<p>People don’t like Cornell because it isn’t as super-selective as the other Ivies (which by the way is because Cornell is part-public, part-private). It’s usually based this myopic view that the differences in selectivity lead to a vastly inferior education (and I think is indicative of the general snobbery that private school kids have toward public schools). It’s pretty absurd.</p>
<p>When you look at Cornell’s faculty, departments, etc. it’s pretty obvious that Cornell is an amazing school. If Cornell doesn’t deserve to be in the Ivy League, then neither do Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Penn.</p>