The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/admissions/)
Despite enrollment uncertainty, Cornell received acceptances from 3,344 first-year students after May 1, a number that is higher than the University’s target.
Cornell will suspend standardized testing requirements for the upcoming admissions cycle, becoming the first school in the Ivy League to do so.
Beginning with the Class of 2024, the University will stop biannually reporting accepted student application numbers and demographics — an uncommon move among top-tier universities.
Thursday’s “Ivy Day” marked a culmination of years of hard work and ambition for Cornell’s newly admitted class of 2024.
The University will no longer report application data when admission decisions are released each fall and spring — a move that arrives because the University does not want to discourage qualified applicants.
In the middle of the harsh Ithaca winter, 50 new Cornellians faced the cold and joined the Class of 2023 in January, as first-year spring admits.
Last Spring, a graduating senior from my former high school in Los Angeles reached out to me for advice. He was torn between two college choices: University of California, Los Angeles and Cornell. He told me that as a California resident, he most fears the difficult adjustment to Cornell’s frigid winters. When he asked me about my experience, I told him, truthfully, that I still have trouble with Ithaca’s cold weather and went on to discuss Cornell’s other pros and cons. He ended up picking UCLA.
Cornell admitted 1,576 out of 6,615 early decision applicants, or 23.8 percent, a slight increase from last year’s 22.6 percent acceptance rate for the Class of 2023, according to University statistics provided to The Sun. The early decision acceptance rate for the Class of 2022 was 24.4 percent.
On Tuesday Oct. 1, Judge Burroughs ruled in favor of Harvard’s position in the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College lawsuit, a ruling which has allowed Cornell’s Admission Officers to breathe easy for now.
“I am deeply and profoundly sorry for being involved in this mess,” Caplan said outside the courthouse on Thursday. A judge sentenced him to one month in prison, 250 hours of community service and a $50,000 fine.