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confidentialcoll · 03-01-2008, 01:58 AM

muerteapablo, though i begin to feel you will call me foolish regardless of what i say, i will try again:

"Also, Cornell engineering acceptance rate might be quite high, this is true, but the group of applicants is extremely self-selective"

this is eqaully if not more applicable to columbia seas, columbia college's acceptance rate is 9% and the seas acceptance rate is 18%, showing you that though the school are practically the same in terms of quality of student, and opportunity durning and after college, applicants tend to shy away from engineering, for what ever reason, so self selectivity is not especially true for cornell eng.

"Cornell does not list SAT scores by college. You can only look at the average for all schools at Cornell."

i realize this, but columbia seas's sat scores are comparable to MIT's (where the majority are engineering or pure science), range of around 1390-1540 for seas, and 1380-1560 for MIT.

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this might offend your sensitivities, but numbers unfortunately don't lie, this is why i say that the averge student who comes to columbia seas is very much comparable if not superior to the average cornell engineering student. the rankings don't measure this, the rankings look at engineering only for it's traditional purposes, and here we agree that cornell on balance is a better school for pure engineering, and you should go there if you're sure that's the set of industries you wish to work in.

03-01-2008, 01:58 AM	#15
confidentialcoll Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,729	muerteapablo, though i begin to feel you will call me foolish regardless of what i say, i will try again: "Also, Cornell engineering acceptance rate might be quite high, this is true, but the group of applicants is extremely self-selective" this is eqaully if not more applicable to columbia seas, columbia college's acceptance rate is 9% and the seas acceptance rate is 18%, showing you that though the school are practically the same in terms of quality of student, and opportunity durning and after college, applicants tend to shy away from engineering, for what ever reason, so self selectivity is not especially true for cornell eng. "Cornell does not list SAT scores by college. You can only look at the average for all schools at Cornell." i realize this, but columbia seas's sat scores are comparable to MIT's (where the majority are engineering or pure science), range of around 1390-1540 for seas, and 1380-1560 for MIT. College Search - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT - SAT®, AP®, CLEP® this might offend your sensitivities, but numbers unfortunately don't lie, this is why i say that the averge student who comes to columbia seas is very much comparable if not superior to the average cornell engineering student. the rankings don't measure this, the rankings look at engineering only for it's traditional purposes, and here we agree that cornell on balance is a better school for pure engineering, and you should go there if you're sure that's the set of industries you wish to work in.
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