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[quote=Anonymous][quote]  Have you been there or just spitballing? Cornell is a mix of elite programs & state school departments so quite a few of the students are actually down to earth. The Ithaca kids do their own thing and really aren't concerned about Cornell.  [/quote]

That's right, I'm spitballing -- because it's inconceivable that actual experience could leave someone with different perceptions than yours.

I know a number of recent Cornell and Ithaca graduates (to whom I spoke recently about a relative's interest in Ithaca), and visited Ithaca numerous times earlier.   Based on all that, I think PP's comment about one potential downside to Ithaca College being that it's stuck in a (charming) small town it shares with the "elite" Cornell student body, isn't invented.  It's not the only factor to consider, but it's something to be aware of.   You can deny that there are any tensions between any of the students, and insist that Cornell students are all the salt of the earth, and that self-regard among students at elite colleges doesn't exist, and that Ithaca students have little interaction with Cornell students anyway (in Ithaca's one-street downtown...).  But DCUM is a particularly bad place to make such not-credible assertions because we see here every day that the kids who are headed to Cornell by and large come from families that have trained them to assume that going to an Ivy or "T20" college is a measure of worth and a qualitatively different experience than going to a college that isn't even "T100" (horrors).           [/quote]

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