<p>I still don’t see anything wrong with what I said. No one has yet to convince me otherwise; only mock me for voicing my thoughts.</p>
<p>Rarely any of the transfers do badly…</p>
<p>Yeah, I know somebody who transferred some years ago and he THRIVED. He really loved Cornell and loved his decision to transfer. Ignore the naysayers.</p>
<p>The OP needs to understand that Cornell has a far broader mission than its peers at the Ivies. Ezra Cornell wanted Cornell to be something of a trade school and produce graduates with immediately useful skills. I doubt ol’ Ezra would know what to make of “Women’s and Gender Studies” or “African American Studies,” etc. He was looking to produce an educated class of real workers, not an educated class of dilettantes whose only choice after graduation is more grad school, being an “intern,” or selling insurance. So, at Cornell you get ILR and Hotel and Ag. It’s a different school, and unique, in that way. Even Harvard is being dragged into the 21st century these days, having recently begun an engineering program that it acknowledges is and will be for a long time light years behind Stanford or any of the other engineering schools. In a generation or two, when feeding the planet is critical, look to Harvard to start an ag school and acknowledge that it is light years behind Cornell. Cornell always gets the short stick at the Ivies, 'twas so and will always be so. But that is because Cornell really can’t be compared straight-up against the rest of the Ivies. And, frankly, who would you put in its place? I could only think of Duke.</p>
<p>Really, necroposting?</p>
<p>“But that is because Cornell really can’t be compared straight-up against the rest of the Ivies.”
Although I had a shred of doubt before coming to Cornell about that, coming here showed this to be entirely untrue - both in the eyes of other Cornellians and other ivy leaguers, recruiters (of the working world), and the like.
It was not so so 30 years ago (time of Sagan), and is not so now. [Ivy</a> League Universities / Schools Ranking - U.S. College Rankings](<a href=“http://www.uscollegeranking.org/ivy-league/ivy-league-universities-schools-ranking.html]Ivy”>http://www.uscollegeranking.org/ivy-league/ivy-league-universities-schools-ranking.html) The only thing cornell falls behinds in is selectivity.</p>
<p>Even in many individual fields cornell is doing very well in respect to its peers.
Also, the new tech campus would also spice things up for cornell.</p>
<p>^ I concur with Colene. Placido’s necro-post is odd and highly suspect.</p>
<p>Cornell was founded by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White in 1865. These co-founders had much else in mind than some kind of glorified “trade” school. Their wide ranging intent was to found a university that would “teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge—from the classics to the sciences, and from the theoretical to the applied.” (Not solely the applied.) Andrew Dickson White had been a graduate of Yale, and senator from New York, who had farsighted dreams that Cornell would one day stack up favorably against the elite European universities that he had visited and studied; for Cornell, however, there would be more expansive, innovative, utilitarian (in part), and egalitarian methods.</p>
<p>Well Placido was rejected from Cornell.</p>