Dyson AEM or CAS Economics?

Joel96
Sun, 22 Dec 2013 17:52:25 +0000

I found these stats on the acceptance rates of individual colleges at Cornell from a couple of years ago:

http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000003.pdf

One thing that struck me was that according to this, CAS is actually harder to get into that ALS, with an acceptance rate of about 15.5% compared to ALS’s 19.5%. If that’s the case, how does Dyson come up with an 8% acceptance rate (according to their website - Applied Economics and Management Degree Program | Cornell Dyson)? Are applicants accepted or denied based more heavily on their major of choice (with AEM being more competitive than say Food Science or other programs in CALS)? It just seems strange to me that their admissions folks would get that specific.