<p>academic and reputation wise?</p>
<p>I don't think so....</p>
<p>not internationally... and i've never heard of brown until i came here. lol.</p>
<p>WOAH WOAH WOAH.</p>
<p>It's the "easiest" ivy to get in to, but where did you get your source for bad academics and reputation? It's the hardest to graduate from... To be honest, I despise Harvard and Yale's snobbiness and preppiness. Half of the people there want to become the next president of the US.. How grotesque it would be to be in a class with those people everyday.</p>
<p>Go ahead and say "you're only saying that because you can't get in." See if I care. I'm just speaking right from the heart.</p>
<p>I'm just running down the list and cornell has the weakest admissions standards of em all, granted they are still high, but ivy-wise im talking about. If not cornell, what?</p>
<p>Like I said, Cornell is the easiest to get into, but it's most definitely not the weakest Ivy.</p>
<p>I don't think there's such a thing as a "Weak Ivy"... it's like oxymoronic. Also, it's based on majors and mostly opinions. </p>
<p>In my perspective, Dartmouth or Brown. But again, this is just MY opinion. Don't kill me for it.</p>
<p>Well...you have to look at Cornell differently. Cornell is a huge school...therefore we have the capability to handle more students. Out of 32,000 applications this year Cornell will admit about 6,000...that's about 18%. Sure...it seems high for an Ivy....but you have to look at it differently...6,000 admits out of 32,000 applications?!?</p>
<p>Least selective...absolutely.</p>
<p>Academics, name recognition, prestige, and even rankings-wise, it's not the worst (although being the worst Ivy is like being the worst of the best).</p>
<p>Academic strength depends on major. Cornell is renowned in many fields, like hospitality, hard sciences, and especially my beloved engineering. Other Ivy league schools might be more reputable in other fields (for example Penn for business, etc). Cornell is large and known to be well-rounded and highly regarded in almost every field, so at least you probably won't go wrong.</p>
<p>Without question I think Cornell is the weakest ivy. At least that's the general consensus at my school. A lot of kids will apply to every ivy...except for Cornell. It's not a bad school...just not up to par with the rest of them.</p>
<p>I think it is beyond stupid when deciding ,which is the worst ivy. We are talking about the Ivy League here. All schools within that group are academically excellent and well known. Is it the least selective , yes, but who cares. To me what is important is fit and I feel that Cornell is my perfect fit , thus making it the best. Snobby wanna be presidents < the most diverse school in terms of academics and people, with immense opportunities. I will go with the latter.</p>
<p>As far as engineering goes, Cornell offers the greatest education. </p>
<p>If you want to go to a school to be around a bunch of very successful HS students, more power to you, but I'd like to go to college for the education. </p>
<p>academic quality ≠ selectivity</p>
<p>There's also the state school aspect...I'm not going to go and say Cornell is the worst Ivy. </p>
<p>I definitely wouldn't say Dartmouth is the worst either because of the emphasis on undergraduate education. Although I have heard some of the departments suffer from foreign professors.</p>
<p>When people say that Cornell is an inferior Ivy, they only point to the acceptance rate/selectivity.</p>
<p>If Harvard had 20% acceptance rate, would it's academic rigor be suddenly rated as inferior? I hope not. </p>
<p>Cornell is the most applied to Ivy. haha</p>
<p>"Without question I think Cornell is the weakest ivy. At least that's the general consensus at my school. A lot of kids will apply to every ivy...except for Cornell. It's not a bad school...just not up to par with the rest of them."</p>
<p>congratulations for attending a high school with one of the dumbest and naive student bodies I've ever heard of!!</p>
<p>Worst Ivy? Hmmm...I think that one starts with a H ;)</p>
<p>I honestly don't think that there is such thing as "worst ivy"</p>
<p>despite ithaca's below freezing winters, cornell was named the hottest ivy.</p>
<p>not the weakest.</p>
<p>cornell was named the hottest ivy, because it is all the buzz these days! notice how everyone in hollywood is talking cornell...</p>
<p>i would say that cornell is not the best place to get that traditional liberal arts college feel, but it is UNIQUE in its diverse programs...</p>
<p>you can not be around as many different students at harvard or princeton...tell me how many harvardians go to class with food science majors?! XD</p>
<p>I sometimes think of Cornell like Los Angeles. Just as LA is a completely different city that defies stereotype depending on where you choose to look, so too is Cornell a different school. If you look in one direction, Cornell has the hardest academic rigor and the most stringent admission standards. Turn around and there's a bunch of local farmers piled into a truck with a completely different standard of rigor because the demands of their careers are completely different. </p>
<p>Also, just as LA is the one place where anyone can go and stand a chance of making it, in many ways so too is Cornell.</p>
<p>This dynamic has created a bit of an identity crisis for anyone associated with the school. Yet, I think Cornell has garnered this bad reputation amongst elitists for doing something extraordinary: truly providing study for any person in any field. That means farmers are studying next to architects next to veterinarians next to quantum physicists. It also admitted women from day 1 - just after the Civil War when few women went to college. It's now taken that practical approach global, building the first truly transnational university with a medical campus where superior, practical education is needed the most: the Middle East. </p>
<p>While comparing universities as vastly different in fundamental purpose as the 8 great schools that happen to be part of the same athletic conference is absurd, I think it's high time Cornell stop being dragged through the mud for providing access for the working and middle class in ways that the HYPs are only now beginning to do.</p>