Intellectual Atmosphere at Cornell?

applejack
Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:09:34 +0000

I don’t understand the OP’s perspective. Schools that most would be consider harder to be accepted into often have far more entrenched cultures of partying and are not necessarily bastions of intellectualism. Just look at Dartmouth, UPenn, and Harvard as examples. Perhaps only a handful, like Chicago and MIT, buck this trend.

The OP also seems to equate high test scores with intelligence, which any brilliant mind knows is usually the opposite. Functional intellgience is served by such archaic measures, but not brilliance on the level the OP seems to believe himself to be. Maybe I misunderstand his intention.