<p>I wouldn't say that Cornell is very much older than CMU. Cornell was founded in 1865 (it is by far the youngest of the Ivies), whereas the Carnegie Institute was founded in 1900, the Mellon Institute in 1917, and they merged to form CMU in 1967.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_mellon%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_mellon</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University</a></p>