<p>um...cornell is ranked 23rd in the world, i don't know what you are talking about.</p>
<p>For those of you worrying about Cornell's prestige ... stop being ridiculous. I can share with you my results for graduate school given a 3.3 Cornell Engineering GPA (in operations research).</p>
<p>Stanford- Accepted
Cornell - Accepted
Columbia (MS Financial Engineering)- Accepted
Princeton - Rejected (yeah they can bite me :P)</p>
<p>Point being, if you go to Cornell, and do well, life will be good later :)</p>
<p>Stop being prestige hawks!!</p>
<p>Like many others, I chose Cornell over Yale and a host of other Ivies and top lac's. I then went on to graduate school at Columbia and Harvard. Cornell is better than any other Ivy in engineering and the sciences, and its Arts school is the same high quality as all the other Ivies. Cornell's range of schools makes for an "easier" entry into some of them (although still difficult) but it also adds to the unique experience, not only among Ivies, but in the country, that you have at Cornell.</p>
<p>You should take the Cornell Review article with a grain of salt. It is the largest conservative newspaper on campus, and almost everything they say is offensive to someone. Everyone who writes for that paper is extremely naive and narrow-minded. Anyway, Cornell has a great image. We seem to be shat on by other ivies because our acceptance rate isn't 15% like most of them, but it seems to me that acceptance rate is very overrated. Almost all my classmates at Cornell (especially my fellow Engineers) are extremely bright and hard-working. You don't truly gain an appreciation for the quality of Cornell's students until you're working your ass off and struggling to break a 3.0.</p>
<p>Saying all conservatives are naive and narrow-minded is a bit naive and narrow-minded in itself, is it not?</p>
<p>"Saying all conservatives are naive and narrow-minded is a bit naive and narrow-minded in itself, is it not?"</p>
<p>I agree, he forgot to include a couple of descriptors. Conservatives also tend to be biggots, self-loathers, and homophobes. Please pardon his narrow-mindedness and just to show how open-minded I am, please feel free to add your own adjectives :)</p>
<p>amen johnnyK</p>
<p>I've heard rumors that there are going to be big changes in the admissions/PR side of cornell in the next few years. A lot of alumni are unhappy with the recent slip in rankings (we used to be #6 and now were #14) and I think the administration is finally starting to do something about it. Its gonna get a lot harder to get in so we were lucky this year although it was still very competitive. </p>
<p>Just to add my 2 cents on the rankings thing, I know they dont matter but it hurts when you see Wash U in St. Louis ranked above Cornell when its obivously a second rate school. Its ok though all the kids at Wash U will be working for us someday so we dont need to worry. Cornell should definitely be in the top 10 and contrary to what some people think its definitely not at the bottom of the ivys.</p>
<p>I never said all conservatives are naive and narrow-minded. I said everyone who WRITES FOR THAT PAPER is. Learn to read.</p>
<p>"Conservatives also tend to be biggots, self-loathers, and homophobes."</p>
<p>That's not very well-thought out. I thought Cornell grads were supposed to be intelligent.</p>
<p>And as long as we're keeping with crude sterotypes, I thought the liberals were self-loathers while conservatives where flag-waving jingoists who needed to be MORE self-loathing?</p>
<p>Tisk tisk.</p>
<p>If you've read the paper, you'd understand what cornellian07 is saying. That paper is blatantly offensive. Though, making generalizations about conservatives isn't kind; I happen to be one.</p>