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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]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
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Agree?[/quote]

People who think that partial state funding contaminates a school and diminishes the academic experience are horrible snobs.

What your snobbery overlooks is the more egalitarian, modern, democratic spirit associated with the study of pragmatic topics, [b]the early admission of women[/b], and public consensus that highly-talented students within a state are worth investing in.

Plus it's essentially a hack for in-state students to save $30K.  Doesn't DCUM like life hacks?

Cornell is a larger school with a different history from most of the other Ivies.  It is in some ways "not like the others" but that is not a better or worse situation.  There is no "worst Ivy".

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No such thing as early admission of women at Cornell.  
Is this gpt generated?[/quote]

PP.  No.  But here is an "AI Overview" to help you.

The Ivy League universities first admitted women at different times throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries. Cornell was the first, admitting women from its founding in 1865, although initially with limited status. University of Pennsylvania followed in 1870, with formal undergraduate admissions beginning in 1914. Yale and Princeton began admitting women in 1969. Brown followed in 1971, Dartmouth in 1972, and Harvard in 1977 (with the Radcliffe merger). Columbia was the last to admit women, officially doing so in 1983.

Here's a breakdown by university:

Cornell: 1865 (with limited status), 1870 (first female undergraduate admitted).

University of Pennsylvania: 1870 (formal graduate admissions), 1914 (formal undergraduate admissions).

Yale: 1969.

Princeton: 1969.

Brown: 1971.

Dartmouth: 1972.

Harvard: 1977 (with Radcliffe merger).

Columbia: 1983

And this explains why my grandmother and mother graduated from a "contract college".  Because they were allowed, and preferred, to be at an Ivy that treated women as equal.

Much of the historical criticism of Cornell basically goes back to rich kids picking on kids who might need to actually work for a living.  That's at the root of the contract college snobbery.  Classism.  I'm sure admitting women also looked kind of odd to such people.  They liked their women to be [b]safely compartmentalized[/b] at [b]sister schools[/b].[/quote]

I think it's super cool that Cornell is the first admitting women.

What do you mean by sister schools?  Women's colleges?  Those are great schools too, no need to look down on them.[/quote]

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