<p>“Suicide Bridge”</p>
<p>More urban myths - over the past decade, Cornell has had the LOWEST rate of suicides among the Ivies. </p>
<p>Engineering - in the median grades at Cornell posted above, median grades for Spring '05 in engineering courses ranged from a B to an A! </p>
<p>I’m not contending that these myths were never true - many of them had some basis in reality, from 10 to 40 years ago. Nor do median grades tell us anything about the work necessary to attain them, across colleges. And I know little about Caltech or MIT or engineering programs generally. But the idea that Chicago, Swarthmore, Cornell, etc., being more “difficult”, have that difficulty reflected in significantly lower GPAs just isn’t borne out by the data.</p>