Class of 2012: The More The Merrier
Doris Davis, associate provost for admissions and enrollment, gave the peering eyes of the Cornell Daily Sun a little glimpse into the vast, tinkering machine that is the Undergraduate Admissions Office.
Davis’s best stuff: “Essentially, Cornell tries to admit as many students as we can without over-enrolling,” she stated. “I think some of the peer schools try to admit as few students as possible.”
Our admit rate ended up being 20.4%. Compared to Harvard’s 7.1%, ours seems rather “unelitist,” but admissions rates don’t really tell us much. For more information on the byzantine workings of the admissions world, read this epic New Yorker article detailing the “social logic of Ivy League admissions.”
