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would you say is most difficult to get into?

By Stargazrlilychk (Stargazrlilychk) on Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 02:53 pm: Edit

engineering...hands down.

By Candi1657 (Candi1657) on Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 04:07 pm: Edit

That makes sense. How about the College of Arts and Sciences when compared to others?

By Thales007 (Thales007) on Monday, February 02, 2004 - 12:35 am: Edit

Take a look at this link and it will give you an idea of the selectivity of each college

Class of 2007 Profile

Also if you edit the URL to 2006 or 2005 instead of 2007 you can see the stats of earlier classes, which seems to indicate Cornell has been getting slightly more selective each year

By Thales007 (Thales007) on Monday, February 02, 2004 - 12:36 am: Edit

oops, sorry the link didn't work

the URL is: http://admissions.cornell.edu/bulletins/2007_Profile.pdf

By Candi1657 (Candi1657) on Monday, February 02, 2004 - 01:05 am: Edit

Thanks Thales...funny how I didn't find that in my search of Cornell's website.

By Voigtrob (Voigtrob) on Monday, February 02, 2004 - 01:33 am: Edit

Candi: It's pretty well tucked away, haha... I found it just by accident a while ago while really bored. ;P

I'm not so sure engineering is the most selective. Architecture, Art, and Planning has the lowest acceptance rate... and A&S has a slightly higher class rank dealio than Engineering, as well as higher verbal scores, which are generally harder to get than higher math scores anyways.

By Voigtrob (Voigtrob) on Monday, February 02, 2004 - 01:37 am: Edit

And A&S has a lower acceptance rate than engineering, too.

By Stargazrlilychk (Stargazrlilychk) on Monday, February 02, 2004 - 01:43 am: Edit

sheesh my verbal scores were like 200 points higher than my math... maybe its good then that im applying to ilr

By Gabushida (Gabushida) on Monday, February 02, 2004 - 09:37 am: Edit

The thing with Engineering is that it tends to be a self-selective crowd. THe higher acceptance rate is a bit misleading. However, the Art school (PARTICULARLY the Architecture program) and the A&S school are also both very competitive. THey are looking for different things though.