<p>Yes, it is a record number.</p>
<p>Just chiming into this discussion, but I don’t think Cornell is going to be spending any additional marketing dollars to increase that number either. They will focus resources in areas where they need more applications (URM, region of the country, etc.) but there is just a finite pool of applicants. </p>
<p>Also remember that the demographic of those applying to college peaked two years ago and will continue to decline. Cornell still receives more applications than any of those in the “Ivy Plus” (the eight Ivies, MIT, Stanford), so eventually a ceiling has to be hit.</p>