Awareness of Cornell being "Ivey"

blukorea
Sat, 03 Nov 2007 03:15:05 +0000

“Cornell’s sheer size may give it a bit of an edge when it comes to that whole national recognition thing.”

“from my little corner of the world, Cornell is much better known that Dartmouth, Columbia or Brown; probably due to its size…”

I might add a nuance to these comments. National recognition has something to do with the size of the entire student body, both undergraduate and graduate. Cornell’s student body is IDENTICAL in size with half of its ivy peers (Columbia, Penn and Harvard–all fluctuate around 20,000). This is in spite of the fact that Cornell’s undergraduate program is larger, which goes on to show Cornell’s focus on undergrad education.