<p>Colm, why don’t you actually read my posts before criticizing them. I never said Cornell had a bad business / econ program, or did not offer a viable path to a great Wall Street job, which is the straw man you are shooting down. Cornell offers a great path to Wall Street, AS DOES WILLIAMS, despite what some here have suggested. All I did was, successfully, debunk the false claims that Cornell was demonstrably superior to Williams in that regard. Listing a bunch of successful Cornell alums in no way provides “proof” of Cornell’s superiority to Williams. Guess what? I already listed, on this thread, an equally successful group of Williams alums. Not one Cornell supported has provided any evidence of Cornell’s superiority to Williams in job placement in Wall Street, or any where else, despite overblown claims that Cornell is >>>>>> Williams. Can you at least concede that there is no support here for that, so we can all move on? As I have said repeatedly, I’m not trying to dissuade someone from choosing Cornell over Williams if that is where they would be happiest. I am just saying that it is silly to choose Cornell over Williams for someone who prefers Williams, due to a misplaced / erroneous concern about the career prospects of Williams alums. </p>
<p>The NYCTech program is an amazing one, and something I wholeheartedly endorse. But the fact remains, the tech campus still has to be built. Someone attending Cornell TODAY will receive few, if any, benefits from that tech campus. It’s like saying, attend Amherst, they are building a state of the art science center that will open in 2016 (or something like that). Well, great, but you can’t USE that state of the art science center if you are attending Amherst in 2013, just like you can’t study in non-existent science buildings in NYC if you are attending school at Ithaca in 2013. It’s not going to meaningfully affect the actual academic life of current undergrads at Cornell.</p>