Colleges similar to Cornell?

tk21769
Tue, 05 Dec 2017 12:10:14 +0000

Cornell’s motto re-states the founder’s vision: “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.” It’s an excellent university that covers not only the liberal arts but also agriculture, architecture, business, engineering, etc. This distinguishes it from other Ivy League schools (with the exception of Penn). The set of schools that best replicate that breadth+quality, minus the low (~14%) admit rates, are state universities (especially the top state flagships or “public Ivies”, although a few of them now have admit rates almost as low as Cornell’s).

If you’re only trying to identify schools with average SAT scores around 1360, find an online college match tool and plug in that number. Most of them will be pretty good colleges. Otherwise, they’d probably have a hard time enrolling students with scores that high. However, they won’t necessarily be much like Cornell.