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Test policy: Required.","Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 1480\u20131560, ACT 33\u201335.","Cost: about $28,690 a year on average with aid, $88,140 a year at full price.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $104,043 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $925,670 ahead with aid, $687,870 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Computer Science ($223,309); Operations Research ($151,709); Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering ($147,241).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 5% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 59% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","Aid pledge published by the college for 2026-27: families earning under $75,000 pay nothing; families earning under $125,000 pay no tuition; aid packages carry no loans for families under $75,000; the college meets full demonstrated need.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Cornell University: 168, 1196 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Horace Mann School (15.0 per class year, 45 over 3 class years, Class of 2024 - 2026 Graduates); Riverdale Country School (8.7 per class year, 52 over 6 class years, Higher Ed Enrollment 2021-2026); Rye Country Day School (8.0 per class year, 8 over 1 class year, Class of 2026). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/cornell-university.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Cornell University: 10, 77 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often The Chapin School (8.2 per class year, 41 over 5 class years, 2022-2026, counted column \"Admitted\"); Archbishop Mitty High School (5.0 per class year, 5 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); National Cathedral School (3.3 per class year, 10 over 3 class years, 2023-2025). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/cornell-university.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/cornell-university.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Private nonprofit","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":1776},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":4070},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":6796},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":14311}],"full_price":88140,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":28690,"npc_url":"https://npc.collegeboard.org/app/cornell","tuition_in_state":69314,"tuition_out_of_state":69314},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":104043,"median_6yr_after_entry":87830},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":77,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. 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