Is Cornell really still the "worst" ivy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tier 1: HYP
Tier 2: Wharton, Dyson
Tier 3: Columbia CC SEAS, Penn non-Wharton, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell non-Dyson non-contract.
Tier 4: Cornell contract colleges

Agree?

What is Dyson? Never heard of it.

Apparently through a large donation from the Dyson family around 2010 Cornell created a business school for undergrads. I don’t really get it either. I think it’s got the AgEc major. Not sure what else. Don’t know if it’s the public side or private side.

I suppose that’s not the most useful answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let’s put it this way: which is the only Ivy with a guaranteed transfer option?

There is no guarantee for anyone offered the transfer option at Cornell. All students who are offered one have to apply again the following winter and must meet a set of requirements set by the school that offered it.

https://admissions.cornell.edu/transfer-option-applicants


If you believe Reddit, there’s a kid that posted a few weeks ago that supposedly met the requirements for CAS and was rejected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let’s put it this way: which is the only Ivy with a guaranteed transfer option?

There is no guarantee for anyone offered the transfer option at Cornell. All students who are offered one have to apply again the following winter and must meet a set of requirements set by the school that offered it.

https://admissions.cornell.edu/transfer-option-applicants


If you believe Reddit, there’s a kid that posted a few weeks ago that supposedly met the requirements for
CAS and was rejected.

Not knocking Cornell, but think their larger point was just having a transfer option at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Andy "Nard Dog" Bernard went to Cornell. That says it all.

It’s 17,000 undergrads!!!!!

That’s the size of UVA. It’s more like a state school

The others are 4k-7k.

Penn is 10k undergrad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let’s put it this way: which is the only Ivy with a guaranteed transfer option?

There is no guarantee for anyone offered the transfer option at Cornell. All students who are offered one have to apply again the following winter and must meet a set of requirements set by the school that offered it.

https://admissions.cornell.edu/transfer-option-applicants


If you believe Reddit, there’s a kid that posted a few weeks ago that supposedly met the requirements for
CAS and was rejected.

Not knocking Cornell, but think their larger point was just having a transfer option at all.

Which I chose to ignore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tier 1: HYP
Tier 2: Wharton, Dyson
Tier 3: Columbia CC SEAS, Penn non-Wharton, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell non-Dyson non-contract.
Tier 4: Cornell contract colleges

Agree?

Dyson is a contract college.

[Anonymous]

Cornell is the definitely worst Ivy based on our visit and the consistently crappy feedback from DC’s friends that attend. Ithaca sucks, too.

[Anonymous]

I think the super negative feedback from students is those that chose it because it’s an Ivy and not for fit. Cornell has plenty going for it for the right person, but it certainly isn’t everyone. I suspect given its larger it gets more than its share of only Ivy admit kids that should have gone elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the super negative feedback from students is those that chose it because it’s an Ivy and not for fit. Cornell has plenty going for it for the right person, but it certainly isn’t everyone. I suspect given its larger it gets more than its share of only Ivy admit kids that should have gone elsewhere.

+1

[Anonymous]

My DC is attending Cornell for engineering from NoVA public school. DC turned down Northwestern, GT, UIUC, UVa. DC loves it at Cornell. classes are graded on a curve so only about 20% or so get As. DC is part of project team and in ROTC. Cornell is not for everyone, it is very competitive and classes are challenging.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DC is attending Cornell for engineering from NoVA public school. DC turned down Northwestern, GT, UIUC, UVa. DC loves it at Cornell. classes are graded on a curve so only about 20% or so get As. DC is part of project team and in ROTC. Cornell is not for everyone, it is very competitive and classes are challenging.

I think this is a good example of true peer schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the super negative feedback from students is those that chose it because it’s an Ivy and not for fit. Cornell has plenty going for it for the right person, but it certainly isn’t everyone. I suspect given its larger it gets more than its share of only Ivy admit kids that should have gone elsewhere.

Agree with this. It’s the right school for a certain type of student. I think a smart and mature kid who knows what they want to study and has professional goals can do well there. Being smart just isn’t enough if you don’t know yourself and are still figuring things out. It’s not a good place for exploring options.

[Anonymous]

Cornell=Vandy,Rice

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn't know Brown and Dartmouth were Ivies. Or Penn.

This is more an insult to you than the schools.

PP you replied to. I'm not American, and the detailed rankings of US schools don't interest me enormously. Sometimes it's useful to remember that outside of the US, no one knows about any of these schools apart from Harvard, and occasionally Stanford, MIT, Yale or Princeton. And the latter only if you ask the educated, worldly people.

Perspective. It's important to not get too caught up in which schools your kid is applying to.

I didn't know there is anything outside the US. Perspective. Your ignorance doesn't matter, your perspective doesn't matter, you don't matter. Now go back to your yurt and stitch animal hide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn't know Brown and Dartmouth were Ivies. Or Penn.

This is more an insult to you than the schools.

PP you replied to. I'm not American, and the detailed rankings of US schools don't interest me enormously. Sometimes it's useful to remember that outside of the US, no one knows about any of these schools apart from Harvard, and occasionally Stanford, MIT, Yale or Princeton. And the latter only if you ask the educated, worldly people.

Perspective. It's important to not get too caught up in which schools your kid is applying to.

I didn't know there is anything outside the US. Perspective. Your ignorance doesn't matter, your perspective doesn't matter, you don't matter. Now go back to your yurt and stitch animal hide.

I know you are triggered right now, and am sympathetic. There are three simultaneous threads all consolidating some weird anti Cornell message. But your provincialism here is embarrassing for other Cornellians. We appreciate what we have and simultaneously stay in our lane. It may not be the fast lane, but it’s still great. Maybe you should take a break before you make it worse for all of us.