What Are The Cornell Seven Teaching Us About College?
This remarkably silly piece says parents are rethnking sending their kids to Cornell: [I]n recent days, college counselors and admissions consultants have fielded frantic messages from shaken parents, questioning whether the university should remain on their campus tour lists. Would my daughter be safe? Is Greek life less entrenched at other colleges? But sometimes they're asking: Will it actually be easier to get into Cornell this year? . . . Cornell is a platinum brand institution with international standing, which -- like many of its highly selective peers -- can be shielded from its troubles by an elite school halo. It received more than 67,000 applications last year and admitted roughly 9%. Among the Ivies, Cornell isn't all that selective. Brown's acceptance rate is more like 5%, Columbia 4%, Harvard 4% as well. Even Dartmouth, apparently the current title holder for Joke of the Ivy League, is 6%. Maybe they'll revisit this at some p...