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Cornell University Acceptance Rate & Admissions Info

4 Year

Private

Not-for-Profit

Award Completions

Bachelor’s degree
Postbaccalaureate certificate
Master’s degree
Doctor’s degree – research/scholarship
Doctor’s degree – professional practice

State Abbreviation

New York

410 THURSTON AVEITHACA, NY 14853

Net Price

Admission Stats

Total enrollments (2022)

Average ACT

$24,262

9%

25898

26

Admission Deadlines

Competitiveness Scale

Average GPA

Average SAT

2-Jan

Hard

3.56

1259

Cornell is a private, Ivy League university and the land-grant university for New York state. Cornell’s mission is to discover, preserve and disseminate knowledge, to educate the next generation of global citizens, and to promote a culture of broad inquiry throughout and beyond the Cornell community. Cornell also aims, through public service, to enhance the lives and livelihoods of students, the people of New York and others around the world.

How does college or university compare?

The acceptance rate for Cornell University is more than 100% lower than the national average of all colleges which is around 56.7%.

SUNY at Binghamton40.50%
Syracuse University44.40%
Rochester Institute of Technology70.70%
University of Rochester29.70%
University at Buffalo61.10%