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Calcruzer · 04-11-2007, 03:51 AM

Cornell's acceptance rate is deceiving for a few reasons.

Cornell waitlists a lot of people and then offers some of them "guaranteed admission on a deferred basis". This means if they get a certain GPA (usually 3.4) at a different school after two years then they are guaranteed admission if they transfer to Cornell. You can read about this if you go to the Cornell thread here on CC.

The true acceptance rate for transfers is about 15% once you take out the guaranteed transfers.

Also, the Applied Econ & Management school is not the toughest to get into as a transfer, but it's a lot lower than you would think from the statistics the school puts out. The lowest rates are at Arts & Sciences and then the Architecture school. AEM is weird, however--I think the true accept rate is about 19%--but that's not counting reducing it by the Guaranteed Transfers I already mentioned. (they don't give stats on this by schools). The stats given above by brand_182 for the Agriculture and Life Sciences (of which AEM is a part) shows a 50% acceptance rate--but the acceptance rate to the Agriculture portion of this school is about 80%--leaving AEM for non-agricultural majors at the lower rate.

04-11-2007, 03:51 AM	#29
Calcruzer Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Santa Cruz, CA Threads: 53 Posts: 3,749	Cornell's acceptance rate is deceiving for a few reasons. Cornell waitlists a lot of people and then offers some of them "guaranteed admission on a deferred basis". This means if they get a certain GPA (usually 3.4) at a different school after two years then they are guaranteed admission if they transfer to Cornell. You can read about this if you go to the Cornell thread here on CC. The true acceptance rate for transfers is about 15% once you take out the guaranteed transfers. Also, the Applied Econ & Management school is not the toughest to get into as a transfer, but it's a lot lower than you would think from the statistics the school puts out. The lowest rates are at Arts & Sciences and then the Architecture school. AEM is weird, however--I think the true accept rate is about 19%--but that's not counting reducing it by the Guaranteed Transfers I already mentioned. (they don't give stats on this by schools). The stats given above by brand_182 for the Agriculture and Life Sciences (of which AEM is a part) shows a 50% acceptance rate--but the acceptance rate to the Agriculture portion of this school is about 80%--leaving AEM for non-agricultural majors at the lower rate. Last edited by Calcruzer : 04-11-2007 at 04:00 AM.