<p>Even so, CALS is more selective than the majority of schools. Yes, it is slightly less selective than CAS by a small percentage, but her statistics are all wrong.</p>
<p>If as many students applied to CALS as they do to CAS, then CALS would be as selective, if not more selective, than CAS.</p>
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<p>The problem with psuedo-journalists like Coulter is that they are regrettably adept at mixing lies with the rest of their claptrap. In my estimation Coulter is 34% lies/falsehoods, 33% true, and 33% not-really-false balderdash that is too removed from reality to be called true. Its the 33% true part of the equation that makes her lies so pernicious, like BigG mentioned in a previous post. BigG had a line that Chendrix called “anti-reductio ad hitlerum,” lol.</p>
<p>Most importantly, the College of Ag and Life Sciences is a great school, LightBright. You are indeed fortunate … congratulations!</p>
<p>Thank you! I was so happy when I found out today!</p>
<p>That article was starting to make me feel bad for a second. But I’m snapping out of it. </p>
<p>And yes, lies that have some truth in them are the most deceiving, because they are the most convincing. If one part of it is true, or seems to be true, then the rest of it can be assumed to be true. And that’s not the case at all.</p>
<p>“Olberman, who brags incessantly about attending Cornell,”</p>
<p>which is fully justified</p>
<p>" is not exactly telling the whole story. "</p>
<p>In what respect? he DID attend Cornell, and it IS in the Ivy League; both his university and his college can reasonably be considered to be prestigious institutions by most reasonable standards and measures.</p>
<p>“While CALS is a good school by most standards,”</p>
<p>exactly the point</p>
<p>.""back when he went there, it was not all that selective, "
What does “all that” mean? I don’t have data here on its relative selectivity at that time, do you? Or are you just taking her assertion at face value? Post your supporting data. More than likely it was in a similar place to today; a very selective college, from a broad perspective, though there were other colleges that were yet more selective. the same can be said for Arts & Sciences. Moreover, then , as now, CALS’s quality, and strength of programs in its various fields, transcends its admissions profile.</p>
<p>“and it is still not as selective as the rest of the Ivy league.”
There are colleges in other Ivy league universities that are, and were, undoubtedly less selective than CALS. To name a couple, Penn’s College of Nursing, Columbia’s College of General Studies. Even were this not the case, CALS was likely still more selective than the preponderance of colleges in the United States.</p>
<p>“If the truth hurts,”
It doesn’t. He attended a pestigious college, of a prestigious university. This is the case even if there existed some other colleges, and some other universities, that were yet more prestigious.</p>
<p>" then quit ridiculing other people because of the schools they attended, just because you don’t agree with their politics."</p>
<p>I agree with that. It really doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>You also have to realize, CALS may not have been all that selective back then, but neither was Cornell, or even Yale for that matter. Just a few decades ago, Yale accepted something like 30% of people.</p>
<p>Just like 10 years ago Penn was hovering around the 50% acceptance rate, yes?</p>
<p>I suppose back then, Penn wasn’t Ivy League for a while. Good thing they got that acceptance rate down to Ivy League standards so they could rejoin!</p>
<p>I spoke to a Yale alumni, and he stated that if he were applying now, he probably wouldn’t get in.</p>
<p>In fact, most Ivy League alumni agree. They’re weren’t as hard to get in ten, twenty, thirty years ago as they are today.</p>
<p>Fact. :/</p>
<p>So, Ann was rejected by Harvard.</p>
<p>Some dingleberry always comes on these threads and keeps the insanity going. So, I’ll say it again:</p>
<p>College of the Ozarks - 11.8% acceptance rate</p>
<p>University of Chicago - 40% acceptance rate.</p>
<p>As Olbermann himself pointed out before raising up his Cornell degree (which hasn’t changed much I might add), </p>
<p>CAS acceptance rate - about 1 in 5
CALS acceptance rate - about 1 in 5. </p>
<p>There’s a 3% difference between the two. Enough with the acceptance rate barometer.</p>
<p>Plus - I studied in CALS and took a whole lot of classes in CAS and AAP. So this division between colleges is absurd to prey upon. I was certainly not in over my head intellectually in any of the schools in comparison to other students.</p>
<p>Lightbright - ya done good. It’s an incredible opportunity. Congrats.</p>
<p>hey my whole family went to Ozarks dont be hatin</p>
<p>I got accepted into CALS Communication,</p>
<p>I know that it still IVY. I selected Cornell over UPenn’s Communication major b/c Penn’s looks very oriented towards politics and business and I am more interested in media communication.</p>
<p>Now, how does this argument affect the reputation of CALS Communication and opportunities for its future graduates?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>JPcomm… it doesn’t</p>
<p>CALS Communication program is amazing. Just look and see who’s on their advisory council.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.comm.cornell.edu/docs/NewsletterDecemberVol1Issue1.pdf[/url]”>http://www.comm.cornell.edu/docs/NewsletterDecemberVol1Issue1.pdf</a></p>
<p>And can we close this thread…seriously, who is this Ann Coulter person, and why is her opinion worth anything?</p>
<p>Ann, Cornell called, and they said YOU SUCK</p>
<p>the end</p>
<p>“I selected Cornell over UPenn’s Communication major b/c Penn’s”</p>
<p>by “select over”, you mean you chose not to apply?</p>
<p>I hope that this argument ends in both Ann and Keith dying.</p>
<p>Coulter consistently lies about being biologically female. What’s the difference?</p>
<p>Hmmm . . . does Cornell’s admissions committee have the power to rescind an admissions decision post-graduation? Just a thought . . .</p>
<p>^^hahaha…I was going to ask if they could rescind her diploma :)</p>
<p>No don’t rescind it. Transfer her retroactively to CALS, and re-issue it from there.</p>
<p>Hmm, she probably didn’t take biology though…</p>