Where would you rank Cornell?

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<p>Penn Medical School - #3
Cornell's med school -#15</p>

<p>As a premed student, I do have issue with you trying to insinuate that somehow Cornell's med school is inferior to Penn's. First of all, Weill Medical College has the prime NYC location that Penn can never duplicate. The kinds of cases and diversity of patients you'll see in NYC far exceeds anything Pennsylvania can match. Furthermore, Cornell's med school campus transcends your typical med school-hospital set up. It has New York-Prestyterian of course but also Sloan-Memorial (the #1 cancer center in the world), Rockefeller University, as well as a separate hospital for training ortho surgeons. Throw in guaranteed, SUBSIDIZED housing (the dean of admissions told me that subsidized rent was approx. $450/month) in the east side of Manhattan and you've got yourself one of the more unique med schools in the country. It is also one of only 6 or 7 PBL med schools in the country that emphasizes small-group learning rather than some professor recycling the same old ppt. presentation year after year.</p>

<p>Factor in all of that, is it any wonder why Weill has the third lowest acceptance rate of any med school in the country (lower than Harvard, Johns Hopkins, or Upenn?)? </p>

<p>BTW: In case you can't tell, Weill Medical College is my #1 non-California choice for med school.</p>

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<p>I am pretty sure I turned down other ivies, or maybe I was hallucinating from the period from March 31 to May 1st. </p>

<p>Also, Cornell Med school is tops. The rankings will surely change, most probably due to the low admit rate, the NYC location, the new $150 million dollar ambulatory center and countless of other things. Seriously, the <5% admit rate is crazy, also who would want to pass up chance to live in the Upper East Side as a Med student, most likely nobody. </p>

<p>Begrudingly, I will have to admit that UPenn is an Ivy League school, and has some good stuff. However, the more UPenn people come over and try to insult Cornell the more ****ed this entire board will get, so back off and go back to your TTT world of Philly. </p>

<p>As for Upenn I turned it down b/c I hated the campus, and the city. There's no green space, the city is freaking over priced, and truly UPenn had nothing more to offer to me that was better than Cornell. Frankly, Cornell gave me CPRS, which pretty much blew away anything the other ivies gave me, or in fact any other university. </p>

<p>Let's just wait 10-20 years from now and see whose class makes the bigger difference in the world, for some odd reason I'm banking on Cornell. We're more well rounded (most peace corp people in the ivy league this year, we have one of best locations for a med school, our alumni network is loyal and our name goes really far). To tell you the truth I really don't know about UPenn, b/c I never really cared, I googled it once and visited it once and simply rejected them. So screw off.</p>

<p>Also, for one last dig. Last time I checked UPenn was falling and Cornell was rising up. Heck, the only reason UPenn made major news this year was b/c one of its profs murdered his wife. Cornell on the other hand made the news for: $4 billion dollar campaign, architecture of the new Milstein Hall, spanking new Ambulatory care center.</p>

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<p>pooned...again i think</p>

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<p>hhaah beefs true dat :)
and in that particular ranking if i remember particularly, brown is 70 something and dart (in yo) mouth is 150s</p>

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<p>UPenn is definitely a really good school in nursing and business. I’m sure the people there are very bright as well. Come on… It’s an Ivy. At the same time, so is Cornell. True, it has the lowest acceptance rate. At the same time, it has fantastic science department along with a whole bunch of others. If I were a business major, I’d choose Penn. I’m however not, am more interested in science, that’s why I choose Cornell, because it is a much better place for a science major like me than Upenn. </p>

<p>Anyone saying Cornell is not as good a college as Upenn is ignorant to make such a statement in the first place. No reason to bash someone else to make urself feel good… like people have already mentioned, this will only proof to be insecurity with oneself. If you’re insecure with yourself, then seek some help outside CC, outside the Cornell forum, because it’s not CCers problem to solve your insecurity for you. Peace.</p>

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<p>Wu Tang....</p>

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<p>KLANnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn</p>

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<p>Penn is in the news plenty!</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ivygateblog.com/blog/2007/01/penn_grad_student_enjoys_particle_physics_game_theory_touching_boys.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ivygateblog.com/blog/2007/01/penn_grad_student_enjoys_particle_physics_game_theory_touching_boys.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>all I have to say is wow!!</p>

<p>All this Upenn bashing to cover up your own insecurities. </p>

<p>I won't go to say that Cornell is better or worse than Upenn. But both schools are good or they wouldn't be ivy leagues. </p>

