<p>According to the US News Rankings, Cornell, which has long been hailed as the easiest ivy to get into, is no longer the worst ivy (brown is). Will this mean that Cornell will soon leave Brown in the dust as far as how tough admissions can be, because lets face it, a lot of people live and die by those rankings, so this could push cornell ahead. But also, why is Brown tougher (lowest acceptance rate of ivies except PHY and many elites) than say Penn, and Dartmouth despite the fact that both Penn and Dartmouth clearly offer a better education both for U-grads and Grad students? Is Brown really that "hip" among the nerds with lives?</p>
<p>1) Cornell is still the easiest Ivy to get into.</p>
<p>2) I doubt that Cornell's acceptance rate will go below Brown's anytime soon.</p>
<p>3) Brown is much smaller. Larger schools are generally going to have higher acceptance rates.</p>
<p>4) I don't think Penn and Dartmouth "clearly" offer a better undergraduate education.</p>
<p>Cornell was ranked better than Brown before too...</p>
<p>Cornell is easier to get into because of the number of students (small univ vs. medium/large)</p>
<p>Brown is still a good school lol...if Cornell fell a couple points it suddenely wouldn't become a bad school</p>
<p>Cornell is pretty different than Brown anyways, so being a couple ranking points away is usually not going to sway someone one way or another</p>
<p>Thanks for being nice about Cornell tho lol</p>
<p>is this a joke?</p>
<p>Lol.......</p>
<p>those who feel the need to rank the ivy league just to make themselves feel "better" really have more pressing issues that should be addressed</p>
<p>Those who feel insecure about Cornell's place in the Ivy League should not choose to come to Cornell. Go to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, or UPenn instead.</p>
<p>I keep wondering why ranking is such a big deal. Every school in the Ivy League is very highly regarded. Get into one of them, forget the ranking, work really hard, and you should have a bright career in front of you.</p>
<p>cornell was never the worst Ivy</p>
<p>Cornell arts and sciences is certainly not the "worst Ivy", nor is the
Engineering school. As for the Hotel and the other schools - everyone knows they are not deemed part of the core ivy league per se, although good schools in their various fields</p>
<p>one might say:</p>
<p>TOPS: Harvard, Yale. Princeton</p>
<p>MIDDLE: Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia</p>
<p>BOTTOM: U Penn, Brown</p>
<p>There is no way UPenn is at the bottom of the ivy league when it has the best business school in the world.... And Cornell will ALWAYS be the easiest Ivy to get into because it's such a big school. It will NEVER leave Brown in the dust as to how tough admissions can be.</p>
<p>lol someone delete this thread, it's so useless</p>
<p>No way! I want to know how one might ride a camel through the eye of a needle, and I suspect this thread may provide that keen insight. :)</p>
<p>"Cornell will ALWAYS be the easiest Ivy to get into"</p>
<p>Penn was easier to get into a decade or two ago. While Cornell probably is going to remain relatively less selective for awhile, you never know what's going to happen in the future.</p>
<p>I don't understand the incessant insecurity that people have about Cornell. There's no doubt that's it's a top 15 university, why can't people just leave it at that. It's like someone saying they just bought a Boxster, but they're not going to enjoy it because it's the "worst" Porsche. All my friends that went to Cornell were just happy to be there and weren't pre-occupied with this type of nonsense. Maybe, it's as towerpumpkin says that at the time Cornell was considered "better" than Penn. However, I don't remember my friends from Penn being upset either. It makes you wonder how current applicants would contend less than a generation ago when there were no rankings.</p>
<p>Calm down, I don't think the OP is a Cornellian</p>
<p>The coasts exert a strong pull, which helps explain why some Ivies are preferred over others. Boston, Providence and New York trump Philly, Hanover and Ithaca.</p>
<p>Are you crazy?? When was Cornell "the worse Ivy"??? </p>
<p>I saw a special on CNN a year ago and they played a video from Brown's freshman class that had a huge orgy party. Nothing is worse than a bunch of nerds who aren't even that smart, getting naked on tv.</p>
<p>The US News Rankings are accurate to a certain extent. In terms on education and academics, Cornell outranks Brown, Dartmouth, etc...who aren't as serious as they need to be.</p>
<p>Bottom Line: I believe Brown needs to expunged from the Ivy League.</p>
<p>Another Bottom Line: People need to cut the crap about Cornell not being up to par with the other Ivies, although I do agree that Harvard and Princeton are certainly the best of the Ivies. Everyone else is just about the same.</p>
<p>Wow ok now, Brown is still an amazing school and what you just said is pretty...stupid. Brown is a very unique and great institution that DEFINITELY deserves it's spot in the Ivy League.</p>
<p>I have heard about naked parties, they happen at a good amount of college and u can't blame an entire college population on something a few students do. </p>
<p>Let's just say that all of the Ivy League schools are absolutely incredible and deserve a ton of credit.</p>
<p>k so basically my impressions are after reading your posts that you guys feel that I'm talking crap about Cornell, but really that's not the case. I love Cornell more than most colleges, and probably more than any other ivy except for Penn and Yale and maybe Brown. I'm just saying that a lot of people live and die by the rankings and thus cornell has been tauted by many as being the worst ivy because it's been a while since it's ranked this high (number 12). So I'm sorry if I made sound contradicting but I really don't hate cornell, in fact, I'm pretty sure I will apply ED there, although I'm still contemplating between Cornell, JHU, and WUSTL. I only proposed this question to ask whether or not cornell will become more competitive because of this.</p>
<p>lol it's ok, it just seemed like you were playing devil's advocate</p>