<p>Just my prediction:</p>
<p>Cornell’s tech campus, in the long run, will produce many profitable tech startups, generate more endowments, strengthen it’s ‘best engineering’ in the ivies image, and improve name recognition. (although it is already very famous in the world, especially to Asians who only want to know the academic reputations which is how Asian countries recruit their best students into their top colleges, it is somehow not well-known to American general public in Midwest and west coast)</p>
<p>Getting better name recognition in the country attracts more undergraduate applicants so lower admission acceptance rate is more likely to happen. With higher endowment and lower acceptance rate, the rank will certainly elevate (I am only talking about using current USNWR ranking criteria. But their methodology may change again to have big shift in the ranking and make them more money by selling the ranking books.) College ranking in America is a ranking business money making game, but colleges cannot ignore it because na</p>