<p>Also interesting:</p>
<p>great article, totally agree. Cornell should hire more teachers and admit fewer students.</p>
<p>The kiddies circulating the petition to reduce the size of the admitted class at Cornell (cited article <a href="http://ceourl.com/9467Z%5B/url%5D%5Burl%5D">http://ceourl.com/9467Z</a> ) won't get too far if they submit it to "President Jeffrey S. Lehman '77" as they vow to do.</p>
<p>It was back in April of last year, if you read the date of the article.</p>
<p>I thought Cornell transcended the whole self-conscious prestige factor, but it's pretty sad to see some of the students act in this way. When will education be about education?</p>
<p>The day when getting a job is only based on your skills.</p>
<p>many students dont necessarily care about which exact spot they're in ... but everybody here works really damn hard and we find it insulting to have a news agency say a school like WUSL is better. Clearly not true. </p>
<p>My only compliant about cornell is class size ... some are just too big. By reducing size, education will be more about education. It wont just be a "go to big lecture, take notes, learn material later on at the library." Classes will be more discussion oriented and studednt-teacher relationships will increase. IMO, there is nothing to loose by reducing class size and enrollment. Cornell can do alot of things to increase its rankings ... but reducing enrollment will be one of the only improvements that students can immediately benefit from.</p>
<p>You know, I read somewhere that some schools (I think WUSL was mentioned) include the non-professorial staff in their medical faculty and count them in the student-teacher ratio to artificially raise their rank.</p>
<p>I'm sure Cornell can do that too, at no extra cost, if they wanted to raise its rank!</p>