Schools to apply to like Cornell?

driver
Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:09:39 +0000

I find it odd that you are eliminating some schools because they are “too competitive”, but then your goal is Cornell. Cornell is about as competitive a school as you will find, my friend.

I was surprised by this as well. Cornell has never had a “grade inflation” problem, like some schools–quite the reverse. It’s usually described in Swarthmore-like terms: "Anyplace else, it would have been an “A”.