<p>yo bunni kid
are you even at cornell?? if so why are you dissing yourself
if not, did you get rejected and is this how you're taking your anger out
and if you go to another school, get off the cornell forum</p>
<p>Ya Stanford would be a good idea. They can travel up here to play sports with all the ivies every week. I mean it's only the distance of California to the Northeast/New England area...no problem. Fun fun! (same with Duke, but less comical)</p>
<p>"I say we admit Stanford/Duke and drop Cornell/Brown."</p>
<p>I say sorry that standord and duke will never become ivy leagues.</p>
<p>What a stupid troll. Brown and Cornell are very respected, and Stanford and Duke would never join the ivy league because they love to give out athletic scholarships. The only people who think that Cornell isn't an excellent school are ignorant.</p>
<p>Okay i dun wanna get myself deep into this BUT...</p>
<p>A couple of posts back someone said that Cornell's acceptance rate was higher because they have a larger undergraduate class (which imo in itself dilutes the reputation). If cornell were so excellent, shouldn't there be as many people competing for every spot as they do in HYP+Columbia? Case and point. Columbia/Yale have smaller classes than a lot of the other Ivies. But yet for these schools they each received 20,000+ applications last year. Cornell boasts 2.5x the class size... yet they still did not receive a proportionally high amount of applications. </p>
<p>Something that no one mentioned (or conveniently forgot)... Cornell loses in every Ivy League cross-admit battle. basically most people will choose any other ivy over cornell. Does this mean Cornell is a bad school? No, of course not. It certainly enjoys more international and laymen's prestige than Dartmouth and maybe Brown but just cuz those other 2 are very small and Cornell is the 800 pound gorilla of the Ivy League. </p>
<p>Oh and Cornell is the newest Ivy (original FOUR (I-V) League was HYPcolumbia) and it doesn't have a latin motto (whuts up with that?). Some of Cornell's schools being NYState affiliated dosen't help...</p>
<p>Bottom line. Cornell engineering serves every other Ivy League engineering but overall, it's at the bottom of the very best.</p>
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Cornell is the 800 pound gorilla of the Ivy League
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Lol.............quite a metaphor..........lol</p>
<p>true dat...it is the most powerful animal in its environment</p>
<p>Oooo… “Cornell is the 800 pound gorilla of the Ivy League”…so, watch out other ivies cuz Cornell’s gonna smash you with its crushing fists! lol. Hey, isn’t there a saying “bigger is better”…lol.</p>
<p>"A couple of posts back someone said that Cornell's acceptance rate was higher because they have a larger undergraduate class (which imo in itself dilutes the reputation). If cornell were so excellent, shouldn't there be as many people competing for every spot as they do in HYP+Columbia? Case and point. Columbia/Yale have smaller classes than a lot of the other Ivies. But yet for these schools they each received 20,000+ applications last year. Cornell boasts 2.5x the class size... yet they still did not receive a proportionally high amount of applications."</p>
<p>I think that's the point. Yes, larger schools enjoy more applications but the number of applications can't keep up with the increase in class size. If Harvard were to double its class size next year, would they receive more applications? Probably. Would they receive 2X as many applications? Probably not. Hence, larger schools have higher acceptance rates simply because they're larger.</p>
<p>Ya the comment was because of the higher acceptance rate because they accept so many students for the large school. If Cornell accepted a lot less the percentage would go wayyyy down (but that would go against what Cornell is, so that wouldn't happen).</p>
<p>yeh that was really a dumb comment to make. its obviously not a 1vs1 size vs applicant ratio</p>
<p>A basic course in algebra (or maybe even fractions) and a little bit of logic will enlighten you with information that goes against your class size rebuttal.</p>
<p>Case in point.</p>
<p>I'm going to have to agree with stanman on this one guys. Cornell is obviously a subpar ivy, 2 of my friendsd with 1750 SAT scores got accepted ED this year.</p>
<p>And you don't think other ivys have 2 students with SAT's similiar to those of your friends? Check the acceptances threads for all other ivys for previous years before answering.</p>
<p>if columbia and harvard accepted a person who was dead for 7 years, then, they are OBVIOUSLY sub-par ivy league institutions.</p>
<p>/sarcasm</p>
<p>edit: link to article: <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/18/missing.con.artist/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/18/missing.con.artist/index.html</a></p>
<p>and my other friend with 1900 SAT general and no subject tests got in columbia this year early. With financial aid and an international student, no legacy, not athlete, not even striaght A.</p>
<p>what does that say about columbia? probably nothing.</p>
<p>take a stat class and you'll know that there are always outliers</p>
<p>Test scores aren't everything.</p>
<p>You'll see that most of the big names in politics such as presidents didn't have great scores. Scores are def not everything...</p>
<p>Those Upenn people are downright mean! I don't get this, they look down on Cornell so much...they're like "Cor-We're an Ivy I swear-nell, lol," and teaching pre-frosh to look down on Cornell...what's with them? The worst is most of these people are probably not making fun of Cornell out of jealousy, a lot of them would have got in Cornell, they simply extremely belittle Cornell. WHY!!?? I am so mad. We should start bashing UPenn. But most Cornellians are probably above that. But I'm just so mad.</p>
<p>And yeah totally agree with norcalguy and others. That's what happens when schools get big, and being big is the heart of Cornell mission.</p>
<p>Forget about the UPenn people. If they have nothing better to do than bash Cornell (or another school) then they most likely are insecure about their own choice of school.</p>