<p>Cornell & Yale are both tops for architecture, but you're talking apples and organges. Cornell has a professional 5-yr Barch degree. It is highly selective, requires entry to the program as a freshman with a portfolio and interview. Yale has a 4-yr BA in architecture, you will need a graduate degree to practice. Yale's reputation for architecture is primarily at the graduate level. Also note that the BA at Yale has 3 different tracks that you apply for at the end of sophomore year, and there's no guarantee that you will get into the track that you want.</p>
<p>Definitely apply. </p>
<p>I've never heard of the trading thing. Plus Yale's campus is goregous.</p>
<p>Cornell is a great architecture school, but a notch below Yale in most respects.</p>