The Class of 2028 arrived on campus this week. The numbers:
5,139 Admitted (+4% vs. previous year)
3,574 Incoming students
All 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico
16.3% First in their families to attend college
Cornell typically does not rush to publish a lot of breakouts especially when they might be seen as controversial (to, say, alumni or segments of applicants' parents). MIT for instance reported in the first admissions year after the Supreme Court overturned affirmative action in admissions, Asian American enrollees climbed to 47%, while African American admits fell from 13% to 5%, while Hispanic enrollees fell from 15% to 5%, and white admits feel 1%.
Barron Trump may or may not be among the first-years. Donald Trump earlier in the week told the NY Post that Barron would attend a "very good college" in New York. Cornell and Columbia are T12 in US News, NYU is 25, Army is 8 among liberal arts colleges, Hamilton is 16, Colgate is 21. The Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/2024/08/21/barron-trump-to-attend-college-in-new-york-state/) reported that as of the beginning of this week, Trump's name "does not appear in the student directories of Cornell, Columbia and New York University. Registered first-year students at Cornell are typically listed."
Appears Cornell had another strong yield for the Class of 2028.
16.3% first in their family to attend college?? That seems very high
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Harvard is at 20% for the Class of 2028.
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They don't count non-Ivies.
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Harvard is at 20% for the Class of 2028.
HYP are 50% pure meritocratic and 50% slack-jawed legacy derp. TBH, that's amazing progress for them historically.
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Poking around the web I see various numbers quoted for adults in the US who have attended or graduated from college, but they tend to be in the 45% to 55% range. There are, of course, strong correlations from generation to generation, but there is a big pool from which to draw 16.3% of the freshman class, especially if you are trying to reach the previously under-served population.