@My3SonsSD I’m sorry if you feel that way. My parents had spoken to the financial aid office at Cornell and they said I did not have to withdraw my other applications until I got my appeal back. I just got my appeal from Cornell back this morning. Originally I was able to just barely afford Cornell based on the net price calculator, but my mother was just diagnosed with cancer a few weeks ago and her surgeries are going to be a big burden financially on my family, so I needed to file an appeal. If Cornell could not give me any more money, I am able to break the ED agreement because Cornell could not make me obligated to something my family is unable to afford. I would be able to try for a scholarship at Villanova (my second choice), or go to a cheaper state school (Binghamton). Luckilly, Cornell was able to give me enough money after the appeal, so I withdrew all my applications this morning after receiving my appeal and submitted my deposit to Cornell. I understand if you don’t understand my point of the story, and I hope this clears things up.
This is from their website:
“While early decision acceptance to Cornell is binding, students may be eligible to be released from the early decision agreement if their financial aid award does not make a Cornell education affordable for applicants and their families. This applies only to students who have applied for financial aid.”
@michp12 Good Luck to you and I hope your Mother recovers beautifully. So sorry for all you are going through. As if this process isn’t stressful enough.
Decision: Accepted
College: College of Engineering (Chemical Engineering)
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
GPA: 4.39 W/4.154 UW
SAT: 1290 Superscored (580 ERBW/710 Math)
AP Courses: 6 (AP Calc AB, AP Calc BC, AP Chem, AP Bio, APUSH, AP Psych)
State: Colorado
14Maddox, from reading posts, those accepted to honors will have an honors tab in their portal. My DD didn’t, and when she clicked on the “Admissions” tab, there was a message indicating she was rejected :(. Hope you have better luck.
@Jcara514 I am very sorry for the disappointing delay in admission but I just wanted to encourage you to write immediately to express your continued interest. Your musical background and work ethic are really compelling:)
Est 8500 RD applicants (historical avg) + 7000 deferred EA to RD = 15,500 applicants to fill 243 seats left (1700-612-845). To yield 243 enrollees means they will offer acceptances to approx 972 people (assuming 25% yield rate which has been Novas typical yield). So admission rate for RD (incl deferrals) = 972/15500 = 6% admission rate.
Based on this, my kid is taking the deferral as a “no”. Good luck to everyone going to Nova or elsewhere – I have no doubt everyone will land on their feet somewhere great!
Interesting analysis conducted by Steglitz90, but I don’t think the numbers are as desperate as they seem.
Last year (the first with Early Decision), I believe the total admissions rate was still over 27% in the aggregate - with over 6,000 (probably closer to 6,500) admitted over all three rounds. Yes, Early Decision does lower the overall acceptance rate, but keep in mind many of those kids are athletes or legacy (still good students), who would have earned admittance in other rounds. The aforementioned analysis by Steglitz90 (if my math is correct) forecasts a total number of admits at 4,962, which puts the overall admit rate at about 22%, where it will probably be 25% or more likely closer to 27% (should be 6,000+ out of approximately 23,000 applicants). I would think 2,500 to 3,000 admits during the RD round - which is more like at 15% to 20% admit rate (out of 15,000 remaining). Also keep in mind yield rates keep going down everywhere because kids keep applying to 10+ schools, so Villanova admissions will be mindful of that.
Villanova will likely offer 5,000 to 6,000 kids a spot on the the waiting list (half will take it), and the odds of actual enrollment for that group will be low. In the 2018 CDS, they took 47 who eventually enrolled.
172 is mostly right but is a little off when in that the 25% yield is the overall yield that includes all of the early decision acceptances which reflect close to 100% yield for those 612 or so students. Once those are accounted for the yield rate for the other EA/RD acceptances is much lower and probably around closer to 20% or even less.
So my estimate is a little different. The EA students that enroll at 20% yield would be about 675 rather than the 845 which means that is closer to 400 students left from which to enroll from the RD and deferred EA applications. Enrolling 400 students amounts to accepting 2000 students (assuming 20% yield) out of 8500 students which results in an acceptance rate of 23.5% of the RD applications. We need to make sure we are not double counting the RD applications by including the deferrals. These applications were already accounted for in the 25.3% calculation of EA applications. If we are to count them in RD then we need to subtract them out of EA applications.
Overall, based on the small application increase from last year and slight increase in ED enrollment (500 to 600 students or so) I think Villanova will wind up with an overall admissions rate at about 26%, which is an improvement to last year’s 27.7% rate.
