Rutgers - A public ivy?

meangirl
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:57:19 +0000

waitatshu:

lol nah meangirl can hav fun getting rejected by her “safety” school, Cornell’s always been my big reach so I’m happy with my choice



If you’ve actually read any of my other posts, you’d have figured out that I am an HYP grad. But based on YOUR posts, I can tell that you probably couldn’t figure out much of anything.

I couldn’t care less about Rutgers. Personally, I think that its heavy investment in a mediocre football program at the expense of academics is foolish. Many Rutgers faculty would agree with me.

My point is that it’s highly ironic and arrogant for a Cornell student to ridicule Rutgers of all places, especially since the latter could’ve easily attained the coveted ivy affiliation over the former. Logically speaking, Cornell doesn’t make much more sense as an ivy than Rutgers does.

Cornell does not have any more historical links to the other ivies than Rutgers. Nor does it have any other (e.g. geographical) advantage. The fact that Cornell actually received an ivy invitation despite being founded at least a century later than any other ivy and being an inherently vocational school is a fortuitous (for Cornell) circumstance of magnanimous proportions. Cornell lucked into an ivy invitation over Rutgers and should show some gratitude instead of hubris. (In fact, there seems to exist an urban legend that Rutgers turned down the ivy invitation that later went to Cornell.)

At the end of the day, if Cornell was really your “reach” school, then you probably don’t want to brag about this to the entire (CC) world. Because most people in CC world know that Cornell is BY FAR the easiest ivy to get into. Out of curiousity, I’ve been browsing the Cornell forums (thanks to your inspiration) and it seems as if every other week, someone starts a thread questioning whether Cornell is a “real” ivy or if it’s not the “worst” ivy and so on. And you Cornellians fall over yourselves defending your school, which suggests that you know there’s at least some truth to those statements. Otherwise, why take such ■■■■■■■■ comments seriously? For example, check out this recent thread:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/857857-just-me-conrells-reputation-becoming-more-more-joke.html



waitatshu:

and I never intended to bash any public school, since I have never attended a single private school in my entire life



Technically speaking, you still don’t.



waitatshu:

if you don’t like my comment just ignore it this is the internet people lmao



Yes, this IS the internet, which is why I reserve the right to respond to any comment (or not). My mistake. It’s clear that your naive and unsophisticated comments are probably more worthy of being ignored. Seriously, your juvenile statements do not speak well for the intellectual capacity of Cornell students. It seems as if you have nothing whatsoever to contribute to any discussion other than an occasional “lol” or “lmao” here and there. You do your school a grave disservice just by demonstrating your ignorance in each of your every post. For the sake of Cornell, quit posting or at least try to say something less stupid.