College of Ag (CALS) Cornell

Hey wondering about how competitive for admissions the AG CALS program is at Cornell. I have a strong gpa, not great test scores and over 1000 hours of science and animal related service along with starting a club and my own non profit. what do you guys think?

Cornell doesn’t break down their acceptance rates by college so use the stats listed on their common data set.

What will be really important for you is the “why Cornell” essay. What can you do/learn at Cornell that you can’t do anywhere else?

Cornell breaks down their admissions data by college, so you can find the data here, just do the arithmetic yourself to derive the individual college acceptance rates:
http://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/tableau_visual/admissions

The difficulty you may find though is that, if I’m not mistaken, CALS admits by major. Particular majors within CALS may be harder or easier to be admitted to than the CALS aggregate. However no further breakdowns are made available beyond the admissions data by college.

The link I gave in #3 above pertains to admissions rate data.

I don’t see any current data for SAT ranges by college, but here is the last data I know about: for that:, which is for Fall 2011
http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000177.pdf
http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000176.pdf
Somebody more motivated and less lazy than I am can “guesstimate” the score ranges by college for the most recent year by interpolating using the aggregates for Fall 2011, (which they would have to look up or compute using the given data) vs. the aggregate range for the recent year.

I’m not sure I would use SAT data that is that old. The acceptance rate keeps dropping and tests scores keep increasing.

I too would not use the old SAT data, not directly… I would however use it indirectly, just aa a rough, loose, guideline, by interpolating it to the present, which is what I suggested, to give some rough idea of what the CALS range “might” be today.

The gap between CALS ranges and the university aggregate has been there like forever, it would be useful to a CALS applicant to get some notion of that, though unfortunately this will be imprecise…