<p>I have heard of few rumors that Cornell rejects overqualified applicants…is this true?</p>
<p>There aren’t any overqualified applicants to Cornell.</p>
<p>There are no overqualified applicants to cornell. Cornell does reject well qualified applicants that do not adequately “fit” in the programs to which they are applying. For instance, IRL rejects a lot of generic pre-business people that have 2300s and 4.0s because they want people who are actually interested in the subject, not people who are interested in consulting.</p>
<p>Colleges will sometimes reject students that they think will be admitted to other more selective and attractive colleges, so as increase their yield statistics. This would be an obvious course for Cornell, whose applicants apply to the other Ivies. If the Cornell Adcoms see an applicant with 2350 SAT’s and 4.0 GPA, they must figure that the applicant will surely be admitted to another Ivy, and Cornell will likely lose the cross-admit contest.</p>
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<p>Of course, nobody has yet to demonstrate that these types of rejections are being handed out at Cornell, so your point is strictly academic.</p>
<p>truly debatable topic.i don’t think we, outside the ad office, can comment on this much…</p>
<p>in my class, a lot of overqualified applicants (literally tons of APs, 2300s, 4.0, lots of service hours and ecs) got rejected from emory and washu because we realized that its because the schools didnt wnat to be treated as “safeties”</p>
<p>Maybe my experience is different from that of others here, but here goes. </p>
<p>When I visited Cornell and other schools last summer, the presenters at the info sessions generally made a point of saying that their schools turn down perfect scores, valedictorians, captains of you-name-it, etc. It seems they want students who are more than just their numbers and resumes. So, while those perfect scores will certainly help a lot (I wish I had them), they are not an automatic ticket to admission to the campuses.</p>
<p>I doubt it’s true - I have a lot of friends at Cornell who you might think are “overqualified.” Some of them didn’t even apply to other top schools because Cornell was the only one that interested them and many of them got into more selective schools and higher ranked schools but choose Cornell. So if Cornell rejects overqualified applicants, it wouldn’t make sense that they got in.</p>
<p>lol someone was angry with a rejection…</p>
<p>What exactly is overqualified?
Aren’t admissions based on our Standardized test scores, ECs, Recs, Academic record?
It could be a combination of things…</p>
<p>I mean… my SAT score is 2210, and my SAT IIs are averaged above 750.
But what i lack in standardized scores, i make up in my GPA (4.0), and excellent references from my teachers. I’m also the president of several clubs, and participate in varsity sports. Academically, i don’t think i’m overqualified, but on the other spectrum, I do think that i do many more things than the average applicant…</p>
<p>I highly doubt you do more than the average applicant to CORNELL. I’m not saying you don’t do anything, but think about it. There are so many people that apply to Cornell that have the same stats as you, some may have done more impressive things out of the classroom, some may have something else working in their favor. However, saying YOU yourself are more qualified is not what matters. It’s whether or not the adcom thinks you did all that you could have, given specific situations, and more. They will be the ones calling the shots. you also have to have the specific “fit” they look for.</p>
<p>For example, if someone has perfect SAT scores and GPA and applies to the hotel school without any experience or demonstrated interest in hospitality, they will likely be rejected.</p>
<p>Lol? Is this a joke? Overqualified applicants at Cornell?</p>
<p>Use your head.</p>
<p>I have actually never met a person who told me that they got into say HYP(SM too), but was rejected from Cornell. I have not even ever heard of this. However, I am willing to believe that it could happen. Has anyone ever met such a person? I do know people who did not get into Cornell, but got into Emory and Tufts (which I do not consider harder to get into than Cornell). BTW, unfortunately, many people at Cornell were rejected from HYP (sniff…).</p>
<p>Just my 2 cents.</p>
<p>there are definitely near perfect SAT and GPA students at cornell…</p>
<p>but it does seem like many of us were rejected by our first choices…i was rejected by harvard and rice but accepted into cornell and tulane…didnt apply anywhere else (top school wise)</p>
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<p>Correct you are. [Scattergrams[/url</a>] at CollegeData do not show any suspicious ‘overqualified’ rejections.</p>
<p>The issue of rejecting ‘overqualifed’ applicants is discussed, and data presented attesting to the practice, in [url=<a href=“http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=601105#PaperDownload”>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=601105#PaperDownload</a>] A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities](<a href=“https://www.collegedata.com/cs/admissions/admissions_tracker_result.jhtml?schoolId=787&classYear=2013]Scattergrams[/url”>https://www.collegedata.com/cs/admissions/admissions_tracker_result.jhtml?schoolId=787&classYear=2013). The paper claims to see Princeton practicing strategic admissions, more so than Harvard, Yale or MIT.</p>
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<p>"I have actually never met a person who told me that they got into say HYP(SM too), but was rejected from Cornell. I have not even ever heard of this. However, I am willing to believe that it could happen. Has anyone ever met such a person? I do know people who did not get into Cornell, but got into Emory and Tufts (which I do not consider harder to get into than Cornell). BTW, unfortunately, many people at Cornell were rejected from HYP (sniff…).</p>
<p>Just my 2 cents. "</p>
<p>I know someone who was accepted into Yale and Princeton but rejected from Cornell.</p>
<p>"I have actually never met a person who told me that they got into say HYP(SM too), but was rejected from Cornell. I have not even ever heard of this. However, I am willing to believe that it could happen. "</p>
<p>Come on now, yes those schools are yet more selective in the overall big picture, but individual decisions are not all made in lockstep and, with only 1/5 of applicants admitted, of course there are bound to be some decisions that buck the trend. Particularly where expressed interest and fit are factors that are given consideration.</p>
<p>One might not encounter instances of it much because that would require:
- regular encounters with a large number of graduates or students at these few schools in the first place;
- asking these people whether they were also admitted to Cornell, which is not a normal thing to be asking about;
- them to “fess up” and admit that they were rejected there, which may diiminish their preferred public image of invincibility.</p>
<p>In fact, I’ve read posts acknowledging specific instances of this on CC. Perhaps coupled with “well I didn’t care about it…”- which, if this attitude was manifested in the application, could well have contrbuted to the results.</p>
<p>One such instance, as well as some other very analogous cases, is cited on this post:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/481349-theres-no-room-yale-berkeley-reject.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/481349-theres-no-room-yale-berkeley-reject.html</a></p>
<p>We have a family friend who was an active alum of one of these schools, when his child was admitted there he told me that, absent his involvement, the kid, on own merits, would probably have been targeting Cornell. Had he applied, Cornell might well have rejected him; whereas, as legacy he was admitted to the HYPSM.</p>
<p>Here’s the thing, though-someone might be qualified for HYP, but legitimately interested in Cornell because of their distinct programs which the others lack. I think Tufts does what the OP suggested, but I’ve never heard of Cornell doing that.</p>