<p><a href=“http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/10statab/educ.pdf[/url]”>http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/10statab/educ.pdf</a>
Table 214</p>
<p>Well one has to understand that cornell already has the highest applicant pool among all the top tier universities in the US, including all ivy-leagues and duke, mit, stanford. this year it had 36700 in the RD pool itself…that is HUGE! With such a big pool even last year, it is no surprise that the pool grew by less than a percent this year, simply because it is ALREADY so big. On the other hand, I dont think sucide rates would cause any change to a university pool. For one thing, unlike the other ivy-leagues, Cornell choses to be transparent about the sucides, whereas the other unviersities chose to keep their students’ confidentiality. On ther other hand, Yale had a murder in 2009! but that doesn’t undermine its value as one of the top-notch institutions in the world.</p>
<p>I don’t think they really “chose” it, when someone goes off a publicly owned bridge, in plain sight, and City of Ithaca personnel have to go in and fetch them, publicity is pretty much out of the university’s control. And I disagree, perhaps you were not around at the time but the amount of negative publicity surrounding those unfortunate events was highly substantial. Right here on CC it was accompanied by, and greatly exacerbated, a large amount of negative images about the university that had previously been in remission to a great extent. Even on this subforum there were such allegations.</p>
<p>I imagine that did have an impact, actually, on applications this go-round.</p>
<p>Honestly I feel that Cornell’s rep as a suicide school is unfortunate, but unavoidable, during this period. 6-7 suicides in one academic year is incredibly high of a rate, and I believe Cornell admins were shocked by this as well since no such thing happened in the past. And, there was an accidental death at the gorge last semester, when one student was believed to accidentally fall into the gorge from the bridge while he may have been drunk after a frat party. In the years past, there were multiple victims of students who died accidentally in the gorges, either accidentally falling down or who drowned while trying to swim there. The gorges here provide natural beauty, but they have played a huge part of promoting Cornell’s negative publicity. I believe, from the proven record of the danger that the gorges can cause, the Cornell admins need to step up the security surrounding the bridges and gorges.</p>
<p>Guys, i believe we are saying the same things over and over</p>