Is Cornell really still the "worst" ivy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I see lots of insecure Cornell moms in this thread, including OP.

They kept saying how good Cornell engineering is, putting down other ivies engineering (including Columbia SEAS and Penn SEAS, Dartmouth invented BASIC language). To highlight how good Cornell engineering is, they would even go as far as disparaging their own contract colleges:

"Cornell CALS, HumEc, ILR are state schools, and below Brown and Dartmouth. Cornell STEM is middle Ivy tier. Engineering is top tier."

These Cornell engineering moms are bitter because their snowflakes didn't get into other ivies, and they are coping with it using a keyboard.

Cornell Agriculture: Ranked #1 Nationally
Cornell Human Ecology: Ranked #1 Nationally
Cornell ILR: Ranked #1 Nationally

Cornell engineering? ranked far below CMU and UIUC ...

Until of course you end up at a global firm…. At the point the questions will be asked: what the hell is a CMU or UIUC? Nobody outside the Us knows what it is….

Im a CMU grad. Living in Munich for 15 yrs. M my wife is a cornell grad. Guess who has to explain what is what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I see lots of insecure Cornell moms in this thread, including OP.

They kept saying how good Cornell engineering is, putting down other ivies engineering (including Columbia SEAS and Penn SEAS, Dartmouth invented BASIC language). To highlight how good Cornell engineering is, they would even go as far as disparaging their own contract colleges:

"Cornell CALS, HumEc, ILR are state schools, and below Brown and Dartmouth. Cornell STEM is middle Ivy tier. Engineering is top tier."

These Cornell engineering moms are bitter because their snowflakes didn't get into other ivies, and they are coping with it using a keyboard.

Cornell Agriculture: Ranked #1 Nationally
Cornell Human Ecology: Ranked #1 Nationally
Cornell ILR: Ranked #1 Nationally

Cornell engineering? ranked far below CMU and UIUC ...

Until of course you end up at a global firm…. At the point the questions will be asked: what the hell is a CMU or UIUC? Nobody outside the Us knows what it is….

Im a CMU grad. Living in Munich for 15 yrs. M my wife is a cornell grad. Guess who has to explain what is what?

Name recognition outside the US does not really matter. I got into Wharton MBA 25 years ago and my parents (who live in another country) did not know what UPenn or Wharton were. Does not mean it is a bad school. More importantly who are these adults discussing where you went to college. It rarely comes up in conversations I have with others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, I see lots of insecure Cornell moms in this thread, including OP.

They kept saying how good Cornell engineering is, putting down other ivies engineering (including Columbia SEAS and Penn SEAS, Dartmouth invented BASIC language). To highlight how good Cornell engineering is, they would even go as far as disparaging their own contract colleges:

"Cornell CALS, HumEc, ILR are state schools, and below Brown and Dartmouth. Cornell STEM is middle Ivy tier. Engineering is top tier."

These Cornell engineering moms are bitter because their snowflakes didn't get into other ivies, and they are coping with it using a keyboard.

Cornell's biggest donor Feeney is a hotel management alum.

Globally, Cornell is best known for its Agriculture school. It all started with this former Taiwan president who went to Cornell to study Agriculture. Then over the time the entire Asia got to know Cornell.

Cornell's contract colleges are the most prominent parts of the school. Without those contract colleges, Cornell is not Cornell any more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I see lots of insecure Cornell moms in this thread, including OP.

They kept saying how good Cornell engineering is, putting down other ivies engineering (including Columbia SEAS and Penn SEAS, Dartmouth invented BASIC language). To highlight how good Cornell engineering is, they would even go as far as disparaging their own contract colleges:

"Cornell CALS, HumEc, ILR are state schools, and below Brown and Dartmouth. Cornell STEM is middle Ivy tier. Engineering is top tier."

These Cornell engineering moms are bitter because their snowflakes didn't get into other ivies, and they are coping with it using a keyboard.

Cornell's biggest donor Feeney is a hotel management alum.

Globally, Cornell is best known for its Agriculture school. It all started with this former Taiwan president who went to Cornell to study Agriculture. Then over the time the entire Asia got to know Cornell.

Cornell's contract colleges are the most prominent parts of the school. Without those contract colleges, Cornell is not Cornell any more.

