Student Quality

Colleges & Universities Cornell University
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<p>Is there a clear difference in student quality between ILR and CAS (I only compare these two because I am going to ILR and CAS has the lowest acceptance rate…I think). When I say student quality I basically mean intelligence.</p>

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<p>I guess now there is since ur in ILR and you r asking this question…lol…no…i am just kidding
acceptance rate has nothing to do with intelligence. If you r interested in Hotel Management, u ll have to apply to hotel management which has a higher acceptance rate even if u r the smartest kid on earth. Same goes for all colleges.</p>

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<p>That’s a good question.</p>

<p>In general, the students in Arts are brighter on average, but that’s due to the preponderance of students in the hard sciences and math. For social science majors in Arts, I don’t think there is much of a difference with ILR students.</p>

<p>If anything, the ILR students are going to be more pre-professional on average. I wrote a fair amount about this on another thread which you may be interested in:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1060120503-post9.htm[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1060120503-post9.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>ILR student also tend to have an aversion to math, which is quite odd, as the vast majority of them scored a 4 or a 5 on the AP Calculus exams.</p>

<p>Keep in mind that there are different forms of intelligence. ILR students tend to exhibit a lot of interpersonal skills, which is reflected in the fields they go into: law, dispute resolution, etc., as well as the fact that they are very active in student government on campus.</p>

<p>Of course, don’t take the relative lack of grammar on this thread as any indication of Cornell student’s intelligence.</p>

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<p>What about Human Ec and the other schools? Is Human Ec looked down upon? What about PAM?</p>

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<p>Same deal, only HumEc has a lot of pretty smart biology and pre-med types as well.</p>

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<p>Hum Ec is definitely looked down upon. Due to the preponderance of females in HumEC, the average height of a Hum Ec student is several inches shorter than the average height of a CAS student. Sometimes I get a neck cramp from trying to look Hum EC girls in the face.</p>

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<p>Nice!!! Classes full of girls!</p>

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<p>Speaking of which, HumEc is definitely the most… attractive of all of the colleges at Cornell.</p>

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<p>hey, cayugared, that link didn’t work, could I please get the name of the thread? Thanks for the input.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/486893-humanities-economics-programs-specifically-class-sizes.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/486893-humanities-economics-programs-specifically-class-sizes.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>CayugaRed2005, the concerns that you had when entering ILR are identical to the concerns I have now…interesting. What do you do now (you can pm me if you want).</p>