Rankings manipulation

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

In the spring of 2005 my daughter for some reason decided against going to BC.  However she also decided she wanted to turn them down and proceeded with her application even though she had no intention of attending.  I remember one guy rubbing me the wrong way during our visit to the school.  I don't think my daughter had the same reason for wanting a bit of payback.

I applied to Sucks and Yale just so I could turn them down.  They beat me to it.

Didn't matter, tho.  Once I visited Cornell, there was nowhere else I wanted to attend.

[Trotsky]

Once I visited Cornell, there was nowhere else I wanted to attend.

Same here.  Fuckers caught me on a beautiful day.

[abmarks]

Once I visited Cornell, there was nowhere else I wanted to attend.

Same here.  Fuckers caught me on a beautiful day.

Same.  Literally changed my application to early admission that day iirc

[scoop85]

Once I visited Cornell, there was nowhere else I wanted to attend.

Same here.  Fuckers caught me on a beautiful day.

Same.  Literally changed my application to early admission that day iirc

My first visit to campus in October 1980 resulted in a freak snowstorm that left us stranded overnight in Binghamton.

[billhoward]

My first visit to campus in October 1980 resulted in a freak snowstorm that left us stranded overnight in Binghamton.

I saw Binghamton and Albany in freak snowstorms. For some reason it damped my enthusiasm for Albany (maybe seeing half the library occupants slumped over their books), less so for Binghamton.

Apropos of rankings manipulation, which leads to the affluent trying to park their kids in nicest schools, I came across an NYT article from five years ago on how some schools are more elite than the Ivies when it comes to admitting really rich kids relative to the non-affluent. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html

This disparity table compares the number of students at the school in the top 1% of HHI versus the percentage in the bottom 60%.

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[b]10 Schools with Greatest Rich vs. Not So Rich Student Population
Rank    School                  Top 1%  Bottom 60%[/b]
1. Washington U (St Louis) 21.7 6.1
2. Colorado College 24.2 10.5
3. Washington and        19.1 8.4
4. Colby College        20.4 11.1
5. Trinity College (Conn.) 26.2 14.3
6. Bucknell University 20.4 12.2
7. Colgate University 22.6 13.6
8. Kenyon College        19.8 12.2
9. Middlebury College 22.8 14.2
10. Tufts University 18.6 11.8
Top 1%     = $630K
Bottom 60% = <$65K
In the case of Wash U (15,000 students), about 3,300 students come from families with income over $600,000 versus 900 with income of $65,000 and below. BTW, Washington U's endowment is 1.5X Cornell's.