<p>Cornell? Are you serious? Your school is a joke among us real Ivies! You talk about this tradition of academic excellence like that somehow translates into a tangible difference in quality of education, Knock knock, all of us were founded pre-Revolution and don’t have 13,500 undergraduates. Cornell was founded in 1865—23 years after Notre Dame! How in the hell are you even in the Ivy League? Seriously, I don’t know where you get this massive superiority complex from. In every conceivable aspect your precious alma mater trails the Ancient 7 by oh, let’s be kind and say, light-years. Seriously, it’s like Cornell is the Welfare case of the Ivy League. Quit riding the coattails of the real Ivies!</p>
<p>As for the difference in student population, while you may claim to be an exception having turned down Harvard, at the heart of it, Cornell is really just a bunch of HYP rejects. What’s your yield rate over there? Sub-50%? You’re right, this probably lends itself to a quality teaching environment. And what’s the deal with those SUNY schools? I honestly don’t know what the deal is, but I remember joking with my friends about SUNY-Cornell. Wow, my anecdotes and references to flawed rankings systems are just as convincing as yours!</p>
<p>I never really looked at Notre Dame (or Cornell for that matter) when I was in high school, but if I had to go back and do it all again, I think Notre Dame is a really under-estimated school. I was a junior at Harvard when my brother (who was objectively more intelligent than me) told me he was going to Notre Dame and I was shocked that he would pick this school out in the middle of Indiana which I regarded as the equal of say, Fordham, over Harvard, Columbia, and MIT. Putting aside the Notre Dame mystique or whatever you want to call it (of which Ivy, Junior out in Upstate has absolutely zilch), I feel confident in saying that the quality of undergraduate programs at Notre Dame is superior to that of Cornell. If I had to do undergrad all over again and I were basing my decision solely on quality of education, nothing else, I would without a doubt pick ND. I don’t know where Cornell fanboy comes up with his vast separations of quality—or is that what those omnipotent peer assessments are telling us?</p>
<p>In the end, Cornell, you have absolutely no basis for judgment, I mean, who the hell are you? Have you gone to school at Notre Dame? Have you experienced the academic quality there? Yeah, it’s all well and good to pick on the quality of a perceived inferior until one of the big boys comes along and puts you in your place. That just happened. So sit down, shut up, and learn your place. No, Cornell is not better than ND, and no, you’re not smarter than us.</p>
<p>You know what they say, Ithaca is gorges this time of year!</p>