<p>i'll repeat, i was talking about similarity between academic programs and the schools in general ... not the mentality of the student body. Stanford and Cornell are just very similar. I wont comment on the similarity of stanford and cornell student body, though. I have not transfered to Stanford or spent any prolonged time in its academic setting and have been able to compare social lifes of students there with Cornell students. It would be unfair of me to comment on something like this, just the same way in which it would be unfair for me to comment on the social life at a school like Darmouth, Yale, MIT, etc. My assumption on the surface is that Stanford is 'chill' and Cornell is more tough academics, but I have absolutely no way of verifying this. </p>
<p>the OP should realize that nobody has any right to say anything about the student bodies unless they transfered from one school to another (people like to make assumptions, I probably have in this thread as well). Everything else is just hearsay and might easily be incorrect. FountainSiren's example is pretty legit ("chill" of dartmouth and stanford), though unless you do programs at all of the other schools mentioned here then you have no right to say what schools are and aren't close. Get it? Unless, of course, you dont mind people who dont go to these schools making assumptions on them in comparison to another school that they also don't go to...</p>