<p>I'm showing my age, but in the teen classic "Say Anything," a salutatorian character thanks a valedictorian character at a graduation party, saying that without the competition between the two of them to inspire her, she (the salutatorian) would never have gotten into Cornell.</p>
<p>blackferrari2006: why does he perform at your school so much?</p>
<p>In the Mothman Prophecies, Richard Gere's character talks to a guy who used to be a professor at Cornell. I don't know if the prof is real, but "Cornell" was mentioned in the movie.</p>
<p>If you listen VERY CAREFULLY, on the answering machine in the early part of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Kumar's dad tells him that his last opportunity to make it into med school is an interview with Dr. Wein of Cornell Medical School. The interview that Kumar eventually (presumably) goes to is at Cornell.</p>
<p>thats true, i noticed that right away</p>