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Ithaca Is: Stressful, Unhappy, Tech Savvy, Best City for Recent Grads

Posted by Dennis Shiraev on June 4, 2010

Ithaca is the best place to live for recent grads, but it blows for undergraduates. (picture: www.thedailybeast.com).

Our friends over at the Stanford Review have a post on The Daily Beast’s college rankings, which recently ranked Stanford as the #7 happiest college in America. No big deal there, but a couple of months before they also deemed Stanford as the #1 most stressful college in America! I’ve already poked fun at their most recent edition of college rankings, but let’s if we can find the same kind of inconsistencies about Cornell in the cross-sectional data:

100 Happiest Colleges
Cornell Ranking: #60
Notable Over/Under Rankings: MIT ranks 49 spots ahead at #11.

50 Most Stressful Colleges
Cornell Ranking: #17
Notable Over/Under Rankings: Harvard (5) and Dartmouth (14) are more stressful than Cornell!? Also, how does Cornell rank #44 in the crime category while NYU is #39?

Best Cities for College Grads
Cornell Ranking: #1
Notable Over/Under Rankings: Nobody’s better than us in this category. But seriously, New York  (9), Washington (7), and Los Angeles (21)?

Top 29 Schools Producing Tech Leaders
Cornell Ranking: #11
Notable Over/Under Rankings: Dartmouth is really #1?

So there aren’t any glaring incongruences when it comes to Cornell, but it is a bit odd that Ithaca is the #1 place to live for recent graduates while Cornell ranks #60 on the list of happiest colleges. But a quick scan through the other rankings reveals larger oddities. Harvard ranks #5 in terms of stress but is the #2 happiest college in the country. Caltech is #9 most stressful and #8 happiest. Strange stuff.

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Monday Reading Madness #33

Posted by Dennis Shiraev on January 24, 2010

- An article on Cornell hockey standout Rebecca Johnston, who will be representing Canada at the Olympics.

- Despite falling to 15th in the U.S. News rankings, Cornell finds itself in 8th place when it comes to…website popularity?

Scott Brown goes to Washington.

- Cornell apps are up 5% this year.

- Now, some serious opinion/commentary on Cornell sorority happenings.

- Ivy League sports are looking to go prime time.

- Cornell Football could use some more W’s next season, even though our economists downgrade the “institutional benefits” of winning.

- Islanders forward and Cornell alumnus Matt Moulson continues to pace towards 30 goals. Cornell hockey also split the weekend series with a top ranked team from North Dakota.

- New research shows that college students engage academic work in different ways. Enlightening.

- Obama’s approval ratings continue to converge towards general disapproval.

- Brown’s victory could be a preview of things to come in November, but Cornell commencement speaker Plouffe still thinks the Democrats can survive through the midterm elections.

- Via MR, a great essay by Garry Kasparov on chess and artificial intelligence.

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New U.S. News College Rankings Out

Posted by Dennis Shiraev on August 19, 2009

These rankings have been “out” most of the day around the blogosphere, but now it seems that even the people at U.S. News and World Report have leaked their own rankings more than an hour before the midnight release time. Sorry for all those readers who had their popcorn and blankets ready for the midnight  powwow, but we at the Insider felt obligated to share the results.

Cornell dropped to 15th nationally, behind Johns Hopkins but still ahead of our our Ivy League counterparts in Providence. This list still features acceptance and tuition rates from 2008, though, so we’ll be sure to update after midnight if it turns out to be a “bogus leak.”

Apart from the four way clusterf#%k for fourth place (Stanford, MIT, Penn, Cal Tech) and a renewed tie between Harvard and Princeton for 1st, there aren’t too many notable moves in the top 25 to report.

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Monday Reading Madness #12

Posted by Oliver Renick on August 17, 2009

- For hockey fans: Bilmes beat me to the report, but it appears that Riley Nash will be sticking around for this upcoming season.

- “IvyGate Science Theatre 3000” on Princeton Review College Lists 2010. Ivies are bolded for convenience. Read the whole thing.

- Shifting the puck away from hockey for once, here’s a very interesting article examining the correlation between ex-NFL men and republicanism.

- The legalization debate sees an interesting perspective in an article written by two law enforcement veterans, where violence and safety of cops is the main subject.

- George Will writes on card games? Interesting.

- Another week and another health care audible called by the White House means another article by the HAMMER!

- Recently, Dennis wrote in thedcwriteup.com about space travel. So did Krauthammer. Here’s a summation of both sides of the argument and an analysis in Economist.

- Not for the first time, the Review appears online at FIRE.com (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) in a Cornellian’s article about our school’s tendency to censorship. (hat tip to Ryan Lett)

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