Why do you love cornell?

LazyKid
Fri, 28 May 2010 13:49:23 +0000

ok, so is cornell really THAT conmpetitive?

i dont mind working hard at all and im a pretty competitive person. but ive heard cornell is WAYY over the top on that category. is this true?



It totally depends on your major. It is all relative. Some courses/ majors tend to grade on curves, so your grades will depend on how good you are relative to your peers. Obviously, at a high caliber school in which many are motivated to succeed, harshly graded courses on curves (physics, chem, math, engineering come to mind) are likely to be more pressure cooker than other courses and students in those fields would appear to be more cutthroat/ competitive, possibly due to the level of stress and competitiveness that those fields demand of students.

I suppose Cornell’s widely-accepted reputation as being cutthroat stems from the fact that Cornell enrolls high portion of students who are in science/ engineering/ math track. But, the reality is that no matter what college you go to, peop majoring in those fields are gonna have it harder than others.