<p>blukorea: i understand what you are saying, but when it comes to people outside the Cornell community, most people know only the name brand colleges like Harvard. It boils down to the fact that ignorance and oversimplification go hand-in-hand. You could make the same argument about any individual body in any organization, but the fact is that organizations make it easy for the ignorant to quickly assess how to label the foreign. It is human nature to want to identify, label, and rank the importance of anything and everything. I say the Ivy League label helps Cornell greatly. however, it helps neither more nor less than for the other Ivy League schools.</p>
<p>This is in essence a question of cause and effect. Did the ivy label cause cornell to become famous or did cornell get famous through its own merits?</p>
<p>Stitchintime: i find it ironic that the annapolic group is forming a group against forming groups. it’s passively smug if you ask me.</p>