The admissions official who helped the University reach a record high number of undergraduate applications has left Cornell for the University of Buffalo. Lee Melvin, who served as associate vice ...

On August 8, 2025, four students who had been accepted early decision filed a class action lawsuit against Cornell, 31 other ...

On August 26, Forbes issued its annual rankings of the 500 best colleges in America. Cornell ranked 14th on the list between ...

At Columbia University, Black enrollment fell to 12% of its 1,500-student freshmen class, down from one-fifth of students the year before. White students continued to make up about half of ...

A former admissions director at Cornell shares how to write a successful college application for students looking into highly-selective schools.

When a professor posted a Twitter thread about how Cornell University improved diversity in its computer-science PhD program, it quickly went viral. “[W]e made a big step in improving diversity of the ...

A federal class-action lawsuit accuses 32 elite colleges and universities of conspiring to inflate tuition costs through the ...

Cornell University last week suspended the SAT and ACT requirement for applicants for fall 2021 enrollment, becoming the first Ivy League institution to do so. Many top liberal arts colleges have made ...

Cornell’s highest priority remains to encourage a broad and diverse pool of applicants to consider their opportunities here.” He added, “Cornell University no longer highlights detailed applications ...

Princeton, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania have witheld acceptance rates for the Class of 2026, in a perceived attempt to defuse increasing student anxiety about university admissions.

Credit: Julia Schorr Penn hit its lowest admission rate to date with 7.4 percent for the Class of 2023. Six of the Ivies set record-low admission rates this year, while Cornell University and ...