chances of transferring?

LazyKid
Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:59:20 +0000

Yeah. Other top schools have been getting MUCH MORE selective over the years. Yet, Cornell is staying at the same level…

For example, look at Penn, Duke, or Columbia. These schools got like 4 times harder to get into last decade. At the same time, Cornell still accepts tons of community college people with no SAT scores… Cornell needs to step up its game, or it will quickly lose in the game



Cortana, like I mentioned previously, Cornell’s prestige is nowhere near as low as Lazykid and I are making it out to be…we’re just bashing it hard cause we both know that it could do so much better (plus we get ****ed when we experience something of the Hofstra sort every now and then). In the real world, Cornell still gets a lot of respect and name recognition, esp. since it has the Ivy label. However, its “any person, any study” motto is obsolete and despite its specialty status as a land grant institution, I feel it should still follow in the ways of other top schools due to the way college admissions works nowadays (meaning rankings/perception, which are influenced by admit rates, SAT averages, etc. are crucial).



Cornell’s prestige is really hit or miss. Some people are very impressed when they hear Cornell. Some others downright insult it for being ‘easy’ to get into, or accepting ‘many dumb’ people. And, many others don’t give a crap about Cornell’s prestige or prestige of colleges in general. Unlike how some high school students think, most working adults are too far removed from college to have any interest in talking about colleges. All they care about is their day-to-day crap like their job, family, sports, food, drinking, etc.