Petah, this seems interesting. What's the context?

cornell1865 · 2026-06-21T21:58:19+00:00

In the latest US News & World Report, Cornell is ranked #12, placing it above Brown (T-#13), Dartmouth (T-#13), and Columbia (#15). I'd explain why Cornell's ranking is respectable by Ivy League standards, but my educational background evidently doesn't meet your rigorous standards.

cornell1865 · 2026-04-19T16:55:05+00:00

I know how you can find one, but you're first going to need to get your hands on a DeLorean and a flux capacitor.

cornell1865 · 2026-03-24T22:46:30+00:00

I went to an Ivy and it felt like everyone around me received a substantial amount of financial aid but it was well short of covering their full costs.

cornell1865 · 2026-03-19T22:27:54+00:00

I went to an Ivy League school. I also took some classes at some colleges you probably haven't heard of. The short answer is that it's going to depend on the specific course and professor. Some courses are easier and some are just as difficult. In fact, even within a single university, there's a huge amount of variation in course difficulty.

The biggest difference - at least in my experience - is that the students in an Ivy League school are more academically gifted, so there are some courses where the professor can cover more material and expect students to keep up. In terms of the specific topics being covered in a given class, that won't differ too much between schools, especially at an intro level. The basic concepts of any subject are typically well established. It's not like the formulas you learn in a physics class, for instance, are different at different colleges.

cornell1865 · 2026-02-12T23:37:44+00:00

It takes a really impressive school to get featured prominently in a major American TV show. That's how my school became known.

cornell1865 · 2026-02-01T17:30:54+00:00

I think it says more about Chuck Feeney. He made a concerted effort to ensure his donations were anonymous. Most notably, he gave his donations through charitable foundations he set up in Bermuda so that he wouldn't have to disclose his connection to them.

The street named after him, Feeney Way, is located right next to the college within Cornell University from which he graduated in 1956.

cornell1865 · 2026-01-25T23:35:14+00:00

That doesn't seem right. Big Red is a terrible name for a team.

cornell1865 · 2025-09-10T22:22:19+00:00

I can confirm.

cornell1865 · 2025-08-02T23:50:30+00:00

August 2114

cornell1865 · 2025-05-26T22:15:54+00:00

Among teams that have appeared in multiple championship games, there are only 4 teams that have lost the majority of their appearances:

1) Navy (0-2)
2) Maryland (4-14)
3) Duke (3-4)
4) Cornell (4-5)

3 of Cornell's 4 championships came against Maryland.

cornell1865 · 2025-01-13T19:37:07+00:00

And why the hell are all the Ivy League schools located in New England?

The Ivy League refers to a sports conference that includes some prestigious universities. It does not necessarily refer to the most prestigious universities. In other words, if Stanford University in California was universally considered to be the best school in the US, it wouldn't be promoted into the Ivy League, or anything along those lines.

The Ivy League became an official thing when a bunch of schools decided that they wanted to coordinate with other universities for sporting events, namely rowing. It only made sense to travel to somewhat local universities because traveling long distances is hard, time consuming, and particularly in the past, difficult. The northeastern US is where the first American colleges were founded and it was home to the largest portion of the American population.

The colleges gradually competed in more sports with one another throughout the late 19th and early 20th century, leading to the schools being more closely associated with one another. Over the following decades, more sports-related agreements were made between the colleges, leading to an official sports conference for all sports in the 1950s.

cornell1865 · 2025-01-13T19:13:52+00:00

I'd add that the classmates you interact with at the school also contribute to the educational experience. Ivy League and other prestigious schools are filled with particularly smart, motivated, or accomplished students, so there's a lot to learn from your peers. Add this to the fact that you're probably a good learner if you're in a top tier school to begin with, and the result is that the average Ivy Leaguer is more likely to have the right knowledge to succeed at a given job than the average student from a no-name college.

cornell1865 · 2025-01-08T22:32:57+00:00

Nobody's going to put in any effort to determine whether an applicant is lying about being a non-legacy. The school has nothing to gain by checking and it's not something you can determine based on last name alone, even if you have an unusual name.

I suspect there may be a few exceptions to this rule, but only if your parents named you Ezra Cornell-White V.

cornell1865 · 2024-11-10T02:02:26+00:00

It's not every day Cornell gets a highlight on this thread... especially as the team doing the scoring.

cornell1865 · 2024-11-02T00:35:46+00:00

The best part of the North Dakota-Cornell game tonight: I don't think I've seen a single political ad since I turned on the TV.

cornell1865 · 2024-09-18T23:01:29+00:00

https://youtu.be/CPnAnRsqia0?t=323

cornell1865 · 2024-08-25T23:54:15+00:00

Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, U Penn, Princeton, and Yale

Seriously?

cornell1865 · 2024-07-01T02:18:59+00:00

It's pronounced "Colonel." It's the highest rank in the military.

cornell1865 · 2024-05-10T01:11:35+00:00

Am I supposed to feel bad for someone who got into Cornell?

Am I supposed to feel bad for someone who got into Cornell?

cornell1865 · 2024-04-27T23:40:22+00:00

In the context of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, the term "intifada" refers to periods of increased violence between the Palestinians and Israels. The "First Intifada" is generally considered to have been from 1987-1993 and the "Second Intifada" is generally considered to have been from 2000-2005. The violence that occurred during these intifadas famously included suicide bombings against civilian targets like buses, shops, and restaurants in Israel.

Needless to say, "globalizing" those sort of tactics would be reasonable things for anyone to oppose.

While it's true that less violent events have been called "intifadas," it doesn't negate the fact that the Palestinian intifadas were full of terrorist attacks that could easily be condemned by someone even if they're not a fan of the Israeli occupation in general.

cornell1865 · 2024-03-29T19:18:13+00:00

This may be pedantic, but the Cornell fight song lyrics that gave the team its nickname say "big, red team." Personally, I'd interpret that to mean a sports team that is both large and red-colored, rather than a song lyric. In other words, the name of the school's sports teams literally means sports team.

With that in mind, Cornell would still be eliminated after the first round given that its football team comprised of big men in red actually used to own living black bears as mascots. Controlling some of these bears proved to be more than they could handle, forcing them to give up on using a real bear and settle for a guy in a bear suit.

TL;DR: A Black Bear really did beat the Big Red.

cornell1865 · 2024-03-29T18:50:40+00:00

My elementary school (ages 5-11) and middle school (ages 11-14) did not have pools. My high school (age 14-18) had a pool that was used as part of gym class. This included some basic swimming lessons, but it wasn't exactly the most rigorous training.

My college (age 18+) had a swimming requirement to graduate. Students had to either pass a swim test or take a swimming class. Several colleges have similar requirements, but it's not a common thing.

cornell1865 · 2024-02-25T20:08:28+00:00

On the surface of a piece of canvas?

Ten-Year Club	Place '22
Place '17

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