<p>Who has turned down other Ivy League schools to go to Cornell?</p>
<p>ahahhaha, only on the cornell board</p>
<p>but in all seriousness…there are some engineers that probably turned down the likes of Penn and Colubmia SEAS programs</p>
<p>if you look at Cornell’s institutional data on its website, the yield rate for CAS is under 40 percent (more along the likes of Duke and Northwestern). The yield rate for other ivies is around 50-60 percent. Penn for instance is close to the yield rate for Stanford and Princeton.</p>
<p>I turned down Dartmouth for Cornell. By the way, I’m in CAS.</p>
<p>Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. And Stanford too btw. Oh, and Lehigh and Umich.</p>
<p>I turned down… oh wait, Cornell was the most prestigious school I was accepted to, nevermind! :p</p>
<p>But for Cornell Engineering, I would have turned down Harvard and Brown… but not Princeton. I would’ve gone to Princeton over Cornell if I were accepted… or maybe if I got into Brown PLME.</p>
<p>Oh well, I don’t regret choosing Cornell! :-D</p>
<p>I turned down Penn CAS for Cornell CAS. There’s a lot of people that turn down other ivies for Cornell, especially if you are a NYS resident attending one of the land grant schools.</p>
<p>NY residents, hotel school, engineering school, AAP, ILR, ect…have many people who turned down other ivy league schools. It’s those certain areas where u will see situations like that where Cornell is THE top. Once u get down to business programs and such it becomes a toss up of personal preference. All are great and it is hard to make a mistake when choosing an ivy league school…</p>
<p>I turned down Columbia, Sophie Davis(seven year medical program) and some CUNY and SUNY for Cornell 3 years ago!</p>
<p>“the yield rate for CAS is under 40 percent (more along the likes of Duke and Northwestern). The yield rate for other ivies is around 50-60 percent. Penn for instance is close to the yield rate for Stanford and Princeton.”</p>
<p>what’s Penn CAS’s yield?</p>
<p>Cornell was the only school I applied to, btw.</p>
<p>^^ Were you that confident in getting accepted gomestar?</p>
<p>no, i just heard from Cornell before applying to other colleges. </p>
<p>to be honest, I had sent in my Part I’s to my 2 safeties and I had been accepted (though they didn’t have any of my essays, application fee, teacher recs, SATs, HS transcript) - they only had my contact sheet and a college transcript, far from a complete application.</p>
<p>gomestar is just -that- badass. It comes with the ILR territory…</p>
<p>aj kates; I have followed some of your posts and I recall that you applied ED to cornell., Turning down a school means that you actually were accepted to that school–not considering applying to that school.</p>
<p>My friend turned down harvard for cornell engineering.</p>
<p>lol, I applied early, and never even considered any other schools. Everyone in my family has been a cornellian for the past two generations. </p>
<p>At first I listed every single Ivy, plus MIT, Caltech, and Stanford. But, that just seemed too ridiculous, and would end the joke too early. I guess it wasn’t that funny. Believe me, I understand the difference between “considering” and “applying.” But, I’m flattered that you’ve been “following my posts.”</p>
<p>Cornell is a great university. Sure, it is arguably seen to the general CC public as the “easiest Ivy” all engineers know how good Cornell’s true value. 
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<p>The only animosty I’ve had towards Cornell so far is that ■■■■■■■■ Harry Potter 7 Bittorrent thread! Luckily, I stopped reading it. Aaaaaaaaargh!!!</p>
<p>Why do Cornell students feel they must post threads like this? This thread is nearly as pathetic as the “easiest girls at cornell” one.</p>
<p>Must be a CC thing. I don’t think most Cornell students really care about which Ivy is the most selective or the whole “easiest to get into, hardest to get out of” thing. Honestly, once you get to college, no one gives a damn about SAT scores, acceptance rates, alumni giving rate, or any of that crap anymore.</p>
<p>Ya this is definitely a CC thing and not a Cornell thing</p>
<p>Lol. I actually thought the “easiest girls at cornell” thread was entertaining. ;)</p>