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inferiority complex with Cornell a few miles away.

Huh? Do BC and Tufts feel inferior because Harvard and MIT are nearby? Would you turn down Villanova and Swarthmore and Haverford because your ego couldn’t handle mingling with Penn students? I guess no one should go to NYU or Fordham either. There might be valid reasons to dislike Ithaca, but this one feels grasping to me.[/quote]

Except that the schools you mention are in huge metro areas of seven million people or more, and Ithaca is a very small city of 32,000 -- less in fact than the combined student bodies of Ithaca and Cornell.  Ithaca's a fine school with some highly regarded programs, but realistically in Ithaca you're always going to be bumping into Cornell students, some of whom will be great kids and others of whom will be the smug, self-absorbed offspring of Ivy-obsessed DCUM parents, who will taunt Ithaca students as cheap dates and future support staff for Cornell's young geniuses.   Now, some college kids have thick enough skin to just shrug that kind of obnoxiousness off, but others might want to spare themselves (especially at Ithaca's price point), particularly since many other Ithaca-comparable colleges are available that aren't (almost literally) in the shadow of a cross-town Ivy but are instead the most highly regarded college in their particular town or county or region. Apparently that wouldn't be a consideration for you - congratulations, you're a role model for all of us -- but it could be for some. 
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