<p>From today's Cornell Daily Sun:</p>
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Also published alongside the international top 200 list were top 50 rankings organized by continent. In North America, Cornell rose from 14th place to ninth. In the North American list, Cornell is fourth among the Ivies, behind Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
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<p>Why does it seem like in every other ranking Cornell does extremely well, but with US news we just can't win?</p>
<p>Class size + "faculty resources"</p>
<p>That "sleep" course wrecks the curve!</p>
<p>dammit wharf you always beat me to posting these things!!! hahah I was so excited to put it up :p don't stop the good work! :)</p>
<p>yeah psquared, I wonder. It's not like these other reports come from crackpot sources.</p>
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dammit wharf you always beat me to posting these things!!! hahah I was so excited to put it up don't stop the good work!
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When you're my age, you get up early by default...</p>
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That "sleep" course wrecks the curve!
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Byerly - you're right - Jim Maas packs them in for Psych 101...currently has 725 in the class, but that's because of the Bailey Hall renovation...next year he'll be back up to 1,800 and there WILL STILL BE A WAITING LIST TO GET IN THE CLASS..just goes to show you that class size isn't everything...</p>
<p>Introduction to Wines (Hotel 430) is also hard to get into also with 725 seats Cornell students seems to learn a lot in the large lecture format...LOL</p>
<p>although many people don't pass wines because it has a lot of reading, and people just seem to take it for the tasting.</p>
<p>it's a challenging course from what I hear. Most dropped at cornell I believe.</p>
<p>i have a few friends in the class and i guess it's a very difficult class. Only need a 70 overall to pass, but getting that 70 is quite difficult with the way questions on the test are asked.</p>
<p>Personally, I'm a bit skeptical of the Times' ranking. I think they give far too much credit to European universities. In all other such rankings I've seen American universities have far out paced their European competitors. One such ranking published in the Economist (a far more reputable news source than the times, in my opinion) blamed the government control and lack of competition in European institutions for their poor performance. ......but that's irrelevant. I'm glad Cornell is being acknowledged as the excellent university we all know it is (although without those European schools taking up spots, it would be even higher)- YAY for Cornell!!</p>
<p>Shouldn't the title of this thread be</p>
<p>"Cornell Ranks 9th in the World,"</p>
<p>not</p>
<p>"Cornell Ranks 14th in the World?"</p>
<p>14th in the world, and 9th in North America</p>