<p>Just wondering how competitive CALS is to the other college (Ex: CAS, ILS, CoE)?</p>
<p>You mean between students? There is no difference, and I don’t understand why people always ask about the characteristics/competitiveness/etc of students from certain colleges. We aren’t sequestered from each other! I am in CALS and I sometimes forget that…we take whatever classes we want, and all of my classes have a mix of students from every college. The competitiveness of CALS students is irrelevant - you want to know the competitiveness of Cornell as a whole?</p>
<p>Honestly, I find it competitive in the sense that your peers will always be pushing you to do better, and there will always be students making 95-100 on Orgo exams…but in truth, everyone is very helpful and nice. People study together, help each other on exams, etc. I’ve not once seen any back-stabbing, cut-throat stuff you hear about at other schools. Even from the pre-meds :P</p>
<p>In terms of admissions, CALS is slightly less competitive for NY state residents such as yourself.</p>
<p>^I would take out the “slightly” from your sentence.</p>
<p>A NY state resident applying to one of the state colleges has a significant advantage over a non-resident applying to CAS/CoE. This can be easily seen by the statistics Cornell reports every year.</p>
<p>Just looking at the accepted statistics (scores, gpas, ecs, other things) from last year rd and likelies this year show you that CALS is right between fairly easier and much easier to get in . The pool is just not as self selective. It doesn’t mean anything for in state residents though - CALS is definitely a great choice for them.</p>