<p>“California employers eat up Ivy League students because there’s not a lot of them in the West.”</p>
<p>LOL. Yeah, you wish. They dont need Ivy League graduates there. Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech, Pomona, USC, UCLA, and Harvey Mudd are enough for them.</p>
<p>sucks for claremont.</p>
<p>From my high school experience: Cornell was considered more impressive than the UCs, less impressive than any of the other ivies/stanford. </p>
<p>From my very limited experience with employers as a non-hyp ivy undergrad: when I was asking acquaintances of my parents for a summer internship for this summer (the summer after my freshman year, I was behind and didnt get applications in to official programs), I was essentially offered a job before I even sent my resume because “* go to dartmouth, so * must work hard.”
I’m going to be working in a lab with Berkeley upperclassmen in the Berkeley area (I wanted to stay close to home this summer) and I’m going to say my boss was significantly more impressed by my Ivy school, even though its not Harvard, than by, say, Cal.</p>
<p>Around here, Cornell is most famous for Cornell notes. If you go to Cornell, people think you take a lot of notes. There is little notion that it’s a good education.</p>
<p>I go to Duke and got into Cornell too and from my experience Cornell is a great school. Not nearly as respected as some of the other ivy leagues, but a good school nonetheless.</p>
<p>The one thing that IS strange is all the suicides. Weren’t there four last year? If there was a suicide on Duke’s campus people would be going bezerk. I think the last ATTEMPTED suicide was like ten years ago–I dunno when the last suicide is. What’s the reason for the suicides?</p>
<p>Back on topic, I’d say that if you went to Cornell you should have good prospects everywhere. Employers keep up with what schools are ranked well (and you guys are like top 15 right, so you should be set.)</p>
<p>Ok, resume your arguing! :)</p>
<p>in South Korea, my native country, Cornell is FARRRRR more respected than UCB</p>
<p>im positive it is the same case for everywhere around the world</p>
<p>i dont even care if Cali thinks UCB is better cus the whole world says no.</p>
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<p>And that’s entirely their loss. </p>
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<p>Or maybe it’s just because Duke does a good job of hiding its suicides? The only thing unique about Cornell’s suicides is that they are a very public nature – jumping into the gorge. Other than that, Cornell’s suicide rate reflects the national average.</p>
<p>Last I checked, Duke, however, has a suicide rate above Cornell’s:</p>
<p>[Hopkins</a> suicide rate in line with national college trend - News](<a href=“http://media.www.jhunewsletter.com/media/storage/paper932/news/2006/04/20/News/Hopkins.Suicide.Rate.In.Line.With.National.College.Trend-2242150.shtml]Hopkins”>http://media.www.jhunewsletter.com/media/storage/paper932/news/2006/04/20/News/Hopkins.Suicide.Rate.In.Line.With.National.College.Trend-2242150.shtml)</p>
<p>Why would anyone want to check something like suicide rates? Unless you have a history of mental health issues, there is a minuscule chance that you’ll take your own life no matter what college you choose. If this is a part of your college search process, there’s something wrong with how you’re approaching something that should be exciting and fun.</p>
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<p>You have been reading these boards for a while, right Malan? Then you should know that that for a lot of folks on this board where somebody famous crapped is a lot more important in making a personal decision about whether or not a particular course of study is a good fit you.</p>
<p>Malan89: I understand exactly what you’re saying, but it is nice to know whether your school has a ridiculously high suicide rate, because things like these often (but definitely not always) reflects the competitive nature and stress levels at the school. That can often be a small factor in one’s decision. Also, suicides very much affect the entire student body and faculty…so if a school has a high rate, you might take that into consideration. It’s not that odd to look into this…it’s just not something one should use to make their final decision.</p>
<p>correction: reflect*</p>
<p>Eh, I just looked at this thread and saw Tbone’s post about the 20 inches. I don’t think we had that much, it was only like a foot or so? It was enough to cancel some classes though…</p>
<p>As a new yorker, in my HS, berkeley is considered more prestigious only because it’s much harder to get into than cornell</p>
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<p>Not really. If you can get into Cornell you can get into Berkeley.</p>
<p>Getting into Berkeley as an in-state is not particularly difficult. Not easy, but nothing amazing.</p>
<p>as a native from NY I am forever grateful to Berkeley for releasing The Fake Book of jazz.</p>
<p>The UCs are probably begging for out of staters just for the extra tuition $$$.</p>
<p>Although I will say that I know of a few kids who didn’t get into one of the state schools that have out of state enrollment caps (UNC and UVA IIRC) but are headed to Cornell, Emory, and Carnegie Mellon, so I’m sure it’s not unheard of.</p>
<p>I seriously doubt that many people think Berkeley is on the same level as Stanford. And Cornell is without a doubt far superior to Berkeley as well.</p>
<p>Berkely is a great school, but I would have to go with Cornell.</p>
<p>I’m Italian, studied in Chicago (K1-3), Singapore (high school, IB) and England (college, grad school). I’ve always known Berkeley to be superior to Cornell, although not by much. I think Cornell’s rivals are Michigan, Northwestern and the like.</p>