Back in January, MetaEzra predicted an 18 percent acceptance rate for the Class of 2014. Today, BusinessWeek confirms that Cornell accepted 18 percent of all applicants for the Class of 2014. Not that acceptance rates tell us anything about the quality of student body or the caliber of the education received. It will be interesting to see what the University's yield rate ends up at this year. Last year 37% of all regular decision admits chose Cornell. There are two factors working in opposite directions: Cornell's trip to the Sweet Sixteen on one hand, and the recent string of heavily publicized student deaths on the other.
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