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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 1950, the school was transformed from being a part of, Cornell's School of Home Economics (now the School of Human Ecology), a statutory college, into becoming a separate, endowed unit of Cornell. In 1948, the Statler Foundation funded the construction of a 50-room Statler Inn and the adjoining class-room building called Statler Hall.
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]
Last fall, the Department of Education launched an investigation into Cornell and other major universities after receiving complaints about incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia.
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.
After narrowly missing out on the playoffs last season, Cornell brings added experience back into the fold this season under head coach Ed Dawson.
Workers at Cornell University have gone on strike on the first day of college move-in after talks on a new contract broke down. Those going on strike include maintenance and facilities workers ...
However, as Cornell computer science professor David Gries has explained, "essentially it's a college without students," [2] with students instead being admitted to, and coming from, three of Cornell's regular undergraduate schools: the College of Engineering, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. [3]