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Have Decreasing Admission Rates Gone Too Far?

Last Thursday, Cornell released its decisions for its regular admission applicants. The 6,123 students were drawn from an applicant pool of 37,812. According to a person who owns a calculator, this means that the 2012 Cornell Acceptance Rate for 2012 is about 16.2 percent.   You might be thinking that’s really selective. But, how selective... MORE »