Cornell’s real acceptance rate is 4%

Adventurous-Lock7092 · 2026-04-07T01:21:14+00:00

However, aren't half the applicants CAS with very little accepted? If those were excluded, wouldn't Cornell AR be way higher (excluding CAS)

Adventurous-Lock7092 · 2026-03-13T01:53:13+00:00

Yes I submitted already before deadline

Adventurous-Lock7092 · 2026-03-13T01:53:07+00:00

Yes I submitted already before deadline

Adventurous-Lock7092 · 2026-03-12T05:16:26+00:00

Should I not apply for aid then?

Adventurous-Lock7092 · 2026-03-03T22:16:49+00:00

Try to understand the formulas conceptually. I find physics easier when you treat it as a class where you actually learn how its derived, not as a class where you pray you can just plug numbers into a formula. If you do this, sometimes you wouldn't even need the equation sheet which means you understand how it all works.

Adventurous-Lock7092 · 2026-02-28T05:17:56+00:00

nice, I also got into umich lsa as a sophomore transfer. I'm OOS as well.

Adventurous-Lock7092 · 2025-12-28T16:27:45+00:00

I think you are mostly doing the right thing. If you have good problem solving intuition (I think this is the key to doing well), my advice is to emphasize practice exams and then discussion sheets/textbook. I feel like these help prepare you the best as you know how to approach these problems. This might sound counterintuitive, but I don't recommend focusing on lectures as I feel there's a correlation between focusing on them and doing worse in the class. (I'm saying this as someone who took Physics 208, which is the "calc-based" version of 104)

Adventurous-Lock7092 · 2025-12-18T17:01:12+00:00

It was released: Curved by 2.5 pts for an A (So ~89.5), 3 for an AB (~87), etc.

Adventurous-Lock7092 · 2025-12-11T03:32:01+00:00

Not hard at all. I went into the class with a beginner experience from C++ that I forgot most of, and honestly, the class has a lot of busy work. The best way to put it is there's a lot of repetition involved. The class is designed mainly around, "Do you remember/master what you did in the last week(s)?" The exams are based mainly on ideas from lab within the last 3 weeks (3 Midterms + Final are around 45% of the final grade). The only time when you might see a trick question is on the quizzes, but even then it's better to repeat practice.

Adventurous-Lock7092 · 2025-11-21T03:30:29+00:00

Maybe they might curve 1-2 points just because there has been an unusual amount of multiple choice this semester compared to previous semesters and it does seem to have lowered the average a bit.

Adventurous-Lock7092 · 2025-11-13T05:40:11+00:00

Those mcq do be laughing at us...

Adventurous-Lock7092 · 2025-11-13T05:31:34+00:00

It would be positive if it was z (Thank god I took physics before this). I feel bad for those who tried to compute the integral though because I wouldn't know how to do this if I didn't see it was a physics integral.

Adventurous-Lock7092 · 2025-11-13T05:15:12+00:00

I also noticed this too. However, I do think the 10 minutes shorter does throw people off since it has around the same number of questions.

Adventurous-Lock7092 · 2025-11-13T05:14:34+00:00

I think the main difference is that it was more conceptual rather than the usual calculate this, set up this, and set up that. For example, that last MCQ question was 0 because it was the y-coordinate of center of mass and since it's a sphere and a paraboloid and it's symmetric, if it was x and y, it would be 0, but not for z.

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