<p><a href=“Undergraduate admissions - Institutional Research & Planning”>http://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/tableau_visual/admissions</a></p>
<p>According to that, its acceptance rate last year was 22%. I applied to ILR which has a 14% acceptance rate, and ILR only had about 300 applicants less. </p>
<p>@MyRealName why does it matter? Who cares if you’re aplying to ILR, it doesn’t impact you at all. If I was applying to HumanEc I would be slightly offended because you’re basically implying accepted ILR students are superior. Maybe I should be asking why ILR has such a high acceptance rate compared to AEM or Arts and Sciences… 21% is not a “high” acceptance rate by any means.</p>
<p>@Cornell19 I’m obviously only speaking relatively when I say “high acceptance rate”, since the average Cornell acceptance rate is 16% and Human Ec is 5 percent higher, which gives it a considerably larger acceptance rate when compared to the other schools. I was just wondering why Human Ec accepts more people on average, that’s all, implying nothing. You’re actually the one implying anything by bringing up that one school might be superior to another because of a lower acceptance. </p>
<p>Like all colleges. the College of Human Ecology offers a group of particular majors, and has requirements for credits besides the major that must be taken in-college, And whatever other curricular requirements there may be.</p>
<p>The number of applicants to any college reflects in part the overall desirability, among the masses, of its particular portfolio of majors and requirements.</p>
<p>I’m guessing that more college applicants, overall, are interested in Studying English than Fiber Science and Apparel Design.etc</p>
<p>So maybe fewer people overall apply to a college that does not offer the majors they personally happen to want.
And some fields are more universally wanted than others.</p>
<p>But if YOU actually want to study Fiber science and Apparel Design, etc, there may be no better place for YOU to pursue those interests. Regardless of the fact that there are other people who do not equally share those interests hence do not apply in equal proportions to that college, vs. some other colleges that do not have the same curriculum that Hum Ec does.</p>
<p>The acceptance rate also is affected by the size of the class a particular college can accomodate. Which depends on various factors such as classroom capacities, # of professors and instructors, and is not necessarily identical between colleges.</p>
<p>Don’t know if current data is out there but back when my D was applying (fall 2010) although Human Ec had a higher acceptance rate, their stats for entering freshman were about the same, and even better than those of some of the other college’s freshman. </p>
<p>@csdad – they haven’t posted the SAT scores by college since the class that entered Fall 2011–at least not that I have been able to find. They do still post admit rate by gender for each college. IIRC, Hum Ec’s figures have varied quite a bit from year to year.</p>
<p>Male engineering applicants bring the university’s overall acceptance rate down by more than a point. </p>