<p>I heard that Cornell and Stanford are cousin schools, especially their equally competitive Engineering departments. Do a lot of Cornell undergrads go to Stanford for Engineering Graduate School? Is Cornell like the best prep for Stanford graduate school? Not saying that Stanford is actually better than Cornell, just heard about this somewhere... Is such info. valid?</p>
<p>It's widely stated that Stanford copied a lot of ideas from Cornell, which is true. There is no formal relationship between the two schools; a rivalry exists if anything. I'm an engineer and I've never heard of anyone, let alone a large number of people, going to stanford for grad school. Most cornell engineers stay at cornell for grad school to pick up their M. Eng. in a 5th year.</p>
<p>That said, with the reputation and quality of cornell engineering, if you do well, getting into stanford for grad engineering (though, like perro said, why not just get it in 1 year at cornell) doesn't sound like it would be particularly difficult.</p>
<p>cornell engineering is known for its difficulty more than anythin...just compare their ECE course od study with any other univ and u'll get my point.
If u maintain >3.6 GPA at Cornell...Stanford's just a stone throw away</p>
<p>In 2004, 8 Cornellians went to Stanford from ECE, 5 from Mechanical/Air, 4 from Computer Science...only Cornell itself had more engineers from Cornell UG planning to attend for those 3 programs. So for just 3 of the biggest programs, 17 students from Cornell went on to Stanford.</p>
<p>If you ask me, however, I'd say that probably has more to do with Stanford being one of the top graduate engineering schools in the world than with Stanford having some sort of relationship to Cornell.</p>