Strategies for Getting into a Good University Even with Lower Grades

Today, I will talk about how to analyze when you want to apply to a university that is slightly higher than the student’s grades.

One of the things you are most curious about is which university should you apply to when students want to apply to a slightly better school, regardless of their major. It may be risky, but I will only tell you some ways to analyze it.

The first thing you need to know when applying upward is that you should apply within the range of possible admission. Applying to a school that is too high for your level is nothing more than wasting your application fee, so you should apply within the appropriate range. The school that students who want to apply to the Ivy League, but not quite there, most want to go to, and that parents also want, is Cornell University.

If a student who is not in the Ivy League stable wants to apply to Cornell, I will tell you how. The criteria for analysis are as follows:

• Number of students by Major

• Rate of Asian

• Acceptance Rate

• Annual Salary

• Number of students by Major

The absolute number of students is important. You should check whether there is a moderate number of students, not too few or too many.

• Rate of Asian

The Asian rate is important. A major with a moderately high Asian rate is advantageous.

• Acceptance Rate

Of course, a high acceptance rate is good.

• Annual Salary

Annual Salary is often low for unpopular majors, so it’s good to look at majors with low Annual Salary.

Cornell has a lot of majors. There is a table divided into majors on the left and colleges on the right It is impossible to explain based on all majors, so I will only show you a few selected majors. Looking at the table, it is a table with the number of students enrolled by college/ Major/ year, and it is based on the data of the fall of 2022. Annual Salary, Acceptance Rate, Asian Rate are not accurate figures by major, but are lumped together by college, so it would be good to refer to it. Let’s analyze according to the method of selecting a suitable major for upward application among a few selected majors.

I told you that a major with a small absolute number of Asian students is not good for upward application. If it is a Major that selects a small number of Asian students, there are competitors who have been interested in that major for many years, so it is difficult to succeed with an upward application. Pick 4 majors (the majors circled in the table above) with a small absolute number of students, about 7 to 14, and it is good to eliminate them from the application list.

This time, I highlighted the majors with the lowest salaries in blue. I also highlighted majors with a relatively high Asian student rate in yellow. The intersection of blue and yellow is Family & Consumer Science/Human sciences Nutritional Sciences These are the candidates for upward application for unpopular majors with a high Asian rate.

If you look at other majors with low salaries, you can find Natural Resources& Conservation. It is in the College of Agriculture and Life science and has a relatively high acceptance rate of 12.88%.

In the case of Cornell, I think the absolute number of Asian students, 50-100, is an attractive number. This major has an Asian number of 53, which is worth considering for upward application.

Another major with a low Annual Salary is Social Sciences. This major is in the College of Art and Science, so it has a relatively low acceptance rate of 5.39%, but as I mentioned earlier, the acceptance rate is not detailed by major, so it would be good to consider it. The Asian rate is relatively high, and the absolute number of students is also 126, which is an attractive major for upward application.

Ultimately, when considering the four criteria, the majors highlighted in green are predicted to be suitable majors for upward application, Natural Resources & Conservation Nutritional Sciences Family & Consumer Sciences, Human Sciences Social Sciences are.

However, please note that you should not think of these majors as absolutely good majors for upward application. In the table where we at A-One Institute picked out a few majors, these 4 are attractive, but if you put all the majors of Cornell University in comfort, it can change, so please be careful.

This time, if you pick out the majors with a large absolute number of Asian students from the table, you can see that most of them are engineering majors. The fact that there are a lot of Asian students means that Asian students apply a lot, and that means that Korean students think of Chinese and Indian students as rivals. If the score is acceptable, you can apply. But in the case of upward application, it is good to avoid applying for the majors circled in, Today, while picking out majors suitable for upward application, we looked at majors with low Annual Salary, but rather than saying that you should do this major, I told you on the premise that you are changing your major. It would be good to remember that I briefly showed you how to analyze and select a major when you want to apply upward compared to the score.

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