<p>Many of you make the argument that you hated Upenn because of the city, the campus. Others, similarly, hated Cornell because it is in the middle of nowhere. It is a matter of personal preference. </p>

<p>Also, the reason I chose Penn engineering was because I wanted to study bioengineering. While there are other schools with better bioengineering programs, none of them are ivies. Ivies are notorious for providing excellent need based aid. </p>

<p>As for the Penn medical school, it is also in a big city. The wide array of cases you see there are similar to the ones you see at New York. For example, most challenging cases from New Jersey and other surrounding areas are sent to the Penn hospital. In NYC, there is Columbia med school, NYU med school, and many others. So naturally all these wide array of cases are divided between those. In Philly, Penn is the only top rated school so naturally gets most of these cases. </p>

<p>Yeah and for the Pennstate and Penn confusion, I kinda like it. I am a humble person. I welcome not being seen as some godlike entity because I got into a good school. That is the reason most people chose to apply to Harvard or Yale. They want to show off.</p>

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<p>I'm sorry, but "all this Upenn bashing" is NOTHING compared to the Cornell bashing that has been going on in this thread, on this forum in general, and in real life. I've been looking at college confidential for only one month and I'm already completely sick of all the Cornell bashing. Cornell students, how do you deal with it for more than four years without going crazy?</p>

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<p>Exactly.</p>

<p>Sristi this is not personal but I suggest you check out the Penn forum more and you'll refresh yourself with the harshest, crudest, and most unreasonable bashing.</p>

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<p>lol are you joking sristi? It's u aholes who r doing the bashing. I hadn't heard of any Cornell bashing until I came onto College Discussion, so I hope you guys don't think this happens in real life. Cornell is easily one of the best colleges in the world and no person who is secure with themselves will ever look down on u. </p>

<p>It's like you going up to a state schooler (to provide for a clear example) or something along those lines and telling them their school sux...why the f would you do that? Insecurity. That's y UPenn people are doing it.</p>

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<p>if you are a humble person as you seem to believe, why bother putting Upenn as your location, even down to the details about which college you are in and when you are graduating? </p>

<p>humble people don't tell others that they are humble, just as geniuses don't go around trying to convince others that they have more than average intelligence. Edison even denied about being a genius and only contributed his accomplishments to diligence, not intelligence--- that's being humble. </p>

<p>also, like many have already pointed out, this forum isn't bashing up upenn for fun, but because someone from upenn's forum was being disrespectful in the first place... and everyone here is merely defending the reputation of cornell against that of upenn. like i have said before, upenn is a great school, and my friends go there, but if you are telling me cornell is not as good a school as upenn, that becomes really hard for me to digest. and if the upenners truly take this biase to their hearts, why can't the cornellians believe cornell is a much better school than upenn will ever become... how would this be "bashing," seriously? Equal opportunity is more like it. </p>

<p>arghhh......... i can't believe i am actually here trying to convince people that cornell is a fantastic college and the best from my point of view. why would ANYone think otherwise in the first place?</p>

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<p>sristi, i'm assuming you came to this thread after stanman posted this thread on the Upenn forum. Before you jump on us for bashing Upenn, let's review stanman's first post on this forum:</p>

<p>" Wait?!</p>

<p>Cornell is in the Ivy League....?</p>

<p>(laughs)... damn.</p>

<p>what a shame.</p>

<p>I say we admit Stanford/Duke and drop Cornell/Brown"</p>

<p>If that's not trollish behavior, I don't know what is. So please just shut your hole next time you don't know the origin of what you're talking about. Thank you.</p>

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<p>norcalguy, stanman also posted the EXACT same post on the facebook ivy league group... lmao
what an insecure guy to go out of his way to diss cornell, thats so hilarious</p>

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<p>They probably forgot to give him enough homework at PennState (or is it U PENN?) to keep him occupied.....</p>

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<p>guys try and check out our one trick pony thread. there has been lot of upenn bashing there and kids from the columbia forum, etc. came down there to demean our school. So I guess we are in the same spot.</p>

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<p>Exactly...so why do you do it to us? What, was it so fun defending your school from idiots that you had to spread the joy?</p>

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<p>I haven't bashed you. Have I once said that one school is significantly better than the other. I just posted to defend our school, that's it.
Last post on this idiotic thread.</p>

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<p>i think the original reference (way back on post #24) was to this thread:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=289711%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=289711&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I've been here a long time and JohnnyK might be one of the most annoying posters out there.</p>