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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We recently toured Cornell and couldn't figure out what all the fuss is.  It's was actually a huge disappointment because my kid had thought she would ED there.

The campus was shabby, especially certain parts like the Arts and Science quad (forgive me if that isn't the correct name).  Tons of cracked sidewalks, weeds in every flower bed, paint feeling off buildings, etc. Then the buildings are all very random.  Some old and falling apart, some new.  Really an overall charmless place--and felt like a state school that suffers from very limited funding.  (which it is in part..)

Then Ithaca?  Everywhere we went there were meth/opioid (?) addicts stumbling around.  We went out to lunch, out to dinner, drove through downtown.  They were everywhere and it was one of the more depressing places I've visited.   I guess this is much of rural America in 2024.  I'm familiar with urban poverty from living in DC and working in a social service job but find the rural meth/opioid culture to be far more sobering.  :(

I will say that I''m sure the Cornell student body is a vibrant one.  Smart kids studying all sorts of interesting things.  And the list of majors and schools is incredible.  I want to go there just to study grape growing for 4 years.  But all-in-all my kid decided that she doesn't want to be there for 4 years.

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We visited Cornell/Ithaca last June—same thing with the meth/opiod addicts! I assume when the 17k students are there you don’t see them anymore.  Waterfalls were beautiful. Food was not that good. [/quote]

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