<p>Once again, to clarify the NRC ranking debate. On the Upenn V Cornell thread about 3 months ago, I looked through the rankings in an attempt to see which school out “NRC ranks” the other. I counted the number of times that Penn outranked cornell, and the number of times that Cornell outranked penn and the scores were tied with something like 19 for each and 3 where neither was ranked.</p>
<p>My friend got into Penn.
I got into Cornell.</p>
<p>My friend got 5k in loans for fin.aid from Penn.</p>
<p>I got a 39k grant from Cornell.</p>
<p>Our income/assets are pretty much the same. He has a sibling, I’m an only child.</p>
<p>Yeah…</p>
<p>I would say that Penn just doesn’t have the money. But the OP should still appeal. Who knows?</p>
<p>That’s a huge difference o.o I don’t know what’s up. I’ll post when/if my fin.aid package changes.
Anyway, I’m off to my bus to Cornell in 12 minutes. Hoping for a good time =]</p>
<p>I came back from Hopkins yesterday,and all my preconceptions were false. A lot of the students were pretty nice. Especially the guys…<em>smiles</em> Two held the door open and two more offered to walk me back to my dorm (since it was pretty late) after housing me for a bit when I couldn’t find/reach my host. The campus is nice, though I’m not sure it’s my style.</p>
<p>Anyway, off to Cornell.</p>
<p>Brown in a heartbeat.</p>
<p>@muertewhatever and others of a like mind---- I was accepted at Penn and Cornell. I chose Cornell, because I’ve met plenty of Penn students living in Philadelphia the last few years. not impressed. Granted, they were undergrads and I am not, but they were scary in many ways.<br>
oh, and i think there’s like a 50/50 chance of getting raped @ Penn. seriously though, west philly is not a welcoming/safe environment. Your brand of “school spirit” aka “dear god i hope i made the right decision” aka “my self esteem is connected to meaningless lists and rankings” is really sad.
They’re all great schools, cornell was just better in my field (MA in CRP-historic preservation) and had more resources.</p>
<p>Meh…Penn is ranked 8 places higher. You can debate it but it seems like a pretty significant difference.</p>
<p>[Academic</a> Ranking of World Universities](<a href=“http://www.arwu.org/rank2008/ARWU2008_A(EN).htm]Academic”>http://www.arwu.org/rank2008/ARWU2008_A(EN).htm)</p>
<p>Meh…Cornell is 3 places higher. Funny about rankings, Aston, they don’t always do what you say.</p>
<p>Yeah, and Columbia’s ranked ahead of Oxford, Yale and Princeton; real convincing.</p>
<p>lol and he-she strikes again!</p>
<p>I knew the ■■■■■ bait would be too irresistible to pass up.</p>
<p>^, its a she, on *********.com, she requested that someone suckle on her engorged clitoris (female anatomy, in case this get edited by a mod)</p>
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<p>would be impressive if 5000 undergraduates got raped in a single year…</p>
<p>lol, UPenn vs Cornell fights… GO BIG RED!</p>
<p>according to the NRC rankings, Cornell and Penn are tied, cornell scored higher then penn 19 times, penn scored higher than cornell 19 times, and they were both not counted in 3 categories.</p>
<p>And regardless of how they are ranked, no one thinks that penn is as high on the “ivy list” as columbia, or right behind HYP or any of that BS you guys spout so much.</p>
<p>I’m so famous.</p>
<p>more like infamous</p>
<p>^ Infamous. (also gender inconclusive) Ha …</p>
<p>Hate to burst your bubble, muerteapablo, but most people I talk to don’t even know U-Penn is an Ivy. They also often confuse it with Penn State.</p>
<p>Burns, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>EDIT: In addition, I don’t understand this whole HYP thing. Doesn’t it depend on what you’re studying? When you think of Yale or Princeton, for instance, the words “engineering” don’t spring to mind. At all. I didn’t even know Yale had an engineering school. :x</p>
<p>The same goes for Harvard. I’m not saying that they provide subpar educations (I’m sure no matter what you study, you’re guaranteed a complete education), they just don’t seem as strong as Cornell in those areas.</p>
<p>At the same time, when I think of Cornell, I don’t think “law school.” Maybe I think labor relations, but certainly not law school.</p>
<p>Cornell Law is actually a pretty strong graduate program. The National Law Journal cited Cornell Law as being 6th best in placing graduates to top-50 law firms.</p>
<p>Also, see [Law</a> School 100](<a href=“http://www.lawschool100.com/]Law”>http://www.lawschool100.com/) where Cornell is right there in the top ten.</p>
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<p>haha, and i bet that one person in your social sphere represents the whole world…</p>