considering that tuition is so expensive, why are they so stingy. I feel like you have to pay for everything on campus, laundry, printing, fitness center etc.
Other ivy league schools everything is free
Is there anything that is actually free? like free use of swimming pool, rock climbing wall etc
Even the wifi is limited lol…unbelievable
Then you should have attended one of the more generous Ivies.
Stanford is more generous too. I think OP has a valid question, Tom.
Although very well endowed, the endowment per student at Cornell is far less than the other Ivies or Stanford.
Since 1/3 of Cornell is public, only considering endowment per student for the endowed colleges, the ratio is respectable, above Brown at least (didn’t check other ivies) and similar to Vanderbilt. Comes out to about 640k/ ug student. Pretty normal for Universities to charge for printing, not sure about the others. Wifi is like 100gb/month which is plenty for 99% of people. I do hate their guaranteed loans, though. Cornell should become loan free, I wish.
It’s correct that Cornell is divided internally into the “Endowed Division” and “Statutory Division”, and the substantial funding provided to the statutory division from the state is often completely overlooked when Cornell is being compared to other schools that get no such funding.
However I don/t think 1/3 is the right proportion between statutory and endowed, My guess is it’s closer to 45%/55%., Somebody else can look up the student populations at the individual colleges and do the math, if they care.
According to a 2008 article, the value of state appropriations to Cornell was equivalent to what a $3.5 billion endowment would provide.
@canadianbrigade yea 100gb might be enough, but the fact that they even have a limit is crazy. I have never even heard of wifi limit until now. even the public, less prestigious colleges in my state offer more free amenities and the tuition is like 10 times less
It does seem like Cornell is a bit behind the times on some of these issues. Those kinds of charges were common everywhere before, but have steadily been disappearing at more and more places since about 2000. The WiFi situation evolved very quickly from various companies and institutions trying to charge for it to just giving it for free. Starbucks, McDonald’s and many other places tried to use a pay provider like AT&T at first, and in a similar vein some colleges thought they could manage the cost of getting an entire campus on WiFi by limiting access. It didn’t take long for most to realize this is something that the public quickly thought of as being an expected infrastructural asset, like public rest rooms or free water. Now most schools just bury the cost for high speed WiFi and many of these other things in some fee someplace. Still not really free of course, but at least not being charged on a per use basis.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with the OP complaining about this either. It isn’t whining, it is a legitimate observation relative to peer schools of Cornell. I mean you wouldn’t choose or reject a school based on these factors, that is just silly. But it doesn’t mean they cannot be pointed out. The decision to attend a school doesn’t carry with it the obligation to suspend criticism.
If I were you, @oreoboob, I would put together a table that shows what about 20 other schools of similar caliber to Cornell, those that it competes with for students, do for these services. You could list the schools down the left, have the services across the top, and have each of those columns divided into “Fee” or “No Fee”. If Cornell has all check marks in the Fee column and the other schools are mostly No Fee, I bet the Cornell newspaper would love to run that. Make a nice summer project for you.