Anonymous wrote:Actually, they're not. That article is misleading. When I toured the campus 20 years ago I asked this same question and the stats were shared to set us all on the tour straight. I attended Cornell and have been following this issue closely since I graduated because this rumor or use of misleading stats deters people from applying.

MANY schools get away with under-reporting their suicide numbers because they basically get to choose (or the families do) which pill overdoses are recorded as suicides. Jumping deaths can't be mislabeled or hidden.

If you've actually been following this issue closely and you think it doesn't have a higher than average suicide rate, clearly nothing we say is going to convince you. Unlike the "suicides at the Apple in China" story, the data has consistently backed this one up.

Anonymous wrote:Cornell is part private, part public. There are nine privately endowed colleges as well as four publicly supported "statutory colleges": the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Human Ecology, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and College of Veterinary Medicine. The public colleges are less selective.

I call BS. (1). The Vet school is not undergrad at all, and is the 2d most admission-competitive in the country anyway. (2). The ILR school is just as competitive, in terms of admitted-student objective data, as CAS or Engineering. (3). The NYS Ag school is actually the only one of the statutory Cornell colleges that is a Morrell state land-grant college with actual in-state statutory preferences; the others merely receive supplemental state funding and have lower state-resident tuition, but they receive very little supervision from the state regents. Study the charter before commenting, PP.

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell is part private, part public. There are nine privately endowed colleges as well as four publicly supported "statutory colleges": the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Human Ecology, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and College of Veterinary Medicine. The public colleges are less selective.

Well, the Vet School is super competitive, but in general the above statement is accurate. I attended Cornell and it was well known that it was a little easier to get into the statutory schools than the College of Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Architecture.

The veterinary school is #1 in the country, but it is not an undergrad school.

Anonymous wrote:Cornell is part private, part public. There are nine privately endowed colleges as well as four publicly supported "statutory colleges": the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Human Ecology, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and College of Veterinary Medicine. The public colleges are less selective.

Well, the Vet School is super competitive, but in general the above statement is accurate. I attended Cornell and it was well known that it was a little easier to get into the statutory schools than the College of Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Architecture.

Is cornell still popular around here?

In the last couple of years it seems students from around here that have gotten in have turned it down either for cheaper in-state flagship publics, slacs, or higher ranked privates.

im curious how cornell's yield has trended over the last 5 ears.

Cornell is part private, part public. There are nine privately endowed colleges as well as four publicly supported "statutory colleges": the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Human Ecology, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and College of Veterinary Medicine. The public colleges are less selective.

Anonymous wrote:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/cornell-suicide-rate

uh - guess you couldn't find a real source?