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<p>The academics are on par and the majority of students are on par with Harvard or Princeton students. But it doesn’t take an MIT degree to look at the distribution of talent at a school like Cornell and realize that some students might be challenged a little bit more than their peers. At the same time, there are more 1500+ SAT students at Cornell than Princeton has students.</p>
<p>Frankly, that is one of the things I love about Cornell – that it admits a wider variety of students and offers more opportunity to more students. </p>
<p>But coming on here and committing heresy about the difficulty of Cornell vis-a-vis other top programs, discouraging students from applying, etc., is not beneficial to anyone.</p>