Intellectual Atmosphere at Cornell?

Ascaris
Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:58:23 +0000

Why is everyone attacking the OP over the safety school comment? Is it so hard to believe that there is a very very very small minority of students who DO consider Cornell a safety? It’s all relative. Just as you might consider your state school your safety, someone else might consider that same school as his/her dream school.



Because empirical evidence has shown that people with alarmingly high stats get rejected from Cornell. Cornell isn’t Podunk State University. It may not be on the calibre of HYPSM (though some would argue that it is) but it is one of the best schools in the country, and the world, and is quite selective in its own right. I’d understand Cornell being a match for certain people but to march in here, a forum filled with overachievers who have accomplished loads yet are STILL worried about getting admitted to Cornell, and proclaim it to be a safety is the height of egotism. If the OP was as condescending to Cornell in her essays as she’s been in this thread I wouldn’t be surprised at all if she was rejected.