Intellectual Atmosphere at Cornell?

applejack
Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:15:39 +0000

I don’t know much about Cornell, but the lower-quality students compared to the other Ivies/top universities and the fact that it’s labeled as a party school doesn’t make it seem very intellectual. At least, intellectualism doesn’t seem to define Cornell, though you can definitely find it there (and just about any school…)

You really don’t know much about Cornell if this is what you think it is. Cornell was designed from the start to provide a mixture of pragmatic technical skills and broader liberal arts and philosophical exploration. I’d say its student body reflects that more than ivory tower intellectualism, and with such a broad array of fields requiring different skillsets and types of intelligence it’s virtually impossible to categorize what a student there is.