Are there any colleges like cornell that have average sat scores within 1360+ ??? But are still really good schools? My score is a 1370 and most of the ivies are 1500+ on average. I am wondering if there’s schools like cornell.
Im looking sort of in the range you are considering, though I am humanities (not sure what you are).
Try:
Haverford, Colgate, Colby (free to apply to and no sup. essay!), Grinnell, William and Mary, Johns Hopkins, Tufts, St. Andrews (in UK, not sure about financial aid but they accept a lot of Americans. Same with Uni of Edinburgh), UNC Chapel Hill, and Brandeis.
These schools largely range in the 20%-40% acceptance rate but are still good. Tufts and Johns Hopkins are around Cornell’s 11%(?).
Lehigh University, other than its diversity, location, and size (it’s more white, in a barren city, and has half the undergraduates as Cornell) is very similar. Also has some unique programs that combine engineering with business or art.
it really depends on which college within Cornell you’re looking for. The ones 18YearrsASlav listed are great schools, but Haverford, Colgate, Colby, Grinnel, and William & Mary are all Liberal Arts Colleges without engineering, agriculture, or fashion majors. Colleges like Lehigh, Johns Hopkins, and Tufts have a larger variety of majors, but still no agriculture (it’s usually public land-grant universities that have those, like state universities like Purdue, Rutgers, UIUC, Iowa State, etc.)
It depends upon what you mean by “like Cornell”.
The first school that comes to mind for me is UVM. Like Cornell it has a wide range of majors including animal sciences (which Cornell is very good at), a very attractive town or small city, the “genuine” winters, and your SAT is very close to students that I know who went there and is slightly above average for the school. UVM is smaller than Cornell, but not as small as some of the others mentioned above.
Case Western, Rochester, Lehigh, maybe WPI (wholly different, hands-on curriculum). I’m including urban universities, strong in sciences and/or engineering that are not quite as competitive as Cornell, though similarly excellent.
Cornell’s motto re-states the founder’s vision: “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.” It’s an excellent university that covers not only the liberal arts but also agriculture, architecture, business, engineering, etc. This distinguishes it from other Ivy League schools (with the exception of Penn). The set of schools that best replicate that breadth+quality, minus the low (~14%) admit rates, are state universities (especially the top state flagships or “public Ivies”, although a few of them now have admit rates almost as low as Cornell’s).
If you’re only trying to identify schools with average SAT scores around 1360, find an online college match tool and plug in that number. Most of them will be pretty good colleges. Otherwise, they’d probably have a hard time enrolling students with scores that high. However, they won’t necessarily be much like Cornell.
What do you mean by "like Cornell?
What about Cornell, specifically, are you hoping to approach?
And what are your academic interests?
There really isn’t any other place like Cornell. Maybe the closest for absolute breadth of programs would be U MN-TC.
What do you like about Cornell? Which programs are you interested in?