Cornell's admitted today that it offered 4908 admission this cycle or 6.9% a record low!!!!!!

In yesterdays Cornell Sun, reporters stated that 4908 students were admitted to the Class of 2026.

https://cornellsun.com/2022/04/11/cornell-university-admits-talented-and-diverse-prospective-class-of-2026/

Previously in various sources Cornell stated it received over 71000 applications this cycle

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/college-admissions-test-sat-act-rcna23574

Doing the quick math, that is 6.91% which is significantly lower than last years record 8.69%.

Why I find this significant as well is that Dartmouth admit rate went up slightly to 6.24% from 6.17% and even though UPenn has not disclosed it's admit #, it has disclosed that it received nearly 55000 applications compared to 56332 last cycle. This suggests that UPenn too might see a increase in admit rates this cycle to 6.00-6.10% from 5.87%.

So if you think about what this means overall, it suggests the spread between Ivy's is consolidating. There is only 3.72% difference between the admission rate of the hardest Ivy Harvard at 3.19% and Cornell at 6.91%.

Just 3 years ago the spread was 6.1% because Harvard was 4.5% and Cornell was 10.6%.

5 years ago the spread was 7.3% as 5.2% Harvard 12.5% Cornell. So the spread halved in a mere 5 years.

That implies that the for the Class of 2030/31 the spread could be a little as 1.86% between the hardest Ivy and easiest one. So Harvard might be 2% and Cornell less than 4%. This is a tough pill to swallow for future applicants.