I have chosen Dartmouth over....

patlees88
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:21:49 +0000

Yeah. When I realized it, I thought, “Wait. I got into an Ivy League school, but not the WANNABE IVY?”



This is ■■■■■■■■. Maybe that is the reason you got rejected from Cornell, not researching and knowing enough about the school as to assert that it is not a member of Ivy league. i don’t think there is much difference at all between dartmouth and cornell in rankings, academic programs, caliber of student body, and even acceptance rate by which I presumably assume that you are making this statement out of. Dartmouth’s CAS acceptance rate is around 15%. Cornell’s CAS is around 18%. Comparing apples to apples, not comparing Dartmouth’s CAS/engineering to Cornell’s hotel, architecture schools, there isn’t much difference. Even if we were talking about overall acceptance rate differences however misleading that may be, we are talking about 5-6%, is this that significant? Also, Dmouth is ranked 11 and cornell is ranked 12 according to u.s. news. (although i don’t like rankings, you guys seem very keen about it) I would have given you or others like slipper the benefit of doubt if you were comparing HYP to Cornell and noting a rather noticeable academic difference between the two. Sorry, I don’t buy that Dartmouth is superior to cornell.

Also, you should know better about Cornell b4 making a statement like that. Cornell is not elitist like other ivies. It is eglitarian. It isn’t worried about shrinking its acceptance rates and boosting its perception among misinformed high school applicants. What other school amongst ivies educates future lawyers, scientists, doctors, engineers, architects, farmers, human resource managers, and even hotel managers?