You are an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I see lots of insecure Cornell moms in this thread, including OP.

They kept saying how good Cornell engineering is, putting down other ivies engineering (including Columbia SEAS and Penn SEAS, Dartmouth invented BASIC language). To highlight how good Cornell engineering is, they would even go as far as disparaging their own contract colleges:

"Cornell CALS, HumEc, ILR are state schools, and below Brown and Dartmouth. Cornell STEM is middle Ivy tier. Engineering is top tier."

These Cornell engineering moms are bitter because their snowflakes didn't get into other ivies, and they are coping with it using a keyboard.

Cornell's biggest donor Feeney is a hotel management alum.

Globally, Cornell is best known for its Agriculture school. It all started with this former Taiwan president who went to Cornell to study Agriculture. Then over the time the entire Asia got to know Cornell.

Cornell's contract colleges are the most prominent parts of the school. Without those contract colleges, Cornell is not Cornell any more.

You are an idiot.

You are a fine specimen of a Cornellian.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So many on DCUM disparage state schools so its no surprise that those same people will do that with ivies. Most successful people dont have time to discuss nuances between top schools and will never spend too much time on these boards. For instance my husband who is attended top universities and is extremely successful hardly ever comments on colleges. I think he is very secure in who he is. I feel people who make comments about colleges are those who have nothing going on or are insecure.

100% accurate which is why I think it’s state school people commenting. Don’t agree with elite schools disparaging publics either, but tend to think it’s not really the secure elite doing it but a notch down.

NP. OMG, do you hear yourself? This is hilarious. Especially when we have threads practically daily, trashing one state school or another. We all know who's behind those.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many on DCUM disparage state schools so its no surprise that those same people will do that with ivies. Most successful people dont have time to discuss nuances between top schools and will never spend too much time on these boards. For instance my husband who is attended top universities and is extremely successful hardly ever comments on colleges. I think he is very secure in who he is. I feel people who make comments about colleges are those who have nothing going on or are insecure.

No one does that in person. They just come on here and shitpost.

The most prolific shitposters about high schools and colleges on this board aren’t alums of those schools but rather parents with very little educational pedigree themselves who have sent their kids to these schools and now think they’ve “made it” and are higher up on the pecking order.

It’s all very sad.

[Anonymous]

I went to an elite school, not Cornell, but Cornell is also an excellent school. There are not many kids with the opportunity to attend a top 20 college. Competition is fierce these days. Cornell students have won.

[Anonymous]

Cornell is a fabulous university. The founder who donated the land (Ezra Cornell) wanted a university where any person could find instruction in any study. That principle holds today. Cornell admitted women long before many of the revered "higher ivies". I believe it is the largest Ivy and has the vibrancy of a large university. It's in a beautiful part of NY State -but that may not appeal to those who wish to be closer to a city/urban vibe.

[Anonymous]

My friend told me Columbia is the worst Ivy now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friend told me Columbia is the worst Ivy now.

Is your friend a righteous dude?

My friend told me that the vast majority of people who post here are uneducated morons and that I am wasting my time here. I think my friend is right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I see lots of insecure Cornell moms in this thread, including OP.

They kept saying how good Cornell engineering is, putting down other ivies engineering (including Columbia SEAS and Penn SEAS, Dartmouth invented BASIC language). To highlight how good Cornell engineering is, they would even go as far as disparaging their own contract colleges:

"Cornell CALS, HumEc, ILR are state schools, and below Brown and Dartmouth. Cornell STEM is middle Ivy tier. Engineering is top tier."

These Cornell engineering moms are bitter because their snowflakes didn't get into other ivies, and they are coping with it using a keyboard.

Cornell Agriculture: Ranked #1 Nationally
Cornell Human Ecology: Ranked #1 Nationally
Cornell ILR: Ranked #1 Nationally

Cornell engineering? ranked far below CMU and UIUC ...

Until of course you end up at a global firm…. At the point the questions will be asked: what the hell is a CMU or UIUC? Nobody outside the Us knows what it is….

Im a CMU grad. Living in Munich for 15 yrs. M my wife is a cornell grad. Guess who has to explain what is what?

Cornell's international reputation is very good because there is a huge alumni presence overseas.

