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10-01-2006, 10:24 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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| Cornell is no longer the "worst" ivy!
According to the US News Rankings, Cornell, which has long been hailed as the easiest ivy to get into, is no longer the worst ivy (brown is). Will this mean that Cornell will soon leave Brown in the dust as far as how tough admissions can be, because lets face it, a lot of people live and die by those rankings, so this could push cornell ahead. But also, why is Brown tougher (lowest acceptance rate of ivies except PHY and many elites) than say Penn, and Dartmouth despite the fact that both Penn and Dartmouth clearly offer a better education both for U-grads and Grad students? Is Brown really that "hip" among the nerds with lives? | 
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10-01-2006, 10:30 PM
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| 1) Cornell is still the easiest Ivy to get into.
2) I doubt that Cornell's acceptance rate will go below Brown's anytime soon.
3) Brown is much smaller. Larger schools are generally going to have higher acceptance rates.
4) I don't think Penn and Dartmouth "clearly" offer a better undergraduate education. | 
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10-01-2006, 11:32 PM
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| Cornell was ranked better than Brown before too...
Cornell is easier to get into because of the number of students (small univ vs. medium/large)
Brown is still a good school lol...if Cornell fell a couple points it suddenely wouldn't become a bad school
Cornell is pretty different than Brown anyways, so being a couple ranking points away is usually not going to sway someone one way or another
Thanks for being nice about Cornell tho lol | |
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10-01-2006, 11:42 PM
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| is this a joke? | |
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10-01-2006, 11:46 PM
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| Lol....... | |
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10-01-2006, 11:50 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
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| those who feel the need to rank the ivy league just to make themselves feel "better" really have more pressing issues that should be addressed | |
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10-02-2006, 12:48 AM
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| Those who feel insecure about Cornell's place in the Ivy League should not choose to come to Cornell. Go to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, or UPenn instead.
I keep wondering why ranking is such a big deal. Every school in the Ivy League is very highly regarded. Get into one of them, forget the ranking, work really hard, and you should have a bright career in front of you. | |
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10-02-2006, 01:19 AM
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| cornell was never the worst Ivy | |
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10-02-2006, 02:07 AM
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| Cornell arts and sciences is certainly not the "worst Ivy", nor is the
Engineering school. As for the Hotel and the other schools - everyone knows they are not deemed part of the core ivy league per se, although good schools in their various fields
one might say:
TOPS: Harvard, Yale. Princeton
MIDDLE: Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia
BOTTOM: U Penn, Brown | |
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10-02-2006, 12:35 PM
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| There is no way UPenn is at the bottom of the ivy league when it has the best business school in the world.... And Cornell will ALWAYS be the easiest Ivy to get into because it's such a big school. It will NEVER leave Brown in the dust as to how tough admissions can be. | |
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10-02-2006, 12:36 PM
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| lol someone delete this thread, it's so useless | |
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10-02-2006, 12:58 PM
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| No way! I want to know how one might ride a camel through the eye of a needle, and I suspect this thread may provide that keen insight.  | |
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10-02-2006, 05:31 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
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| "Cornell will ALWAYS be the easiest Ivy to get into"
Penn was easier to get into a decade or two ago. While Cornell probably is going to remain relatively less selective for awhile, you never know what's going to happen in the future. | |
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10-02-2006, 10:29 PM
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| I don't understand the incessant insecurity that people have about Cornell. There's no doubt that's it's a top 15 university, why can't people just leave it at that. It's like someone saying they just bought a Boxster, but they're not going to enjoy it because it's the "worst" Porsche. All my friends that went to Cornell were just happy to be there and weren't pre-occupied with this type of nonsense. Maybe, it's as towerpumpkin says that at the time Cornell was considered "better" than Penn. However, I don't remember my friends from Penn being upset either. It makes you wonder how current applicants would contend less than a generation ago when there were no rankings. | |
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10-02-2006, 10:33 PM
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| Calm down, I don't think the OP is a Cornellian | |
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