The Ancient Emnity
We could rewrite this OINY post to show Cornell University and Ithaca College rivalry:
Cornell student: Do you go to Ithaca College?
Ithaca College student: Yes, how did you know?
Cornell student: I could tell by your dirty shoes. Ithaca College gets their students from the homeless shelter.
Ithaca College student: Excuse me?
Cornell student: I’m your biggest enemy.
Ithaca College student: What?
Cornell student: I go to Cornell.
Ithaca College student: Can you leave me alone?
It wouldn’t be very nice, but it would probably be spot-on sentiment wise. Cornellians tend, I’ve noticed, to be quite elitist about any non-1st-tier schools they meet. Or anything ending in “-college” or “arvard.”
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I was in the commons last week and this group of guys looking like they came straight out of “Dead Poets Society” came over and talked to us. I realized then that Cornell undergraduates weren’t so bad. Maybe they all looked like Harvard rejects, but at least they were too busy in the mornings to wash themselves and put on shirts and ties and stuff. The slovenly appearance of the Cornell undergraduate allows us graduate students to feel like we are still in the real world where we came from, rather than the rich, elitist world of our undergrads’ parents. Not that the IC undergrads are usually much different. I’d actually rewrite the OINY post to having characters, “Cornell graduate” for the Columbia student and “Cornell undergrad” for the NYU student.
Corneconomics has no idea what he’s talking about. Cornell has so few kids from boarding schools it might as well not be considered an Ivy anymore. I feel like I’m at a public school in ****** Rochester. Most Cornell students are tools from mediocre parts of New Jersey and Long Island and have no right to look down on IC kids.
Actually, 23% of CU undergrads (accd to the class of ‘10 survey) are from private high schools. Another 55% were determined not to need financial aid. Wake up “cornellian,” we’re an Ivy and we’re just as elite and snobby as the rest. Check out the class profile for yourself…
The 23% is not boarding schools. That and can you post the comparable number for the other Ivies to see how private-like Cornell is? You’d be disappointed. (not that is a measure of anything to brag about, but still you can’t pretend that something is true when it is not).
cornellian and CornellOrARealIvy have done a great job of proving corneconomics’ point… looks like lots of undergrads here really are snobby.
The strange thing? In my experience, it seems like the snobbiest (and/or the most likely to have an inferiority complex about CU) aren’t the kids from boarding schools, and aren’t the kids from tiny towns or from huge cities, but rather are “tools from mediocre parts”.
Reminds me of a book that I read about the psychology of cliques among junior high girls — the few most popular girls are usually genuinely nice, so they continue to be universally adored and are never in danger of losing their status, and almost all of the other girls are nice because they have no reason not to be. It’s those who are just one rung below the most popular that tend to be the meanest, because they’re constantly afraid of losing status and their self-esteem is always challenged, so they react by being snobby. If everyone else is a loser or a nerd and they’re the one that points it out, they must not be a loser or a nerd… maybe similarly, if everyone here is a tool, the person who points it out thinks that by doing so he exempts himself.