<p>I don’t understand the OP’s perspective. Schools that most would be consider harder to be accepted into often have far more entrenched cultures of partying and are not necessarily bastions of intellectualism. Just look at Dartmouth, UPenn, and Harvard as examples. Perhaps only a handful, like Chicago and MIT, buck this trend.</p>
<p>The OP also seems to equate high test scores with intelligence, which any brilliant mind knows is usually the opposite. Functional intellgience is served by such archaic measures, but not brilliance on the level the OP seems to believe himself to be. Maybe I misunderstand his intention.</p>
You really don’t know much about Cornell if this is what you think it is. Cornell was designed from the start to provide a mixture of pragmatic technical skills and broader liberal arts and philosophical exploration. I’d say its student body reflects that more than ivory tower intellectualism, and with such a broad array of fields requiring different skillsets and types of intelligence it’s virtually impossible to categorize what a student there is.</p>
<p>I have to somewhat agree with loldanielol here. You have to remember that the OP is still a kid for the most part. I do not mean for this to sound condescending in any way but I would guess that some of the people disturbed by her are close to my age of 45. I have found this site to be an invaluable source of information and appreciate all of the help I have received but just want to remind others that we all made assumptions in our teens that we can look back on and laugh… we just need to let others discover the same for themselves sometimes. My S2 also felt that Cornell was a match (maybe not a safety) and felt pretty sure he would get in… I warned him of the dangers of his confidence but he felt that if his brother got in, then so would he since he had similar stats down the line. Sometimes it’s just hard to get an 18 year old to understand… and I would hardly say that my youngest has an attitude of superiority. Anyone who knows him would call him humble to a fault… he just felt confident of his essays, grades, and such. I did enough worrying for the both of us.</p>
<p>As a 17 year old, your post is pretty condescending. I’d assume that the majority of college confidential’s populace is composed of high schoolers or college students rather than middle aged parents.</p>
<p>I swear, some people use the feminism card as a last resort when they can’t respond meaningfully. Clearly, SHE got offended from the (truthful) responses SHE received, and couldn’t counter it, so SHE played the feminism card to distract people from the fact that SHE was rude and condescending towards a prestigious institution.</p>
<p>Also, regarding what other people have said, I agree. I’m a high school senior now and have applied to Cornell, my “dream” school. From what I’ve heard, Cornell looks to accept a wide range of people, both on an intellectual and communal level. Thus, to instantly make generalizations of the schools and deem them safeties is simply pretentious.</p>
<p>Additionally, “… class+a ton of hw/reading+party” equals college in general, not specifically Cornell.</p>
<p>The pretentious attitude in here is disheartening. I went to community college, transferred to a large public state research school. I am going to graduate in the top 5% of my class. I guess I am not capable of an intellectual conversation because I didn’t go to Harvard. Don’t tell the top grad schools I am applying to next year.</p>
<p>GraceTone, I reported your comment " see you at community college,(word for female dog)," yesterday. Your comment was promptly deleted. I see you have decided to come back to the same exact thread, and repost with a similarly derogatory insult. </p>
<p>I am so sorry that your life is so full of misery and despair that your disgust for your own mundane life just bursts out and exposes itself in the ruse of CC comments.</p>
<p>Enjoy Cornell. I hear they have a wonderful counseling center.</p>
<p>People need to stop responding to this ■■■■■. I think the last post made it quite obvious if it wasn’t already and I’m really surprised the mods haven’t locked this topic yet.</p>
<p>In the high school we have in our university town which is full of professors’ sons and daughters,</p>
<p>Graduated 2010: Top student who took all hard science and math classes and had amazging EC’s goes to Cornell. Obnoxious #5 who did well in social science classes goes to Harvard.</p>
<p>Graduated 2011: no obnoxious students, and no one goes to Harvard. One Yale, one Cornell.</p>
<p>Graduating 2012: no obnoxious students, and no one goes to Harvard. One MIT, one U Penn, one Princeton, and one Berkley.</p>
<p>I agree with Islander4. The OP took a potentially good topic about the intellectual environment at Cornell and approached it in such a manner that productive conversation was near impossible. Then again, she’s still a kid; hopefully in college she matures properly.</p>