Cornell's Early Admissions Acceptance Rate Increases to 35.2 Percent

[richs73cas]

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Cornell accepted 35.2 percent of early decision applicants this year, an increase of about 2 percent over last year but a decrease from previous years.</p>

<p>Of the 3,456 students who applied early to the University, 1,215 were accepted in mid-December, according to Interim Deputy University Spokesperson Claudia Wheatley.</p>

<p>Last year, Cornell accepted 1,189 students under early decision from a pool of 3,594 applicants, an admittance rate of 33.1 percent.

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Penn accepted 26 percent of students who applied early this year. Brown and Dartmouth accepted 23 and 25 percent of early decision applicants, respectively. Yale offered admission to 14.5 percent of its early action applicants. Columbia accepted 19.6 percent of early applicants. </p>

<p>Harvard and Princeton ended their early admission programs in 2007.

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[Got2BeGreen]

<p>It’s interesting, though, that Cornell received fewer early applications overall. Several competitors continued to received more early applications.</p>

[englandern]

<p>no big change here in the numbers, they are very close to last year
Yale university in Ct. and Brown University in RI both got less ea / ed apps.
nothing very interesting</p>

[Got2BeGreen]

<p>You’re right the change isn’t huge - they received 4% fewer than last year.</p>

<p>But Yale only decreased by 4 (applications . . . not percent!), and lots of schools saw increases: Penn (17%), Duke (14%), Johns Hopkins (14%), Stanford (7%), Northwestern (26%), MIT (14%), Rice (15%), University of Chicago (18%), Boston College (7%), Georgetown (9%).</p>