Admissions article in Cornell Sun

[dadof4kids]

Interesting article, 90% is probably applicable to any selective college.

https://cornellsun.com/2018/11/06/a-look-inside-how-cornell-accepts-its-students/

[f2000sa]

Very good information. Thanks. For comparison, This is how Penn read the applications:

https://www.thedp.com/article/2016/11/new-team-admissions-strategy

[Groundwork2022]

Interesting articles. Thank you for sharing.

[lookingforward]

The Cornell article, in particular, is very informative. Its what more bright kids who are dreaming of a tippy top should be looking for. Not assuming stats and titles are the only “it.”

[rphcfb]

@dadof4kids,

Thank you for posting the article. It is very informative. I personally think it should be re-posted in the Admission category for kids who aim at highly selective colleges to learn from it.

[Dave_Berry]

"For four years in a row, Cornell’s undergraduate acceptance rate has sloped downward while the number of applicants annually grows by the thousands.

Most tellingly, in 2012, 16.2 percent of applicants were selected for the Class of 2016. This May, for the Class of 2022, that number was 10.3 percent.

As students scramble for a spot in the Class of 2023, The Sun sat down with two admissions officers in charge of the process — Jason C. Locke, interim vice provost for enrollment, and Pamela Tan ’97, director of admissions of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences — to delve into how Cornell evaluates and selects its students." …

https://cornellsun.com/2018/11/06/a-look-inside-how-cornell-accepts-its-students/

[LvMyKids2]

why is this article posted again in the same thread @Dave_Berry ?

[dadof4kids]

Lol, thought the same thing @rphcfb. I put it there and it got moved.

[rphcfb]

@dadof4kids ,
That was a surprise. College Confidential is about helping students and parents gaining knowledge on all things college, particularly college admission, isn’t it?

The info in the article you posted is very informative, useful and up-to-date. I wonder why the admin does not want to post it on the Admission category. We all know this Cornell category does not attract as much traffic as the College Admissions or the Parent Forum.

Why not let more people read the article?

[oldfort]

This is what I got out of reading the article and future applicants should read the article:

In the three contract colleges at Cornell — CALS, Human Ecology and the ILR School — which are partially funded by New York State, being an in-state resident can give the applicant an extra edge

Every year, around 2,000 legacy students apply to Cornell, according to Locke. Most of them are rejected, he said, and a large portion of those admitted are selected through Early Decision, which he described as the result of a mutual commitment relationship.
“We can’t take most of [the legacy applicants], so what’s been communicated to the legacy students is that, if you really want us to show some commitment to you as a legacy candidate, we want you to show some commitment to Cornell, which means applying Early Decision,”

A passion for contributing to and becoming part of the community is also extremely important, according to Locke.

“Research that’s done nationally shows that students who are engaged outside of the classroom are usually students that are more successful,” he said. “We’ve seen students who think they are just gonna come here and study, and we don’t know if that’s a good thing.”

This assessment relies on all scores and grades submitted by the students, but will place the heaviest weight on their high school records.

[oldfort]

I do agree most of the article could apply to any selective schools. This thread probably should be promoted to college admission forum.