Cornell, Yale, Princeton, Penn or Columbia, it's frankly all in the Non-Harvard Ivy Bucket. They don't know that Dartmouth and Brown are Ivy.

People have heard of Chicago and frankly half the people think MIT or Stanford are also Ivy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many on DCUM disparage state schools so its no surprise that those same people will do that with ivies. Most successful people dont have time to discuss nuances between top schools and will never spend too much time on these boards. For instance my husband who is attended top universities and is extremely successful hardly ever comments on colleges. I think he is very secure in who he is. I feel people who make comments about colleges are those who have nothing going on or are insecure.

This is very true. I went to top schools, and I do not waste my breath trying to debate which is the best or worst Ivy. They are all highly regarded. That's more than enough for me and probably everyone else who went/goes to them too.

I had no idea people were so obsessed with Ivies until I started looking at this board a couple years ago as my own kids started their college search. It's been eye opening.

Cornell doesn’t count.

There! There’s that weird obsession I was just posting about. Thank you for proving my point. Nope, I didn’t go to Cornell, but I think highly of it and have no reason to put it down. I know smart people who went there.

Sure there are rivalries amongst the Ivies but I think at the end of the day everyone respects the others. Not sure what your issue is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I see lots of insecure Cornell moms in this thread, including OP.

They kept saying how good Cornell engineering is, putting down other ivies engineering (including Columbia SEAS and Penn SEAS, Dartmouth invented BASIC language). To highlight how good Cornell engineering is, they would even go as far as disparaging their own contract colleges:

"Cornell CALS, HumEc, ILR are state schools, and below Brown and Dartmouth. Cornell STEM is middle Ivy tier. Engineering is top tier."

These Cornell engineering moms are bitter because their snowflakes didn't get into other ivies, and they are coping with it using a keyboard.

Cornell Agriculture: Ranked #1 Nationally
Cornell Human Ecology: Ranked #1 Nationally
Cornell ILR: Ranked #1 Nationally

Cornell engineering? ranked far below CMU and UIUC ...

Until of course you end up at a global firm…. At the point the questions will be asked: what the hell is a CMU or UIUC? Nobody outside the Us knows what it is….

Im a CMU grad. Living in Munich for 15 yrs. M my wife is a cornell grad. Guess who has to explain what is what?

Cornell's international reputation is very good because there is a huge alumni presence overseas.

Cornell, Yale, Princeton, Penn or Columbia, it's frankly all in the Non-Harvard Ivy Bucket. They don't know that Dartmouth and Brown are Ivy.

People have heard of Chicago and frankly half the people think MIT or Stanford are also Ivy.

Yale is known overseas. Highly doubt Penn is. It’s not even known in the US. Half the country mixes it up with Penn State.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many on DCUM disparage state schools so its no surprise that those same people will do that with ivies. Most successful people dont have time to discuss nuances between top schools and will never spend too much time on these boards. For instance my husband who is attended top universities and is extremely successful hardly ever comments on colleges. I think he is very secure in who he is. I feel people who make comments about colleges are those who have nothing going on or are insecure.

This is very true. I went to top schools, and I do not waste my breath trying to debate which is the best or worst Ivy. They are all highly regarded. That's more than enough for me and probably everyone else who went/goes to them too.

I had no idea people were so obsessed with Ivies until I started looking at this board a couple years ago as my own kids started their college search. It's been eye opening.

Cornell doesn’t count.

There! There’s that weird obsession I was just posting about. Thank you for proving my point. Nope, I didn’t go to Cornell, but I think highly of it and have no reason to put it down. I know smart people who went there.

Sure there are rivalries amongst the Ivies but I think at the end of the day everyone respects the others. Not sure what your issue is.

To say that Cornell is the worst Ivy is not an obsession; it is the prevailing view. Your obsession in defending the “honor” of this school smacks of disingenuous noblesse oblige. I don’t think Cornell boosters need you to patronize them with your “approval.”

The fact you deem “top schools” status as somehow relevant to your opining as to how “good” Cornell is proves the point: Harvard grads do not care what Cornell grads think of them; nor do Cornell grads presume to comment on Harvard’s relative worth on an anonymous message board. In that sense, your actions evince your “real” stance on Cornell — more than your words.