Has Cornell's acceptance rate been falling?

Over the last five reported cycles, Cornell's rate has moved from 8.71% (Class of 2025) to 7.5% (Class of 2029).

Cornell acceptance rate

Q: What is Cornell's acceptance rate?

Cornell's most recently reported acceptance rate is 7.5% for the Class of 2029.

Ithaca, NY · Last updated 2026-05-21

At a glance

Cornell's acceptance rate is 7.5% for the Class of 2029 — the most recent officially reported figure.

Cornell is the "easiest" Ivy on paper and the most-applied-to Ivy in practice. Both can be true.

What is Cornell's acceptance rate?

Cornell's most recently reported overall acceptance rate is approximately 7.5% for the Class of 2029. Cornell stopped publishing detailed Ivy-Day admissions statistics in 2020 and now confirms figures only in the annual Common Data Set, which lags by one cycle.

Five-year history

Class	Acceptance rate
2025	8.71%
2026	8.71%
2027	~7.5%
2028	~7.5%
2029	~7.5%

Figures from 2027 onward are estimates based on Common Data Set filings; Cornell does not announce them on Ivy Day.

What's driving the trend

Cornell is the largest Ivy by undergraduate enrollment, so its headline rate sits higher than peers. The bigger story is the per-college variation: Engineering and CS admit rates run materially below the headline number, while Agriculture & Life Sciences runs meaningfully above it.

Prediction markets on Cornell

The most interesting tradable question is meta: does Cornell return to publishing Ivy-Day admissions data? Until it does, any market on Cornell's number will resolve from the Common Data Set with a long lag.

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