<p>he's not trying to live through me, honestly we barely talk to each, but this is irrelevant.
yep I do care about what my family thinks and since my dad is the one who shells out money for my education, I guess he has his right to stick his nose in once in a while. anyway he's changed his tune, he asked me today if I've considered AEM...hahah so typical. I don't want an undergrad business degree though. i'm most likely applying to PAM, but it doesn't really make a big diff since I'm probably going to Law school, so I could transfer to Gallatin and major in Underwater Basket Weaving if I wanted to</p>
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<p>False. To reiterate CayugaRed, all Cornell's schools are private. Some receive money from the state to carry out educational needs of the state through a private school. There is no board of regents or public say in anything the school does. Several other Ivies tried to become contract colleges for their respective states back in the day, but the states did not trust private institutions with their money and no control. It's quite unique for Cornell and should be carried as a badge of trust and honor based on ths school's unique mission, not derision. But, people need to feel better about themselves, so the contract colleges are an easy target from other schools at Cornell and other insecure Ivies like Dartmouth, UPenn, and Brown. </p>
<p>As I've said before, I studied in both CALS (people seem to stop at "Agricultural" and forget the "Life Sciences" part of the school) and CAS, and you'd be hard pressed to convince me one group is uniformly smarter than the other.</p>
<p>I did always envy architecture students, though. Not because I ever wanted to be one, but they seem to have a really intense, rewarding experience.</p>
<p>I see many of post on Cornell's rank within the Ivies.This is just a different perspective. In my previous position I used to hire in IT field. The applicants I usually hired were in positions making 120k or less. I didn't see any Ivy school better than any other, much less any school within the college. </p>
<p>My son, before he applied to colleges spoke with about 7-8 people that had hiring influence. We are in the Midwest but all the companies have a global presence (most fortune top 50 companies). All had nothing but great things to say about Cornell and that included a Yale grad. They did not break down the quality of education like is done on these post. From their point of view they know or assume that all of the Ivies provide a great education. One common theme was that they knew how strong the Alumni influence was, and not just same school, which is real strong, but like all the Ivy school grads helping each other.</p>
<p>I know there are exceptions to every situation, just giving you a different perspective.</p>