anonymous
04/19/2026 22:33
Subject: Hopkins or Cornell
Of course JHU!! Dream school for premed!!
Anonymous
04/19/2026 20:28
Subject: Re:Hopkins or Cornell
Correction: should *not be controversial to state
Anonymous
04/19/2026 20:27
Subject: Hopkins or Cornell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:(Frothing at mouth) But, but, but one’s an IVY!
Hopkins is fast becoming the Asian Ivy. (Not to say there are not plenty of Asian students at traditional Ivies, too — there are.)
Hopkins is 49% Asian, Cornell in the mid 30s.
Both cornell and jh are about 60% asian. Those percentages above are asian American, reported. Please add asian + did not report + international to get real percent asian. Then add a few extra points. It feels like 80%. This should be controversial to state, it is simply evident to anyone who has been there recently.
Anonymous
04/19/2026 18:40
Subject: Hopkins or Cornell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The people picking Cornell are prestige hunters. Hopkins is the undisputed king of pre-med. I also know so many boring, unacademic kids at Cornell who ED’d there looking for instant prestige. Hopkins will not admit someone like that.
How?
Cornell admits 30% of the class ED. Hopkins admits 60% of the class ED, and has ED2.
Cornell is the school private school kids settle for after the CCO tells them that they will be shut out of all other Ivies. JHU, on the other hand, is a reach even for private school kids.
Anonymous
04/19/2026 18:32
Subject: Hopkins or Cornell
Anonymous wrote:The people picking Cornell are prestige hunters. Hopkins is the undisputed king of pre-med. I also know so many boring, unacademic kids at Cornell who ED’d there looking for instant prestige. Hopkins will not admit someone like that.
How?
Cornell admits 30% of the class ED. Hopkins admits 60% of the class ED, and has ED2.
Anonymous
04/19/2026 18:16
Subject: Hopkins or Cornell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:(Frothing at mouth) But, but, but one’s an IVY!
Hopkins is fast becoming the Asian Ivy. (Not to say there are not plenty of Asian students at traditional Ivies, too — there are.)
Hopkins is 49% Asian, Cornell in the mid 30s.
It’s for the better
It’s not like Cornell is getting the top tier whites/blacks/latinos like hyps to make up for it.
Cornell being mid 30s is sad because they are just sand bagging Asians without any upside
The comparative advantage of going to Jhu will only widen in future decades as it keeps becoming synonymous with competency whereas Cornell is morphing into more of a SUNY every year
Sorry neither you nor your kid got in. It really is a great school. And so is JHU.
Anonymous
04/19/2026 18:11
Subject: Hopkins or Cornell
The people picking Cornell are prestige hunters. Hopkins is the undisputed king of pre-med. I also know so many boring, unacademic kids at Cornell who ED’d there looking for instant prestige. Hopkins will not admit someone like that.
Anonymous
04/19/2026 18:08
Subject: Hopkins or Cornell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:(Frothing at mouth) But, but, but one’s an IVY!
Hopkins is fast becoming the Asian Ivy. (Not to say there are not plenty of Asian students at traditional Ivies, too — there are.)
Hopkins is 49% Asian, Cornell in the mid 30s.
It’s for the better
It’s not like Cornell is getting the top tier whites/blacks/latinos like hyps to make up for it.
Cornell being mid 30s is sad because they are just sand bagging Asians without any upside
The comparative advantage of going to Jhu will only widen in future decades as it keeps becoming synonymous with competency whereas Cornell is morphing into more of a SUNY every year
Funny as it "morphs" it keeps moving up the rankings -- it moved ahead of Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell and Columbia over the last 3 years.
Anonymous
04/19/2026 18:05
Subject: Hopkins or Cornell
Cornell not even close.
Anonymous
04/19/2026 17:53
Subject: Hopkins or Cornell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:(Frothing at mouth) But, but, but one’s an IVY!
Hopkins is fast becoming the Asian Ivy. (Not to say there are not plenty of Asian students at traditional Ivies, too — there are.)
Hopkins is 49% Asian, Cornell in the mid 30s.
It’s for the better
It’s not like Cornell is getting the top tier whites/blacks/latinos like hyps to make up for it.
Cornell being mid 30s is sad because they are just sand bagging Asians without any upside
The comparative advantage of going to Jhu will only widen in future decades as it keeps becoming synonymous with competency whereas Cornell is morphing into more of a SUNY every year
Anonymous
04/19/2026 17:08
Subject: Hopkins or Cornell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:(Frothing at mouth) But, but, but one’s an IVY!
Hopkins is fast becoming the Asian Ivy. (Not to say there are not plenty of Asian students at traditional Ivies, too — there are.)
Hopkins is 49% Asian, Cornell in the mid 30s.