<p>Which is better? Cornell is Ivy league while MIT is higher ranked?</p>
<p>I think that Ivy league has stopped meaning as much as it has before
I think MIT is one of the best engineerign schools in the world, and the best if you consider the money that it has.</p>
<p>Cornell has a good engineering program too though.</p>
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Cornell is Ivy league while MIT is higher ranked?
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<p>honestly i dont think either of those things matter: "Ivy league" or "college rankings". what does matter is the breadth and depth of the education and in that respect MIT wins out.</p>
<p>It depends on what you're interested in. While MIT is definitely going to take the cake when it comes to engineering, Cornell has better social sciences, humanities, and arts than MIT (whose offerings in those are quite scant.) </p>
<p>For engineering, MIT is the clear winner however.</p>
<p>btw, Ninja Gaiden is a badass game. im playing through it right now on Hard</p>
<p>I think a big factor is, for lack of a better phrase, the work load. It's not just that MIT students are assigned a lot of work, it's that learning here is intense, and that environment is just not for everybody. I thrive under pressure, my best friend, not so much. She's way happier studying ChemE at Drexel than she would ever be as Course X at MIT, and that has nothing to with which school is "better."</p>
<p>MIT pwns cornell.</p>
<p>nah im just playing...they're both great schools. from what i've heard though, MIT definitely has a stronger engineering program, but when you look past the rankings and such, i think MIT comes out on top because of the environment there...it's a lot more focused on working together, and less on competition. then again i'm probably biased because MIT's my first choice. Anyone from cornell care to reply?</p>
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<p>Agreed; I got my time for beating the game down to sixteen minutes recently. One of the most addictive games ever.</p>
<p>Focus:</p>
<p>As for Cornell vs. MIT, MIT is much better in the pure sciences. However, I'm not so sure about engineering. Cornell has arguably the best engineering department in the country, and several of my friends have chosen the school over MIT for that reason. </p>
<p>Cornell also has a very heavy workload for its science and engineering majors. I don't know how it compares directly to MIT, but I think a student that obtains a Cornell engineering degree in four years could probably do so at MIT too. </p>
<p>Both are great schools.</p>
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<p>!? lol you're not playing the xbox version i assume? though i hear the nes gaiden games are awesome too</p>
<p>LOL! I completely agree--MIT pawns Cornell (I still wouldn't mind going to Cornell if I don't get in to MIT, Stanford, or Caltech, though :)). </p>
<p>Anyway, a few important things to note:
While MIT was #1 in most of the engineering/science regions in the US News report, Cornell did score #1 in "engineering sciences" this year.</p>
<p>Also, I noticed a comment about MIT surpassing Cornell in the depth AND the breadth of it's education, I might point out a quote from Cornell's College of Engineering's website "This interdisciplinary approach requires depth and breadth intrinsic to Cornell and unparalleled at other institutions." I would guess MIT's depth surpasses Cornell's any day, but their breadth might not be as expansive as Cornell's. After all, Ezra Cornell did say "any person can find instruction in any study."</p>
<p>Please understand, I am in NO WAY saying Cornell is better than MIT, I'm just trying to establish that Cornell's science and engineering departments/colleges are nothing to scoff at (though they are in no way equivalent to MIT's departments :D).</p>
<p>JSuresh: No, haven't played the X-Box version yet. 8 bits conquer all.</p>
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<p>DUDEEE that gamn is soooo hard! my friend finally beat it like a coupla days ago but he had to play the final boss like a million times (xbox version)</p>
<p>Ivy league only means something to people living in New England.</p>
<p>Slorg,</p>
<p>That's a bit on the fallacious side. Ivy League is still going to help you quite a bit out in California. Even if Californians have a huge slant toward the UC, a Cornell or Columbia degree is not going to hurt.</p>
<p>And how did we start talking about Ninja Gaiden?</p>
<p>Ryu Hayabusa (topic creator's username) is the main character from Ninja Gaiden.</p>
<p>I noticed that right after my ability to edit ended. Oh well. </p>
<p>Sometimes we overlook the blatantly obvious stuff.</p>
<p>I don't think it's fallacious. I mean, schools in the Ivy League still have a tremendous amount of prestige, but I don't feel that being in the Ivy League is what gives them that prestige.</p>
<p>Well the top bracket of prestige is HYPMS not HYPCS. mit is more prestigious then cornell. so is stanford. btw: im not biased towards mit, its just the truth.</p>
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Cornell has better social sciences, humanities, and arts than MIT (whose offerings in those are quite scant.)
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<p>Not entirely. MIT's philosophy program far surpasses Cornell's.</p>
<p>Yes, some of MITs social science programs are better (poli sci can be argued as well), but it is not exactly the place I would go to if I wanted to major in history.</p>