chance me? international stud, engineering

go4cornell
Sun, 05 Dec 2010 09:30:20 +0000

@ellegee: I don’t know if you knew this, but engineering is one of the hardest things to get into to Cornell, its kind of its specialty. As a matter of fact, its almost if not as selective as HYPSM, etc. when it comes to the engineering department. So it’s definitely not easy to get into. You can’t just chance people by the overall school because some schools have departments/programs in it that are twice as selective.

Examples:

Cornell has a 19% acceptance rate but AEM has <10%
UPenn has an 18% acceptance rate but the Huntsman program is notoriously one of the hardest programs to get into ever, more selective than HYP with somewhere around an <7% acceptance rate.

So don’t think that people can just easily get into schools because the school on a whole has a high acceptance rate because for most schools, you don’t apply to the whole school, you apply to a department in the school.