“The only anecdotal exprience I have with Cornell’s ORIE involves my other son, who was in Industrial and Systems Engineering at VT. He interned on the same project with a Cornell ORIE student.”
An entirely realistic outcome, as my last sentence of #22 was intended to imply.
And quite far from a tragedy either, far from it (save for the unneccessary, in retrospect, debt in one case vs the other).