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In 2019, the college was the third most selective in the university, with an acceptance rate of 10.25%. [6] The Department of Architecture is one of the oldest architecture programs in the United States, offering NAAB-accredited degree programs that provide a foundation in the history, theory and practice of architecture.
Admission into the college is extremely competitive. The undergraduate program's 7.9% acceptance rate is below Cornell's 8.7% overall undergraduate acceptance rate. Furthermore, Arts and Sciences has the second lowest acceptance rate of any Cornell college, behind the Dyson School (2.9%). [11]
In the Fall of 2015, the school had 92 incoming freshmen, and approximately 110 transfer students, 45 external transfers and 75 Intra-Cornell transfers. The admittance rate in Fall of 2018 for freshmen, being the most selective at Cornell University, was 2.9%. [6]
Cornell University was founded on 27 April 1865, by Ezra Cornell, an entrepreneur and New York State Senator, and Andrew Dickson White, an educator and also a New York State Senator, after the New York State legislature authorized the university as the state's land grant institution. [19]
Cornell's operations research and industrial engineering program ranked fourth in nation, along with the master's program in financial engineering. [7] Cornell's computer science program ranks among the top five in the world, and it ranks fourth in the quality of graduate education. [8] The college is a leader in nanotechnology.
Acceptance rate: 13% Enrollment: 1,141 A total of 835 students board at Phillips Academy Andover, the oldest incorporated boarding school in the US, now in its 238th year.
Threatening statements about Jews on an internet discussion board have unnerved students at Cornell University and prompted officials to send police to guard a Jewish center and kosher dining hall.
The other two colonial colleges, Queen's College (now Rutgers ... universities reporting undergraduate acceptance rates below 6%. ... plays Cornell (right), 2019 ...