<p>im surprised no one has mentioned cornell’s grade deflation</p>
<p>The point is that nobody really goes around ranking specific departments at the undergraduate level. Nobody has any idea how. Just because PhD students get to do really great research doesn’t necessarily mean that anybody cares about that when hiring undergrads. And in any case medical schools certainly won’t care.</p>
<p>If you’re that much happier at Cornell then I’d simply go there.</p>
<p>That makes sense. And the whole grade deflation thing kind of freaks me out…especially since GPA is incredibly important for med school. I just don’t know.</p>
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<p>because it’s non-existent. </p>
<p>Cornell even publishes all of its median grades online. How much easier can it be for you to cherry pick classes?</p>
<p><a href=“http://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/Grades/MedianGradeFA10.pdf[/url]”>http://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/Grades/MedianGradeFA10.pdf</a></p>
<p>Look, both schools are just fine for premed. they’ll provide you with everything you need to assemble a spectacular med school application. You need to choose the school YOU want to go to and the school that fits you and your goals the best.</p>
<p>I’m going to Stanford(: Go Cardinal!</p>
<p>Why do people write such nonsense, as if they know something about the campus? If you don’t even know that Cornell is served by the Ithaca airport (which is on East Hill in Ithaca, same hill as the Cornell campus, and really within walking distance on a nice day), you don’t know very much about the school.</p>
<p>Just so you know, the Ithaca airport is currently served by US Airways with flights to its hub at LaGuardia; by Continental with flights to its hub at Newark; and by Delta with flights to its hub at Detroit. Daily flights. Quite a few of them.</p>
<p>Um, somebody should tell the readers of these 1-2-3, etc. listings that the lists, as provided apparently by the US News & World Report, are useless. </p>
<p>Take Econ as an example. The list as provided earlier in this thread has Harvard at No. 1, MIT at 2, and Chicago at 3. Somebody should tell readers that the things that are taught in the schools have little in common. MIT is known as a center for Keynesian economists, Chicago as the mainstay of followers of Milton Friedman. What you are taught in one school bears little resemblance to what you are taught in the other. The Friedmanites have been under a cloud in recent years after the 2007-2008 meltdown, just as Keynesians were in the stagflation of the late 1970s. I’m not even going to bother with Harvard – I’d advise students to check out the film “Inside Job.” Look before you leap.</p>
<p>The same goes for Columbia. The dean of the Columbia Business School, the head of Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors, is also featured in a particularly embarrassing interview in “Inside Job,” which has led to a new effort at Columbia to require that professors make known that they are being paid, one way or another, to act as pitchmen for what they are touting (such as Iceland’s super-free-market economy shortly before it collapsed).</p>
<p>Whatever your political opinions, your best bet as a high school senior is to check out the textbook used in introductory economics classes at the school. Columbia uses the textbook written by the aforementioned controversial head of the Business School, Glenn Hubbard. Princeton uses the text written by its own faculty member (and NYTimes columnist) Paul Krugman, as do Swarthmore and Cornell (among others). </p>
<p>Of course, Columbia also has Joseph Stiglitz on the faculty, representing a position similar to Krugman’s at Princeton, or perhaps somewhat more to the left. It might help to read a little of their books, newspaper columns, bios, etc.</p>
<p>That would be a far better way of deciding where to go than reading the silly lists prepared by the characters at US News and World Report, who act like retreads from the sports pages where they listed the top football and basketball teams, etc. That might make some sense on the sports pages. Not particularly in a college or university.</p>