To Cornell's credit, it is an accessible school for smart unhooked students - unlike most of the Ivy schools. Engineering and Dyson are going to be tough admits for everyone though.

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Anonymous wrote:Grade deflation is real. Very real.

But does this matter other than for law or medical school? I don’t imagine a Cornell 3.5 will a difference for engineering grad school or other grad schools. Or even jobs

It matters for law, medicine, IB, MBB, top PhD programs. A majority of the students there are interested in these career paths. It matters less for engineering jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of good looking kids when we visited on the admitted student day. Beautiful campus, and the food!

Tell me more about the food.

We had lunch at Morrison Dining Hall. Delicious food, a wide variety available, fresh and healthy ingredients. Cornell has its own organic farm.

Anonymous wrote:A more prestigious Michigan with harsher academics, worse location, no sports culture, but more prestige.

lol. 10% of our local hs (ny burbs) graduating class is going to Cornell or Michigan.

Great food, good dorms, beautiful campus, very high % asian students, greek life, good hard sciences, and somewhat preprofessional/ middle class/ aspirational/ hardworking vibe, mix of state and private so wide range of students, somewhat low end of per capita endowment for an elite school, no longer test optional, grade deflation/ weed outs in popular majors, can be very large class sizes

Anonymous wrote:A lot of good looking kids when we visited on the admitted student day. Beautiful campus, and the food!

Tell me more about the food.

A lot of good looking kids when we visited on the admitted student day. Beautiful campus, and the food!

Unquestionably beautiful campus. This is not emphasized enough.

Back then more unhooked kids actually got into these top schools, nowadays it's increasinly difficult.

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So many old threads - when this place used to be a vibrant source of discussion. Now it’s just three or four of the same people.

Anonymous wrote:A more prestigious Michigan with harsher academics, worse location, no sports culture, but more prestige.

SUNY Ithaca.

Anonymous wrote:Grade deflation is real. Very real.

But does this matter other than for law or medical school? I don’t imagine a Cornell 3.5 will a difference for engineering grad school or other grad schools. Or even jobs

Grade deflation is real. Very real.

A more prestigious Michigan with harsher academics, worse location, no sports culture, but more prestige.

Tell me everything. Good, bad, ugly.