Class Size

[stupidolive]

At Columbia, there are 23 (now). 5 females 18 males geographically, i think there are 5 americans and the rest are international.

[hubrishedge]

Anyone know the Cornell class size/statistics?

[econphilomath]

Originally Posted by stupidolive

At Columbia, there are 23 (now). 5 females 18 males geographically, i think there are 5 americans and the rest are international.

22-> 23. Hmmmm, would that be a "back room window" admit?

[Big Tuna]

Originally Posted by Mr.Keen

I know! Check the first figures: 22% US

With 27% North America that means the remaining 5% were either Canadian or Mexican or both.

The U.S., Canada, and Mexico aren't the only countries that are in North America.

[jbs02002]

Originally Posted by Big Tuna

The U.S., Canada, and Mexico aren't the only countries that are in North America.

Pardon my ignorance, but what other countries are there? The existence of both NAFTA and CAFTA tells me that North America doesn't include Central America.

[asianeconomist]

Originally Posted by jbs02002

Pardon my ignorance, but what other countries are there? The existence of both NAFTA and CAFTA tells me that North America doesn't include Central America.

Here you go:

1. Antigua and Barbuda
2. The Bahamas
3. Barbados
4. Belize
5. Canada
6. Costa Rica
7. Cuba
8. Dominica
9. Dominican Republic
10. El Salvador
11. Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat)
12. Grenada
13. Guatemala
14. Haiti
15. Honduras
16. Jamaica
17. Mexico
18. Nicaragua
19. Panama
20. Saint Kitts and Nevis
21. Saint Lucia
22. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
23. Trinidad and Tobago
24. United States of America

[commodore]

Originally Posted by jbs02002

Pardon my ignorance, but what other countries are there? The existence of both NAFTA and CAFTA tells me that North America doesn't include Central America.

North America does include Central America, hence Central America's absence on a list of the world's continents. Don't worry, most Americans probably don't know this...including our president

[econphilomath]

Before this thread gets derailed onto talking about US politics (which I would not mind), I'd like to mention some random thoughts and calculations I made using the list of accepted students from Columbia (they sent it by email) and those who are going to Yale.
One thing I noticed is the Americans accepted at Yale all (except one) were on the Columbia list. This is not all that surprising in itself since they are probably all great students. But this was not the case in general for internationals where there was hardly any overlap at all. Assuming everybody applied to both (potentially a strong assumption), this would suggest the randomness of the applications process is smaller for "gringos" and larger for internationals. I mention this because we have talked about this in other threads. The modest empirical evidence would support the consensus view about randomness and the information problems adcoms ave when evaluating international applicants.

I'll post the aggregates for admitted students at Columbia below. Notice I used cultural division in America (i.e. Latin America which would be Mexico on down)

North America 0.41
Asia 0.31
Europe 0.19
Latin America 0.07
Oceania 0.01
Africa 0.01

[stupidolive]

Originally Posted by econphilomath

22-> 23. Hmmmm, would that be a "back room window" admit?

because there were 2 special circumstances and one just confirmed

[commodore]

Originally Posted by econphilomath

Before this thread gets derailed onto talking about US politics (which I would not mind), I'd like to mention some random thoughts and calculations I made using the list of accepted students from Columbia (they sent it by email) and those who are going to Yale.
One thing I noticed is the Americans accepted at Yale all (except one) were on the Columbia list. This is not all that surprising in itself since they are probably all great students. But this was not the case in general for internationals where there was hardly any overlap at all. Assuming everybody applied to both (potentially a strong assumption), this would suggest the randomness of the applications process is smaller for "gringos" and larger for internationals. I mention this because we have talked about this in other threads. The modest empirical evidence would support the consensus view about randomness and the information problems adcoms ave when evaluating international applicants.

Very interesting. I'd wonder if the likelihood of applying to both is higher for the Americans. Not sure why it would be, but maybe.