You're going to Cornell, but who did you turn down?

[Tahoe]

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I don’t know what it would take, but somehow Cornell needs to do some image work. Maybe they just need to bite the bullet and shrink class size. That alone, back in 1999, skyrocketed it to 6 in the USNWR ranking. It’s easy to say that ranking doesn’t matter, but it does - flawed as it is.

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<p>US News is in the business of selling magazines. It’s one of the reasons they often change their methodology of ranking schools, because otherwise the universities would basically remain static in the same place every year. In the year that Cornell was ranked 6th, it was a result of a precipitous change in methodology which was dramatically changed again the following year… hence the reason why Cornell went from 14th (1997) to 6th (1998) and then dropping to 11th (1999).</p>