What is REALLY good about Cornell?

Colleges & Universities Cornell University
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<p>In particular, it’s majors, of course. And what do you think is the lowest SAT I score they’d take?</p>

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<h1>1 programs in engineering physics, architecture, hotel, veterinary, among others.</h1>

<p>Among the best engineering schools overall.
Very good in nearly all others. Do you have something particular in mind? What do you consider “REALLY good?” Top 10 program?</p>

<p>From CDS:
<a href=“http://www.dpb.cornell.edu/F_Common_Data_Set.htm[/url]”>http://www.dpb.cornell.edu/F_Common_Data_Set.htm&lt;/a&gt;
Percent of first-time, first-year (freshman) students with scores in each range:
SAT I Verbal SAT I Math
700-800 41 60
600-699 45 34
500-599 13 6
400-499 1
300-399
200-299
100% 100%</p>

<p>Anyone with a score <600 is most likely legacy, URM, recruited athlete.</p>

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<p>what’s legacy, URM?</p>

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<p>You’re a legacy if your parents/grandparents attended the school. A URM is under-represented minority.</p>

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<p>And, to be clear, very rare to have a below 700 math SAT in Engineering and rare to have a below 700 verbal SAT in Arts with exception, to some extent, the three categories mentioned. Many weaker SAT scores are also in the “specialty” schools (Hotel and Architecture) where other factors are deemed more important.</p>

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<p>rare to have a below 700 verbal SAT in Arts with exception,</p>

<p>i don’t think that</p>

<p>i had a 690 V, and a lot of my friends in arts didnt necessarily have 700+, while a disproportionate # did so.</p>

<p>i think that once you reach 670+ V, ur fine, i could be wrong</p>

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<p>I’m a HUGE exception. I got a 620 in CR and I’m in Arts. Just got really lucky, especially for an over-represented minority.</p>

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<p>Actually, Cornell is just plain awesome. If you do well, well your life will be filled with wealth. Also, our hockey team beats the living **** out of its opponents. Hope that helps. :)</p>

<p>620! Maybe they thought the collegeboard made a mistake. :D</p>

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<p>You can find the SAT 25th and 75th percentiles for students who enrolled in 2005 in each college at Cornell in these two documents:</p>

<p><a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000176.pdf[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000176.pdf&lt;/a&gt; for the endowed colleges.</p>

<p><a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000177.pdf[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000177.pdf&lt;/a&gt; for the contract colleges.</p>

<p>The engineering math scores are so high it’s scary.</p>

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<p>“What is REALLY good about Cornell?”</p>

<p>THE FOOD!!!</p>

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<p>From those documents, it looks like not only is it not rare to have < 700 verbal (even is CAS), but that ~ 50% students have < 700V.</p>

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<p>Its law graduates have the 6th highest percent placement at the top 50 law firms, above Harvard’s</p>

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<p>remember, gellino—URM’s, athletes and legacies (together, about 40% of class…)</p>

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<p>“Anyone with a score <600 is most likely legacy, URM, recruited athlete.” </p>

<p>Maybe you didn’t mean it, but that is a real ignorant comment.</p>

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<p>It’s not ignorant, it’s statistics. MOST of the people with those scores fall into those groups! I’m not generalizing beyond that. If a student gets in with below a 1200 on his or her SATs, it is more likely than not that they were in one of those priority groups.</p>

<p>The colleges themselves admit these things, you know.</p>

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<p>yeah, it’s not mean. I think the Ivy League is changing the number of athletes that can be let in with GPA/SAT Scores below a certain level.</p>

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<p>Also, TrackBabi, that doesn’t necessarily go both ways–no one said “if you’re an athlete, URM, or legacy you probably scored poorly on your SATs.”</p>

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<p>There is something called the AI, or Academic Index based on SAT I and II and high school gpa. All football players are banded based on the statistically average admit and only a certain number may fall certain percentages away from the median. The AI’s differ at each Ivy. All other recruited athletes, in men’s and women’s sports, are also subject to the AI, but as an entire group. Thus, an exceptionally qualified field hockey player can help balance out the marginal ice hockey player, providing a certain minimum statndard is achieved. It’s a bit more complicated than this precis, but that is the standard at all Ivies and is modified as class profiles change. </p>

<p>And while we are on the topic of preferential admits, let’s not forget the occasional celebrity’s child or fabulously wealthy family’s scion.</p>

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<p>“let’s not forget the occasional celebrity’s child or fabulously wealthy family’s scion”</p>

<p>is this perhaps how one of the Gotti growths got into Harvard?</p>

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<p>“The AI’s differ at each Ivy.”</p>

<p>Actually from what I read, Cornell is the only Ivy that doesn’t use the AI.</p>